STATE GUARANTEES WAR RISKS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 186, 6 August 1914, Page 5

STATE GUARANTEES WAR RISKS.

TO KEEP THE WHEAT SHIPS GOING. (Received 8.30 a.m.) , LONDON, August 4. A proclamation prohibits tbe exportation of articles useful for naval or military purposes. The Government announces a guarantee of war risks on wheat and flour shipped at Atlantic and Canadian ports under existing contracts, a list of.which must be supplied within forty-eight hours.' The premiums will be paid by the~ importer and charged against the eventual receiver. It is understood that this step was taken to secure sixty-four million bushels of Canadian wheat. A White Paper issued, continuing the report of the sub-committee on Imperial Defence on insurance of shipping in war time, recommends that the State reinsure 80 per cent risks.

MAP OF THE FRANCO-GERMAN AND BELGIAN FRONTIERS. The above map of tbe frontiers involved in the Franco-German military operations indicates the importance to Germany of an advance through Belgian territory into the heart of France, avoiding the difficult country of the Ardennes and the strongly fortified frontier which has as its southern rampart the mountainous region stretching north from tho Swiss Alps. The points at which minor German forces have engaged the attention of the French along 4 ***As4KJO : ,1 «fi w * /' ' -