SUSPICIOUS FOUNDATIONS

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 30 October 1914, Page 5

SUSPICIOUS FOUNDATIONS

IN , GERMAN HOTTSES. LONDON IJTVESTIGATIONS, .Crimes and Sydney San. Services.) LONDON, October 29. At a meeting of the London County Council the chairman announced that a committee had made investigations to ascertain -why some German firms in recent years had constructed bniidingß with foundations of undue strength. Its findings had been referred to tie military authorities. ENGLAND IN WAR TIME. PLENTY OF EMPLOYMENT. FOOD PRICES NORMAL. [(Recoiled 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, October 29. ITie Board of Trade returns show that unemployment in Great Britain is decreasing, and -is now 4.31 per centum, ■rtiich is abnormally low. This is due to recruiting and the-exceptional activity in a number of industries engaged on Government contracts. The outlook 'or the winter is bright. Upwards of 100,000 trade unionists have enlisted, included in the number being 13,000 Yorkshire miners, 7,000 postmen, 2.500 boilermakers, 3j_ooQ and.. 3,000 shop assistants. Food prices remain normal, the increase in the cost of living being unappreciable. Despite the heavy casualties at the front Great Britain is taking the vrar with perfect calmness. ROYALTY FOR THE FRONT. EX-KXNG MANOEL VOZ.TJNTEERS QUEEN WITH THE F.ED CROSS. liOXDOX, October 29. . Dx-King Manoel of Portugal has renewed his offer to serve Britain in the war. He has even expressed liia readiness to serve under tho present Republican regime in Portugal for that purpose. Queen Amelie of Portngal, the mother of King Manoel, accompanied the Euglisli Bed Cross nurses to the Continent.- - ARMED AEROPLANE. ENEMY SEPT AT BAY. MECHANIC AT MACHINE GUI.'. PARIS, October 29. Louis Pauliiin, the well known French aviator, w-ho won the "Daily Hail* £10.000 prize for an ieroplane flight from London to Manchester in 1910, traversed the German lines towards Amiens at a height of B,oooft. He destroyed a German aeroplane with a machine gun carried on his machine. Bullets from thrf" enemy, however, hit Ms motor, and Paulhan descended near the French. A force of Uhlans appeared, and Paulhan ! 2 mechanic worked the machine gun. With the co-operation of French infantry the enemy wero driven off. WARRIOR STUDENTS FALL INTO ALLIES' HANDS. ((Times and Sydney San SerTices.) '(Received 8 a.m.) LQNDOST, October 29. At Dixmudc the greater part of a German battalion were taken prisoners. The troops were mostly young men with a mild, studious expression. NEW ZEALANDER KILLED. LIEUT. GEE, OF WELLINGTON. LOXDOX, October 29. Lieutenant Hobt. Gee, of the Wiltshire Regiment, the eldest son of a resident of Wellington, _New Zealand, was wounded in France, and las since died at the Netley Ifospital. MEDICAL COMFORTS. RUM FOR THE GERMANS. LONDON, October 29. A sensation was caused among German temperance orgajiisations by the Crown Prin.ce. asking.that Arrack rum"be supplied to the troops. The Prince at a/ courii-niartia], announced that the ruin was intended lor medical purposes only. PRINCELY BOMBAST. BRITISHERS , VIS-A-VIS. AMSTERDAM, October 29. Prince Ttupprecht of Bavaria, commanding tie.isjxth German Army Corps, in an order.of the day. says; ."We ari fortunate in being opposed "by the "British troop?, representing the people whose envy at our work during many years has eurronnded us with enemies in order to strangle us, and to whom wo owe the present bloody war. Therefore, now we, facing our enemies who are the greatest obstacles to peace, may lake reprisals for: our. enemy's cunning and for all our sacrifices, and show them that it is not so easy to wipe out the German):."' BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. NO MORE PILLAGING. AMSTERDAM. October 20. A. proclamation issued at Antwerp -forbids soldiers to pillage. The proclamation aUo orderff-that there shall be no requisitioning without written order, and that soldiers must pay cash for everything received. MONTE CARLOS OWNER FINED £100,000. PARIS, October 29. The Germans have occupied the.Prince -of Monaco's Chateau de \MareMs,near .BireimsT end-they "hare threatened to jsjbiow it up unless they {we.paid two and ' a half million francs—fibout £100,000.