TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 152, 28 June 1915, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

.Rails of East Coast railway, Bay of Plenty section, have been carried beyond Te Pnke. The number of men volunteering for the manufacture of munitions of war is satisfactory. .Light railway lines proposed to connect Piopio township .with Main Trunk line at Otorohanga. Ships with a carrying capacity of 2,188,950 carcases are available for July, August, and September. The British soldiers are the spear head, says Mr Bonar Law, but the nation moist drive it home. Prime Minister states that he has arranged to meet any shortage of sugar supplies for twelve months. Plots to dynamite buildings ir. Canada ueed for the manufacture of war stores, are attributed to Germane. The German Press, in belittling the British war loan, says it is merely a conversion of the existing stock. A number of towns and villages "l Alsace have been evacuated by the inhabitants owing to the French. advanceOnly three British ships out of a total of 1,469 that sailed during last week ■were sunk toy German submarines. North Auckland dairy companies discussing means of obtaining cold storage for butter during shipping shortage. According to a Sofia newspaper, Turkey prefers peace with €he- Entente to making any concessions to Bulgaria. Petrograd official reports show that the recent German offensive-in-theJrrorth of Poland resulted in great loss of life. I>uring their recent the enemy in Galicia, the Jlnssians took 130,----000 prisoners, and caotnred juany guns. Yesterday morning's express from Wellington arrived five hours-late, having 'been delayed by a Blip near Te KuitL Parade of St. John Ambulance Brigade, comprising 77 members, toolrplace yesterday afternoon to St. Paul's Church. Statue of the late Mr. R. J. SedSon, erected in the ground of Parliamentary Buildings, was unveiled on Saturday afternoon. Fourteen 'hundred men at Nobel's iAyrshire explosive factory have gone out on strike ibecause the manager dismissed the office boy. Xorman Edwin Keals, whose death sentence was commuted is to be removed from Moμnt Eden Gaol to a mental hospital. ■The Germans claim that they have been getting the advantage of the fighting in the air since the beginning of the Arras battle. A German account of the torpedoing of the British cruiser Roxburgh says that she was torpedoed 100 miles off the Firth of Forth. Sum of £246 collected at bandsman's demonstration in Eomain yesterday afternoon, in aid of the fund "for sick and wounded soldiers. Industrial agrarian league in Germany are asking the Chancellor to demand the creation of a colonial Empire Iβ one of the conditions of peace. The Italians' are now threatening Tarvis. in the Carnic Alps, this being tlja route by wiich all previous great invasions of Austria have gone. The 50,000 men for which the Navy Supplementary Estimates provide will bring the total strength of the British Navy up to 300,000 men. A Rome message 6tates that an invitation from a Spanish bishop to transfer the Holy See to Spain while the war is on. has .been excitedly discussed. British airmen dropped bombs on an important ammunition store at a. place, near Roulers, and destroyed it. Aα ammunition train wa3 also blown up. Damage to the amount of over •£IOO,----000 was done by a tornado at Medicine Haii. a Canadian town on the 'O.P.R. line, about halfway between Vancouver and Winnipeg. A campaiirn in favour of the new 'British, war Joan will be begun tomorrow by Mr Asquith at the Guildhall, and he .will emphasise the necessity for practising economies. Swedish newspapers say that early in May the Kaiser had a narrow escape from death in Belgium. A railway bridge was blown \tp just before the Imperial train crossed it. A Rome newspaper states that the Turks hare evacuated Adrhmople, and that Bulgarian reservists in Italy have been warned to be in readiness to join the colours at a moment's notice. Herr Dernburg lias arrived.at. Bergen, lin Norway. He says the BritieU J authorities treated him with, courtesy I when they detained the ship on. which jhe was travelling -across from. America. The President of the Boaxd of Trade has been telling the British- traders -that they must not exploit the .public. If they do, the Government twill be forced to take over the -whole food supply. The capture of Metzeral, in Alsace, ranks as one of the most glorious deeds in the history of the French arms. (Biven the cemetery, which was the key to- the village, was defended, and the vaults mined. A neutral traveller who has just come from Germany says that the_people have the utmost confidence in victory. The only possible breakdown is a. psychological one, and of that there is no' outward sign. Australasian wounded men now in hospital in the Old Country would be glad to have more colonial newspapers to read. The New Zealand High Commission in London will distribute any that may be sent to him. A reassuring report of the treatment given to British prisoners in a German hospital north of Ypres ha 3 just been made by the American Ambassador in London, on the strength of statements made by a United States naval attache in Berlin. British prisoners were invidiously and vindictively treated by the Germans, says a White Paper dealing with the treatment of the Britishers durin" the first eight months of the .war. °They were herded together and almost allowed to starve. It is reported that another German submarine hae ibeen lost. The boat was proceeding to sea from Emden, when suddenly there was a myeterious explosion on iboard. The commander and two of the crew, .who were in the turret, ■were 'the only ones saved. New Zealand boxing championships will not be held this year.