INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 64, 15 March 1916, Page 5

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

Higher Russian Tjucci. The Council, of Ejnpire has accepted the Duma's . Progressive Income Tax Bill. , ... ' On the Road to Bagdad. * jt • A Russian communique states: "We .captured eight gunVnear Kermanshah, I in Western Persia." I "Divers" in' Mediterranean. I Five German submarines, of about 1000 tons displacement,- which had entered, or were about to enter, the Dardanelles, have made a break seaward, says an Athens message. To Foster Italian Trade. . An agreement has been signed between British and Italian financial groups; the former having a capital of £1,000,000, -and--the , ' latter £400,000," to—develop economic relations in both countries. " Hero of Gallipoli. . * -... • General Sir Charles Monro has been decorated with -the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in recognition of his services in connection with the evacuation of Gallipoli. ' :*;. "Fight for Bight." Mr Andrew Fisher, High Commissioner for Australia, was the principal speaker at a big meeting in the Mansion House, London, on behalf of the "Fight for Right" movement, which is organising the moral and intellectual forces of the country on behalf of the allied cau^;. FMonrlte Una Weapon. -" Geirnian Agents fn"tlie Far East are spreading a- rumour that . Japan is anxious for a revision- of the AngloJapanese Treaty. The Japanese Government warmly denies this, and says that the people are overwhelmingly in favour of the Alliance. Killing the Oetopna. It is stated that an arrangement has been cempieted, with the British Governments approval, which will eliminate for all time all German holdings of shares in Henry Morton's Metals Company, which was so closely concerned in the control of the Australian metal market^