INCIDENTS OF WAR WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 67, 18 March 1916, Page 5

INCIDENTS OF WAR WAR.

ON AMD OIT THE FIRING LINE. J Greek Island Oecapied. ' - •: A French detachment is reported, to have occupied a Greek island off the coast of Epirus., . .--... . v :.'.-,. >■ .' On the Proscribed list. -<'•■■■- . A British 6rder-iii"-Couneil.prohibits the exportation anywhere*of cinematograph films, acetic acid, gramophone records, photographic paper> - films or plates, radium,' or tungsten. Steel-hatted. In the House of Lord's Baron, Sandy liurst stated that hundreds of thousapds' of steel helmets had been "issued; Government intended that every_ soldier should bchelmetcd as--rapidly"as;pbssible. .Concession to Unionism.; . w ' The difliculties on Welsh coalfields arc believed, to have been , settled for the duration of the war by?a conference of coal mine owners, and miners. Tt : was agreed that only unionists be employed. Tho most sanguine Labour men hardly expected this concession, . ■ Varna Damaged. ; '■ " ■'»«- The Russian [bombardment;.of the Bulgarian Blade Sea port of Varna , greatly damaged tae city and military-work-JEhope. The civil population is fleeing. Numerous Bulgarian contingents around •he forts were dispersed by the "dotiijarjment. " ; Labour Ztojxi Overseas* •Replying to Sir A. B. Markkam inUhc House of Commons, Mr. E.- G.> Pretyman, Under Secretary to the Board of Trade,*said the Government was considering, tho possibility of the introduction of labour into Britain from the overseas Dominions and Colonies for the purpose, of relieving the shortage of rden in munition-making and other essential trades. The Hun Nature. • The Portuguese Minister at London informs tho •'Times" that the Germans are treating' Portuguese" subjects in ficrmnny with great savority, this bcin" in striking contrast with tho manner in which Portugal is treating tho Germans. I ho- German Minister was sent to the Portuguese frontier in a special train, and expressed his thanks, and all Germane w ere allowed to. leave without hindrance,: . : : :.:' , "