INCIDENTS 0F_THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 240, 7 October 1916, Page 5

INCIDENTS 0F_ THE WAR.

ON AND OFF THE FIRING IINE. LONDON, October 6. Britain's Credit Vote. A new Vote of Credit for the purposes of the. war will be nioved by the Prime Minister (Mr H. H. Asquith) next week. Kaiser on Russian Front. An official statement has been made in Berlin that the Kaiser has gone to visit the troops of Genital yon Linsingen, whom the Russians are chiefly attacking. (Reiiter^ Ousting British. Finns. The newspaper "Echo' de Beige," which is published in London, . states - that General yon Biasing (Military Governor of Brussc-Is) has'ordered thai all British firms in Belgium are to be wound up.— (Reuter.) The Trade War. Canadian financiers are attacking German business strongholds -in South America. The Boyal Bank of Canada has opened several branches in the republic of Venezuela, and extensions elsewhere are pending-.— (Keuter.) : :':. Fears For Constantinople line. The 'Warning Post" correspondent in Budapest says that Germany greatly, fears the prospect of the cutting of the Constantinople railway, and is concentrating troops heavily with the object of preventing it. . . The Day of Rest. It lias teen ofiicially announced that as a first step for a more general measure the Minister of Munitions (Mr E. S. Montagu) has prohibited as far as possible, Sunday labour throughout the northeast coast districts in England. Exceptions will .be made for week-end repairs or in cases where work is necessarily continuous. From Tnrkish Sources. A Turkish communique says:—"Tiie British camped near Naesirieh, on the Mesopotamian front, attempted to advance under cover of artillery against tribes to the northward of Nassirieh, but were repulsed. The enemy suffered heavy losses. On the Dobrildja front a battalion was annihilated and a - hundred , , survivors were taken prisoner. - . Modernising Bulgaria. The ■ "Morning Post's" : correspondent in Buda Vest says that Germany is sending an immense number, of agricultural machines to Bulgaria in order to endeavour to increase the fertility and yield of the soil. A thousand scientific men are being employed advising and urging the primitive Bulgarians to adopt modern methods of agriculture.