INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 120, 21 May 1917, Page 5

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

lON AND OFF THE FIRING LINE. LONDON, May 20. Brighter Food Prospects. J The Minister in Charge of Food Control. Lord Devonport, states that if the scheme projected for America's co-opera- I tion in food supplies is successful, it will i materially improve the situation of! Britain and her Allies. Ixird Devonport will shortly invite local authorities to set up organisations for the distribution and control of food. (A. and N.Z. Cabie.) Restoring; the Fields of France. The correspondent of the Paris newspaper "L* Temps" on the British front states that each British army, has 500 agricultural workers, supervised by officers who were fanners before the war, cleaning up the battered ground behind the lines witli special machines from England. The British are thus helping to increase the food production of '(France. Already 100,000 acres of the • 1 Somme department are under cultivation. • French greatly appreciate British help. 5 in restoring agriculture. — (A. and N.Z.) ; Hun Agents Among the Afghans. 1 A correspondent at Tashkent, the • capital of Turkestan, states that German ? agents are again busy in Afghanistan, I - inciting an invasion of Turkestan.—(A. - and N.Z. Cable.) j Brans Lent to America. • | Captain Evans, of the Broke, who distinffuished himself in the recent- de-1 strove- action, has been lent to tnei I'nitcd Slates in exchange for Rear- i Ulmiral Sims, who is in command of the i ilotilla of American destroyers which has , arrived to co-operate with tlie British ' j Kl ee t — (A- and -N'-Z- Cable.) . t Italian Socialist Demands. t [ A Pome message states that a mani- ( festo has been issued by the Socialist . party. in which it demands the abolition ( of tite Senate, the right of Parliament , to meet when it chooses, universal suf- ( ! frage for both sexes, unrestricted freedom in regard to strike propaganda, direct Government control of foreign policy, agrarian reforms, and progressive taxation. The Rome newspaper "Giorji.alc d'ltalia" characterises the manifesto as unpatriotic, and calculated to j sow discord—(A. and N.Z. Cable.)

An Invitation to Laurier. Concluding his speech at Ottawa regarding the Imperial War Conference, the Prime Minister, Sir Robert Borden, asked the Leader of the Opposition, fSir Wilfrid Lauricr, to accompany him to London as a second representative of Canada at the. post-war conference.— (A and N.Z. Cable.) Munitions Factory Ablaze. A tire occurred at the National Electric. Company's explosives manufacturing plant at Niagara. The damage is estimated at f200,000.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Another Break Away. j Nicaragua has broken off relations! [with Germany.—.(A. and N._. Cable.;, j