INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 131, 3 June 1918, Page 6

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

ON AND OFF THE FIRING LINE. LONDON, June 2. Britain's May Prisoners. Sir Douglas Haig reports: "We took 1,158 prisoners during May. Those captured included 2!) ollicers."—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Canglit on the Voyage. Tlie Admiralty Prize Court has condemned coffee and cocoa valued at £200,000, seized aboard vessels in the Pacitic. The claimants and consignees were merely covers to convey the cargo from Guatemala to German v.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Women Pood Toilers. The President of the Board of Agriculture states that 300.000 women are working on the land in England and Wales.—-(A. and N.Z. Cable.) Millionaire's Wife Imprisoned. Rose I'ustor Stokes, wife of a millionaire named Phelps Stokes, Kansas City, U.S.A., has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment for a breach of Espionage Act. She wrote a letter to a newspaper charging the Government with having favoured profiteers.— (A. and N.Z.)

Last Fighters From the Farms. A statement has been issued by the Press Bureau that the Ministry of National Service has authorised the enlistment of 2,550 men under 31 years of age, previously exempted, who are engaged in British agriculture and certain Allied occupations. These men must join the army at the end of June. After they have been enlisted there will not he any further recruitment of exempted agricultural workers, unless developments in the military situation compel a change in policy.— (A. and N.Z. and Rcutcr.) Enemy Economic Conference. An economic conference between representatives of Germany and AustriaHungary, at Baden, near Vienna, was opened by the Emperor Karl. The conference is designed to outline a strong economic policy between the two countries.—(A. and X.Z. Cable.) Ex-Hmpp Director Won't Serve. Herr Muthlon, a former director of Krupps, who is living in Switzerland, ignored a German order calling him up for service. He lias been proclaimed a deserter.— (A. and N.Z. Cablye.) Submarine Attack on Fishing Craft A German submarine sank nine Irish fishing boats. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Death for Sabotage in Austria. Martial law has been proclaimed in the Austrian town of Gratz. In all war industries and factories mutiny and Btibotage or leaving off work will be punishable either by hanging or shooting. (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Explosion in Rumania. A munition dump near Jassy, Rumania, exploded, killing &0 men and injuring OS.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) Hatred of the Germans in Ukraine. Ukraine peasants are cutting down vast areas of green crops to prevent the harvest reaching Germany. Ilerr Erzberger, writing in the "Vossisebe Zeitung," states that exasperation against the Germans is increasing throughout Ukraine. Railway workers are planning a general strike, and the peasants are refusing to deliver grain. No German soldier dare appear in Kieff unarmed. Some have already been shot down. — (A and N.Z. Cable.)