EUROPE IN WAR TIME

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2235, 22 August 1914, Page 7

EUROPE IN WAR TIME

KING'S MESSAGE TO FRENCH

PRESIDENT

SUCCESS WILL ATTEND ALLIES* ARMS

(Rec. August 21,10.50 p.m.) _Lotidon, August 21, morning.. Jlio King sent a message to President lomcare on the occasion of tlie.latter's jnrthday, m which tlie Sing expressed his firm conviotion that success would attend the arms of the Allies. •' A HOSPITAL SHIP. ' Xt- i. m , London, August 20. Viscount rredsgear, Lord Lieutenant or. Monmouth, Jias turned his private yacht into a hospital ship at Portsmouth, with many beds. • GIFT OB 1 AN AEROPLANE. r « . Lon ? on i August 20. Uiliiajn Cain, of Liverpool,'has offered the Government a Bleriot aeroplane, v/liicli he wishes 6liall ultimately, be presented to the Australian Government in recognition of the support tho Commonwealth is giving the Army. FRANCE CANADIAN RESERVISTS ARRIVE. (Rec. August 21, 10.50 p.m.) . ' Paris, August 21. The first batch of 150 Frenc'h-Cana-dian reservists .has arrived,. TURKEY. 1 ' • \ A FRENCH CEREMONIAL. Constantinople, August 20. At the annual service for the repose • Ii 5?" Frenchmen wlio fell in the Crimea, the French Ambassador said: "The present war is .a war of roranche. The'hour is at hand for tho delivery of my compatriots, who liavo bowed for nearly half .ii century- beneath the foreign yokei" , The speech was greeted with cheers for the Allies and Italy. TROOPS LEAVE BULGARIA. ' _ . London, August 20. _ .Router s correspondent states that it is understood that, the Ottoman force which entered Bulgaria'has returned to Turkey. Holland' ' - '• BREAD FAMINE FEARED. r, • - . ,? ha Hague, August 20. ■ it is officially announced that a bread famine is feared.' Wheat stocks will suffice for only two or three ; wecks. The Government lias seised all wheat at' Rotterdam. ' • O - » SWITZERLAND. FRONTIERS STRONGLY GUARDED. Berne, '''AugUst I '2o. Four hundred thousand Swiss troops are guarding tlie frontiers. - SWEDEN. • LARGE DEFENCE VOTE. , Chrlstlania, August 20. , Tho Storthmg has voted fifteen million kroner (abojt'£B3s,ooo) to meet the situation. ■