MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2357, 13 January 1915, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS

GERMANS' FRANTIC QUEST FOR COPPER. .Copenhagen, January 11. . Thousands of motors are running between Belgium and Germany, earning copper fittings, which are being melted tat the gun factories If necessary, Germany will break down her own electrical ! appliances, and use the copper thereof for, military purposes. THE RACIAL BAN: Sydney, January 12. The miners of the Seaham Colliery, Newcastle, demanded the dismissal of a German employee. The request was denied, and the men refused to enter the pit. SCIENCE WAITS ON WAR. v Sydney, January 12. ,_ The officers'and ,crew of the French Jxplbring ship La. Curieuse are return,ing to France to fight; The.6hip has been left'in the care of the New South .Wales Government. [The French schooner .La Curieuse, with a scientific • exploring party aboard, arrived in Sydney in October. She intended making a three years' cruise, arid after finishing her researches on the Australian coasts was to have come' to New Zealand.]

REGIMENTAL TETS AT THE ZOO. The London Zoo is caring for the pets : '.of regiments gone te the.front. These -include a monkey, marmosets, eagles, penguins, snakes, and goldfish. ;'■■■;- ARTISTS-AT THE;FRONT. Paris, January 11. . The' Government has arranged for selected artists to visit, the front and make, a'series!of;precise paintings and ; : drawings illustrating the history of tho ~.War..i..: • ■ '■_.. . '•■ BOAT RACE ABANDONED ; ; (Reo. January 12, 7.16 p.m.) '"' : „,.,... London, January 12. The. Oxford and Cambridge University ..float race has;heen abandoned.■'-''•.'.. '- ; :\ : LONSDALE'S FATE.'" :■> '■■/'; r (Rec. January 12, 7.15 p.m.): ',;••,;." : ' London, January 12. Lonsdale's sentence has been commuted to twenty years' imprisonment. It is expected that he will be released : . atvthe end of-the war. ; ; i j [Lonsdale was a British soldier who 'was. tried by a .German Court-martial . ..for striking one of his guards,' who had : insulted him.] BARRIER LEAD FOR ENGLAND. (Reo. January 12, 7.15. p.m.) :. , , Sydney, January 12. .Considerable quantities of lead pro-; ducts from the Barrier, which previous- ■)' ly largely went to Germany, are now being sold and shipped to English re- .'. fineries.'MILITARY:CONFERENCE IN .MELBOURNE. . (Rec. January 12, 9.40 p.m.) _ Melbourne, January 12. 'A military conference is now sitting. , Its deliberations are strictly cbnfiden- .- V'tiai.■ ;'■:." '.. ..•'-.■'. ■;; GERMAN JESUITS "AND FATHER ... - ■; VAUGHAN. : . (Reo. January 13, 0.5 a.m.) Rotterdam, January 12. The Provincial Council of German Jesuits has censured .Father Bernard Vaughari, of London, whose war sermons are considered to be insulting to "fee Kaiser. GERMAN WAR LOAN. : (Rec. January 13, 0.5 a.m.) London, January 12. 'Amsterdam reports that the German ■■ war loan has been covered. ■CARDINAL MERCIER'S PASTORAL. , (Reo. January 13, 0.5 a.m.) Amsterdam, January 12. The newspaper "Telegraaf" sayß that a German proclamation threatens severe . punishment for anyone found in possession of a copy of Cardinal Mercier's .. pastoral.