GERMAN FINANCES.

Evening Star, Issue 15892, 26 August 1915, Page 6

GERMAN FINANCES.

TELL-TALE ADMISSIONS. “TEMPTING” NEW WAR LOAN TO LIQUIDATE HUGE DEBTS. BERNE, August 25; (Received August 26, at 9.5 a.m.) The ‘Munchener Neueste Nachrichten’ states that the new war loan is not limited in amount, bears interest at 5 per centum, and is issued at 95. The public are urged to sell their foreign securities- and invest the proceeds in the war loan to their utmost, as £650,000,000 worth of already existing obligations must be discharged before anything is available for current needs. [lt may be remembered that the last British war loan hears 4), per cent, interest, was issued at par, and was for future needs, not for past expenditure.] • WELSH COLLIERS. A THOUSAND ON STRIKE. LONDON, August 25. (Received August 26, at 9.5 a.m.) One thousand Welsh miners are striking as a protest against the tardy settlement. The Conciliation Board failed to agree, and their sitting ended abruptly. GUARDING AGAINST TREACHERY. IS DISTRUST OVERDONE? SYDNEY, August 26. (Received August 26, at 8.30 a.m.) In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Mr Wade (Opposition Loader) moved the adjournment of the House in t° - ® , t'fcenti°n to the necessity °5 " ir kk er limiting the freedom of persons ox German extraction. He/quoted a case in which an officer of German extraction was only prevented from going to the front by the united protest of the rank and file, who refused to serve with him. Mr "Wade* quoted another case, where, although he had two. sons with the troops, one as an officer and the other as a doctor, their father was strongly proGerman. J * Mr Holman (Premier), in reply, warned members against hysterical attacks on Germans merely as Germans. Internment was a useful step only when it served a military purpose. The people’s main duty was to defeat the German armies in Flanders, France, and the Dardanelles.Mr Wade’s motion was negatived. HOSPITAL SHIPS. MELBOURNE, August 26. (Received August 26, at 9.5 a.m.) A hospital ship has arrived with 400 wounded. UNSUITABLE FOOD. FREMANTLE, August 26. (Received August 26, at 9.5 a.m.) The Mayor of Fremantle has visited the hospital ship. He found the food unfit for men in a low state of health. GERMANY’S SUBMARINES. FIFTY-EIGHT IN COMMISSION. COPENHAGEN, August 25. (Received August 26, at 11.15 a.m.) It is learned that Germany possesses in all 58 submarines. Her Baltic submarine fleet consists of 30 of the vessels. Six thousand Kiel marines have arrived at thei east front for pioneer service. El3’S VICTIMS. COPENHAGEN, August 25. (Received August 26, at 11.15 a.m.) Many high personages and diplomatists, as well as interned British seamen, attended the funeral service of submarine El 3 s victims. Fho guard of honor comprised 200 Danish sailors. Vast and sympathetic crowds witnessed the Yeidar sail for Hall with the bodies. PETTY MALICE. “FOR MILITARY REASONS.” TYPICAL GERMAN TRICK. ROTTERDAM, August 25. (Received August 26, at 11.15 a.m.) As a number of British prisoners, incapacitated by wounds for further service, were being conveyed to Holland to be exchanged for German prisoners, several British non-coms, were removed from the train at the frontier, and were detained in Germany. The grounds adduced were that such an exchange would he undesirable, as these men might be able to instruct recruits on their return to Britain. NOBEL DYNAMITE TRUST. LONDON, August 25. (Received, August 26, at 11.15 a.m.) The Nobel Dynamite Trust have carried a resolution for going into voluntary liquidation, and sanctioning the arrangement for the sale of their German interests. CHANGE IN GREECE. VBNEZELOS GETS) TO WORK. MOBILISATION PROBABLE. ■■ . _ ROME, August 25. (Received August 26, at 11.15 a.m.) A .general mobilisation in Greece Is imminent. M, Venezelos is energetically preventing contraband trade in favor ‘of Turkey and Germany, and is suppressing German (corruption.