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PROSECUTIONS WITHDRAWN.

RESTRICTING THE OUTPUT. LONDON, September 19. - . (Received September 20, at 8.10 a.m.) The Liverpool Munitions Court heard summonses against 238 of Cammell, Laird's employees, but they were withdrawn, on the representatives of, the men admitting their offence, and promising to do" their beat to prevent a repetition.

DUMBA'S RECALL. AN INDIGNANT PROTEST. NEW YORK, September 19. (Received ■ September 20, at 8.10 a.m.) M. Dnmba has written to Mr Lansing stating that he did not violate the hospitality of the United States nor her neutrality. He protests that he has been unfairly treated, and claims that his recall to Vienna is unjust. Ho states that the Allies' Ambassadors in Washington had free use of the cables for their private code messages, while he was not allowed to communicate privately with his Government. He does not admit the charges made against him, and declares that he had not started to put his plans against the munition factories into operation. RIVAL MILLIONAIRES. NEW YORK, September 19. (Received September 20, at 8.20 a.m.) Dr Biggar, physician to Mr Rockefeller, states that the latter is utterly opposed to doing anything that may help to continue .the war. He recently declared : "This war is awful." Mr Pierpont Morgan, added Dr Biggar, may attempt to gain the title of richest man in the world, but Mr Rockefeller has decided not to reap war profits. THE SANTA ANNA. A LUCKY ESCAPE. LONDON, September 19. (Received September 20, at 8.20 a.m.) The captain of the Santa Anna attributes the fire on his vessel to German propagandists in America. Many exploded fuses were found aboard. No fewer than 1,196 passengers, including 605 women, children, and aged people, were transferred to the Ancona, the first of nine steamers to answer her call for help. " If there had been munitions aboard the vessel would have been blown to pieces," added the captain. [The Santa Anna carried about 1.500 Italian reservists.] THE WESTERN FRONT. PARIS, September 19. (Received September 20, at 10.10 a.m.) A communique states : South-west of Peronne the Germans attacked after exploding a very powerful mine, but were repulsed. In the region of Berry-au-Bac, in the Champagne, and north of the Camp de Chalons there was marked artillery activity by both sides. East of St. Mihiel we put out of action a German anti-air-craft battery. THE DYE INDUSTRY. ROME, September 19. (Received September 20, at 8.5 a.m.) The Franco-Italian Commercial Conference at Villadeste, held to form the nucleus of an industrial, commercial, and Customs union among the Entente Powers and_ their Allies, discussed, among other subjects, that of producing dyes (hitherto almost a German monopoly). TRADE IN THE EAST. GERMANY'S PAST METHODS. SYDNEY, September 20. (Received September 20. at 9 a.m.) Mr "William Vinson Le-c, managin" director of Yik and Lee, a well-known Chinese firm, has recently returned from China. He states that German trade in the East is dead. All the German houses in. Hongkong have been forced into liquidation. Before the war Germanv was a dangerous competitor for Chinese trade, and the Germans' success was largely due to the underhand methods' employed. They often took up contracts at below cost prico in. order to oust the British, and they also sold British goods cheaper than the British themselves, in the attempt to convince the Chinese that the British were making undue profits. German traders averred also that many British lines were really manufactured in Germany. The losses incurred by these methods were recouped from a State-financed trust, whose main object was to knock out British trade. This trust in turn recouped itself from China by diplomatic blackmail. The sole aim of Germany in the East was to down Great Britain and Britons in the eyes of the Chinese, who, however, were not deceived therebv.

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Evening Star, Issue 15913, 20 September 1915, Page 6

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PROSECUTIONS WITHDRAWN. Evening Star, Issue 15913, 20 September 1915, Page 6

PROSECUTIONS WITHDRAWN. Evening Star, Issue 15913, 20 September 1915, Page 6