GENERAL ITEMS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2453, 22 September 1914, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

AUSTRIANS CONCENTRATE ON • ITALIAN FRONTIER. . (Received September ZX 9.40 a.m.) London, Sepsember 21. The Port o' Spain CoWy (West Indies) is giving £40,000 worth of cocoa, in addition to subscriptions already totalling £40,000. A German airman, mistaking German guns at Noisdecasturan for British artillery, threw bombs at them. He killed thirty Germans.. Antwerp, Sept. 21. _ News of the German reversal in France has filtered through to the Germans in Brussels. The German military Governor there threatens to shoot all persons - found in possession of English or Belgian newspapers. Only German newspapers or Dutch papers of pronouncedly pro-German sentiments are authorised. Venice, September 21. There are 200,000 Austrian troops concentrated on the Italian frontier. Hundreds of Italians at _ Trieste, wrongly denounced as spies, have been arrested and their houses searched. "Geneva, Septemberj,2lIt is reported at Basle that the German right wing is slowly retiring, in good order, towards the Belgian frontier.

Copenhagen, Setpemher 21. The Berliner Tageblatt says that the German policy north of Schlesweg has' hitherto been a great mistake. The new Governor, General Moltke, is expected to seek to conciliate the two nationalities there. Ostend, September 21. In connection with collisions between Prussians and Bavarians at Brussels, it is stated that the Bavarians permitted six trainloads of French prisoners from Mauheuge to escape. There i. widespread insubordination among the Bavarian troops. Hague, September 21. A telegram from Berlin states that the Kaiser's fourth son, August Wilhelm, has been wounded in the left arm. The Kaiser decorated him.

(Received September 22, 9.10 a.m.) London, September 21. A British warship captured the German ships Ponape and Ryndam, which were" released after landing German reservists. The Senate of Cambridge University have offered Louvain University facilities for continuing its work.at Cambridge. The Daily Mail states that Baron Kuhlmann, recently counsellor to the German Embassy in London,' is conducting a Swedish press campaign at Stockholm, where he has published details of British defeats, and also a revolt in India.