WAR NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2785, 7 August 1915, Page 4

WAR NOTES.

IRON CROSS FOR HERR BALLIN , London, August o. Herr Albert Balliu, director of tho Hamburgf-Amerika line,, has been decorated with the Iron Cross. BRITISH PRISONER RILLED. A German wireless message states that a soldierj when attacked, shot and killed a British war prisoner and wounded another. They were working as farpi hands. '"■• •','.■., '. WAR RESOLUTIONS PUBLISHED The Bress Bureau has, issued the Commonviiealw Parliament's resolution on the expiration of the year's war, also the Melbourne and Adelaide citizens' resolutions. POLES HARSHLY TREATED. Copenhagen, v August 5. General CollaTd, the rifew - Austrian' Governor of Galicia, is treating , .the : Polea Harshly. Ho has hanged 34, including a Tvoman, since hisarrival. AMERICA'S TRADE IN ARMS.* Washington, August 5. A reply to the Austrian Note.pro- , against. America Supplying munitions to the Allies is practically ready. IV reiterates that for the United States to place an ( embargb on the trade in arms would bo a direct violation of neutrality. : % A SOUTH AFRICAN REBEL. - Pretoria, A-ugust 5. Grobler, a grandson of the late President Kruger, a prominent Hertzogite, and a member of Parliament, who was charged in January last, with others, with treason, has been sentenced ,t° two years' imprisonment and fine&lToOO. , FRANCE WILL WIN- : Parie, August 5. President Poincare.iin a message to the Senate and the Chataber of Deputies on the anniversary of itlie declaration of war, emphasised the great current of national fraternity which swept air disputes and differences aside. Masters and workmen, rich and poor, united.to face the enemy. Because she wae united; France was confident and calm. He declared tliaV 4he. only peace, the Republic could accept would be ono that would guarantee" the , safety of Europe and reconstitute our dismembered country and protect tiit against an offensive return of Germanic ambition. "France wants to win, and it will win. France is sure- of her Allies, and. they- are sure,- o|< France." The Chamber was crowded. Many Deputies were absent at the front. ■Five seats Mere covered by the tricolour and draped in mournnng, the former occupants having been killed ' in action. SUNK BY A SUBMARINE. '.London, August 5. j 5 The Liverpool eteamer Portia 4 494 j tons, was sunk by a submarine. AH ' oh board were saved. PAYMENTS IN NOTES. a view to etrengtlTenihg the gold "feeerves,the Treasury lias instructed" post offices and public departments making caeli payments to use notes instead of gold whenever [possible. The "public are invited to asa : st by paying in gold to the banks and using notes in payment of accounts. * FINES FOR ABSENCE FROM WORK. Nine steel-workers at Jarrow have , been fined 80s for being absent from work on Government contracts. LIFE INSURANCE PAYMENTS. ' British life insurance companies haye. paid out £3,000,000 in respect of'those killed in war/