MISCELLANEOUS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2858, 1 February 1916, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

A PRIVILEGE ABUSED. Paris, January 150. Many abuses liavo arisen as a result of the Government's moratorium regarding the non-payment of house rout, ehieily "on the part of the wealtliy. Arrears of rent in Paris since tJio war total £80,000,000. A GERMAN CLAIM. Amsterdam, January 31. The, Germans claim that prisoners captured at Frise included some lingJ,ish. 70,000 AITSTRIANS BLINDED. r rhu Superintendent of Vienna Hospitals reports that 70,000 Austrian* were blinded during six months by rock splinters caused by high explosives used on the Isonzo front. A SELF-CONTAINED EMPIRE. London, January 31. A special committee of the Liverpool Chamber od Commerce retomj mends making the British Empire self-supporting;, indupendent of Germany and Austria, and developing the irade of Llio Allies. KIEL. R E POUTED ACTIVITIES. Zurich, January 31. Great activity in the Kiel Canal is interpreted aw a prelude to an attempt to occupy Riga, so as to compel the Russians to relax pressure on the southern sphere.