MISCELLANEOUS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3277, 27 June 1917, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

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ROUMANIANS TO PAY AN INDEMNITY . London, June2G. Reuters Jassy correspondent reports that the Germans have imposed a levy of 250,000,000 francs on the occupied portion of Rumania. GERMAN CROPS REPORTED GOOD.

Amsterdam, June 26. Rains have improved the German cereal crops. Prospects for potatoes are described as favourable, and fodder is now above the average. PROTESTS FROM AMERICA. Washington, June 26. The United States has protested to Mexico against the high oil taxes, whic hamount to confiscation of the production at Tampico. It is understood that Britain supports the protest. LIQUOR PURCHASE DROPPED. London, June 26. The Government has temporarily dropped the liquor trade purchase scheme. RHEIMS STILL THE VICTIM. London, June 26. A French communique says: We sustained a reciprocal artillery action north of Laffaux mill on the sectors Craonne and Chevreux. Twelve hundred shells were thrown into Rheims. NEW ZEALAND MAIL LOST. London, June 25. The Post Office announces that the Australian and New Zealand mails trout Loudon on May 31 and parcel mail which left on May 23 have been lost. MORE RIOTING IN DUBLIN. Sinn Feiners smashed windows in the county gaol and seized tbe Sinn Fein .drill hall, which the authorities had previously closed. They hoisted the republican flag on the roof. INDIAN REBELS SEVERELY PUNISHED. A Simla official message reports chat successful operations were con•llifted by tho Wazvustan field forco, assisted by a Neupares contingent, against the Mahsuds. The enemy was severely punished, and our casualties wero only eight.