MISCELLANEOUS

Greymouth Evening Star, 22 July 1916, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS

THE ARMENIANS.

SYSTEMATIC EXTERM J.NA-

TION.

PARIS, July 21'.

M. Balof, Red Cross Commissioner in Armenia, reports that he visited forty-five villages around Trebizond. Out of 8343 inhabitants before the war, the Russians found 367, the rest being massacred. Out of 10,000 in Trebizcnd itself, the Russians found 92. .■ ;'.v v

M. Balof reports that German officers again directed the systematic extermination of the Armenians. " •

GOST OF THE WAR.

CHANCELLOR OF EXCHEQUER

EXPLAINS.

LONDON, July 21. In the House o£ Commons, Hon. Mr. McKenna, in reply to questions, said the rise in the rate of national expenditure during the past seven weeks was due firstly to the Government’s purchases- of American securities, and secondly to the rate at which the advances to the Allies and Dominions ht»d been drawn upon. He was hopeful that the expenditure would now detcline.

MILITARY PRISONERS.

MEN WITH BAD RECORDS.

BLUFF, July 17. Eighteen military prisoners reached | Bluff yesterday by the Paloona, which arrived from Melbourne. They were an accumulation of deserters and men who had missed their passage at Albany. They were taken over by a military guard on arrival, and sent on to headquarters to be dealt with.

NEW ZEALAND HOSPITAL AT

WALTON.

REGARDED AS A MODEL.

LONDON, July 20. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, High. Commifisnoner for Now Zealand, speaking at the opening of the Canadian Hospital at Putney, said the military authorities were satisfied that the hospital which the New Zealand War Contingent Association has established at Walton, was regarded as the model hospital in England.

GALLANT CANADIANS.

GOOO FALL IN A WEEK’S FIGHTING.

The desperate nature of the fighting in which the Canadians have been :

participating during the. early part of Juno may be imagined an by announcement made in Ottawa, on June S, when, according to a statement made by Major-General Samuel Hughes, Minister of Militia, upward' of 6000 Canadians fell within the first week of June in the desperate fighting around Sanctuary Woods'. Presenting colors to a Canadian regiment on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Sir Samuel said: “The great majority wounded are already clamoring to get back into the fray, but many of the gallant lads have gone down never to rise again. We deeply mourn thoir loss, but that loss affords an inspiration for tens of thousands more to take their place.”

“SEA TYRANTS.”

A GERMAN VIEW.

LONDON, July 21.

Norway’s attitude regarding the blockade disgusts the Cologne Gazette, which says: “If not so immensely sad we might laugli at the idea of the Norwegians in still regarding England as the champion of the independence of small nations. This proves that Germany, when fighting for the freedom of the seas, cannot reckon upon the northern nations, although they are our blood relations. After all, the British are sea tyrants.”

CAMPAIGN OF LIES.

THE LATEST FAIRIES.

HEW YORK, July 21. The Germans’ campaign of lies has reached its height. It is announced to-day that Berlin was officially wirelessed 'on June 3rd that a great revolt had occurred before the British Admiralty owing to the Jutland battle and that the theatres were closed.

KING COAL.

A SIGNIFICANT STATEMENT

Received this day at 9.20 a.m. LONDON, July 21. The Admiralty has informed the South Wales' miners that the output of coal in the United Kingdom has fallen 35,000,000 tons since tne beginning of tbe war, whereas the national and Allied demands necessitated 20,000,000 tons more than before the war.