BRITAIN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume IV, Issue 432, 11 August 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN.

N.Z. WOUNDED AT WEYMOUTH

SOME UNFIT FOR FURTHER SERVICE.

(Received 11. 8.30 a.m.) London, Aug. 10. Hon. T. Mackenzie visited "Weymouth where there are over 80 New Zealand wounded. All are progressing- though some will never return to the front. PRINCESS MARY IN FRANCE. ARRESTED AS GERMAN SPY. London, Aug. 10. The New York -'Tribune” prints a storv that a member of the British Royal famih- had a disconcerting experience oi hemp? jirrcstucl u-ncl charged as a. German spy. Princess Alary was held up under a guard, the officers of which ueto sympathetic but sceptical. "When the matter was investigated it was found that the Princess had gone incognito on a visit, to the iront. aceompanied hv Mlle. Bussan to meet the Prince of Wales. Six miles from a village her car was halted by a i’lench" patrol. The occupants had forgotten passports and permits and the patrol failed to recognise the name -'Lady C hester,” under which I the Princess was travelling. The car was left under a guard with the assurance that the occupants would be shot at six o’clock next morning. I’our hours later an ofticer returned 1.0 identify the Princess, whose bona, tides were established. Messages were sem in headquarters, which were on the pond oi" issuing a general alarm for the missing Prin-

HER PROPER PLACE WITH THE KAISER.

London. Aug. 10.

Aladamc Fanotha. t'.ie Kaiser’s favourite pianist, was arrested in London and deported. Madame Fanotha is a native of Marsaw and settled in London many years ago. She was appointed court pianist to Wilhelm L , ' The ‘ T>ail,y Ex'prc«s says that- although she iiad entire confidence m I’ova I and aristocratic houses, Madame Fanotha had developed a fierce liatrcil Hie .British, and violentlv ami contomptntously demmncr'd them. An unguarded expression used in a lit' of temper led the limn'' Office to eider her to he m,stantly deported. •VERY LIKE A WHALE.” [FRESH ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGKT.]

London

Aug- 10.

A r.erlin vireles4 message states that the "Local Ansiegei” prints a Ii tier declaring that the British si iz.ed a Diiii-li sieamci’ atid com-pi'l'n-d her nightly In mix age from lloM',' (n Calais, rniiiTmg lhe gauntlet <f the (lei'inaii submarines and frequently endangered by airship bombs, Iv.it tin (lerman airmen rcc<ig'll isii l the Dntrli colours. There were many A mermans aboard. LONDON NEWS ITEMS. Rhodesia lias presented an aeroplane t" the Imperial Government. i'hc English language has lieen substituted for German in most of the commercial schools in Russia. The. official estimate of therAmerican w inter wheat crop is 659 million Vmshels, and the spring crop 3<»7 million.