BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 12 August 1914, Page 4

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

(Received Aug. 11, 8.30 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. 11. A tund has been opened to assist that' j wives of departed French reservisT% i A hundred women tearfully pleaded* wivu their compatriots for assistance to. 1 pay rent and secure bread and miik for * the children. Sir Herbert Tree is reviving the play•■Dvaku at His Ma jetty's Theatre. Theproceeds will go to the war funds. The Bishop «,i London has enrolled foracuve service. . ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 11. Oiliciai despatches precedent to thjevwar disclose provocative aggression by Austria and Germany to fix the responsibility for war on Russia. They alsoprove that the Czar did his uttermost. . lo avert war. CHISTIANIA, Aug. 11. The lights on the Scandinavian coast-, have been extinguished. THE HAGUE, Aug. 11. The Dutch are indignant at tne German invasion of Belgium and fear tb..t j the Germans will send a force in t.i----j direction of Antwerp and possibly jttreat to Holland when Belgium is tioc.:ed. In this event Holland will promptiv be flooded to a depth of four feet BERLIN, Aug. 11. I The Reichstag has authorised a warj expenditure of £265,000,000. „, r LONDON, Aug. 11. ±he police occupied Croydon Hall,, near Dunster, which was in the occupation of Count Hochberg, a member of | ttie Pless family. The property isvalued at £100,000, and includes many art treasures. When war was declared Count Hochberg told the servants that. they might never see him again, and disappeared. Six hundred members of the Camj bridge University officers' corps, including twenty "'Blues," applied forcommissions in the special reserve and lerritorials. The Government has recognised the Boy Scouts as a non-military body of the public service. A conference of London business, man decided to organise a fifth line of defence, utilising the spare time of Londoners to learn the rudiments of drill and the use of arms, on the principle of the Irish volunteers. _Mr Harcourt has given Nunehanv. Park as a convalescent hospital, in connection with the base hospital for wounded soldiers. • Six ships, conveying 8000 strandetL Americans, have sailed for New York. .fifteen thousand English and American i tourists are strunued in Switzerland The French Government is sending special trams to convey them acrossFrance. The Duma sent the following message to the House of Commons: "Russia receives with joy the powerful support of Britain. May God bless the courageous arms of the Entente, which are defending a. noble and just cause " COPENHAGEN, Aug. 11.' The express routes carrying food, have resumed their services to English . ports. j No German troops have been withj drawn from Schleswig. The ex-Shah and his family, and 150 Russian refugees in Germany, have readied Malmo. TL.S Shah proceeds to j Russia. He states that he fears as- ,■ sassimition, owing to the anti-Russian ; feeling in Germany. j A steamer picked up and arrested four Germans in a row boat in the Mersel who were endeavoring to elude arrest. | Iwo hundred and nineteen German i reservists at Folkestone, en route toFlushing, were arrested by the Irish j Fusiliers. They appeared delighted i thai their journey had oeen interrupted. weraians long resident in Britain, have unanimously expressed their bitterness towards tiie Kaiser's war spirit and their friendliness towards England. j The majority ot Germans retnaining in Britain are peaceful and innocent. I The Prince of Wales" fund has reachled half a million, including Sir James | Caird's gift of £12,000. Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth subscribed £10,000 to the Countess of Dudley'sfurd, of which lie acts as chairman. The Bank of England has received two and a-half millions in gold to-day. Mr McKenna has remitted the sentences of sultragettes, also the prisoners connected with the recent strikes. In announcing their remission, he said the King was confident that the prisoners or both classes would not stain their causes by further crimes. s The Board ct Agriculture states that I e.\isting stocks of chilled and frozen meat; are sufficient for six weeks at | the normal rate of consumption, and that three or four weeks' supply is due shortly. Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons, said Lord Kitchener was anxious to give every help to the organisation and equipment ot Irish volunteers. Tfee i Government had shown confidence in the patriotism of the Irish by countermanding the despatch of English territorials to Ireland, who, under the mobilisation scheme, would have gone. Mr Asquith added: "Lord Kitchener's chief difficulty is to find officer and non-commissioned officers for the second army of a hundred thousand." Mr Asquith also announced that separate allowances would be paid to soldiers who were married off the strength, also pensions if killed. The War Office's refusal to recognise sucb wives had caused many hardships during the Boer war. Sixty German reservists embarking at Folkestone were arrested to-day. The Bishop of London, at an intercession service, suggested that nobody ought to exceed two meals daily. The Crystal Palace has been' offered the War Office as a temporary hospital* One hundred and twenty Germans, presumably reservists, have arrived at Portsmouth and were imprisoned. Sixty are detained at Swansea. A woman, believed to be a German spy, was arrested at the Millhouse gunpowder works. Mr T. O'Connor, in the House of Commons, asked the Postmaster-Gen-eral whether he was aware that thousands of pounds were being wasted owing to the censorship of cables. He assorted that mossagos were censored. three times at London, three times at Waterville, and three times at the other side of the Atlantic. He requested that the function should be performed l\v trained journalists. Mr Hobhou.se said the War Office, Piid not. the Post, Office, controlled the censorship. _ Advice has been received that a British cruiser captured the HamburgAmorika's steamer C;\p Portejral. with i) million specie, presumably in Bra- \ zilian waters.