CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 5

CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ITEMS.

CANADA'S WAR LOAN,

GERMANY'S CAUSE DENOUNCED

HOSPITAL SHIP RENDERED UY SEAWORTHY.

WIRELESS STATION CLOSED

OTTAWA, Oct. 18. Ihe Government has arranged with the Bank of England for ,n ,LnZZ the money required for military end ra val expenditure in 1914, and will float a. permanent war loan Ut&e. NEW YORK, 'je. 18 Mr Gardner, a member of the House tur^T Bat?f VeS ' Wh° has *- tmned from the war zone, has moved the appointment of a Commission to investigate American readiness for war He denounced Germany's cause as an unholy menace to the democracy The New York American publishes an affidavit of **c engineers aboard a Red Cross ship, formerly a Hamburg-Ameri-can steamship, which was chaitereTto brmg refugees from the Continent. The] i -affidavit .states that prior to sailing the tormer German crew deliberately rendered the ship unseaworthy, and also liable to be destroyed by fire,' by destroying the pumps, stuffing blankets into the bilge-pipes, and similar methods. tA*^ ? eparWlt h^-ordered Hie Marconi station at Honolulu to be closed for announcing the arrival of the German gunboat Geier, on the ground of vivolation of neutrality.