MISCELLANEOUS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 March 1915, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

PRUSSIAN BOMBAST

STATEMENT OF 3REISONERS

COMMONWEALTH lITEMS

THE LATEST GERMAN GREETING

HELD TO J3E BLASPHEMOUS

BERLIN, March 16. In the Prussian Diet, Merr Delbruck, Minister for the Interior, said the ene- i mies' armies had been .repeatedly broken. Now they .were attempting to starve the women and children. He emphasised the economic and industrial activities of Germany, and said: "We axe -organised from the first to the last man. if we only intended to repel the -enemy there-should be peace shortly, .but we will not sheath our swords until guarantees are given that our neighbors will not fail us again, .and it is not desirable to discuss those guarantees at present." LONDON, March 16. A "White Paper gives the correspondence betw.een the British Government and the American Ambassador respectg the daieaAmentiof prisoners in Britain. It states that naval and military officers are given half the pay of the corresponding ranks of the British infantry. If the Government learns that British officers in Germany are jeceiving the .full pay of corresponging ranks in the German army, she is prejpared to do the same with the German prisoners. SYDNEY, March 16. The Montenegrin .Red Cross Association has urgently appealed to Australia for tfnrade. Colonel Holmes, commander of the late New Guinea .expedition, has been I appointed commander of the fifth in-j I f antry brigade force. Arising .out of the recent charge of attempting to trade with the enemy, the High Court .has appointed a controller of the business "of Edward Alexander and Go., .importers, until the end of the war.. .ADELAIDE, March 16. The Hfoodstuns Commission states that the wheat deficiency is 191,245 bushels.. Mr Cqghlan has sent to the Commission for the Relief o£ the Belgians £40,000 from .Auckland, Christchurch, and New South Wales, making £180,----000, and also .fifteen Red Cross lorries. COPENHAGEN, March 16. The Government refuses to forward letters Inßctribe'a-'rGodipunish England." The Danish law prohibits letters containing blasphemous matter.