MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 20 August 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

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AN HONOR.

(Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) , LONDON, Aug. 18 Press Bureau states Sir A. E. Geddes, has been given the K.C.B. in recognition of his war services. ANOTHER STRIKE. LONDON, August 18th. ' Tho engine drivers and firemen are striking. THE LIQUOR TRADE \ AUSTRALIAN & N.z. CABLE ASSOCIATION J WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. Mr. Hoover has announced that alt distillation of spirits will stop on Sept. Bth. ‘ >. - ' FIVE VESSELS OVERDUE. FOUL PLAYSGSPECTED. Reuter’a Telegrams. VANCOUVER, Aug. 18

Three American,, one British, and one Japanese boats are overdue. They have been given up for lost. The owners believe that tho loss is duo to time-bombs. ' COUNT BERNSTORFF. (United Service Telegrams.) LONDON, AugJ 18. Count Bernstorff has been appointed Gorman Ambassador to Constantinople. german casualties. (Reuter’s Telegrams.! VANCOUVER, Aug. 18. A London message estimates the German casualties at 4,500,000. BRITISH MINISTRY. (Reuter's Telegrams.) LONDON August 18. The Press Bureau states: Mr.-J. Hodge has been appointed Minister of Pensions; Mr. G H. Roberts, Minister of Labour; Sir Erio Geddes, lace dfrector-General of Recruiting, Minister of National Service; Mr. G. J. Wardle, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade. ENGLISH BUTTER MARKET LONDON August 18. The butter maximum prices remain unchanged- Dlanish butter in Manchester touched 2905. There .is a general impression in Tooley Street that the whole oi trie p.o vision trade will he Government controlled soon.

TRADE AFTER THE WAR. LONDON August 18. The Daily Telegraph states that; the Government has completed plans for establishing a commercial intelligence department which will strive to watch and foster the Country’s afterthe war commercial interests. POLAND’S STATUS. ' LONDON August 17. Reuter learns that the Central Potters intend to offer , Poland a regency composed of three eminent Polish politicians, a Ministerial Cabinet, and the present provincial councillors will be appointed. AMERICA ,AND CHINA. WASHINGTON August 17. The American gunboats interned in China will be released immediately they are in a position to help to check the impending rising in Southern China. BOILERMAKERS STRIKE. LONDON, August 17. Nine thousand Boilermakers on the Mersey have struck. The strike will create uneasiness owing to tho urgency of tho work on which they are engaged.

GERMAN SCHEMES

(Reuter’s Telegrams.) 1 LONDON, Aug. it,. 3 In the House of Commons, the Rt. c Hon. A. J. Balfour, dealing wtih tho ' Balkans, declared that he was con- f fident that the German schemes of expansion through the Balkans and Asia Minor to the Persian Gulf and beyond would be defeated. The Government was confident that its hopes of restoration and a glorious, . future for Serbia would be finally j adequately fulfilled. He trusted tnav there would be military activities in the Balkans, but the difficulties were very great hihl operations comparable to those on the West Front were improbable in the immediate future.' He assured the House that the Allies were paying attention to the question of increasing the land transport at Salonika. SOCIALIST MANIFESTO. i] ' ( (Received, This Dav at 8.50. a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 9. The British Socialist Party has issueu a manifesto declaring Mr. Henderson’s exclusion is an affront to the whole Labour movement. It urges the Labour to immediately withdraw its representatives from the Cabinet and to repudiate any who refuse. DURHAM MINERS ATTITUDE. LONDON August 19. Durham miners have instructed their delegates to oppose the sending of representation to Stockholm,. AMERICA’S WHEAT. (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. Mr Hoover ha s issued a warning that a reduction of twenty per cent, of •■wheat consumption is necessary to conserve wheat for home and Allied use. He statod that wheat was deficient in United. States and Canada for 1917, by four hundred million bushels, compared with normal pro-war requirements. Tho appropriate supplies of other oereal a ia 900 million. The South American wheat crop is , largely a failure. The new harvest is unavailable there till the spring of 1917. ,

A CUBAN OFFER

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19

Government have accepted a Cuban offer to send American troops to Cuba for training troops, which will be avail*Me in the event of pro-Gerntan efforts to use Cuba ns a submarine or wireless base. , , LOAN proposal. (Received This Dav at -11.25. a.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. Mr McAdo has submitted to Congress a proposal for a new bond issue of 7,- , 5.38,945,000 dollars at four per cent, interest for the purpose, of providing a four billions new loan for tho Allies and tho retirement of-the. recent 3 billion 3£ per cent, loan to the Allies. Of 1,200,000 men volunteered for all tho fighting services since tlio deelara- '■ tion. 448,850 have been accepted. The total volunteers now in actual service, both on land and sea is 943,141. , POLISH CONGRESS. , (Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, Aug 19. A meeting of the Polish Congress at Moscow resolved on the creation of” an independent Polish State, including all Polish territories, with an outlet to tho sea north of tho Vistula, and declaring a premature peace would bo contrary j to Polish interests. A BIG EXPLOSION. GREAT DAMAGE. (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) •• 1 MONTREAL, Aug 19 Thirty persons were killed by an ex- | plosion at Curtis Company’s plant. The I loss is a million, sterling.

TO PUNISH SEDITION. Received, t"his day at 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON August 19. - A Bill was. introduced in the Senate to punish I.W.W. and #her seditioners for attempting to impede war operations. german attitude. NEW YORKER’S OPINION. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m.) WASHINGTON, August 2. Charles Grasey New York “Times" Paris correspondent after a trip to Switzerland and having made the fullest investigations believes it is vain to hope for any popular upheaval in Germany before the war ends. However, there are few people willing to believe that autocracy will beyond the present Kaiser. Germany is hold in a grip of discipline, but there is unrest. The soldiers are willing to fight and listen to commands but when tho war is over and they roturn home they will not consent to live under an autocracy, which is able to capriciously involve the nation in war.

GOING DRY. OTTAWA, August 19. ■ The Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia has signed a law passed by the Legislature making the State dry from September Ist. A GERMAN CLAIM. [ ADMIIt A LTV —PF.B WIRELESS PRESS.] Received, this day at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON August 19. Tho Germans claim that their patrols encountered and attacked enemy cruisers and destroyers in the North Sea. The latter withdrew hastily. LORI) DERBY VISITS NEW ZEAJ ANDERS. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m.) LONDON August iv. Lord Derby visited the New Zealand hospitals at Brockcnhurst. He w rote to Sir Thomas Mackenzie and LioutCpl. Wylie saying he was delighted with all he saw and the organisation seems perfect. He was impressed by the cheerfulness of the poor fellows who had lost limbs. A FRENCH PROTEST. PARIS, August 19. The Foreign Minister- is 'formally protesting to Germany against French youths in occupied territory being incorporated in tho German Workmen’s battalion doing .military work at the front. It is stated that twenty-six of these battalions have been formed . JAPANESE LOAN. WASHINGTON, Aug 19 A despatch from Tokio states Japan is floating a forty million dollar loan for Russia.