VARIOUS ITEMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 10060, 3 May 1915, Page 6

VARIOUS ITEMS.

LONDON, April 30. Renter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that Salah-ed-din's death at Constantinople is announced. Deceased was a nephew ot the Sultan. LONDON. May 1. Lord Curzon at Caxton Hall said:— "We have got to punish Germany for abominable crimes, and chain uj> the mad dor: of Europe. The enemy has shown 110 mercy to anybody, and there is no reason why mercy should be shown to him. may have to endure months of sacrifice, greater than anything yet sustained, and we ought to calculate for war into 1916, or it might be beyond.'' AMSTERDAM. May 1. The Prize Court at Hamburg awarded several Dutch companies indemnities ior the seizure and detention of trawlers. (Timw and Sydney Sun Sekvtcis.) Received Mav 3. !) a.m LONDON. May 2. The liquor trade is anxiously considering the Drink Rill. Generally it has no quarrel with the powers the Government is taking, and is prepared to submit it it is proved the situation is as serious as Mr Lloyd George describes it. Hotels and clubs have laid in immense stocks, particularly of whisky, thoi retail price of which it is expected will immediately lie doubled. The wine trade is anxiously organising in the hope of an amendment of the springing oi the taxes which it is declared will*he a deathblow to the trade. The Government is appointing a committee to control the coal export in view of the conservation of Britain's needs. Right. Hon. R. McKenna, interrogated in the Commons, said General French had not expressed disapproval of the Government's policy ot enforcing the secretary of the press censorships. The Czar's visit to the borders of Bukovina is politically significant, as it indicates Russia's firm intention to extend her dominion to territories formerly Russian. The Swiss Socialists have invited the Socialists of the world to discuss peace at Lurich. The American Ambassador visited the British prisoners suffering reprisals in Germany and expressed satisfaction. Fiity pors/ms, mostly women, have replied to the Times' advertisements from officers' requiring skin-graft tor wounds.