INDIA

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 1 April 1915, Page 5

INDIA

TROUBLE ON NORTH-WESTERN FRONTIER ATTACK BY TRIBESMEN. (Rec. April 1, 9.30 a.m.) (Official.) • SIMLA, March 31. Ten thousand tribesmen attacked Tochi, near Miranshah, £uti -were driven across tbeDurand line. i Two hundred' -were killed and three hundred wounded.

south Africa DE WET COMMITTED FOR TRIALi. CAPETOWN, Mirch 31. , Do Wot -frats committed for trial on a charge of tredsbli. CONFIDENCE JN THE GOVERNMENT. (Received April 1, 9'.20' a.mi) , CAPETOWN, March 31. During the debate on General Hertzog's motion charging the Government with unconstitutional acts in detaining members without ..formulating charges, and in proclaiming martial law. without summoning Parliament, Mr Merriman declared that- the Government was not deserving of censure. He moved the previous auest-ionj and this was carried by 62 to 13.

GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA ENEMY'S CAMP CAPTURED. (Official.) CAPETOWN, March 31. , Colonel Van del* Venter captured the enemy's camp at Platheet, 50 miles from Ukamec, a. jgreat quantity of clothing and ammunition, besides horses and live stoek. - The Union force now hold many important positions east of the Great Kar.•ras Mountains, where- there is an abundance of grass and water. IN AUSTRALIA ANOTHER CONTINGENT OFFEREE AND ACCEPTED. SYDNEY, March 31. Mr Fisher, speaking at a luncheon announced that he had -cabled to the Imperial Government to-day, offering another contingent for service at the front. The offer lias been accepted. GERMAN DOCTOR'S LIBEL ACTION SYDNEY, March 31. Dr. Neumann sued . the newspaper "Orange Leader" for £52000 damages for alleged libel in commenting,, without mentioning his name, that a German doctor had not passed a siriglo candidate a& fit' to take up arms against his countrymen. ■The evidence showed that plaintiff was naturalised, and that he had passed: 29 out of 32 candidates he had examined. Defendant's counsel contended that the article was published from a high, sense of public duty, and did not contain personal malice, "no name being mentioned. A verdict was given for defendants.

FLOUR SEIZED AT SYDNEY. (Received 9.20 a.m.} . SYDNEY, This Day. , The Government seized 300 sacks of flour which had been withheld from. sale. REGULATION OF EXPORTS. ! (Received 9.20 a.m.} SYDNEY, This Day. The export of sheepskins without wool or pickled pelts is permitted to any country, without a-estriction.; It is -proposed to allow the export of wooled sheepskins to neutral countries on similar conditions to ihose governing the export to ; the United Statse. j It lias been decided not to alter the hide regulations. INTERNED CARGO AT JAVA. - (Received: 9.20 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. jVtr Caleb. Allen, manager of Harris, ■Scarpe, Limited, has arranged to visit Jiaya in the interests of Australian consignees. The .cargo interned in German vessels is valued Mr Allen leaves on April 17.

ALLEGED TRADING WITH THE ENEI^Y. (Received 9.20 a.m.) A further.Jhformatioh has been laid against Francis Snow of attempting tot supply Mount Lyell copper to the enemy via Rqtterdam, Naples, Genoa, and New York,. PRESERVED MEAT FOR SOUTH j . AFRICA AND INDIA; j (Received 9.20 a.m.) j -SYDNEY, This Day. The Government agrees to supply South Africa "with preserved meat to the value of £124,000 and Jndia to the value of £17,000.

IF VOLUNTARY SERVICE FAILED . (Received 9.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. . -fylx Fisher, at £he Show luncheon; remarked that if - voluntary :servdc"e failed, of which there-was no sign,-; the Government would' take- further actibK The war was costing Australia £1,500,000 a month.

MEW ZEALAND APPOINTMENT .-OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT. WELLINGTON, March 31. . The advisory committee;of newspaper editors; chosen by the Press Association to advise the Government in the matter of selecting an official ;wa-r correspondent from the 46 applications received, narrow.ed the list aowntofour; whose names are- given in alphabetical order as follows: F., Dbidge, chief of staff, "Star," Auckland; E. -V. Hall, editorial staff, ' Post,'' Wellington ; Malcolm Ross, special correspondent, Christr.harch "Press," 'flOtago ,Daily Times,'*, and other papers, Wellington; S." Waters', sub-editorial .staff, Christchurch "Press." (Mi* Ross was subsequently appointed.)

KILLED IN AOTION. CHRISTCHURGH, March 31. Private advice • has vbeen received in Christ-church of the death of .Major Robertson, 4th Seaforth Highlanders, killed in action at Neuve Chapelle. He was a brother of Mr R. M. Robertson, of the Bank of New Zealand, . Christchurch, and of Mr J. M. Robertson, of tlie Napier staff of tho 'New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company.

IN NELSON BELGIAN BELIEF FUND. ... '(No. ,1.) Committee to receive money or goods: Mrs MacKenzie, Mrs Kempthorne, JVlisa Atkinson, and M's Emmett. : 'A subscription list is open at the Bank of New Zealand. The following sums appeal* oil the Bank of New Zealand list Children's picnic money given by the Christ Church and Wood Sunday Schools £7 10s, Mgt. Simson 6s, T. and O. Roughton 'proceeds of 2s 6d subscription from hoppickers) £2 18s 6d, A. J. Palmer £5. The committee acknowledge the following :—Garden party and danco, Hiwaka £lB j Mr G. W- R- Sorimgeour, Ferntown, £2 ; Mrs J. IP. Cooke, roll of shirting. '• I . .