THE WAR OF WARS.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13667, 8 September 1916, Page 2

THE WAR OF WARS.

INTERNATIONAL TRADE CONGRESS. NO "FURTHER TRUCK'' WITH GERMANS. ' • (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association,) LONDON, September 6. The Trades Union Congress rejected the Committee's recommendation to join, the International Trade Union Conference. A Peaco Conference set up to advise diplomats concerning Labour's views of peace terms has disclosed that the German trade unionists informed the'conveners that it would, be impossible to attend because thoy wero'under a government of absolutism,, which it was hoped to alter after the war. Several members' of- the Congress l declared that they would not tolerate further (ruck with' German internationalists.

EXPLOSION IN MUNITIONS . FACTORY. SEVENTEEN WORKERS INJURED. ("Reuter's Telegrams.") 1 LONDON, September G, It is officially announced' that an explosion occurred in an-ammunition fac-. ory in South' London, but vory small lamage was caused,' Seventeen workers vere slightly injured. ■

ALIENS AND GERMANS,

NEWSPAPER'S MISTAKE,

SWEPES OBTAIN SATISFACTION,

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, September 7, "lio case in. t which Wilhclm Suiuliii and his wife claimed £SOOO and £2OOO respectively from the Daily Mirror, has 1)0011 settled by the defendants paying Iho costs, and publishing an apologv. The plaintiffs arc Swedes.

COLUMBIAN ELECTIONS. COLLECTING SOLDIERS' VOTES. (Australia ami N. 55. Cable Association.) The War Office has agreed to Britisiw Columbia sending 'a staff to the bases to poll the votes 'of the fighters.