NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15686, 13 August 1914, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The Herald Patriotic Fund now totals £3190. Tyco divorce cases were considered at tho Supremo Court yesterday. Many additional subscriptions were made to the Citizen's Patriotic Fund yesterday. Several appointments of officers to the 'Auckland portion of tho expeditionary force aro announced. From sunset to sunrise each night until further notice all tho Auckland Harbour lights will be extinguished. An enthusiastic meeting was hold in tho Town Kail last night in connection with the proposal to form a National Reserve. Several squads from country districts arrived in Auckland yesterday to join the Northern section of the expeditionary force. Farmers ' unions in tht> Auckland district have responded in a most liberal manner to the appeal for horses and waggons. In most of the country centres of tho Auckland Province great enthusiasm prevails in regard to the expeditionary force, and funds are mounting up rapidly. Further progress was made in Auckland yesterday in the enrolment of volunteers for tho expeditionary force and there arc row between 30 and 40 officers and between 300 and 400 men of other ranks under canvas. A street collection in aid of tho fund inaugurated by the Mayoress in connection with the expeditionary force will be held in tho city and suburbs to-day. Many ladies have given their services as collectors. New Zealand: The- weather report states that cold and showery weather may be expected. The Prime Minister stated in the House of Representatives yesterday that the Government intended to introduce legislation by which local bodies could contribute to the Empire Defence Fund. The Minister,for Finance stated that the State Advance's Department would carry out its obligations, but he suggested that local bodies might postpone applications in connection with works not yet started. An enginedriver named D. A. Dutton was acquitted on tho charge of manslaughter at Dunedin yesterday. The case arose out of the death of a fireman who was killed in a collision between two locomotives. A number of sportsmen associated with the Sports Protection League have inaugurated a movement by which it is hoped to provide, by voluntary subscription, a shipload of frozen meat, dairy produce, and other foodstuffs to send for the relief of the poor of Britain. Australia: Several German vessels have been seized in Australian ports. A system of circulating- authentic war news is being considered uy the Premiers of, the various States. Sir Rupert Clarke has returned .to ■' Sydney from Mount Donaldson, Papua, •:- \ where he planted the Union Jack. British Empire: Onlv picked troops are to be sent in the :■' Canadian expeditionary force. ..Lady Islington has offered her London residence as a hospital for New Zealanders . if required. .The English Channel and North Atlantic trade routes are now reported to.be clear of the enemy. An Albertan. "cattle-king" has offered £10.000 for the equipment of a Legion of * Frontiersmen. , Fresh offers of support in the war aro being received by Britain from tho. Indian \ native States. A paper famine is imminent "in Britain, - where supplies are estimated to last another six weeks only. Proprietors of music-halls in Britain are r trying to reduce the salaries of artiste'. by. * half, and the artists are resisting the pro- '"'■ ' posal. Five hundred men have enlisted in the ' British Foreign Legion, including Russian . princes, Italian officers and Danish resi- . dents. •'.'.; •■ r ■ The Alberta province in Canada has offered a full supply of oats to the British Army and apples and tinned salmon are ( offered by British Columbia. . ' - The conditions of trade in Britain are /V improving, and the banks are steadily \ . paying out gold. The total receipt* of the " . Bank of England since August 5 amount -, ; "'.' to £9,000,000. • Foreign: The port of German South-Wcst Africa ' has been evacuated. The' German cruiser Gooben has again V been reported as approaching the Dardanelles. ; ''■ , .. An Austrian army is reported to bo advancing into the south of Russian Poland. The castle of a German princess in Belgium was cleared of its valuable contents six weeks ago. Several frontier- engagements are reported as having occurred between the Continental belligerents. Further reports from Liege give details of deeds of great gallantry on the part of the defenders in the forts. An organised system of German espionago has been unearthed in Brussels, where 2000 epics have boon arrested. Owing to the superior forces of Germans in Alsace, the French have been compelled to retiro from Mulhauscn. The Belgian War Office announces that 2000 Germans have been killed at Liege, 20,000 wounded, and 9700 captured. A large German force is marching upon Liege. Everywhere the German cavalry has been repulsed with heavy losses. German plans have been discovered, showing that it was proposed to reach Brussels on August 3. and Lille on August 5. The Servians and Montenegrins have now joined forces against Austria. Germany has broken off her relations with "Servia. The German legation claims that tho Russian frontier forces have been driven back, and a cavalry brigade destroyed at Holdau. Several outrages by German troops are reported from Paris, including the firing of a village whilst the inhabitants were in cliuich. ,-' A declaration of war by Japan against Germany is exoectcd. Tho first hostile act will probably be the seizing of the ' German district of Kiflochow Bay. The French and American bank in Paris has opened a gold credit of £1,187.500 to tho Government's account, for the pur•r chase of com and other foodstuffs. ■ Rome papers doclaro that it makes no Ig^i 1 ~ difference to Italy whether France or Britain declares war on Austria, or vice.•versa, as Italy's neutrality continues un- £ shaken, iKfe.a : ■:':■":■ HMfc"