NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15687, 14 August 1914, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland:

A reduction in tho price o£ fat stock has taken place.

. Over 1060"men" have already enrolled in the National Reserve.

A continuance of the unsettled weather (conditions is predicted.

Tho sum of £3672 has been subscribed to tho HekajlD Patriotic Fund.

General business in Auckland has been dislocated as a result of the war.

Tho demand for provisions which set in some days ago has now partially subsided.

Goods shipped from Germany before August 7 will be delivered as usual upon their arrival in the Dominion.

The campaign on behalf of the fund promoted by the Mayoress of Auckland resulted in the collection of £1593 yesterday,

Throughout the Auckland Province great enthusiasm is being shown in raising funds for tho equipment of the expeditionary force.

The territorial force will be maintained at full strength by the enrolment of volunteers to take the places of the men of tho expeditionary force.

It is expected that the mobilisation of the remainder of Auckland's contingent of the expeditionary force will bo completed by tho end of tho week.

The necessity for supporting local industry dicing the European crisis was emphasised by members of the Auckland Industrial Association yesterday.

The executive of the Auckland Provincial Employers' Association has approved of the suggestion ■ that tho Government should regulate tho price of foodstuff;; during the present crisis.

The members of tho A Battery, N.Z.F.A., who have volunteered for service abroad, were suddenly mobilised yesterday. They aro going to the Palmcrston North camp.

Tho executive of tie Auckland Provincial Employers' Association has passed a resolution '/> the effect that it is not desirable at present to indiscriminately suspend awards or industrial agreements. New Zealand: Colonel Malone, of Stratford, and his three sons, have joint the expeditionary force.

The Petitions 'Committee of the House of Representatives has recommended the lelease of tho strike prisoners.

A message from Wellington states that it is understood that the main portion of the expeditionary force will jail from the four principal ports, though the date of departure has not yet been fixed.

About 100 Germans, who have been Arretted as prisoners, of war in various parts of New Zealand, are now on Somes Island, in Wellington Harbour. Some of them have been granted parole on their being able to bring well-known people to vouch for their conduct.

The advance guard of, the 'expeditionary force has not yet Bailed from Wellington. The Prime Minister announced last evening that the force was now under the control of the Imperial authorities, who would state when the ships would sail. He was personally of the opinion that they would not sail to-day.'

Australia:

A suggestion has been made that 'the Commonwealth should offer Britain 1,000,000 carcases of frown mutton..-.

British Empire: & Many ;of those who perished on : the British cruiser Amphicn were asleep in their banks. "'■■

The British Admiralty has accepted Canada's offer of the two submarines recently built for Chili.

The Times publishes an exposure of German methods of trying to hoodwink the people of Britain ana ' Germany by trying to obtain publication of a misleading statement and ordering it to be afterwards telegraphed to a Berlin news agerfcy... . ■;. ,- .-';,-.'' S\.7 /' :

The Canadian Finance Minister has arranged with the Bank of England to act as trustee to hold gold for the bank. This will allow Canadian and American bankers to pay through the Minister in Ottawa the gold accessary for credits in Great Britain. .

* Foreign:

. Germans in America are . urging the press to adopt a fairer attitude towards Germany. .

Tho United States Senate is considering the peace-treaty proposals of the President.

Belgian airmen report that.there la ono solid mass of shining.armoui from Liege to Duren.

Roumania has taken measures to guard her frontiers and uphold the Iwaty of . Bucharest.-

The Swedish nation has adopted a credit of £2,500,000 in order to defend her neutrality.

The utmost secrecy is being observed as . to the movements of the allied forces on the Continent.

The German staff has informed the press that Germany has sustained heavy losses on the Russian frontier.

An American story is published to i'ie effect that the Kaiser was shot through the right thigh at Aix-le-Chapelle.

A German destroyer has been sunk near the entrance to tho Baltic Sea by striking ono of the mines laid by Germans.

Trade routes from Britain to Norway and Italy, and in the China Sea, are now considered to be safo for shipping.

Prince George of Servia was wounded in tho head by a fragment from a shell during tho Austrian bombardment of Belgrade.

Detachments of tho first and twentieth Gorman Army Corps were repulsed by the Russians in attempting to rcoccupy Eydtkulinen.

Belgians repulsed a regiment of German dragoons, at Aineffo, 13 miles west of Liege, tho enemy's losses being 153 killed and 102 captured.

The United States Senate has adopted the measure allowing tho President discretion to admit to tho American registry foreign-built ships less than five years jld."

Austria has declared a blockade of the Montenegrin coast, and has given friendly and neutral, shipping 24 hours' notice to leave if they "wish to avert capture, or destruction.

Particulars, of. a fierco».enga,gemen|, at Petit Croix; 30 Miles south-east of BeMort/ describe how French infantry defeated a regiment of Uhlans, their machine ijups proving very deadly. • r,f>: ■.-'.'! <:':> [y.

The .German : "cruisers'Goelen and Breslau are said to have been purchase hy Turkey; I whilst another account plates that, they are -lit the 'Dardanelles, vi here they will be dismantled.

■-,'• 'As, the result or a prolonged engage- ; 's ment netVfeferirthe Jtrft ,winj£ of<tho Beligian- ::.,... army, apjUa, .jnm<s.,G&r,»aii . force 0 cavalry, aid Artillery, 'Germans were completely routed.