GENERAL WAR NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15687, 14 August 1914, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

London, August 12. Russians, to the number of 6000, who have been expelled from Germany, have arrived at Stockholm. They declare that thoy suffered barbarous treatment. Colonel Whitaker, defendant in tho recent canteen scandal case, who was sentenced to six months' hard labour, has volunteered for active service. He has been released. A modified censorship has been established over the telephone system of Great Britain, and those using foreign languages are immediately cut offOwing to an attempt being made to blow up the Canadian-Northern railway track, troops are guarding the railway bridges throughout Canada.

The strange vessel in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which was thought to be a German cruiser, was a British man-o'-war. The ports have been reopened. j Martial law has been declared in Kingston, the canital of Jamaica. Germans resident at or in the vicinity of the ports of Natal have been required to surrender any arms or ammunition in their pos-

I session. ! General Dimitriff. ex-Minister at ! St. Petersburg for Bulgaria, has arj rived at Peterhof, and has been appointed general of a division in the Russian Army. The Consul for Italy at Colombo, i who was of German nationality, has I been found shot dead. It is beI lieved that he committed suicide.