NEWS SUMMARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15950, 22 June 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY

Auckland: . a , The llkratji Hospital Ship and ' Wounded Soldiers' Relief Fund now totals £11,117 Ss 2d. t The Mayor's Fund for the hospital ship and wounded soldiers' relief amounts to £20,221 5s 4^d. The Primo Minister has agreed to receive, an Auckland deputation to-morrow 011 tho question of shipping space. Arrangements for the accommodation of sick and wounded soldiers returning from Egypt will bo under joint civil and military control. There aro no criminal cases to come More tho Supremo .Court in Gisboruo at its present session, and Mr. Justice Cooper was presented with a pair of white gloves. — A sentence of six months' imprisonment with hard labour, to be followed by reformative treatment, was imposed 011 a circus attendant in the Police Court yostcdav for the theft of a portion of a set of harness. Tho city estimates for the current year were adopted last night at a special meeting of the City Council, providing for a total expenditure of £261,445 12s 6d, against receipts, £160,236 17s Id, leaving £101,208 15s 5d to bo provided by the rates struck. New Zealand: The Primo Minister states that during the coming cession the Government will Bet introduce any measures properly described as party measures. It is possible that tho newly-elected member for Taumarunui may not Ins able to take his sort in the Houso of Representatives on Thursday owing to tho counting of the absentee votes not being completed. In reply to the Governor's request for information regarding "missing" soldiers, the Secretary of State for the Colonies has replied that the Turkish Government has agreed to establish an information bureau, but its procedure appears to be slow. Leo Stephen Curtis, formerly clerk to the Ohakune Borough Council, was admitted to probation at tho Supreme Court at Wellington yesterday in order to give him ah opportunity of returning to Egypt to rejoin the forces. -Curtis was brought lack from Egypt to answer charges of theft, '.Che War: Exceptionally heavy rains in Galicia are assisting the Russian defence by increasing the bog area, A German reservist, who declared that lie saw guns on the Lusitania, has been indicted at New York for perjury. A majority of the wounded deny of Turkish atrocities. They state that* 1 the Turks are fighting most fairly. ' Mr. Lloyd George has appointed Mr. D. A. Thomas, the Welsh coal mineowner, to go to the United States and Canada to organise munitions contracts. • • " : The Pelrograd correspondent of the London. Observer says that the object of the German attack on Lemberg is to impress Roumania and Bulgaria. ,' .;i ; It is reported. that the Servians have ; occupied Durazzo, the capital of Albania, and tfiat the leader of the'- insurgents, ■■ Essad Pasha, has' fled to Italy.*/, ■ v '- .I.^ A Turkish officer taken prisoner, said: [ "Germany is our ; ally. LWe know our country's '- hours ; are numbered, but we - fight or; her as. you would fight for yours." \"'.^ r ;.-,•*-•; -f_"'. ,■-. :. The British naval casualties up" to the end of May were:— Killed, 50; wounded, 85;' missing, 49. Men: Killed, 483 'H wounded, 1862; missing, 2512, in- '. eluding 1444 interned. , f. .'.■ i .', • ' • The New i York . Herald states ! that v German agents are , buying 12 per cent. of the ammunition turned out at Hartford, 15 per cent, at Eridgeport, and 10 per cent, at Waterbnry. ,' '-■* '~ • ;-:V. The i Central News' ' at . Dunkirk says that the French ' offensive i from Notre Dame de Lorette x to Neuville - squeezed 150,000 Germans into a front of ' 4A- miles, where they are being sacrificed. '.'". : A 'Berlin"professor advocates the' exclusion of foreigners from German universities. J, The enemy's reprisals, he asserts, would be- harmless,' because foreign coun- -; tries do not "possess anything . good : for Germans. /,;.••, ?i "...'• ' .'*"-..:'•. -' There- are signs indicating that a more sober spirit is replacing the " Gott strafe" fever. Every day reveals more outspoken criticism of the foreign policy, states a .: neutral observer in Germany. ' • It is officially stated that -battle of Lubaczowka, in Northern Galicia, on ; Tuesday, included a brilliant and bold attack by Russian cavalry upon German in--1 fantry, in -which the whole of the 91st , German Begiment was annihilated and dis- ; persed. (.--. ■' ■■ The Bavarians are enthusiastic at the f Galician successes, which have elevated Austria in /German.esteem, and more closely cemented the union. Henceforth • German officers will act officially in all parts of Austro-Hungary, states a neutral observer in Germany.