NEWS SUMMARY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15975, 21 July 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY

Auckland A slight improvement has taken place in wholesale business since last week. Tenders for the dredging of the swinging basin at, Waitiku are to be called by the Harbour Board. There is stated to be no present likelihood of a reduction in the price of wheat or flour in Auckland. Forty-six men were passed as medically fit for the reinforcements of the. New Zealand Expeditionary Force yesterday. The Mayor's fund for the equipment of th« hospital shin and the relief of sick find wounded soldiers now totals £31,103 6s '3d. The matter of the responsibility for repairs to the. Takapuna Wharf was dis cussed at yesterday's meeting of the Harbour Board. The efforts of the Mayor to have a camp for reinforcements established in Aucknd were supported by the Hospital Board last night. Telegrams received by the Mayor. Mr. J. H. Giinson, indicate "that other centres a.re supporting Auckland's action in commemorating General Botha's victory. The Hospital Board decided last night Li appoint four resident medical officers at the hospital at a salary of £400 each, the term of engagement, to be for one year. A request to the Harbour Board from the City Council to be allowed to utilise a portion of the new market site in Customs Street for other than market purposes is U> be considered by the board in committee. A reason given for the decision of the New Zealand Shipping Company to make Auckland the first port of call for its next six boat.' from London is a desire to economise in time and tonnage on the coastal run. New Zealand: The hospital ship Maheno has left Adelaide in continuation of her voyage to the Mediterranean. The men of the fifth reinforcements, by their good conduct, won an excellent impression in Albany. Considerable increases in war pensions are proposed by an amended War Pensions Bill, introduced to the House last evening. ' Very many questions relating to the conduct of the war and the treatment of New Zealand soldiers, were asked in the House yesterday. It is announced that the fifth reinforcements proceeded to an Indian port and there disembarked their horses before proceeding through the Red Sea. The War: The situation in regard to the South Wales coal strike is now more hopeful.

Sir R. L. Borden. Prime Minister of Canada, is to receive the freedom of London, on July 29. The list of British casualties for the ■week-end contains the names of 59 officers and 1435 men. It is estimated, that the enemy is operating with forty-one army corps in the Eastern theatre. The Russians are confident of their ability to hold the Germans in the Prasnysz region and also on the Narew, Lublin and Chelm lines. A refugee from Pola reports that two Austrian submarines, which were reconnoitring on the Italian coast, have not returned, and it is believed they are lost. As showing the effectiveness of the British blockade the value of American exports to Germany in June were worth £80, as compared 'winh £2,800,000 in 1914. Strikes have broken out at the Remington arms and cartridges factories at Bridgeport, America, employing 12,000 employees. The strikes involve 12 additional factories engaged on sub-contracts. The Giornale d'ltalia states that refugees bring alarming news of the situation in Turkey. The troops at Adrianople revolted, refusing to go to Constantinople, which they call the Turkish soldiers' tomb. In consequence of the attempted torpedoing of the Orduna, it is believed that President Wilson will couch his next Note to Germany in the form of an ultimatum, involving the breaking off of diplomatic relations. Refugees state that anarchy reigns in Constantinople. Private houses have been lequisitioned for the wounded, the price of bread is inflated, coal is scarce, and there is a dhortago of doctors and medical requisites. The Central Board for the Control of the Liquor Traffic has issued ite first order, which applies to Newhaven, on the south coast of England. The order restricts licensing hours to 4£ hours daily, and to four hours on. Sundays. Mr. Asquith informed the House of Commons that the total casualties at the Dardanelles to the end of June were:— Officers: Killed, 541; wounded, 1257; missing. 155. Men: Killed, 7543; wounded, 25,557; missing, 7401. A British submarine sank a steamer at Bisgas, on the Asiatic side of the Sea of Marmora. Two lighters and a steamer unloading at Scutari were torpedoed. A torpedo missed a steamer loading at Constantinople, but damaged 200 yds of wharfing. The Daily Telegraph correspondent at Milan says that the closing of the Ger-man-Swiss frontier conceals large movements of Germans. It is believed that the entire Bavarian army is being transported either to Flanders, the Vosges, or the I Italian front. The Austrian losses south of Lublin are now estimated at nearly 70,000, and they were very largely responsible for bringing General von -Vlackensen's offensive to a standstill. The Germans' new northern offensive rovers a front of four hundred miles, and heavy righting is progressing practically over the whole distance.