PRIZE COURT CASES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15975, 21 July 1915, Page 8

PRIZE COURT CASES.

RIGHTS OF AMERICANS.

(Received July 21, 2 am.) New York, July 20. America has despatched a Note to Britain intimating that she will insist upon all her rights under international law in Prize Court proceedings. The Note is officially described as a caveat conserving the rights of American citizens whose cases are about to be heard in British Prize Courts.

CLOTHING FOR TROOPS. WINTER GARMENTS. QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Wellington, Tuesday. Sir Joseph Ward asked the Minister for Defence in the Hour* to-day what provision was being made for 'v ter clothing for our men at the Dardanelles Mr. Allen: We have our regular orders for clothing, but somo time ago I cabled to England asking whether they would supply the winter clothing from there or whether we would supply it here, and I asked them whether we should manufacture in New Zealand any special clothing out of sheepskins, hareskins, or goa£ skins, and, if not necessary for our men at the Dardanelles, as far as New Zealand could do it we would be quite pleased to manufacture these for the Imperial forces anywhere. I have not received a replv yet.. . * y ■ A Member: Give them another stir up. DYNAMITARDS FOILED PLOT TO WRECK TROOP-TRAIN. The Canadian military authorities have frustrated an Austrian plot to wreck troop trains which were expected to pass a certain spot, and the conspirators have been captured red-handed. An officer stationed at Smith's Falls, Ontario, 50 miles from Ottawa, became suspicious of a recruit who had enlisted as a Russian Pole. Inquiries established that he was an Austrian, and he was carefully watched. He was shadowed to a boathouse near the railway bridge, and soldiers surrounded the building. Ten Austrians were arrested with dynamite enough to destroy the bridge and the expected train. The Vancouver authorities have also had trouble with Austrians and Germans, 15 of whom have been arrested in the Vancouver Island mining district. They have been interned.