NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15998, 17 August 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The criminal sessions of the Supremo Court, started yesterday. The Herat Hospital Ship and Wounded (Soldiers' Relief i und now totals £13.703. "Hie Mayor's fund for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers now amounts to •£55,412 13* 9d. A £60,000 loan proposal for road improvements is shortly to be submitted L-, the ratepayers of Epsom. The total amount forwarded from the Auckland Province for Belgian relief, ineluding a. Government- subsidy of £6625, is £60.750. Several points connected with the tramvnv extension to Mount, Albert- were considered by the Mount Albert V.orough Council last- night. The proposal to erect a new }*ohoe si a t. ,n on the waterfront has been revived hv a letter written to the Jus ti. Department by the chairman of the Harbour Hoard. Mr. H. P. Heathei. New Zealand; The two new battalions, with toe Trent-ham regiment, arc to constitute a new rifle brigade. Particulars have been made public ot the methods proposed to be employed in compiling the national register. The report of the Trent-ham ('.imp Commission has. not yet been presented. The njrhth reinforcements are expected to go into camp next Monday. The Hon. James Allen states that he as not yet been able to obtain any information' from the War Office about the possibility of supplying machine-guns tor trie New Zealand forces. The War; There was a record it. re< ruitnig last week i-; Ken «ouih Wales, 6250 men enlisting. A message from Amsterdam declares t lih: 40.000 German troops have been transerred from Warsaw to the. Servian front. The Archbishops of Canteibury and York condemn the clercry serving at the front other that: as chaplains. Fugitives from Trieste report that the daily" Italian an - raids have resulted :ji the complete destruction of the. naval docks at Trieste. A message from Petrograd states that the Letts, who hate the Germans. ate bitterly organising national regiments to defend their country. A firm of Chicago packers received a cable asking it to furnish an estimate ot the cost of a million head of American bee: cattle, cash on delivery at Liverpool. The. German commandant- at Charier sentenced a priest to two years' imprisonment for reading to his parishioners par- , ticulars of German crimes in Belgium. The New York World, fh a series of articles, is Exposing Germany's endeavours to mould public opinion in America against the allies, and involve America in war. An Italian claims to have invented an apparatus reputed to be capable of nullifying the effect of submarine torpedoes, causing them.to burst before reaching their objective. The Hamburg Fremdenblatt suites that the recent air raid was designed to remind England that she is Germany's chief enemy and there is bound to be an enormous da\ of reckoning. The Greek Foreign Minister and th Servian Legation deny that, there is air truth in rumours of Serbo-Grecian differ ences. The relations between the tw< States are cordial. Steps are being taken in France ti standardise the Red Cross uniform, t: avoid imposition by women posing as mem bers of the Red Cross in order to st-ea presents intended for soldiers. A message from Nish states that th< newspapers interpret the Austrian attempt to cross the Danube as a demon stration to intimidate Ronmania, or th< beginning of the Austro-German plan tc invade Servia. • It is stated in Bucharest that tin ■ Roumanian Minister for War lias instructs the factories working for the military authorities to prepare a list of worker: wno can be mobilised with a view to ex pedition in the execution of orders. Reports from Geneva, states that ar important movement of Austro-German troops is in progress on the AustroServian and Austro-Roumanian frontiers. The proximity of Austro-German troops on the Roumanian frontier has given rise to a fear of Austro-German action against Ronmania. The Times correspondent in Paris says: — " News of further successes in the Dardanelles is awaited with great eagerness. • It is felt that the negotiations with the Balkan Governments will be without result unless, the allies demonstrate not only their determination to force the Dardanelles, hut the certainty of success. t ■ . -j