NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16021, 13 September 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The furnishing of the Soldiers' Club •was completed on Saturday. . Several hundred people visited the Maori camp at Narrow Neck yesterday. The Mayor's Fund for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers now amounts to £57,326 19s Id. Work in connection with the organisation of a Patriae Queen Carnival in Auckland has already been commenced. The great improvements at the Trentbam camp are commented upon by Bisnop Averill. who has returned from a visit to Wellington. Thirty members of the Samoan garrison were passengers by the Union' Company s steamer Navua, which arrived at Auckland last evening. An impression of the excellent work accomplished hyt the Soldiers' Relief Committee of the Auckland Patriotic and War Relief Association, is conveyed in extracts from the correspondence of the committee furnished to a Hekaij) representative on Saturday. New Zealand: A proposal is afoot to form a Scottish Regiment for service at the front. Timaru raised its quota of £35,000 for sick and wounded soldiers in eight weeks. The New Zealand Ladies' Hockey championship has been won by the Poverty Bay team. A seaman was killed instantly at Wellington on Friday night, through falling down the hold of the collier Koromiko. A total of 518 invalided soldiers returned ' to the Dominion on Saturday by the hospital ship Tahiti and were enthusiastically welcomed in Wellington, those of the men who came North arriving in Auckland yesterday afternoon by the special Red Gross train, being greeted with similar demonstrations all along the route and in the city. The War: There have been 119 eases of meningitis in the Victorian camps to date, and 44 deaths have occurred. A conference has been opened in Petrcgrad between Ministers and the representatives of the Progressive Party. A Vienna communique reports violent fighting westward of the middle Sereth, where the Russians were reinforced.

Rome advices state that on the Carso Plateau, near Gorz, the AustrJbns are yielding before the Italian advance. The American t newspapers are unanimous that Germany's excuse for the sinking of the Arabic is too flimsy for acceptance. Near Tremborla, 17 miles south-east of Tarnopol, the Austrians were forced to retreat precipitately. The Russians captured 5000 prisoners. British destroyers and allied aeroplanes bombarded the Turkish camps on the Asia Minor coast, causing great damage and many casualties. A Geneva report states that Austria has closed the Swiss and Roumanian frontiers, and troops guard the crossings. Action i against Senna is itaminent. \ - . A Yitf&na communique admits that an Italian destroyer torpedoed one of the Austrian "" torpedo-boaW, which reached port with, her bows damaged. . An r adjutant, who is a prisoner in a * town in' Asia Minor, states they are a3 comfortable as possible, and receive very kind and considerate treatment. i The Porte has decided to compensate owners of property damaged by hostile •bombardments from the property owned . in Turkey by citizens of hostile countries. Four Austrian army corps are on the Servian and Roumanian frontiers, one along the Save. Drina, and Danube, the •>. second in Banat, and the others in Tran-»i-eylTaiuar<. The Bulgarian semi-official journal Dnevnik confirms the statement that the Turco-Bulgarian treaty will be signed on Monday. Bulgaria gains 482 square miles in Thrace. A; German message states that the Bulgarian Premier -has declared that Bulgaria has not accepted obligations in return for the ceded Turkish territory along the left hank'of the Maritza. The military critic of the London Times says that the Russian armies are now well - placed. • They are able to carry out an orderly retreat, fighting where they please s.nd .is "long as they wish. Most American newspapers anticipate that Mr. Wilson will merely send another Jfote,' but the World declares that Mr. . Wilson has come to the conclusion that sterner action is necessary. , -.. The Italian Cabinet has considered the control of the 103 conquered townships, the organisation of the winter campaign, the production of munitions, ana the ' question of fuller participation in the war.