NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16032, 25 September 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: Efo|mente from No. 2 group for the Miners' Contingent total 64. A total of £15,248 lis Ed has been subscribed to the Herald .War Fund. The Mayor states that the financial success of the city markets .scheme is assured. Thirty-six men were passed as medically fit for the reinforcements yesterday. The Mayor's fund for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers now amounts to £40,685 6s 2d. The Auckland provincial quota of 4COO leather waistcoats for soldiers on active service has been collected. General activity is being shown by the queen carnival committees, and a fourth candidate is announced. The health of Bishop Cleary has so greatly improved that he has left the hospital, in which he has been a patient for three months. Amongst the donations to the war funds yesterday was an area of land at Takapmia valued at over £1000, from Mr. Thos, Miller, of Ponsonby. Business in the fruit and produce markets has shown a slight improvement daring the week, and generally speaking increased prices for prime fruit have been obtained. In less th"an a month over 1500 men will be required from the district for the Trentham Rifle Brigade and the ninth reinforcements, besides 50 non-commis- j sioned officers for the tenth reinforce-1 ments. The allied nations fete organised by the Girls' Realm Guild in aid of sick and wounded New Zealand soldiers in base hospitals was opened yesterday at the Town . Hall, and met with great initial success. New Zealand: The embargo on the export of butter and potatoes has been removed. The Discharged Soldiers' Information Bureau has now completed the records of the men returned from Gallipoli. Sharpe defeated Hadfield by two lengths in the amateur sculling match on the Wanganui River yesterday. ? Webb defeated Hannan by 18 lengths in the match for the sculling championship of New Zealand, decided at Wanganui yesterday. A deputation, representing United Scottish, Caledonian, and Highland Societies, is to wait on the Minister for Defence urging the forming of a Scottish regiment. The War: The Germans claim to have penetrated the Russian advanced position . west of Dvinsk, capturing 2000 men. A decree issued at Sofia, which mobilises 27 classes of the reserves, has caused considerable excitement in Greece. The Turks have detained 400 French subjects of both sexes, and a large number . of Russians and British at Damascus. On Sunday and' Monday evening allied j airmen bombarded submarines §& Bruges. > * The harbour and factory were destroyed, t - - The Russians in the Friedrichstadt district, made a great gap in the German lines, and compelled von Bueknr to retreat.' "' There was a. panic amongst the Mussulman population of Karagatch and other districts transferred by Turkey to Bulgaria. There are indications that Bulgaria's '. mobilisation is due to ear of Germany violating hex territory in order to go to the assistance of Turkey. The Lord Mayor of London, in an ' appeal' for funds to assist the Belgians, J says that in Belgium there are over 1,500,000 people utterly destitute. The Turks are reported to have constructed, a new railway to a starting point at Bir esSeba, near the edge of* the : "desert for a. second raid on Egypt. * ■ The - withdrawal of the Russian Armv which, was in the "Vilna region, has been completed. The Germans lost 250,000 men in - their endeavour to cut off the array. --• i The newspaper Journal des Debats states that German officers at Syria are training an army armed with new rifles, intended for a second expedition against Egypt in mid -November. The modification of the Russian front eastward of Vilna has been so successful that the enemy is redoubling his effort against Dvinsk, attacking from three sides with heavy artillery. A Swiss, who has returned from Constantinople, declares thai life there has Income intolerable. All Christians, except Germans, have been disarmed and are completely terrorised. r The Lord Mayor of London says the cost of feeding the destitute of Belgium is ; £218,000 a week. There is no doubt that if the food is not sent the Germans will allow the Belgians to starve. A Russian newspaper says that, the Kaiser displays remarkable energy, attending meetings of generals everywhere. At ni"ht he continually reviews troops. After each important fight he makes a personal valuation of the commanders. — i