NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16434, 10 January 1917, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

r Auckland: The Auckland quota of tho twenty-fifth reinforcements left for camp yesterday. The Auckland Military Service Board sat at Thames yesterday,"when 24 appeals were heard. Forty-two volunteers offered at the Citv recruiting station yesterday, of whom 54 were passed as fit. C. Turner, a wholesale liquor dealer at I Rotorua, was fined £50 for selling three bottles of whisky. ! Nineteen applications for relief from re- j turned soldiers were dealt with by the Claims Board yesterday, A resolution condemning the increase in totalisator figures evidenced at the Auckland racing carnival, was passed at last night's meeting of the presbytery. Sew Zealand: A Swiss farmer named Carl Schikker committed suicide near Hawera. The drought which has prevailed in Central Canterbury for the past two, mouths has been broken. ; The drought in Wellington was broken on Monday night, when a violent thunderstorm burst, followed by heavy rain. Secretaries of local branches of the Federated Seamen's Union are to be allowed to appeal on behalf of seamen called up for military service. Australian: A national organisation, to be known as ths Wm-tbe-VYar League, is being formed. The foods in the Clermont district ol Queensland caused damage estimated at over £200,000British and Foreign: The new British munitions contracts stipulate that factories supplying 4|iu hells and under must employ 90 per cent of women, while 80 per cent of women must be emploved in making the largest shells. The British Minister for Labow, Mr. J. Hodge, -has circularised trade- unions, stating that the Ministry* of Labour has K?«gurated a policy of impartial investigation for deciding equitably all conflicting claims. Owing to interment difficulties resulting from tie scarcity of coma makers, under takers - are approaching Mr. Neville Chamberlain, who is in charge oil the new organisation for the distribution oi maa> power, fear assistance from the State. 3_i« War:,, ...',' ~ -' The Germans have captured Fc<fchani, Jaßomnania. •,...-. »,.i',. ; v The allies have sent a new Note to ' Greece, which is practically a 48 hours' -Itiinst urn. "- '"""' ■"' '"' ** '■ An Italian comm-niqae states that niere lias been vigorous artillery activity on tie whole front. " " A The response to the German call for Tohxateers to serre with'tho Polish army bis been negligible. : -]'''^ : The. French critic, M. Marcel Hntin, states thai the Russian offensive on the SerethiiJs important. \ .~, t _ ~a A T from Lille states that the Gert essss burglariously "opened the, municipal safes and removed bnllicn. '.'..;' It » believed thai Germany aims at the ococpation of the whole of Komsania. The cntnsive is continued without relaxation. v A Germait eommnniqoe slates: "The ■ Russians strongly attacked west of the v Kiga-MltaTi'raad, and extended their gains of the sth iast. on th« Aa, River." ~ - Captain Perseus, the German naval • writer, : has an article 'in ? the Berlin news- \. paper : Tageblatt, admitting tie difficulty ; of 3CcorapK?hihg the economic- .- defeat oi Britam. r "*- '' '', ■'''* " i, •' ; i-£ Clandestine cemmusications h from Bel- '. sangria tie oeoupied territory, show that ♦ Ie Belgians unitedly support the Gove ra- *\,'- iment's attitude to the German peace pro- ••'■: posals. '^:-^"V : - •--•.*- ■4% is repeated that heavy loss of life at- > tended ; the fire at Toodera, ScWeswigEolstein, sia -which two snper-Zeppeßn! '< were reported to have been destroyed by l . y fire. < t -,?*■*■;:' ~- • - Bar GorachowsK, ex-Foreign Mirdstei of Austria, has at Tevey,Swit»r ." lead, osteriahlj on a family visit, but in - § reality to inquire for H/t Emperor Charles . '-- into the views and intentions of the allies. Th» Sofia corresnendent of the Geiwar : Dewgparjcr Tosrische Zeitone Mates thai ''"'; cares rtot'mne for sentiment, ant althonsb ;the'fear that Bulgaria will for - sake her present friends is not great, Get many should put her friendship on a fixec ".- •'ham.:. ' v>-