GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16293, 28 January 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

ITALIAN INTERVENTION

A NEWSPAPER CRUSADE,

(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, January 26,

Italian journalists are trying to hasten Italian intervention by suggesting that the Turks' advance on Egypt is a most serious menace to the British occupation. INTERNED GERMAN STEAMERS. AMERICA WILL NOT PURCHASE. NEUTRALITY INVOLVED. LONDON, January 26. Washington states that the Democratic party's opposition to the Ship Purchase Bill in the Senate has collapsed, and a caucus decided to support the measure. Mr Redfeld, Secretary of the Department of Commerce, addressing the National Convention on Foreign Trade, said he had been advised from all over the United States that there would be trouble if the United States Government bought interned German ships. The enemies of Germany would regard them as German ships, and they would be declared interned. He added that opinion in the United States was strongly averse to the Government buying the ships in toto and handing over between £6,0c0,000 and £9,000,000, which would mean giving great direct assistance to one of the belligerents, and might readily be construed into a direct breach of neutrality.

BRITISH INCOME TAX

AN IMPERIAL MEMORIAL.

LONDON, January 26.

A memorial to Mr Lloyd George is being extensively signed in financial and business circles asking him not to put an income tax on incomes previously taxed within the Empire. GERMAN CRUISER TORPEDOED. EXTENSIVELY DAMAGED. LONDON, January 26. Renter, states that the German cruiser Gazelle was torpedoed and damaged near Rugen (off the coast of Pomerania), and has returned to Sassnitz. [The Gazelle is a protected cruiser, of 2603 tons, 19 knots speed, and an armament of 10 4.1 and 14 smaller quick-firers. She was commissioned in 1893.] COPENHAGEN, January 26. The light cruiser Gazelle referred to in an earlier cable is badly damaged. GUIDING LIGHTS. THE RECENT ZEPPELIN RAID. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 27, at 5.30 p.m.) Mr 11. Ingleby (Unionist), M.P. for King's Lynn, adduces evidence of a convincing character io substantiate the statement that the Zeppelins were directed by flashes from a motor air A farmer at Snettisham saw upward flashes at sixdifferent points in the neighbourhood, which he believes were intended to direct the airship to Sandringham. MANCHESTER TRADE. RAPID REVIVAL DISCLOSED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services,) LONDON, January 26. (Received Jr. 11. 27, at 5.30 p.m.) The clearing-houre returns for the Manchester banks were only £1,000,000 less than for the same week in 1914, indicating the rapid trade revival.

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. COURT RELATIONS STRAINED. (Times and Sydney Sun Scrviccs.) LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 27, at 5.30 p.m.) A Rome correspondent states that he is informed that the Austrian Crown Prince's trip to Berlin failed to yield the expected results. The prince met with a cold reception, only one officer receiving him at the station. The relations between the two courts are strained. ITALIAN PREPARATIONS. TRANSPORT OF CEREALS. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, January 26. (Received Jan. 27, at 5.30 p.m.) The Italian Government has decided to commandeer merchantmen for the transport of cereals.