GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16348, 3 April 1915, Page 9

GENERAL ITEMS

BRIBING ITALY. POURPARLERS COLLAPSE. ROME, March 31. Ib is stated that pourparlers with Gem many have collapsed, Prince von Bulow declaring that Germany and Austria would never surrender Trieste. AN OPPORTUNE ARREST. INTENDED TO BLOW UP A SHIP.

PARIS, March 31.

A man named Raymond Swoboda waa arrested. Incriminating documents in his possession show that his mission was to blow up the s.s. La Touraine, on which he was a passenger. He represented himself as a Russian from Paris, where he had been in long residence. > PETROL BOMBS. THEIR USE BY GERMANS. LONDON, March 31. A doctor serving with the field artillery confirms the German use of petrol bombs. He says: Most of the men in one section of .our trenches were burned to death, anc in some of the storming parties at Nenv*», ChapeUe not a single officer or man wa» left alive.

A LONELY SOLDIER. INUNDATED WITH CORRESPONDENCE.' (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, March 31. The Postmaster-general states that he daily sends 40,000 letters and 50,000 parcels to the front. A lonely soldier at the front advertised inviting correspondence. Three days later he received 3000 letters, 6 bags of small parcels, and 90 large ones. BRITISH TREASURY BILLS. LONDON, March 31. The sum of £37,974,000 was subscribed for the last issue of Treasury bills, at an average discount of £2 13s lid. BRITISH CASUALTIES FOR MARCH. LONDON, April 1. The British casualty lists for March comprised 1081 officers "and 18,794 men; of whom 390 officers and 4498 men are dead, 20*4 -en are missing, and 3232 are prisoners.