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PORTUGAL TAKING ACTION
MOBILISATION STARTED.
Australian /ind N Z Cable Association. PARIS, August 23. Tn addition to the Chinese munition norkois, 10 000 Portuguese workmen abovo the ago oE 32 are taking up work m French factories. The Portuguese below this age .lie being mobilised, and aic going to the front
SHORTAGE OF PIG IRON.
EXPORT OF TIN PLATES PRO lIIBITKD.
LONDON, August 23. Owing to a shortage of pig iron, the Government thinks that over many tin plates arc being manufactured. The Ministry of Munitions lias notified mrow facturcrs that the export of tin plates will be entnely prohibited exc-ept. under license. Also that it will only permit the manufacture of those plates lequired by Government contracts, whereof particulars must be furnished. At shippers' request, Sir John M'Call is making to the authorities urging that the dominions be placed on a different footing to neutrals, and pointing otn the hardship in imposing restrictions now that the dominion suppliers have completed the Government contracts for 1916.
BAVARIANS' COMPLAINT.
OBJECT TO BEING MADE URIAHS.
AMSTERDAM, August 23. Bavarian Socialist newspapers complain that the German General Staff are tending BaivT.-i.in regiments to the posts of greatest danger, and that the Bavarian casualties on the Somme are far greater than those of other regiments.
GERMAN OFFICIAL REPORT. LONDON. August 23. A German communique states : English attacks were \ainly repeated at Thiepval, Pozieres, north of Ovillers, High Wood, and Maurepas. We ejected the French from poition of the trench they occupied on August 21 at Estrees. We repulsed an attack at Fleury (Verdun area). On the Russian front we stormed new positions on the Stara Wipczyna. In the Balkans we made good progress in clearing the highlands west of Ostrovo, and we repulsed Serbian attacks on Moglila.
BORROWINGS IN UNITED STATES
ANOTHER FRENCH LOAN,
THE GOLD BALANCE,
NEW YORK, August 34. (Received Aug. 24, at 9.40 p.m.) Arrangements have been made for a second commercial credit for Franco of £5,000,000. This will bring France's borrowings in the United States since the war to nearly £100,000,000 An analysis shows that before the war the banks of England, France, Russia,, and Germany held 680.000,000 dollars more gold than the United States; now the United States is within 50,000.000 dollars of the combined holdings.
AMERICAN STEEL SHARES. NEW YORK, August 23. United States Steel (common stock) sold at 99g—a new record.
NO PEACE OVERTURES,
PURCHASING DUTCH PRODUCE,
Reuter's Telegrams. LONDON, August 23. (R-eceived Aug. 24, at 6.45 p.m.) In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil stated definitely that no peace overtures had been made to Great Britain. Our ielations with the Greek Government, as far as he knew, wore thoroughly satisfactory. We were coping with a knotty problem. We were also acquiring Dutch agricultural produce instead of enabling German) to purchase it at higher prices.
RECENT NAVAL BRUSH
ANOTHER GERMAN ADMISSION,
BATTLESHIP SERIOUSLY DAMAGED.
Reuter's Telegrams. AMSTERDAM. August 23. (Received Aug. 24, at 6.45 p.m.) A semi-official Berlin report admits that the battleship Westfalen, which is of the Nassau elass. was hit by a torpedo on the 19th inst. It says that the ship is repairable ; that she remained capable of manopuvring, and the second torpedo missed its' mark.
ANOTHER GERMAN LIE. Australian and N Z. Cable Association. LONDON, August 23. (Received Aug. 24, at 6.45 p.m.) The Adnmalty denies the German story tbat a subniaimc se\erely damaged'a British battleship. There is not a particle of truth in the fantistic sturv.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS. LONDON, August 23. (Received Aug. 24, at 6.45 p.m.) Parliament has adjourned until October 10.
AUSTRIAN OFFICIAL REPORT. VIENNA, August, 23. (Received Aug 24, at 7.10 p.m.) A communique ftat-as : Russian attacks near Za.bie v ere repulsed. Enemy ucti\ lty has increased at Valona.
SWEDEN BRITAIN
DETENTION OF MAILS
VISCOUNT GREY'S OUTSPOKEN REPROOF LONDON, August 24. (Rocehed Aug. 25, at 1.10 am.) Anglo Swedish correspondence published relating to Sweden's detention of a British p.ircel of mails to Russia as a reprisal for the British searching Sweden's paicel of mail for contraband, shows that Sweden announced the repus-al moasme on December 18. Viscount Grey requested that the mails b" immediately released, adding : "The Government will welcome an explanation for the detention." Sweden lepiied, justifying her action by the so-railed British violation of binding treaties and the lnu of nations. Grey replied that such a grave charge was unusual m diplomatic documents. and must be repudiated in the .Wrongest manner The British action had been fccrupuioiish correct, whereas Sweden's vvrs wholly and avowedly illegal, constituting a direct challenge of Britain's national sovereignty.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16782, 25 August 1916, Page 5
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