GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17088, 21 August 1917, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

LOAN FOB RUSSIAACTION BY JAPAN. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, August 19. A despatch from Tokio states that Japan is floating a 50,000,000-dollar loan to aid Russia. CONFISCATION AND ARREST. SIAMESE AND LIBERIANS AFFECTED. . AMSTERDAM, August 19. AH Siamese property and money in Germany has been confiscated and 18 Siamese interned. The • Spanish Ambassador, 'having notified Germany that the Germans in Liberia •had been sent to a camp in the south of France, all the Liberians in Germany were arrested. FRENCH AIR SERVICES. i AMALGAMATION DECIDED ON. . PARIS, August 19. _ Official: The French military and naval air services will be amalgamated under the direction of the Under-secretarv of State. DISREGARD OF RIGHTS. PROTEST AGAINST GERMAN ACTION. PARIS, August 19. The Foreign Minister is formally protesting to Germany against French youths in occupied territory being incorporated in_ German workmen's battalions doing military work at the front. It is stated that 26 of these battalions have been formed. PRECAUTIONS AGAINST SEDITION. BILL BEFORE AMERICAN SENATE. WASHINGTON, August 19. A Bill has been introduced in the Senate designed to punish I.W.W. and other seditious persons who are attempting to impede wax operations. NEW ZEALAND HOSPITALS. HIGH PRAISE BY LORD DERBY. LONDON, August 19. Lord Derby, Secretary of State for War, visited the New Zealand' hospitals at Brockenhurst. He wrote to Sir Thomas Mackenzie and Lieutenant-colonel Wylie saying that he was delighted with all he saw. The organisation seems perfect, and he was greatly impressed by the cheerfulness of the poor fellows who have lost limbs.

WAR PROFITS. TAXATION IN AUSTRAIJA. MELBOURNE, August 20. • Sir J. .Forrest announced that there would be a tax on -war profits till the end of June 30 following the termination of the war. KAISER VISITS FLEET. AMSTERDAM, August 19. (Received August 20, at 9.25 p.m.) On the 15th inst. the Kaiser visited the German fleet at Wilhelmshaven and Heligoland.