GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17132, 11 October 1917, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

GERMANY AND HOLLAND. AGREEMENT REGARDING COLLIERS. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. AMSTERDAM, October 9. :l ■ The Handelsblad (Dutch paper) states f that the agreement between Holland and . Germany stipulates that submarines shall 1 not attack Dutch colliers ijrom England. . . BOLO PASHA'S TREACHERY. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURES PROMISED. '. LONDON, October 9. Members of the French Commission on 5 the 8010 Pasha scandal are visiting England. They possess documents revealing the ramifications of Germany's peace plots in every allied capital, and sensational disclosures are predicted. MADAME TURMEL ARRESTED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, October 9. (Received Oct. 10, at 9.15 p.m.) Madame Turmel (whose husband, a mem- '\ ber of the Chamber of Deputies, had pres viously been arrested on a charge of trading with the enemy) has been arrested. MUNITION FIRE. TWELVE CASUALTIES. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association and Reutor. LONDON, October 9. The Press Bureau reports that 10 persons were killed and two injured in the munition works fire in the north of Enge land on October 2. s o POOR FRENCH HARVEST. QUANTITY OF WHEAT NEEDED. '<- Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association, 'j PARIS, October 9. ', . The French harvest is the poorest for half a century, and the Food Minister proe poses a scheme of rationing for the towns. Not less than 10,000,000 bushels of * cereals must be imported. MORE GERMAN DREAMS. WASHINGTON, October 9. '■- ' United States officials are interested in g the latest phase of Teuton Imperialism as voiced in the Cologne Gazette, which ree cently pointed out that Germany lias the -1 choice of being a full partner in a future " syndicate for the division of the world" or of ( being a despised outsider. It pictures the syndicate as a political combination of Germany, Russia, and Japan: but Great Britain must be defeated before Germany can become a full partner. ir- The Cologne Gazette clumsily outlines i- how North American Imperialism is to be l. expelled from the Pacific, adding: " Per- ;- haps later the future North American-Far Eastern line of separation will run straight .5 through the Australian continent, which, •as is widely known, Japan covets." AUSTRALIAN ENLISTMENTS. MELBOURNE, October 10. The total enlistments in the commonwealth since the beginning of the year are 59,222. BRITISH ARMY COMMAND J v CHANCES, o ReuterV Telegrams. * - LONDON, October 9. i- (Received Oct. 10, at 7.20 p.m.) General Sir Archibald Murray succeeds »t General Sir Archibald Hunter in the p Aldershot command. General Hunter takes 6 an important appointment in. the War d Offipe. '; DOINGS IN CANADA. So )f THE DRAFTED RECRUITS. GRAIN REFUSED FOR LIQUOR. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. OTTAWA, October 9. (Received Oct. 10, at 8 p.m.) Drafted men have been ordered to report on November 19 and join the colours on December 10. The Government has decided to prohibit , the use of grain for beer manufacture, and distilleries will be chiefly occupied in the manufacture of explosives. l- ,i ■ ~