GENERAL ITEMS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17504, 21 December 1918, Page 7

GENERAL ITEMS.

SIR D. HAIG IN LONDON.

ADDRESS TO WAR CORRE-

SPONDENTS.

CAUTION AGAINST "SWELLED

HEADS."

LONDON, December 18. Sir iD. Haig, addressing the war correspondents, said: jln no previous war have the relations 'of the army and press been so satisfactory. Perhaps that is one reason that we at this moment are on the bridge over the Rhine. Do not let us get swelled heads over our victory, the same as other persons did in 1870.Router via America. ' THE U BOAT CAMPAIGN. AGAINST HOLLAND AND SCWDINAVIA. WASHINGTON, December 18. (Received Dec. 20. at 8.35 p.m.) The Senate Committee investigationGerman propaganda discovered that von Papon's papers provided for a German TJ boat war against Holland and Scandinavia beginning in October, 1916.—A. and N.z' Cable.

EXTENSIVE GERMAN THEFT.

FROM AMERICAN LEGATION AT

BUCHAREST.

WASHINGTON, December 18. (Received Dec. 20, at 8.35 p.m.) The State Department has learned that IOO.OCOdoI worth of goods were stolen from the American Legation at Bucharest apparently by Germans.—A. and N Z.' Cable.

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT.

DOING HONOUR TO MARSHAL HAIG

LONDON, December 18. (Received Dec. 20, at 7.5 p.m.) The Press Bureau reports that, in view of a renewed attempt to create ail estrangement between the military and civilian authorities, it officially states that Sir D. Haig did not attend the Interallied Conference ,it London in December with Marshal Focli and M. Clemenceau, "wing to the fact that his Majesty the King -was then visiting Sir D. Haig's army. Marshal Haig's present visit was of a private character, but the Government, as soon as it was advised, immediately organised a public reception, anjl Mr Lloyd George altered his plans with reference to the conference at Paris in order to aitend the reception. Regarding the suggestion that there ought to be a vote of thanks to the army > it was felt that the King's address before the prorogation of Parliament expressed the nation's gratitude to the fighting services in a formal and admirable manner, and the proper occasion for the record of Parliament's thanks was whan the new Parliament assembled.

The Press Bureau states that the report that tho Air Ministry is ending its activities is without foundation.—A. and N.Z. and Reuter.

SYDNEY LABOUR UNMASKED.

A PRO-GERMAN RESOLUTION.

SYDNEY, December 20. The Labour Council passed, a motion urging that in view of President Wilson's statement that the Allies' quarrel is only with the German ruling class, all enemy subjects interned in Australia should be immediately released.—Press Association.

SOUTH AFRICAN LOAN

A DISAPPOINTING RESULT,

CAPETOWN, December 18. (Received .Dec. 20, at 7.5 p.m.) The response to the latest Union' loan was disappointing, only about £3,250,000 being subscribed.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

ALLEGED REVOLUTION IN BULGARIA. AMSTERDAM, December 19. (Received Dec. 21, at 0.10 a.m.) The Lokal Anzeiger reports that a revolution has broken out irt Bulgaria.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GREATER SERBIA. NEW MINISTRY FORMED. BELGRADE, December 19. (Received Dec. 21, at 1 a.m.) The first Ministry of Slovaks, Croats, and Serbians, representing all the parties, has been formed under the Premiership of M. Pashitch.—Reuter.