GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17575, 17 March 1919, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

M. CLEMENGEAU'B ASSAILANT. SENTENCED TO DELATE. , PARIS, March 15. (Received March 16, at 5.5 p.m.) Cottin has been sentenced to death for shooting at M. Clemenceau, the French Prime Minister.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION. TROTSKY THE VICTIM. LONDON, March 14. • (Received March 16, at 5.5 p.m.) The Red Guard attempted to assassinate M. Trotsky in a railway carriage at Vitebsk, on the Petrograd railway. A bullet pierced M. Trotsky's body, but he not injured. Two members of his staff were, however, hit.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GERMANY AND LOAN MONEY. PARIS, March 14. It is expected that the financial embargo refusing loans to Germany will shortly be lifted.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CZECHO-SLOYAKS' COMMISSION. PARIS, March 13. (Received March 16, at 5.5 p.m.) The Czecho-Slovaks' Commission has completed its labours without great difficulty.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AN AMERICAN LOAN. A COLOSSAL AMOUNT. WASHINGTON, March 12. (Received March 16, at 5.5 p.m.) A subscription campaign for the Victory Liberty Loan will start on April 21 and end on May 10. The amount required is 7,000,000,000 dollars.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AERIAL WARFARE. GERMANY'S LOSSES. LONDON, March 16.

(Received March 17, at 0.10 a.m.) A Berlin official wireless states that thi enemy aerial attacks on German territory from August, 1914, to armistice day were Killed, 729; injured, 1754.—A. and N.Z Cable. ESCAPED U BOAT'S END. MADRID, March 15. (Received March 17, at 0.10 a.m.) A German submarine escaped from Per rol, and the crew sank her when tw( Spanish torpedo boats were on the poinof recapturing her.—A. and N.Z. Cable. « AMNESTY TO REBELS. _ CAPETOWN, March 14. (Received March 17, at 0.5 a.m.) In the Assembly a Bill granting amnest l to the rebels of 1914 was read a firs" time.