GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17713, 26 August 1919, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

HOW FRANCE WAS BLED,

STOLEN MACHINERY TRACED

. PARIS, August 24. It is officially announced that 300,000 French machinery plants have been identilied in Germany. Their restoration is proceeding.—Router. FIJI PRECAUTIONS. ENEMY ALIENS BANNED. SUVA, August 24. The Fiji Legislative Council on Saturday passed an ordinance prohibiting the landing in tho colony of former enemy aliens without a permit from the Colonial Secretary, this prohibition including those who have been naturalised. The ordinance will remain in operation for three years from date. AUSTRALIA'S WAR DEBT. FREMANTLE, August 25. Mr Hughes in his speech stated that Australia's war debt was £300,000,000, while her share in the indemnity was between £20,000,000 and £50,000,000. He concluded by saying tliat he was against the profiteer and the Bolshevist, and if he had his way he would shoot them both.

ALLEGED FRENCH TRAITOR.

AN EDITOR CHARGED

PARIS, August 25. (Received Aug. 25, at 7.35 p.m.) Proceedings alleging tho establishment of intelligence with the enemy have been commenced against Ernest Judet, editor of Eclair during the war. Judet was a conspicuous figure in the Dreyfus affair. He has resided lately in Switzerland.—A and N.Z. Cable

THE DESTANT MASSACRES.

IMPRESSIVE MEMOEIAL SERVICES,

BRUSSELS, August 25. (Received Aug. 25, at 7.35 p.m.) The King and Queen of the Belgians attended, and Cardinal Mercier officiated at, an impressive- servioe at Dinant to commemorate the 1914 massacres, when 600 civilians were killed and 1200 houses burnt —A. and N.Z. Cable.

ITALY'S DANGER.

WARNING NOTE FROM PREMIER

"A MANIA FOR WASTE."

ROME, August 25. _ (Received lAiig. 25, at 7.35 p.m.) Signor Nittis, in a circukT to prefects, sounds a note of alarm and urges prompt action to prevent irreparable disaster. He says that strikes are a weapon of destruction in a country purchasing 15 milliards of lire worth of food abroad. All classes, instead of working and producing, seem seized with a mania for waste and luxury, which had to be paid' with money almost begged from foreign countries. "The spirit of revolt," says Signor Nittis, is such that whole provinces refuse to eat foods which they habitually ate before the war. The revolutionaries are enemies of Uie country. Disorders mean the starvation of half a nation. A million and a-quarter acres of land has gone out of cultivation. It is absurd to attempt to reduce prices while production is scant.—A. and N.Z, Cable.