War News.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 48, 22 June 1917, Page 6

Wa r News.

RUSSIA AND GERMANY. THE ALLEGED PEACE OFFER. PETROGRAD, June 18. M. Hofmann, the Swiss Federal Councillor concerned in the German offer of peace to Russia, requested the Swiss Minister to communicate the offer through Robert Griman, a Swiss citizen who came to Petrograd in the middle of May, ostensibly acting ns guide for the returning Russian refugees. It is now announced that the Provisional Government has ordered the expulsion of M. Grimon because it has evidence that he is a pasificist German agent. Griman has already left Russia. TREASON TO THE ALLIES. A DUMA RESOLUTION. PETROGRAD, June 18. The Duma has passed a resolution declaring that a separate peace or prolonged inactivity on the/fronts would be ignoble treason to the Allies. The maintenance of Russia’s safety and liberties depended on the immediate resumption of the offensive. ANARCHISTS IN AMERICA. THE GOVERNMENT’S DETER LUNATION. NEW YORK, Juno 18. The Government is determined to stamp out anarchists. The police seized a printing press index showinig the addresses of people, 90 per cent, of whom are anarchists. They also raided a Russian I.W.W. group and arrested twenty people. ARMY IN THE MAKING. OVER 9,000,000 REGISTRATIONS. NEW YORK, June 18. The “.Times” representative at Washington states that with returns from three States still to be received the actual registrations total 9,500,000. Army officers are hopeful that men will be drafted by Ist July and sent into camp by the Ist September. THE LIBERTY LOAN. SUBSCRIPTIONS TOTAL 2,900 MILLION. WASHINGTON, June 18. The latest estimates show that the Liberty Loan subscriptions total 2,900 million dollars. Small applicants will receive allotment, but a two thousand million limit will not be exceeded. ENEMY SUBMARINE ACTIVITY. THE SUGAR SHORTAGE. WASHINGTON, Juno 18. Captain Bathhurst states that there is no diminution in the enemy’s submarine activity. The enemy is select--1 ing vessels of heavier tonnage, which is a fact the official returns do not make clear to the public. The main reason why fewer vessels are sunk is the arming of merchantmen. There was little hope of an improved sugar supply. Two months ago 40,000 tons of sugar was' sunk in ten days.

THE VICTORIAN FLOODS. COUNTRY A VAST LAKE. MELBOURNE, June 18. From Echuea to Albury, a distance of three hundred miles, the land is a vast lake 15 to 20 miles widp. The Murray and Goulburn rivers are still rsing. . The towns of Shipparton and Seymour have been badly damaged. UNION STEAMER ABANDONED. THE WAITOTARA ON FIRE. AUCKLAND, June 18. The Union Company’s steamer Waitotara has been abandoned by her crew. She is on fire. The vessel is loaded with a cargo from the Pacific Coast of America. Relief steamers are being sent out. JAPANESE DESTROYERS. , OPERATING IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. LONDON, June 17. The Japanese naval attache communicates information that one of the Japanese destroyer flotillas on June 11th engaged enemy submarines in the Mediterranean. The result is unknown. The Sakaki was damaged by an enemy torpedo, and was towed in safety to port. Fifty-five lives were lost. The British Admiralty state that the Sakaki gallantly aided in the rescues from the torpedoed transport Transylvania, winning everybody’s admiration.