GENERAL ITEMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11113, 1 December 1914, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

Amsterdam, Nov. 30. Berlin papers explain that several English racehorse trainers have been released in order to attend valuable horses belonging to German nobles. Paris, Nov. 30. Tbe Temps says the Kaiser visited Antwerp on the 23rd. GERMANS ON THE DEFENSIVE. PROGRESS MADE. Paris, Nov. 80. A communique states that the enemy remains on the defensive in Belgium and cannonades are feeble. We progressed at some, points and strongly hold points around Fay. The Germans intermittently cannonaded the region of Soissono and town without result and bombarded the forest of Apremont. There is thick fog on the heights of the Meuse. ITALIAN FEARS. BRINGING THEIR PEOPLE HOME. Rome, Nov, 30. Owing to the threatening situation in Asia Minor and Palestine following on the declaration of a holy war, the Italian Government has despatched four steamers to embark Italians. THE UNIVERSAL BURGLARS. STEALING SWEDISH TIMBER. The Swedish public is incensed owing to German warships continuing to seize Swedish timber, THE LODZ BATTLE. * GERMANS BRING UP RESERVES. THEIR MILITARY STRENGTH. The Telegraph’s Petrograd correspondent says the prolongation of the Lodz battle is due to the Germans' desperate efforts to bring up reserves. Colonel Shumsky estimates that there are 21 to 25 German corps concentrated on the Eastern frontier and thirty to thirty-four west of the Rhine. ! BRITISH SPIES SHOT. The Daily Mail says that four Englishmen, disguised as German officers, were shot in Flanders last week.