GENERAL NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 17787, 17 July 1916, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS

MINERS FOREGO HOLIDAYS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright) (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 15. Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. The Miners’ Federation decided to forego the August holidays. BIOTS IN GERMANY. SOLDIERS REFUSE TO FIRE. AMSTERDAM, July 15. Received July 10, 5.5 p.m. A demonstration at Cologne on Sunday ended in riots. The military was summoned and twenty citizens were killed and forty wounded. Many arrests were made. Four policemen were killed. Many soldiers refused to fire on the rioters. At Aix la Chapelle Uhlans charged the rioters who were ransacking the shops. AN AMERICAN RULING. A MERCHANT SHIP. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) WASHINGTON, July 10. Received July 16, 11.5 p.m. The State Department has formally ruled that the Deutschland is a merchant ship, and entitled to treatment as such. LORD EDWARD GREY’S CONFERENCE. MESSAGE TO CONSTITUENTS. LONDON, July 15. Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. Lord Edward Grey, in a farewell letter to his constituents, said that, while they would need all their energy and much sacrifice to secure a lasting and right minded peace, things were going so favourably for the Allies as to justify the fairest expectation of a satisfactory final success. Every week the Allies were gaining confidence and the enemy losing their’s. EMPLOYING GERMAN PRISONERS. the enemy retaliates. LONDON, July 13, Received July 16, 5.5 p.m Of twenty thousand German soldiers and sailors in Britain, half are unemployed, and some have been sent to France to unload ships. The Germans have retaliated by sending British prisoners to work at Libau and Windeu. FINANCE MINISTERS’ CONFERENCE. AGREEMENTS ARRIVED AT. LONDON, July 15. Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. A conference between Mr McKenna, and the Finance Ministers of France, Russia and Italy, reached an agreement, co-ordinating further joint arrangements for supplies and finance. Separate fln--1 ancial agreements were also concluded between Britain, France and Italy. WAR CRITICISMS. A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE. LONDON, July 35. Received July 10, 5.5 p.m. A significant change in the war criticisms is furnished in the Berliner Tageblatt by General Moraht, who is the chief mouthpiece of the German General Staff. He admits the success of the AngloFrench offensive, and adds; “The British always go systematically to work, commencing with unimportant tactical advances, but finishing when they discover what will wash down. Now they have enormous quantities of artillery and ammunition. The British are not braggarts, but always act with perfect sangfroid and calmness. Their judgment ought to warn us that they will fight until their efforts arc crowned with victory, regardless of time or sacrifices." 4 AN AMERICAN VIEW. UHFAVOURABLE TO GERMANY. NEW YORK, July 35. Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. The New York Times, in a striking article, says that Germany cannot longer live in a fool's paradise. Khe must realise that there is no hope of her being able, to dictate terms. Germany wants peace, but the retention of Alsace, Lorraine, and Roland cannot be suggested to the men who surround the German armies with a ring of fire, and are forcing them to fight, not for victory, but for their lives.

A BORER it. HjXiTVD. LONDON, July IS. Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. Sergeant Tom McCormick, the boxer, has been killed in France. BRITISH CASUALTIES. LONDON, July IS. Received July IG, 5.5 p.m. To-day’s Britisli casualty lists contain 117 officers, of whom 104 are dead. THE POOR KAISER. IN' A FREEST OP AGITATION. IMPERIAL TRAIN IN CONSTANT MOTION. BERNE, July 15. Received July IG, 5.5 p.m. The Kaiser is hurrying to and fro from flic eastern and western fronts in a veritable frenzy of agitation, owing to the Allies’ simultaneous offensive. The Imperial train has been in constant motion since the end of June. There have been hasty war councils at various points. German attempts t" bully Switzerland to sell vast stores of cotton failed.