ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 29 December 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

I SPAIN AND SUBMARINES. Received 11.20 MADRID, Dec. 28. l The Council of Ministers is discussin measures to prevent German submarining of Spanish ships. Shipowners are threatening to lay up vessels unless navigation is safe. j THE AUSTRIAN CORONATION Received 10.55. : AMSTERDAM, Dec 28. The Emperor and Empress of Austria have arrived at Budapesth for the coronation. I THE SOCIALIST CONGRESS. I i Received 11.30. PARIS, Dec 28. The Socialist Conference passed a resolution that Germany's Note does not constitute a genuine peace proposal, as it does not contain any terms ! The Congress asks the Allies to reply I that they desired peace, but were pre- I pared to carry on the war courageously. They were ready for peace provided reparation was made, ending injustices and militarism, and establish- ' ing a League of Free Nations. LILLE GERMANISED. PARIS, Dec 28. Refugees from Lille state that the town has been Germanised. French ; residents -have been pillaged and turn- j ed out, and German officers with their i •families are occupying the best houses j and hotels. All bronze and copper has bee n seized and sent to Germany. CONCERNING CONSCRIPTION. OTTAWA, Dec 28. The Premier (Sir R. Borden), in a. letter to the Labour Unions, says if conscription should prove the only effective method of preserving the existence of the State, he would consider it necessary, and without hesitation would act accordingly.