MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15444, 5 September 1914, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

GERMAN TRADERS. ANXIOUS TO RETAIN BUSINESS. LONDON, Sept. 3- ; German shipping companies are endeavouring to secure British vessels, especially in New York., to replace tie German till the end of the war, wh \ the object of protecting German trai ing interests. AN AMERICAN PRECAUTION. WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. President WJJson intends asking a joint session of Congress, as a war taxation measure, to raise twenty millions annually, the money to be used for various purposes connected with tho preservation of neutrality and to assist m the relief of conditions due to the war. A British cavalry regiment numbe"" 26 officers and 514 of other ranks. ' The German Consul- at Tripoli has l>een arrested on suspicion of carrying an anti-Italian propaganda among tho natives. j A German aeroplane dropped several bombs in Belfort, but they did no damage. Mr John Hunter paid £250 for aUnion Jack, auctioned at a patriotio matinee in Sydney. He intends .to present it to the Expeditionary Force. An English traveller in France . reports that, people flock to the stations wh«n troop trains are due, shouting- 1 — "Have you brought us William? 1 ' Medical correspondents urge compulsory anti-typhoid vaccination of the army, declaring that microbe kills more than the bullet.