MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15446, 8 September 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

REFUGEES CROWDING OSTEND. ''Times" ana Sydney "Sun" Services. Press Association—By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 6. Crowds of refugees are congregated at Ostend, where the rich are pooiv and the poor are destitute. j\Tany aref living in bathing vans, and women are! stockingless. ENEMY'S CIVILISATION. CALLED IN QUESTION. Tlie American Ambassador to Pari? after examining the bombs thrown bv German airships, decided to ask the United States Government, whilst adhering to neutrality, to energetically, protest to Germany. A statement has been, issued in Tokio reciting the treatment of Japanese in Germany and" Austria, denounces it as a violation of international law, while the insults offered the Japanese Ambassador on leaving Vienna are declared to raise doubts as to the quality of the civilisation permitting such acts. NEW. MEANS OF WARFARE. AERIAL "JUNES." WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. It is considered possible to mine the air like the sea. It is only necessary, to . send aloof in the evening* "large number of small captive balloons to varyjng altitudes carrying sufficient explosives to destroy aeroplanes. ' They could be taken, down in the morning. AMERICAN GERMANS. CRYING "ONTO CANADA, 1 ' ' NEW YOftK, Sept. 6. ~ Intense anti-Canadian fesling exists among the Germans in Buffalo, Where there are seven armed and , better equipped than the New York Militia. Amongst them the cry is often heard, "On to Canada." If not interfered with the movement may take a serious form. SMART BUSINESS 'MAN. PROFITS FROM UNION J AC®-' COPENHAGEN, Sept. 6:. Travellers report that on© butcher ia doing a thriving business in Hamburg because his floor is covered with British.' flags, : enabling his customers to tread on the Union Jack.

Wheat is very firm in Sydney. 5s to 6s 3d is freely offered and there axe no sellers. Flour has advanced by a .pound to £ll 10s. . The annual musketry returns show ' that the New South Wales Rifle Clubs contain 10j920 absolutely efficient riflemen.

The Lord Mayor of Sydney's fund is £ P now £72,000. ' The* Victorian State Government lias cabled to the Qugen offering to provide for 150 Belgian refugees each week while the war lasts. English society ladies in motor cars are bringing personal servants to the recruiting offices. Lord Charles Beresford declares that England requires a million fighters. Six hundred Japanese students of a German University"were captured on the Dutch frontier and imprisoned.