MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15503, 13 November 1914, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

A DISAGREEABLE CANVASS. COLLECTING FOR THE ENEMY. i "Tlmea" and Sytfnoy "Bun" ssrvloej, Press Association—"Bs Tel.—Copyright. 7 LONDON, Nov. 11. The daughers of prominent citizens of Rdulers canvassed tho town and succeeded in collecting the German fino of £4OOO. GERMANY'S DOMESTIC) PERIL. A shattering revolutionary outbreak by the unemployed is predicted in Germany. CASUALTY LIST—HALF A MILLION Copenhagen states that a German official list gives the casualties at 50!),000, mainly in September, only a few iji October. WHEN THI<T~WAR IS OVER, Tho Pope has expressed his intention to participate in the peace conference at the conclusion of the war, with a view to tho transformation of tho law of guarantees into an international agreement • binding on all tho great Powers. AMNESTY OFFERED. TO THE BOER REBELS. Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. Received 9.20 p.m., Nov. 12th. CAPETOWN, Nov. 11. Official.—Tho rebels aro given until tho 21st to surrender their arms. Tho leaders are excluded from tho amnesty. THREATENING THE ENGLISH. LONDON, Nov. 11. The "New York Tribune" quotes a member of tho German Embassy , in Homo as 6tating that when tho German.'? landed in Britain, if men oi* women resisted them, tho Germans would treat them exactly as they treated tho Belgians,

DUTCH MERCHANTS. HAVE GREAT OPPORTUNITY. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. 1 The State Department announces that Holland has entered into an arrangement whereby, sho secures a practical, monopoly of the importaton into the 'Netherlands of all food stuffs, including flour, and cattlo into Holland, and lias entered into a contract with tho Holland-American steamers, the only neutral line plying to America by which private shipments can bo accepted. fr THE DRINK PROBLEM. Mr McKenna promised a deputation to consider tho prohibition of the salo of liquor to women More midday. lie said that since the war began there had been a reduction in drinking throughout Britain but an increase among women. NEW ZEALANDER KILLED. Captain Angus McNab, a Now Zealander, a Harley Street specialist, waa killed at the front in hip first engagement, with a London Scottish regiment. He and patients whom he was attending were bayoneted. 1 WAR FEVER SPREADING. Somali chiefs have petitioned tho King for permission to fight for England. AN ALL-DOMINION BATTERY. Received 12.20 a.m., Nov. 13th. OTTAWA, Nov. 11. Major Cashman, a South African campaigner, is communicating with New Zealanders, Australians and South Africans in Ontario with a view to organising a battery 0 f artillery to accompany tho second .Canadian contingent. GERMAN SPY; CAPTURED IN EGYPT. Received 1 a.m., Nov. 13th. ROME, Nov. 12. Prince Meliemed Ali, from Egypt, details the career of Otto More, cabled on tho 6th. Mors came to Egypt in 1909, and secured a lieutenancy in tho \ gendarmerie; Ho was really a spy, with ■ a staff of numerous conspirators, appointed to foment a pebollion. Various princes and notables identified with tho Nationalist movement assisted Mora. Prior to the war Mors went to Germany and also visited Enver Pasha (the present. Turkish Minister of War), at Constantinople, regarding a native rising in Egypt. He returned to Alex- ' andria with a mission to blow up divcr.s ships in tho canal to provent Indian and Australian reinforcements reaching. Europe. Tho plot was discovered audi Mors was arrested, wearing a fez containing detailed mapsi of tho canal and instructions from Germany how to block the canal. Two big djnamito bombs were concealed in his lodgings. Mori's made a full confession and furnished a list of hi 6 associates, who havo been arrested, and many of thera deported. Mors said Germany gave liim £IO,OOO and threatened to shoot him if ho turned coward.