"STOP PRESS" NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11267, 22 December 1914, Page 1

"STOP PRESS" NEWS.

fßmrvtd fir rati ntwi receive, ifttr tut paper me gene tt §rm.\ Published at 5 p.m. SIGNIFICANT! GREECE TO FICHT? MAY .ASSIST SEIiVIA. (RcLe-ved \- ecembor 22. 4.15 p.m.) LONDON, Jjecomber 21. Router states that foUowirig'Bt!!g>aTia's affunm.es regarding the maintenanceof neutrality, the Entente Powers h vo given' ?iia.r;mJ / :os to Athens and -Bucharest that Bulgaria will not attach Q*!*~sfL!s!i. .?h«.j.ssist« Serri; ncr attack Roumania. if the latter intervenes in the war. JOFFRE'S CALL. HOUR HAS ARRIVED. TO PUSH OUT INVADERS. (Received December 22, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. A Berlin wireless message state*-; that an Army order, signed by General Joffre, and found upon a French officer, declares:—"The enemy in three / months made numerous attacks, but everywhere was victoriously repulsed, The moment has now arrived to mako, ~'*.' use of the weakness he has shown. Having .reinforced ourselves, tho hour"; , of attack has arrived, and now our business is definitely 'to clear the Fatherland of invaders." The order concludes'. "Soldiers, more than ever. France relies on your cour age, your energy and your desire to conquer at any cost." ~ ' ' (It is a significant fact that justbefore the Marne battle Joffre issued a similar order.) • rftiUßiif&-sfi!Efc' A FARMING MATTER. HAMILTON, December 33. v For some time past Mi J. A. Young, member for Waikato, has been in correspondence with the Premier respecting the powers of the New Zealand Casein Board to control the process of souring milk for purposes other than the manufacture of casein, which might be used by butter and cheese manufacturers' , within the Dominion. Mr Massey has" now replied as follows: t-" As regards, the patent taien out by the New Zea- , land Casein Board for the" process of soivrintf in connection with the manufacture of caeoiu. the Department went into the matter at the time the'.putont waß applied foT. It recoenined that • the process h«d been employed for s. considerable" time in connection with butter and cheese-makiUE;. and I am in> f 0 thst th» le<ral portion i" that the pntenteeV righto camiot'be enforced ii it can be proved that the patented process was know and u.«ed either Li New Zealand or elsewhere before tin! grant of the patent."