GENERAL CABLES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 8 February 1918, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES

BRITISH SHIPPING LOSSES. LONDON, ■Wednesday. Mr T. J. Macnamara, in the House. of Commons, i-t»i>lyiiiy; to .Mr |{. |<\ .Houston, said that Git shi|*i of over 1600 tons, with am aggregate of 245,000 tons, hud been lost by marine risks during 1917. THE LATEST MOVE. (Router's Telegrams.) LONDON, Wednesday. In the House of Commons, 31 r J. I. Macpherson (tinder-Secretary to the War Office) stated that information lias been received that the German authorities had placed officer prisoners in localities subject to air raids. Similar action was contemplated in England. DISTRUST OF PECAE DEMAND. Australian—>bss-. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, Wednesday. Lord Northcliffe, interviewed for the W#i Sfejget •.#Ourinal l in -London, -said:—"l distrust- tM demand withsll Germany pease." He added: ,"It is obvious that the simplest way fo delay the American war preparations is ,for |])o Germans to suggest that pctfce "is imminent and thai preparations are therefore necessary. We do not pay any attention to such Germain propaganda." •j: wai! conf&lence. Renter'^: learns jfaai in accordance wrth the general wisli expressed last year,. aiuLas far as,.the convenience" of Dominion "statesmen" 'and their*'P#rlfaments will permit, a series of Imperial War Cabinets and Imperial War Conferences will be held in London lliis year in continuation of those h«Jd last yfjaf, at \yhich retend and tmifqr # wa|Ji 'tere oai problems of the war. •' It is understood that the Imperial 'Government is trying to arrange the date as far as possible to suit the convenience of all, but aiejthing defiiiito has yet been settled either regarding the date or the statesmen who will attend. A Renter telegram from Wellington to-day gives the first official intimation that, subject to the approval of the Dominion , Parliament, Mr JMassoy and Sir Joseph Ward will represent New Zealand. PURCHASE OF COPPER. MELBOURNE, Thursday. Mr W. M. Hughes has announced that the British Ministry of Muni'tions has purchased the copper output to June this year, excepting such as may be required for local cornsumption. Tlie purchase involves an outlay of £2,150,000. ENEMY SHIPS. LONDON, Wednesday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has aTWod the Ham-bnrg-Amerika, Line to appeal against the judgment of the Prize Court, confiscating two liners seized at Falmouth in 1915. The court based its judgment upon Tbe Hague Convention, and held "that the circumstances atending the seizure of such vessels were such that they were only liable to detention during the war. The effect of the judgment is to reserve, all rights for decision till the war concludes and the German Government's views regarding the construction of the Convention is ascertainable. *