INTERESTING ITEMS.
AMSTERDAM, February 4. Submarines recently returned to Germany report that they sunk twenty-one vessels of a tonnage of thirty thousand LONDON, February 14. A German official announces: An alteration in the blockade of England, allows neutrals a channel 20 kilometres on the west Danish coast, between the British and German danger zones. . TOKIO, February 4. Large stores of petrol at Yokohama exploded. The stores and warehouses were damaged, and there were a hundred casualties.
COPENHAGEN, February 4. The Kings of Sweden and Denmark conferred at Amalienborg Palace. The Lolcal Anzeiger states that the Dutch Government has prohibited all between the ages of 19 and 48, liable to bear arms, leaving Holland.
, r „., . LONDON, Feb. 3. Mr Billing, M.P., announces that he will resign and seek re-election in consequence of the lawsuit.
m , ROME, Feb. 3. The newspaper "Agenzia Italia" learns irom German sources that the tleet is fully prepared for another raid in the North Sea. Hundreds of warships are only awaiting Berlin's signal. '
The Pope is appealing to the Central Powers, especially through the JNuncios iri Berlin and Vienna, against unrestrained submarining.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 7
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