INTERESTING ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17064, 17 August 1917, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS.

NEW YO&K, August 11. The State Department announces that IS passeng'SrTS and five of the crew w«re lost when the Atoeriean steamer pity of Athens Bank after, striking a mine oft Capetown. AMSTERDAM, August It, Th« Vossieh* fceitung announces two meatless weeks per month la Germans-, commencing ii September. LONDON, August 18; The Souse of Lords has amended th* New Ministries Bill, limiting the reconstruction \of Ministers' functions to matters arising as a natural consequence of the war. Lord Salisbury explained that ths oojeet was, > to prevent experimenting in jet sub* Jeeti, . : LONDON, August 15. The Press Bureau s.ates that the: grand committee haye f made arrangements for the Irish Convention on the 21st inst. to diseuts ft Scheme of the Dominions' type. •< FAR|6, August 16. M. Poiacaire, accompanied t»> Barons Soselli and Soanino, visited tfe Italian front, where they presented tht King with the French Military Medal and Croix d* Guerre. LONDON, Autfiftt 15. i The |x>lic« raided the Dublin premises of Colonel Mere* section of the National Volunteers, who broke eft front the wain body. Books, a hundred rifles, ami ammuaitdott were seised,. - tONDON, Atiftts£ IS. In tee H«u» of Lords, Lord Saliibury'a amendment that no order unde* the Ministry reeonstructieft b» issued unless in pursuance of a wsselutiea by t hoth Heuses, was carriei by 24 to 22, despite the Lord Chancellor reueHng em j the f round that it weuld empower £$,* ' lisment to act as an executive body. In the House ef Ceinmons, the Son.' Winston Churchill announced the proposed abatement of the dilution clause i in the Munitions Bill, also the introduction of amendments aa the result of agreements between the employers and trade unions. > . AMSTERDAM, August 15. ' Harden* paper Zunkft hae reappeared after suspension. It advocates the surrender of Alsace and Trieste if thereby & durable peace is obtainable.