INTERESTING ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17078, 4 September 1917, Page 2

INTERESTING ITEMS.

T, -p NEW YORK, September 2. lhe People's Council opened v peace conference m Chicago, but the police quietly dispersed the gathering. The conference has been barred :n four States and Washington, but ite delegates state they will charter *■ shin and hold a conference on the Atlantic Ocean. ZURICH, September 2. Germany has committed another breach of faith with Poland, where the National Council, which was formed under German auspices has resigned owing to the Germans seeing a so-called Polish Legion to the Austrian front, in def.ance of the agreement.

PARIS, September 2. / When the Germans retreated from the Somme they abandoned a number of cases in the village of Ercher co-taining valuable gold and silver chalices, bowls, vases, and pictures stolen from Belgium and Northern France.

LONDON, September 2. At a Stockholm conference of Scandinavian transport workers a resolution was carried disapproving Q f the proposal of the British Seamen's Union that Germans should be excluded from the international workers 3 organisation after the war.