GENERAL WAR ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 86, Issue 13103, 10 February 1916, Page 5

GENERAL WAR ITEMS

CO-ORDINATING PLANS. ITALIAN AND FRENCH PREMIERS CONFER. Received February 9, 9.4-3 p.m. LONDON. February 9. M. Briand will shortly visit Italy to confer with Senor Salandra as to coordination in order to secure that the total strength of the Allies be wielded where the enemy is weakest. THE KING'S HEALTH. Received February 9, 4-"> p.m. LONDON. February 9. Renter announces that King George was prepared to open Parliament, hut yielded to medical advice not to undertake it in his present states of convalescence. THE KAISER. VISIT TO ROUMANIAN FRONT! ER. ( o.MPOSES NEW NATIONAL ANTHEM. LONDON. February 9. I lie limes' correspondent in Bucharest states that alter leaving Nisli the Kaiser inspected the fortifications on the Roumanian frontier. BERNE. Februarv 9. The Kaiser iias composed the words ot a new National Anthem, and has

commanded l)r Richard Strauss t< tompo.se tlic music. "!!io Germans art gratified, as they resent the fact ilia tho existing tune of the German anthen is: iHontionl with that of tlio Rritis! "God Save tho King.'" THE COMPULSION ACT. MIXERS- CONFERENCK AT LANCASTER. Received February 9, 9.36 p.m. LONDON, February 9. The miners' conference at Lancastei is discussing in camera the attitude tr be taken towards tho Military Servicr Act. HEROES OF ANZ AC. ASSIST TN BRITISH RECRUITING. LONDON, February 9. Considerable pinblic interest is displayed in the exhibition of Australian. New Zealand and other Dominion posters at the Mansion House as part of a vigorous recruiting campaign which Mr Wakefield recently inaugurated. The Lord Mayor also entertained many Australian and New Zealand wounded at tea. The Daily Telegraph remarks that the pictures breathe the virile fightitg spirit of our heroic kinsmen overseas. PLACED ON "TH-E INDEX." ROME. February 9. The war prayers of D'Annanzio, the Ttalian poet, have been placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The prayers aroused the enthusiasm of educated Italians, but the Congregation of the Index denounced them as blasphemous parodies on inspired Scripture. PROPOSED »OINT PARLIAMENT. ITALY FAVOURABLE. \ ROME. February 9. Members of the Italian Parliament, 'avour a joint Allies' Parliament being ield. They propose that 35 Italian senators and .deputies should meet mem)ers of the English "and French Parlianents in Paris.

CUTTING DOWN EXPENSES. ECONOMY CAMPAIGN IN BRITAIN. NECESSITY FOR 'THRIFT. Received February 9, 11 p.m. LONDON, February 9. lhe economy campaign is proceeding apace. The Right Hon. Charles Booth, chairman of the Booth Shipping Company, speaking at Liverpool, urged the necessity for individual fhrift, which might be secured by ruthless taxation, a great increase in income and super taxes, and indirect taxation upon every unnecessary article. Voluntary effort might help, but it could not win the war. Local authorities are rigorously cutting down the rates, and it is expected that the reductions will reach one shilling in the pound in most boroughs. Postal deliveries have been reduced to two daily. BRITISH GOLD REACHING GERMANY. FALSE DECLARATIONS MY DUTCH TRADERS. Received February 9, p.m. LONDON, February 9. The Chronicle's Amsterdam correspondent at Lens states that thousands of pounds of English money are yearly finding their way to Germany through Dutch firms, who are selling coupons and foreign bonds in London, making falso declarations that they come from a Dutch holder and the proceeds will not benefit the enemy directly or indirectly. Reuter states that the German Consular officials in Holland refuse to accept payment of lees in German paper money, and demand German gold or Dutch currency at the pre-war exchange. •ADMIRAL SIR H, B. JACKSON. 1! ESIf; NA T lON IM PEXD ING. Received Februaiy 9. 9.45 p.m. LONDON. February f). The Daily I olograph publishes a rum- j our of the impending resignation of Admiral Sir H. B. Jackson. The Admiralty refuses to give any information.