GENERAL ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4003, 9 August 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

THE EXF.MY IX FLANDERS. PREPA RATIONS FOR WINTER (Received Aua. S. 3.40 p.m.) LONDON. Aug. TJie Germans In Flanders- are construct iiig hundreds of lints to accommodate troops for the tv in ter. In the French Chamber of Deputies tlie postal Commission recommended penny postage with England. German newspapers published bulky reviews of the year's war. A majority admitted that Germany had not expected to wait so long. They assert that the country is still absolutely

united and determined. They admit that a long and bitter struggle is ahead, and England must be overthrown.

Signor Garroni. Italian Ambassador to Turkey, energetically protested against the vexatious measures the Turks were imposing on Italians recalled to their mother country. A condition of anarchy exists. The Porte. Signor Garroni alleged, had decided to leave Constantinople. Captain H. S. Smart, of the Indian Army, was removed from the_ service recently because be did not join his regiment on the expiration of leave in December. It- has since been_ ascertained that .Smart strongly desired to join the forces in France and came to England and enlisted as a private under "the name of Hardy in the West Surreys and was killed at I"estubertin May. where he displayed such gallantry that lie would have been granted the Distinguished Service medal had he survived. The King approved of cancellation and the removal ot the order. _ ~ Samms, a member of the Shefheki Board of Guardians, has been sentenced to two months for attempting to spread disaffection among ‘ho wounded soldiers. Sam ins visited a union hospital and told a Canadian ••I don't think it's a verv good mb vou're on. butchering people for other people's benefit. ’’ The Canadian told Samms that if he did not move on he would move him. .>amms told two bedridden patients that England brought the war on herself. The war was being fought bv the workers tor the mnstors ntul not for tl!Cim*ori os* He told another soldier that they would be as well off under German rule as English rule. The soldier replied, ••You are a disgrace to your country.” Sir 1L L. Borden, at a luncheon at. the Canadian Club, said: ‘‘The enemy’s victory at Warsaw is nothing compared with" the victory achieved by the British Navy in keeping the seas clear.'