GENERAL ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4004, 10 August 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

THK Tt T l {C 0 -Ti l Tldd A! \IA X AGREEMENT. ('Fimes and Sydney Sun Services ) ; LONDON, Aug. 8. ■['lm Greek press describes the Tureo-Buigarian agreement, as strengthening the bonds of the Serbo-Greek entente. . ■, The Bulgarian Legation informed ihe ‘-Petit Parisiene” correspondent that the agreement juul not been concluded. Bulgaria would not dream or attacking Serbia. , , The “Cologne Gazette” states that the Kaiser refuses to admit negroes to the German army, and the Goman Africans have been dismissed at fits special request. \ new medal to he known as the Naval General Service medal has been created and will bo awarded for minor naval operations The first recipients were oificers and men emplojed m lho suppression of gun running m Persian Gulf. The stock of gold in the kimed States is, one hundred millions ,steilm„ "router than a year ago. . Bethlehem Steel Company s eo " mon stock, which was quoted on AA a Street at 138 on May 20th. is now a ° V A Japanese volunteer has reached Vilna with both ears cut off by Gem IU Tho coal output of Northern England has been satisfactory since Mi V.lovd George s appeal. .Lueuiy x per cent of" the miners have enlisted; nevertheless the output is Am,ooo tons weekly, as compared witli G 3,wu tons in the corresponding pencil oi French Chamber of Deputies by 417 to ]3 adopted a Bill. authorising the Government to requisition cats, wheat, and corn. , , +i V it a An Athens- telegram states that a German submarine, seriously damn ed :,„d disabled, has been towed to the (oilduv^H. Government are deportiuo- German, missionaries. The tension between Italy and Tukey over treatment of Italians is increasing. Italy has categorically demandedmin explanation and rep.uatioOairo reports that the Turkish troops remaining in Syria have been ordered to Constantinople, and new levies are niovinsr in tlie same dncction" proceeding to the Dardanelles. The “Corriere do Mattino sta . that the Pope is enquiring into a import that the Bishop qj. berajovo, A ram Zara, preached a holy war against 1 t< Soine of the best-known Nottingham lace makers were possessed < f large factories at Warsaw, valued at half a million pounds. (Received Aug. 9, 10.20 p.m.) . The Allies’ reply to the Bulgarian Note of June has been handed to M. Radoslavoff, but its contents have not been revealed. Five thousand breach prisoners, chosen on account, of their education and rank from the comp at Neuknchenland, are being treated like convicts as reprisals for the conviction, after court-martial, of several German looters caught red-handed. A Danish, schooner lias been set on fire in the North Sea, and the Norwegian barque Van.adis sunk.-. B°th crows wore picked up.