GENERAL ITEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4005, 11 August 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

ITALY'S RECKIIITIAG. LONDON, Aug. 9. Italy is summoning tlio 1892-4 classes, previously rejected as medically unlit, for further examination. Disorders at Moils and Charleroi aro increasing. The miners refuse to work) and many have heen shot. , Rhodesia lias presented | t<> the Imperial Government. _ j 4. neutral who nns toured German}, states that German chemists overcome difficulties by using wood pulp to ie placo cotton in tnc manufacture ol High explosives. The chief <h Ilk ul .V. w'is to eliminate impurities, but three large factories employing 4000 hands wera now ongaged m making tlio pulp. (Received 'Aug. 10, 8.40 _p.ni.) Madame Fanotha, the Kaiser’s favorite pianist, has been arrested l London and deported. Madame • Tanotha, who is a native of settled in London many years ago. bi n was appointed Court pianist to Emperor William I. 15ie ,V „ press 1 ’’ says that although she had the entire confidence of the Royal an aristocratic houses, Madame . ‘ developed a fierce hatred ol the IS Irtish, and violently and denounced them. An ungua.ded ex pression, used in a fit of t 1 _ > the Home Offieo to order that w» should be instantly deported. Paris reports that a bombardment • completely wrecked President Pomcare’s country villa at Sirapyiy ( Borne telegrams state that, acting on the Crown Prince’s suggestion a scheme has been initiated m Deihn Ito appeal to Germans abroad for ! money to help the war. It is estij mated that they will raise £20,000,000. j Official: It is fairly quiet on the whole front. There is cannonading a various points and Rhoims was bombarded. , , w The English language has been siu>i stituted fw Gorman in most of v«S I cohimemhl SfteQls in Russia,