GENERAL STEMS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4008, 14 August 1915, Page 5

GENERAL STEMS.

(deceived Auk- IT 8.10 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12. Tht* ''Tiundolsbad” says the Swiss and -Gorman Governments have concluded an agreement for the creation of a Swiss import .Trust on the lines

'of the 'Dutch Overseas Trust, Christiania reports that 25 of the crow <4 the interned auxiliary cruiser Rcrlin jumped overboard and attempted to swim ashore, The guards fired and eight were struck and sank. Tho rest wore rescued. _ ~, The German paper “ Y oru aerts savs a number of Berlin Socialists have licet) arrested on suspicion of .high treason for publishing pampfilets severely criticising tho attitude ol leading Socialists. . A Bill asking for a new credit ol live hundred millions sterling hits passed the German' Federal Council. ' Two German officers of high standing have escaped from the prison camp at I In' Old Castle, Meath. , The Board of Agricultures Food Supplies Committee has prepared an .interim report. It is" understood that, with a view to encouraging wheat-growing,, it recommends that the Government should guarantee farmers a certain price and also impose certain duties to, protect British farmers, , The “Daily Chronicle says the Kentisli. hop‘ crop is of .the shortest on record. It is generally estimated at about half -the'’average,, this being due to the cc'd. and wet and the i>revalence of aphis, •