The Birkenhead News and Wirral General Advertiser. — 1918-08-10 (Birkenhead, Merseyside, England)

DAY BY DAY.  The first otatingsni of Japanese troops has embarked for Vladivostok.  General Sir Horace Lockwood SmithDorrien has been appointed governor and oornmander-in-ohief of the city and ipirriecen of Gibraltar. • • • •  Thee is a heavy crop of nuke I his year on the treea in the Chestnut Avenue. Bn alley Park. The nuts are now gathered for munition purposess. • • • •  The Council of Ministers has raised General Foch to the dignity of a Marshal of Frame, The military medal has been conferred on General Petain.  Planted in 1758, the famons vine at Hampton Court Palace is bearing nearly 500 bunches of grapes, of the Black Hamburg variety, in splendid _condition.  Dsniph fishermen who have arrived in the West Coast harbours .report that in the North Sea they saw a great number of corpeee of German seamen with lifebelts on.  a a • •  Anothpr pcliieei murder has taken place in th,, Ukraine. M. Stelsehenko, former Ukrainian Minister of Education, has been shot in the open street at Poltava. The murderer succeeded in escaping.  The Australian Science Advisory Council inbends to import from England millions of beetles to destroy bbe St. John's wort, which is spreading most seriously in the south-east of Australia.  Mr. Watt, Acting Prime Minister of Anistrolls, speaking in Sydney, declared that from the Australian point of view the Pacific Islands could not be handed back to Germany. _ _  • • •  Five Greek shipovrners have been fined from £50,000 to £llO,OOO each, and ordered to pay indemnities of a similar amount for having sold steamers to foreignere in contravention of the law forbidding such sake.  • • • • Provost-Marbhal General Crowder estimates that the new draftings for the U.S. Army will yield 10,028,973 registrants between 32 and 4.5, and 3,171,871 between 19 and 21. It is also e6timated that these will yield 2,398,845-edeetive fighting men. • • • •  When Nellie Mitchell, a yonag lady visitor from Liverpool, was charged at Southport with drunkenness, she explained that she fell into the Marine Lake, and, while her clothes were being dried she was given some brandy. Later she had some whirly, and it overcame her. She *as fined 2s. 6d. _ _ _ _  It ig officially announced from Moscow that the Social Revolutionary leader, Alexandroff. who was arrested after Count Mirbach's assassination. has been executed. Alexandroff played a ;treat role in his party, and was considered a brilliant speaker. • • • •  The Spanish influenza is raging in Belglum. There are thousands of cases in Brussels, Antwerp, Liege, Mono, and Namur. The percentage of fatal cases is heavy owing to ilhe weak oondition of the people. In Malines there have also been many cases. including Cardinal Mercier, who suffered seriously, but is now convalescent. • • • •  The Paris High Court has sentenced Malvy to five years' banishment without civic degradation. M. Malvy was the French Minister of the Interior in the Governments of M. Ribot and M. Pain leve. He was impeached for lax treatment of the defeatiet elements and also the "Bonnet Rouge" conspirators. At first the more serious charge of communicating with the enemy was preferred against him, but this WItS subsequently dropped. .  The Ring has approved of the colour of the riband of the Victoria Cross being in future the same for all services, the red riband of the Army Victoria Cross being univerFal for the Navy (instead of the bine riband hitherto used), Army and Royal Air Force. • . • •  The Chief Secretary for Treland states that he is not yet in a position to give a definite reply as to the question whether the Government have abandoned all intention of introducing a meseure if selfgovernment for Ireland based on the Majority Report of the Irish Convention or on any other lines.  Lord Curzon bald the House of Lords on Monday that considerations which had emerged from the debate ehouM act as a warning against the adoption of a too ambitious programme after the war. He urged that the pressure that would be put on the Government not merely to repair the ravages of war but to rebuild a shattered world would be almost overwhelming.  lir, Hoover, the TT.S. Food Controller, told the Consumers' Council that this year the United Statea will export about 1)3,000,000 tons of food without trenching very much on their own consumption. North America would be able practically to support all the Allied nations during the coming year. Economy in food, how. ever, was necessary. so that America might have (ships free to transport her armies to the front.