HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16418, 11 January 1919, Page 10

HOME AND FOREIGN.

... • :, ~ : .v; . ; , ... A . H.M.S NEW ZEALAND.' (By Cable.—Press As:ociation.—Copyright.) (Australian - and Cable. Association.) LONDON, January 8. Sir Thomas Mackenzie is forwarding New Zealand silken flags to the battlecruiser New Zealand, marking her various engagements,.as -war memorials. SOCIALIST CONFERENCE. LONDON. January 8. Mr Will Thorne declines - .to attend the Lausanne Conference owvsg to the Bolshevist tendency of a section of tho Berlin Socialists. LAND-WORKERS. LONDON, Januarv 8. The authorities of the Women's Land Army have approached Sir Thomas Mackeiizio with regard to land conditions in New Zealand. Some SGOO women do not desire to return to their pre-war occupations. and a large number are anxious to work on the land oversea, if the conditions arc favourable. SIR DOUGLAS. HAIG AND HONOURS. (Australian and X./j. Cablo Association.) (Delayed Cablegrams.) (Received Januarv 10th, 11.45 p.m.) LONDON, January 4. The "Daily News'' reaffirms that Sir Douglas Haig refuses to accept further honours until, the Government redresses ■ certain ■ grievances of discharged officers and remedies its treatment of the dependants of slaiii officers. The principal allegation is the failure, of the Government to recognise hardships. ■' | ESPIONAGE. | (Received January 11th, 1.20 a.m.) I CHICAGO, January 8. L Five Socialist leaders, including Berger, a Congressman, Germer, secretary of the. National Socialist Party, were found jguilty "of conspiring, to violate the espionage law in Germany's , interest. - •