HONOURS IN WAR

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2613, 9 November 1915, Page 6

HONOURS IN WAR

BRIGADIER-GENERAL SIR A. H. RUSSELL DISTINCTION FOR SEVERAL NEWV ZEALANDERS By Tdeeranh—ETess Association—Copyiltfj London, .November 7.' Thei following .honours have been cori ferred!:— . . ~ Knight Commander. St. Michael an< St.. George.' Brigadier-General Andrew, Russel (New Zealander). ' Companions of St. Michael.and St. ■ : • ■ George. 001. Beeston, Lieut.-CV>ls. AVanliss, Owen, S. -E. ' Christian, March. Alfred Bennett, and Henry Bennett; Majors Bossell, Broivne, Brockman, Giffard, King, James O. Robertson, E-abbott, and George Stevenson (Australians), and Lieut.-Col. Begg (New Zealander). . Companions of the Bath. . Brigadier-General Hobbs, Lieut.-Cols. Richard Courtney, George J. Johnston, Caiman, Rosenthal, and Ernest Smith (Australians), and John Findlay (New Zealander). Distinguished Service Order. Majors Eberling Herbert; Lloyd Lorenzo, and' Arthur Stevens Tilney (Aus- • tralians), Majors Charles Browne, James AVliyte, and Robert Young, and Capt. Beck (New Zealanders). . Military Cross. y Lieuts. Parry, Okeden, and Bachtold ' '(Australians), and Oakey and Blackett : (New Zealanders). V SOME PERSONAL NOTES. ' 'Brigadier-General Sir Andrew Hamilton Russell, A.D.C., loft New Zealand . in commaud of the Mounted Rifles Brigade of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Ho was promoted to the rank .of Brigadier-General at Gallipoli, in company with other brigade commanders, in ..October of 1914. He was. previously Territorial Commander of the Wellington Mounted Brigade—a Territorial Staff Command. .. Lieut.-Col. John Findlay, of the Ist ■ Mounted Rifles (Canterbury Yeomanry : Cavalry)was in command of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles Regiment when the Expeditionary Force left' for tho front. ,_Lieut-.-Col. Charles Mackie Begg, New Zealand MedicaL Corps, is a wellknown AYellington doctor, who lias given much time and energy to his duties as Principal Medical Officer, Wellington Military District Command. Major J. H. AYhyte, N.Z.S.C., left as second ;n command of the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiment with the Main' Expeditionary Force. Prior to that he was Brigade-Major to the Wellington. Mounted Rifles Brigado with Headquarters at Palmcrston North. He .was ono of the first lour officers to be : sent to England from New Zealand for training with the Imperial Forces. Major Charles Brown belongs to the New Zealand Staff Corps. • - i Capt. Beck is, or was, with the Ordnance arm of the Expeditionary Force. Major Robert Young of the 9th (Hawke's Bay) Regiment, commanded tlid Hawke's Bay Company of the Wellington.' Battalion. Lieut. George Raymond Blackett, of the 10th (Nelson) Mounted Rifles, went away with the Nelson Squadron of the Mounted Rifles Brigade. Lieut. Allan Norman Oakey, was attached to: a field : troo!) of the New Zealand Engineers. NO-TREATING OR ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION BRITAIN AND RUSSIA CONTRASTED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrtelrt _ ( ' London, November 7; __Tho "Spectator," commenting on the diminution of drunkenness as the re<sult of the non-treating order,' expresses indignation at the Government's exhortation to tlie .public to practise economy while refraining to check exi ponditure by forbidding tlio sale of £ink in war time, and thereby save 100 millions yearly, set free foodstuffs, and improve moral and hygienic conditions. The'paper points out that since the prohibition of vodka in Russia,' savings'bank deposits in that country had from seventy thousand to toreo millions sterling,' ' THE POULERS OF NESTS ANTI-BRITISH AVRITERS IN AMERICA. By Talegraph—Press Association—Copyright / _ London, November 7. Tiio "Observer's" Now York corres- 1 poudent draws attention to Israel " ZaiiffwilPs pro-German ci-usado in America, especially the disgraceful artides m tho pro-German paper "Sunday. American," in which lie sneeringlv says of recruiting: "Christ- was in the army j the Madonna- made munitions." ' . . ; „ 'flie correspondent adda that this and i Zangwill's speeches .in England ■ have < convinced him that, foulness is meat and i drink to Germany's supporters. • Fra, . l ' c Harris .also participates < m the anti-British propaganda. These > and other .Englishmen's writings are ' making the pro-Entente feeling fidgety. 1 ■ [Frank Harris is the late editor of ' ' Vanity Fair." Formerly he was editor of the "Fortnightly Review," then editor of the "Saturday Review," and later still, founder and editor of tho "Candid Friend." He was educated at I American and German universities < Israel Zangwill is the well-known man ■ of -letters.] j PRISONERS SHOT BY THE ' HUNS J EVIDENCE FROM THE DEAD. ' By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright 1 Paris, November 7. ' Letters found on dead Germans do- ! scribe tho systematic placing of prison- • ?i S fr° n t'of.fclio soldiers; also ' the cold-blooded shooting of prisoners. ' THE UNMARRIED SHIRKER .WEAK SPOT IN 'JHE A'OLUNTARY SYSTEM. Br Telegraph—Press Assooiation-Oopyrlght London, Novomßer 7. ■ A trades unions demonstration in . Trafalgar Square to further Lord ' Derby's schomo passed a resolution favouring voluntary service as against < conscription. The speakers said ono weak spot in the voluntary system was tho, holding back of young unmarried men, GOLD SCARCE IN GERMANY By Telegraph—Press Association—Coturri-hi ("Times" and Sydney "Sim" Services.) London, November 7. The German people have been asked to send their jewels and golH coins to the, Imperial Bark owing to the SCarCa itj of;gfll(L,. - " ' p