THE MESOPOTAMIA INQUIRY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2911, 25 October 1916, Page 5

THE MESOPOTAMIA INQUIRY

METHODS OF, THE COMMISSION CRITICISED Australian-New Zealand Oable Association, London, October 23. Tie "Daily Mail" says that the Ro.yal Commission which is inquiring into the scandals in the Mesopotamia campaign is doing its work in a very ■peculiar manner. There is a growing fear that it may issue a. white-washing report. The_"Daily Mail" demands that the Commission should take tho evidence of General Sir O'Moore • Creagli, who, while Commander-in-Chief in India, mads many recommendations which, if carried out, would havo prevented disaster. FIGHTING ON THE CANAL FRONT A-SWEEP BY THE CAMEL CORPS. Australian-New & aland Ca.ble Association. London,' October 23. A War Office report from _ Egypt states: ' "The Camel Corps with ar- 1 moured cars, swept the Daehlagahis Bahari oasis. We suffered no casualties." GERMAN OPERA SINGER'S WAR VIEWS WHY TflE NATION WANTS PEACE. Australian-New Zealand Oable Association. New York, October 23. Fraulein Frieda Hempl, a German prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, who has arrived from Germany, says that Germany is anxious for peace because a decisive battle is impossible. The food shortage has .proved an excellent thing for German women, who are becoming slimmer and more elegant of figure because of their abstinence from eating fat. i CENSUS OF NECESSITIES PROVIDERS INDIGNATION IN GERMANY. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York. October 23. The New York "Times" correspondent at Berlin states that there is great indignation over iho Tteichstag Committee's motion to take a census of men providing tho necessities of lifo in Germany. The mqasures were adopted against the advice of tho Government representatives, who consider that prominent citizens thus serving will regard the ccnsus as an insult.