THE ARMISTICE

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 80, 30 December 1918, Page 5

THE ARMISTICE

BRITISH NAVAL COMMISSION IN GERMANY SOME IMPRESSIONS (Rec. December 29, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 27. The Press Bureau has issued an account of the Allied Naval Commission's work in German waters, which shows that (he Commission found all the Gorman warships in a filthy condition. Discipline was at such a low ebb ■ that it v;is found necessary to warn the sailors. In the course of frequent jonrne.vings inland the- Commissioners came to the conclusion that representations that the people urgently need food and clothes were nothing like i.s justifiable as the (yerinan authorities were seeking lo impress on .■■lμ Allies. The agricultural conditions were obviously most favour-able.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.-Keuter.

jBEITISH NAVAL ENVOY AT KIEL. (Rec. December 29, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 27. The British Naval Envoy to Germany, Admiral Browning, visited Kiel ports to sypervise the carrying out of the armistice terms. During the conference he met von Muller, of Kmden fame, but did not discover hin identity until lifter the final conference. Admiral Browning mst with interminable delays, but finally; succeeded in compelling the Germans to do as he wished. The German warshipswere found to bo in a disordered state f.nd the crews were undisciplined.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Asm. MACS TARE POST4N DARDANELLES CANTERBURY MOUNTED RIFLES AT CHANAK. (Rec December 29, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 2G. The Seventh Australian Light Horse and the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, the latter comprising 25 officers and 461 men, have; arrived at Chanak from Egypt as tho Australasian section of the British division of occupation at the Dardanelles. —United Service. GERMAN FOOD"DELEGATES SNUBBED . BY AMERICA (Rec. December 29, 5.5 p.m.) ■ New York, December 27. The New York /'Times" correspondent stales that it is announced at Washington from Berlin that Baron von der Lanoken and Dr. Rieth have been appointed by tho German Government to negotiate with Mr. Hoover (the United States Food Controller) icgarding food eupplies. Mr. Hoover has sent a message refusing to deal with those whose cruelties in Belgium during German occupation were atrocious,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. i SPAIN HANDS OVErIhE INTERNED ' _SH|PS_ (Rec. December 29, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 27. Spain has decided to hand over the German interned ships for Allied use in rovichialling (he Allied countries.—Aus.JS.Z. Cable Assn.