CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 July 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

.' ■ : [ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT.] [per press association.J (Received This Day 11.50 a.m.) REGISTRATION OF WORKERS j " Condon, July 5 ' In the House of Commons the Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd-George announoed that for (the week just ended 67,650 men-had volunteered for munition making. Tin majority were highly skilled men. A proportion possibly could not be. removed from their present occupations where they were efficiently employed iMr Alderi asked whether the register foreshadowed forced labour conscription. The Rft. Hon. H. H. Asquith replied that no such change was contemplated • the voluntary onrolment of workers was highly sa.ti.sfacto7',v, hut it had nor effected the necessity for national, reg' istration, , REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. Sir A. B. Markham asked whether J it was Lord Kitchener's policy to sup- ' press news of all developments in th> colonial war theatres. j The Kt. Hon. A. Bonar iLaw replied that all information that could be published properly was already announced The Rt. Hon. H. J. Ten nan t, replying to Mr George Greenwood, said that no news of a reverse in the Dardanelles reached the war offifce in May, therefore they regarded such a report , as wholly incorrect. , YOUNG MAN'S SLIOIDE. ' Ghristchurcli, This Day. Leslie Orow, aged 19, single, shot himself through the head yesterday I He died immediately. A verdict of I suicide while of unsound mind was ie- I

turned. FALL OF EARTH AT T<\-''PIRJ __ • Hamilton, This Day. A serious i all of earth took place this morning in the Taupiri Extended mine. All the men were sa'chy withdrawn from rthe mine abort oleven o'clock. The fall took place alo-it fitc chains from the 6haft. It is ah out one and a half chains square and thirty feet deep Water is coring in very fast from the lake And a strong working party is putting bags of sand :n the fall to see if they can stop the inrush of water. Several houses are : n danger of collapsing. A DANGEROUS GERMAN. Washington, JnTy 5. The police have ascertained that the German named Holt who shot Mr J. V. Morgan, was responsible lor the placing of the timed bomb which exploded with destructive effect in the Senato wing of the Capitol. No other details are available. maaaummmm nm i ii ■'.«