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Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1916, Page 3

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0 AN JLMi'ivHi.VL CUI.'NCiL. London, Jan. 2. The Daily Telegraph, 'commenting on the House oi Commons luncheon speeches, wonders what lias been the. .Mother Country's virtues or her care, ior tlie dominions. llie dominions help should entitle them to a right to repiesentation in an Imperial Council to shape the Imperial policy. | TLTUvkSII 11EIR-APPARENT DEAD. Constantinople, L'eb. --2. The Turkish Heir-apparent, Prince .Lutssuff commit tea suicide Uirongli illness. He cut an artery while ill bed at the Palace. RK'IT RN OF THE TKOOPSHII' KOTORUA Auckland. Tliis Day. The Rotorua arrived at "daybreak with seven officers nnd IT)6 men of the .New Zealand forces who are returning invalided. They were- given a public reception in the Town rlall at- noon. and the southern men. 130 in number. I were given a motor drive in the afterI noon. The returned soldiers are mostly wounded who hare been under treatment in England and now are thor- ! oughly healthy looking. There are no i crutches or missing limbs, but several 1 cases in which the men have lost an eye. Captain ELardham, wiio won the

» .o. in the Sou tii African was, landed at iUrUii-L. There arrived by the Kotorua two English officers to join the New Zealand staff, Cmptaiii Jtl. A. Cooper, oi ihe nth Uancers. who served six months iu inlanders early in the war aud won the Russian War j C-i'oaa and dipt. It. Neve, of the Esses Jiegnuenl, who was at the original lauding at V Beach at Cape Helles. Ho is a machine gun expert. Major Brereton, in charge of the men returned by the itotarua, states that tiie conduct of all hail been excellem,, Tliev had a most delightful. voyage '11111 two bright diversions: one at Capeto,wu and one at "ilobarfc. -Major Brereton wus injured in an attack 011 Xvrithia 111 .May but returns fully restored iu health, mid hopes soon return bo 1 lie M-ene of hostilities. iSpeaking ot the last ocasion he was in action he said that it was the first tune the N'e-w Zeauinders nad been in :i stereotyped ataack; till then they had been lighting at Anzac. On being taken to Cape llelles with a battalion oi Austi'inlians they were sent forward miller shell lire. At first their losses were' not great, .but when they ndvanj cod fro-m the trenches the Turlft eut (hem iloiwn lik(> rabbits. Major Bre ret on describes the Australians as (he tierces, fighters on the face of the earth and added, "and I think our men do as much as tho AustraI lians." I