CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 February 1916, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

[ELECT:uc TEI.EOUAI'II—COCFHJGUr.j I.l*Ml !'lti£££ ABBOCJAHOM.J (Received This l>ay 9.35 a.m.; -NO MORE SANDBAGS WANTED. Sydney, This Day. The State Commandant has been advised that no more sandbags are required in 'Egyipt. STATE CANTEENS ADVOCATED. Melbourne, This Day. 'Mr Bidden, Commissioner in to look after the comforts and soTdiers' i tintls. emphatically supports the army canteen system as of greater general benefit than gilts. Ho estimates toe •spending capacity of the. Australian lorco at £'3000 a clay and the profits at £33,000 a month which might do placed, after the war, to T fund for the benefit of soldiers and their cuts, instead of benefiting uncertain I neutral nations. H7 GH CSO.M MISSION' IOR \S RETORT. London. Feb. 27. Petrograd reports that they captured in the Erzeroum operations 236 Turkish officers, 12,752 men ( J standards, 323 guns, much ammunition, nruis and provisions.