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Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 November 1916, Page 3

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4 (Received This Day, 2 p.m.) (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service.) HIGH CO MM IS SI ONER' S report. London, November G. The Admiralty reports that in the North Sea one of our submarines reports firing torpedoes at a German dreadneught on the Danish coast yesterday. The veseel was hit, but the damage is unknown. THE JUDGMENT OF THIE NATION. London, Nor. 6. Sir Henry Masingham, in a letter to the newspapers, states the editors of the London and provincial newspapers were Ktaritedi to a series of private conferences whereat Minsters addressed them under the seal oif secrcecy on facts concerning the various war departments. Sir Henry Massingham says these secret conferences tend into a kind of secret society league. The Government- executive has ample power of influencing the judgment of the nation apart from: this subtle extension. POSITION OF POLAND. Paris. November 6. The Journal Des Bats points out the hypocrisy of the Austro-Grerman proposals regarding Poland. They have riot yet agreed on terms of settlement of the Polsih problem, but as their troops are insufficient to cover all frrnts they resolved forcibly to enrol Pries able to fight. They already have taken a census and; they now are making an abominable iniquity by promoting the conquered country to the position of a fricndily allied kingdom.

Berne, November 6

A wireless message says that during the consideration of the scheme for granting a fictitious independence to Poland in order to raise a Polish army for Germany, the Austro-German census of the occupied territory showed that up ward's of one million Poles were available and will bo pressed or enticed into service.

THE AUSTRO-ITALIAX FRONT. Rome, November 6. The weather lias again broken an 1 (rain is falling heavily; a mist ewers the hills and mud re hampering operations east and south of Gorizia whereit almost is impossible for troops t'> move. Losing the village of Edijtihrib was a serious blow to the Austrians who believed it to be impregnable. Oa the Kostanjevica there is a network of roads spreading out from the village also the main road from Eanziano 'to Carso. General Cadorna allowed his troops a Jii'ief rest in order to bury ti c enemy dead and collect the enormous booty from the where there were hundreds of Austrian woundeJ.

CERTIFIED FOR STAMP DUTY. Wellington. This Day. The estates of 277 deceased persons' were certified for stamp duty during Oct; ber. The- largest was that of Robert E'wing of 'O'ta-go, at £39,90-5. Wellington estate,s include.— Enid Hamilton £31,242 Frederick Martin £1i,127 John Christie - £10,740. Sarah J. Burns £10,374 WWliam McWilliam £9,455 William Beech £5,598 Henry Turner . £5379