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Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 November 1916, Page 3

STOP PRESS NEWS

I (Received This Day, 2 p.m.) U'liK I'Ur.jH ABSI'I.iA'HON.I CCMPILSORY~ ""^MILITARY S'ERVIOE. Mikstorton, This Day. A go;.d deal of ndignation is folt locally that men who were married previous to -May. I 91." ); are being put in the ballot for the fiist division. I .oca I men v» lib have been mariled i. i' several yeans, and who hare one child, yesterday received notice to rc-p-srt witli'n ten days at camp having I).'en drawn in the ballot. Great resoiitmo.'.t i.s shown at the pcss/!bility oi maivrcc 1 : men with families being called i!j) while sa many single men without dependants are available in fclie district. export of wool. Wellington, This Bay. A Gazette Extraordinary issued yesterday prohibits the export of wool to any destination without the consent ot the Minitster of Customs. An official of Herr von Batoc.ki's Food Department, is saod to hare poekitel some £15,000 <s the result of transactions enabling East iP!russian landowners to dispose of their wheat at a profit of 700 per cent. While atteni.pt/ng to crcss the fii.mier into Holland the parish priest of A.rdcno (in Xamtir Province) was a: lvated by the Germans. He was carrying the colours of the 34th Belgian Kegiment under liis cassock. A M'r.'ou.s outbreak of spatted typhus las occm red in Austria, covering wcle.'pread areas. The Ministry of the Interior admits that over 100 ca-es have been reported in Galioia, Lower Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and at Salzburg. A grocer's porter named Keith, ,of Dublin, ivns .sentenced at the Southern i'ol.ce Court to two months' imprisonment on a charge under the Defence of the Realm Act of u;(.ng insulting language to wounded soldiers. Passengers who have just aril'ved from Australia were so appreciative of the excellent conduct of an Austvaltan regiment on board! the liner that they made a collection and gave it to the Y.M.C.A. for its Anzac Delia rtmejit.-—London Times. Sergt. James Soniers, Y.C 1 . j of the Royal inn:skiilin,g EusiLeifs, who won the decoration by a bombing explcdt mi Gailipoli, was presented by the Lord -Mayor of Newcastle on the .Newcastle Exchange. Diihcult breathing due to nasal catarrh can bo promptly relieved by "Xazol." Its penetrating properties kill the germs of catarrh. Uso the Nazol inhaler. Alvt.