Deserting Alsatians.
(Australia & N.Z. Cable Association ) BEIKNE, April S. A wireless message states that tbo Minister for War has informed the Budget Committee of the German iKeiciistag that since the outbreak ol hostilities eighty per cent of the Alsatians mobilised in the German Army had deserted, and it is estimated that 20,000 Alsatian-German subjects aio now fighting for France. At Salonika. LONDON, April 6. A British Salonika official message states:—Our naval and military aeroplanes have several times bombed aerodromes and ammunition dumps at Hudoria and caused damage by fires. Wo repulsed the enemy’s trench raids. Liquor Reform. LONDON, April 6. Mr. Lloyd George replying to a deputation advocating prohibition or State purchase said the people, were the only force to deckle .temperance reform, and it would he a national disaster to reinstate the liquor trade on the old basis during demobilisation. He himself would never surrender to threats, and the Government would earnestly consider (the question of control, realising the folly of any measures unless they received the general assent. - It would be madness to put lort.n in the middle of the war a proposal defying practically the whole of organised labour.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 April 1917, Page 1
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