MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1917, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

A BITING DENUNCIATION. 5 KIPLINIG’S SCORN. > : LONDON, July 11. ltudynrd Kipling in a poem in the Morning Post gives a biting denunciation of the Mesopotamian horrors. It says that dead heroes cannot return and it asks whether the slothful loilitieians and administrators ar 6 to be allowed to softly slide back from 1 (K>wcr by the favour and contrivance | of their kind. » HEALTH OF SALONIKA TROOPS. (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 11. A British Salonika report states the health of th e troops is particularly sntisfaetorv. There is a considerable reduction of the per eontage of sickness. compared with 1916. , A LIEUTENANT KILLED. .Australian A N.Z. Cable Association) LONDON, July 11. Lieut. Aidan Chavasse, the youngest mn of th 0 Bishop of Liverpool, was -Jiot while on patrol duty. Idem. Chavasse won the Victoria Cross for , live- unsuccessful attempts to bring in his brother. On the last occasion he reached the spot, but failed to find his brother. It is believed that the Germans removed him. TRIAL BY ARMY COURT. LONDON, July 11. In tho House .of Commons, Mr Bonar Law announced that those impugned in the Mesopotamia report would bo tried by the Army Court. All the officers concerned in the enquiry had ceased to exercise any functions jn connection with the party. FIXED MEAT PRICES. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] LONDON, July 12. Fixed prices for meat operate from Ist. September. WILSONS WARNING. TO FIX PRICES. WASHINGTON. July 12. President Wilson has definitely warn ed mino owners and manufacturers and’ shipowners that Government intended to fix prices for their products during the war and that evaders will be regarded as guilty of favouring theenemy. I.W.W. ACTIVE. NEW YORK, July 12. The I.W.W. are terrorising parts of Montana. Industries aro held up alnd. workers are (Threatened. The residents Shave asked for troops to protect life and property.