MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

AN (APPEAL.

rAUSTR ILIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION’]

This Day at 11.25. a.m.) GENEVA, Feb. ..

The International Red Cross is appealing to belligerents to abolish the use of poison gas.

german headquarters. (Received This Rev at 11.25. a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Feb. 7.

Generals Hindenburg and Ludendoiff have moved their headquarters in Belgium from the Rhino region.

AFRICAN RECRUITING

•'AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION]

(Received This Rev at 11.20. a.m.) ‘ CAPETOWN, Feb. 7.

The General Recruiting Conference passed a resolution, that while regarding conscription as only right in principle*. it recognises ’the impossibility of its introduction under, the prevailing conditions. The conference pledges itself to re-donble its efforts under the voluntary sjaAem.

■ FOR VALOUR. . 4 rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION <fc REUTER.] _ . (Received This Ray at 11.2.’. a.m.)

LONDON February 7

A Bar to the Military Medal has been awarded a New Zealander figt. L. G. Foot. lie commandeed a platoon after the officer was easualtied, when he encounter a. strongly held trench. He took prisoner thirty-nine men with seven machine guns, consolidated the ground and held it until wounded. The Distinguished Conduct Medal has been awarded to twenty-one New Zealanders.

BELGIAN FRONTIER. CLOSER

[LONDON TIMES. SERVICE—COI>YRIGTIt]

' (Received Tbi« T)nv at 11 25. a.m.) ; ' AMSTERDAM February 7. The Dutch press reports the Belgian frontier has been closed for a month Germans are building barracks at Aix 1 .la Chapello capable of housing one hundred thousand men.