MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1918, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

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WASHINGTON, October 16

■A “Military Deficiency Bill” providing for twelve hundred millions sterling has been reported to the U.S. House of Representatives. It is intended as a financial preliminary to the dispatch of five million men to France in 1919, and also intended to keep eighteen divisions ready overseas and eighteen divisions constantly in training.

THIEVING G ERA lANS. I • KEt'TER's” telegram. ] LONDON, October 16. The Havas Press Agency on tlie

Flanders front states that numerous German prisoners were found carrying property, looted at Roulers and elsewhere. They declared that they did this bv the actual orders of their officers, whom they named. Five of the latter were prisonered at Roulers and weiv arrested. They demanded an interview with the Corps Commander, but the latter refused to see them, saying that lie would have no relations with thieves. The arrested officers will he eonrtmartialled. ■Everywhere before the. victorious Allied advance the Germans removed the civilians from the Belgian vilages, which they then stripped hare.

HOME RULE BTLL? LONDON, Oet. 16. hi the House of Commons, Mr Hodge (Labor) asked the Government when its Home Rule Bill was going to he introduced. Mr Honor Law said ho was unable to say. ' Mr Hodge“ Hoes that mean that the Government has abandoned the Bill? Mr Bonar Law“l cannot say anything about it.” ANZAC VETERANS. SYDNEY. Oet. 17. To-day a spectacular eivie reception was given to a large number of the original Aivsncs and other returned troops. Tfc produced one of the most enthusiastic demonstrations Sydney has sene during the war n’-'od. Flowing, but still unpublished rumours of the Kaiser’s abdication and of Germany s complete backdown intensified the demonstration. Immense crowds lined the whole route. The Lord Mayor’s carriage was drawn by a specially selected gun team, and contained the Lord Mayor, and representatives of the Federal and State Governments. It led a long procession of flower decked and flowors-polted troops. A special feature was some guns captured by the Australian Light Horse in Palestine.

A PLOT SUSPECTED. , NE WYORK, Oct. 16. The troops escaped from the sinking transport in Hoboken Harbour in their niglit clothes. It is'said the ship was undergoing repairs but there is little doubt that there was an enemy plot. Three decks are now above water. The k'eel is resting on mud. Details of what occurred are with-held. Troops are guarding the vessel. A gang of machinists were working when the accident occurred. It is announced that there was no loss of life, though 300 troops were aboard. ALLIES POOLING AEROPLANES. NEW YORK, October 16. The Allies have reached an agreement to use each country’s. aircraft resources to the utmost, combining results and pooling supplies.