MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

imt l'liKss asaocuiKiN.- -cnryniutir.j IMPERIAL POSTS, / LONDON, September 3. “llie Times” in a leader, which j? highly appreciative 0 f Sir Thos. Mackenzie’s work in Great Britain, deplores the increasing tendency to appoint to Domonjion positions in London and Governorship!/ .in the Dominion elderly men, whose public life is approaching its end. “The Times” says : “So long as the Imperial system continues to be a thing of vagnte, undefined ties, ambiguous constitutional relations, and cjominercial interests, which often conflict, It is; extremely important to fill, these posts with young, active personalities. The Imperial .Conference shoilkt agM> 1 to joint acjiidp/ mjike 'thp salaries 'bufflcient for |he proper performance of the duties involved." .• • ~i,:

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. (United Service Telegram^).

■> LONDON, Sept. 6. Captain Peter Wright, late Assistant Secretary of the Supreme War Council is publishing ji gerie§ of _ jjr Blackwood Magazine disclosing £hp innermost history of _ the most critical days of the war. He says the exact distance within which Germany had come, may be put in yards. There weretwelve thousand yards separating them from Amiens in 1919, when racing along St Quentin-Amiens road ,with artillery and supples left far behind, snffpr|j)g from hunger ajjd with little sti:eijgtl| left, they 4 had vicfory within thejr grasp. The Supreme Council held General Doullens was pot sanguine pf savr ing the position. Marshal Fetch out? lined the plans for tlip abandonment of Paris, and General Haig for the British armies being driven towards tjie Coast, Wright gives great credit tp Foeh for Hurriedly organising his reserves on the wooded hill in Compiegne. He quotes a letter written by General Haig on 3rd Marchj refusing to contribute British divisons towards the Allied reserves, •which would have saved Gough’s army. | Another letter from Haig on 24th March, appealed for the appointment of a Generalissimo.

RAILWAY ACCIDENT. PARIS, Sept. 6. A locomotive qt Bordeaux ran off tiro track! and exploded, killing eipvplf workmen, and badly injuring twelve, The engine was blown to pieces. The accident was due to the sudden entry of cold water into an over-heated boiler.