BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

CII«|*4LJAN ANI* N.Z. CABL3 ABHOCIATION A WAR REVELATION. BAR IS, June 10. There was a strange revelation in Dumi Court which is hearing tin appeal to rehabilitate seven soldiers executed in Septeml>er J 914. A French battalion in the front lino of trendies was surprised by a. German night attack and lied in a momentary panic. Stragglers at dawn met a French General who ordered a subaltern to select a corporal and six .men for immediate execution, including a man who fell on his knees pleading he was a married man with four children. The General, however, was merciless and the seven apparently were shot. Next day a half demented man .stumbled into the quarters of tile Thirty-third regiment, ami said he was one of the condemned men. He fell on hearing the word fire, aim hours after lie recovered consciousness and found ho was uninjured. The Commander of the Thirty-third regiment sheltered the man who was killed in action ten months later lighting tinder nti assumed mnue.

r BRITISH All! SERVICE. noxix>x. June to. Major General Sir Soft on Bruncker (Director of Civil Aviation in the Air Ministry) said that Holland has asked Britain to co-operate in an aeroplane service between India and Sourubaya. If this is carried out. it will inevitably be extended to Australia. Britain, he said, proposed to establish an airship service between London, Egypt and India, and p silily to Australia, within fiv years when two additional improved ships will he completed. An aeroplane- service would shortly bop; in f from Egypt to India,