GENERAL WAR NEWS.
TAX ON EXEMPTED MEN. The Minister for Finance in Italy publishes a decree setting up a tax on men exempted from military service. BATOCKI BACK TO THE ARMY. Hcrr Batocki, Germany's first Food Dictator, who fell from grace several months ago, has decided to vindicate his honour at the front. He has rejoined his former regiment, a Cuirassier unit, with the rank of major, and has now been assigned to active servicc in the western theatre. GERMANY'S WAR CRIPPLES. In view of the painful position of Germany's war cripples being unable to make a living, a petition signed by half a million cripples has been sent to the Reichstag with the object of increasing the pensions. BUSY AIR-RAID THIEVES. People who were allowed to shelter in a London police station during a recent. raid, stole a clock, two pairs, of boots, the constables' provisions, and damaged some uniforms. At an East London Police Court they even stole the Testaments.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 13 December 1917, Page 4
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162GENERAL WAR NEWS. Levin Daily Chronicle, 13 December 1917, Page 4
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