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Otaki Mail, 21 February 1919, Page 4

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NEWS IN BRIEF. London, February 19. Admiral Lord Jollicoe will probably , urivc in Now Zealand on August 18th, and-will leave about October Ist. Melbourne, February 19. •A The -Federal . Government is arrang,»g a fruit pool for the export or Tnsuuniau pears and apples to England. .. > Now-York, February 19. Sir John Hays - Hammond, junior, .he well-known American inventor, has r.voni o! a device by which an aeroplane will be able to., steer at a. high peed on the surface or under the surface of the ocean; also a torpedo eon-,-foiled *by electricity. Government tests have been .held, and further experiments will lie arranged. Berlin, February 18. A Berlin wireless message states that -,-on Himlenburg lias issued a proclamaioa to the German people stating that he is returning to the Eastern frontier, lie calls for national unity to defend .he Fatherland against ihe new enemy, Bolshevism, lie recalls the victories of rfinncnberg and the Masurian Lakes, "uid urges young- volunteers and their ‘vomrades to remember that they arc All Gomans, and to unite in sejf-dis-duliiie arid confidence in their leaders.

London, February IS. It is. understood that Mr Winston Oltttrolull, Secretary of -State for War, •V.voum war with' Hus -is if 'necessary. British correspondents at Cologne refer, to a great meeting of (1000 workers lo consider the question cf the shortage of food and unemployment, flic speakers'- declared- that, ihe work:>g t lassi liad been iiica i>ai.i lc of work once the summer of-191(5, owing to ~uideiTood’uig. The situation was boiiming worse daily. The family's ec-Ulv supply of lea is exhausted at , 1 sing!: im ..!. Owing to the meagre■is of tl.e ration and the poor quality f tire potato crop, the meeting appointed a delegation to ihe British ''■l Hilary Governor, who sympathetic--ally heard tliem and promised help. The “Daily News” Warsaw correspondent states that there was a great popular demonst ration -on tile occasion •if the opening of tlie Diet. The city was oil fete. Thousands of citizens 'hiougi'd the streets and cheered tlie Allied delegates, wlio were acc’omjianied by M.' Paderewski and the Polish Ministers. | San Diego (California), Feb. 19. I Major Albert Smith has completed an aeroplane flight from New York to •van Diego in forty hours. Vancouver, February 18. General Pan ;slu'd Madame .. Melba have arrived, and were welcomed and entertained. Both paid tributes to Australia's magnificent work during 'he war. Melbourne, February 19. f ive bundled people sire homeless sis To result of Use Otway Purest fire.