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United Press Association. London. November 17.' Amongst the recipients of Victoria Crosses are: Captains Grenfell and Reynolds, for saving guns; Captain Wright, who was mortally mounded while rescuing a comrade; Surgeon Rankin, for attending .wounded under fire. . . Mr William O'Brien, replying to his constituents' protest against the suggested conscription, wrote: "We have either got to bid good-bye to Home Rule or help England honestly in the war. Irishmen are being cruelly led astray, their attitude towards the Government being inexplicable, and it is furnishing certain English politicians wifch their only excuse for deserting the Home Rule cause." Major Richardson, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, has been appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Royal Marines. The cost to the British of the war last week was £12,755,000.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 276, 19 November 1914, Page 5
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127General News Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 276, 19 November 1914, Page 5
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