GERMANS STRUCK OUT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 65, 16 March 1916, Page 6

GERMANS STRUCK OUT.

FOR ALL TIME. LONDON, March 14. A metal bulletin, says arrangements have been completed, with the Govern ment’s approval, to eliminate German shareholders in Henty Merton’s for all time. EMIGRATION SUSPENDED. THE BOARD’DISSOLVED. SYDNEY, March 14. The Premier confirms the- report that the joint New South Wales and Victorian emigration bureau in London has been dissolved as immigration is entirely suspended. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG’S REPORT. SUCCESSFUL BRITISH EOMBARD- , MENTS. HOSTILE AEROPLANES ENGAGED. TWO BROUGHT DOWN.

1 ' LONDON, March 14. Si!r Douglas Haig reports: We carried out successfully bombardments near Oametz, Lille, Armentieres, and the railway at Hooge. Thirty-two hostile aeroplanes '"o - engaged yesterday. One was brougnt down near Lille, and a second in our j Tines to-day. A BULGARIAN REPORT. RUSSIAN TORPEDO-BOAT SUNK. BULGARIANS RESCUED FIFTEEN, SOFIA, March 13. Official: A Russian torpedo boat wa c mined and sunk south-west of Varna. The Bulgarians rescued 15. TO, “SWAT” VILLA. 4 TROOPS FROM BOTH SIDES TO CONVERGE. * WILSON’S MIND MADE UP.' , . r~ , . GOING TO ELIMINATE THE BANDIT. WASHINGTON, March 13. Cabinet has approved of President Wilson’s determination to take active measures against th e Mexican bandits who raided the town of Columbus, in New Mexico. The President has announced his determination to eliminate General Villa. The War Department is preparing to dispatch a punitive expedition within a few days. General Funston is directing the border operations. Twelve hundred') of president Carranza’s troops are approaching the border from Mexico, with, it is understood, the intention of assisting the American troops to wipe out General Villa and his bandits. President 1 Carranza had requested permission to send Mexican troops into th e United States, if need arises, during the pursuit of the ban--1 dits. President Wilson declares that his action is being taken entlreiw to aid President Cahranza,. and he has no thought of aggression. He claims the right to pursue the marauding bandits across the international line established by international law., Strong naval forces have been sent to Mexican waters to be in readiness ,should American lives and property be endangered. Mrs Wright, na American, states that Villa told his lieutenants in her hearing that if he succeeded in forcing President Wilson’s hand Germany would be bound to step in. This is taken to indicate that Villa gave oar to the Potsdam propagandists.

THE CLOVEN HOOF. WHY THE UNITED STATES MUST BE CAUTIOUS. LONDON, March 13. The Times’ correspondent at New York says there is not the slightest doubt in Washington-that ViDa's sanguinary defiance is due to German promptings. Cabinet is predisposed to move cautiously and slowly, realising that in the event of hostilities Mexico would probably become a recruiting ground for American-Germans. THE NON-COMBATANT CORPS.

LONDON, March 14. Mr. Lovat Fraser writes: Tlic War Office’s prompt formation of a noncombatant eof|)s is an excellent move which will make in the future sham conscientious objectors do some pretty hard thinking. Its reception will be , awaited with interest. WAR-STAMP COLLECTORS. I MEMENTOES OF THE CAPTOR! j OF GERMAN COLONIES. ♦ 1 Industry is not alone in its tnior ■ ment of a wa<r boom. That legendaw

during the war. Stamp-collecting v particularly active just now. Many ole but jaded collectors, excited at the prospects opened up by the many new war-issues, have, returned to their earliest loves, buying and exchanging stamps as eagerly as a schoolboy. ' "Our sales during the war, and particularly during the last few weeks,” said a well-known stamp dealer in London, "have exceeded all our expectations. Our Continental trade has, of course, suffered very considerably,, but tliis loss is more than made up by the increase in colonial trade. Much business is now being done by British firms with Canada, Australia, and South Africa, and even the United States, which before the war went into German pockets.” The war stamps are of historical as well as philateltie interests. In mow cases they commemorate the Allies’ capture of German colonies, and are usually the old German issues surcharged. Thus the new Togoland stamps —much sought after by British collectors are surcharged "AngloFrench Occupation”; and those of the Cameroons "C.E.F.” —Cameroon Expeditionary Force.”