GREEK SHUFFLER ABDICATES

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 13 June 1917, Page 5

GREEK SHUFFLER ABDICATES

MARKINGfjTiME ON WESTERN FRONT C2S* —— - —* Further Details of Mcssiitcs Battle STILL HOPE FOR A RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE Guiding the Revolutionary Movement

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CONSTANTINE ABDICATES. Received 10.45. VANCOUVER, June 12. i King Constantine of Greece has abdicated. Received 11.45. Prince Alexander succeeds Constantine. R 0 U M A N I A,, , ROUMANIAN OIL WELLS IN FULL SWING. Received 10.40 a.m. AMSTERDAM, June 12. Bucharest advices, via Berlin states that despite the destruction of the wells, the Roumanian oil industry is in full swing, and now 7 provides the Central Powers with all their needs. THE GREEK HARVEST. TO BE CONTROLLED BY ALLIES LONDON, June 11. In the House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil said steps w-ere being taken to control the harvest in Thessaly. MISSION TO GREECE.

Received 11.30

LONDON, June 12

Telegrams from Athens are greatly delayed, but it is understood M. Goumaris’ mission betokens strong measures for the purpose of ending the anti-Entente machinations. . IN CANADA CANADIAN CONSCRIPTION. HOW IT WILL OPERATE. Received 9.15. . OTTAWA; June 12. The Military Service Act provides for a maximum of one hundred thousand men. There are ten classifications, beginning with single men aged twenty upwards. All men in Canada are assumed to be liable for service. Three tribunals have been appointed to select them: —(1) Local tribunal, the personnel of which is not appointed by the Government, but by Parliament, to allow exemptions from various causes; (2) appeal tribunal, composed of provincial judges; (3) final appeal to a Supreme Court judge. Sir R. L. Borden, in introducing the Bill, reviewed the causes of the war. Canada determined at the earliest to do her part and was not receding from that determination. In January, 1916, Canada pledged to supply half a million men; there was no' opposition ofOf fered to that pledge, which must be made good. Volunteering had failed, and Canada must either recruit compulsorily enough men to keep her divisions at the front or allow them to become extinct. Men were urge'ntly, instantly, and imperatively needed in every branch of the service. Seventy thousand men were required in the next seven months to maintain the Canadian army. Sir R. L. Borden denied the Imperial authorities had in anj- way influenced the decision, and the only difference between the proposed conscription and that provided under the ex'isting militia Jaw lies in selective conscription. This will enable Canada to provide men without the dislocation of industries and agriculture. The measure provides that anyone, when his class is called out, who refused to come, is deemed guiltv of desertion, and is liable to three years’ imprisonment. Mr. Borden offered to receive any amendment Parliament desired.

Sir R. L. Borden added that for the year ending May Ist, 55,000 had enlisted in Canada; casualties 75,000 during April and May enlistments totalled 8000; casualties 24,000.