ENGLAND TO THE CAPE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3444, 25 March 1920, Page 5

ENGLAND TO THE CAPE.

CAPETOWN, March 23‘

Van Ryneveld, interviewed, ‘said the aétual flying time from England to the Cape was 109% hours. He did not agree with Chalmers and Mitchell that ‘Africa was a dying continent; on the contmry, he thought it “flourishing and a coming continnent."

GERMAN PROPERTY CONFISCATBD.

CAPETOWN, March 23. In the Assembly, the Premier said the property of Germans d-omiciled or resident in South Africa had been re-stox-‘ed intoto——not only capital, but interest. The _Government had acted with exemplary generosity, THE SIMS INVESTIGATION, CHAOS IN NAVAL DEPARTMENT. Received 10.15 am. WASHINGTON, March 24.

Captain Harris Laning, Assistant Chief of the Navigation Bureau, at the Sims’ investigation, pointed out that chaos existed in the Naval Department when the war began. Ml‘ Daniels was impossible fo Work With. When the plans were rejected no person knew what ought to be done.

NEW ZEALANDERS’ GRAVES AT HOME.

Received 10.15 21.111.

LONDON, March 23

The Brookwood cemetery authorities have transferred to the War Graves Committee the section of the cemetery where many Australian and New Zealand soldiers were buried.