HERR DIESEL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 254, 25 March 1914, Page 5

HERR DIESEL.

HIS EXISTENCE REPORTED. Bj' Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 24, 5.30 p.m. Berlin, March 23. It is alleged that Herr Diesel is alive in Canada. Diesel, engineer and inventor, was reported to have disappeared during a steamer journey, and awkward questions were asked concerning the state of the finances of certain companies in which he was interested.

"ARE THE ARMY OFFICERS' TO DICTATE?" A NEWSPAPER'S PERTINENT QUERY. Received Z~>. 12.4.1 a.m. London, March 24. The Chronicle, in a leader, says: "It is useless for the Government to tell us that tha officers did not strike. We all know they did. The action raised the question. Are tile Army officers to dictate to Parliament what Bill shall not pass? Tile evil will grow with tolerance, and not a few good judges think that! if their places could be filled with other officers who would treat their profession more seriously, it would be a blessing in disguise. The Chronicle's lobby correspondent states that many Liberals disliked even an appearance of surrender to military influences, and if the Government adopted an iron hand and sent the resignin" officers about their business it would hj" much more agreeable to most of iheiv supporters The situation in Ireland, he adds, had been badlv handled, and Colonel Seely h:u'i not covered himself with glory.

" HANDS AOKOSS THE SEA." I!v Telegraph—Tress Assncial ion. f'hristehurch. Last Night. II is slated oil "noil :intlmrity to-night llint several Impcriiil officers connected willi the New Zealand Defence Deiwrtliiciit are handing in (heir resignations as ollieers in the British Army, on accoiint of the Ulster (rouble. One oflicer stated tn a reporter that he was doing exactly Hie same as he would if lie were at ITonie, and he could not see any reason for acting differently owing to the fact of his being out here. The resignations have nothing to do witli their New Zealand appointments.