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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 70, 12 August 1914, Page 5

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A MAXS'IOX ()(Ti ;'IEU. A FIFTH UNE OF DEI' EXOE. 1 If'fciv.;.l 12, J. 50 u.iii. London, August 11 (morning). Tlic police occupied Croydon Hal), nar Dunstor, which was in tin; occupation of Count Ifoohberg. a member of tile Picss family. The property is valued at •CIOO,OOO, and includes many art- treasures. When war \vn,s declared C 01111& Hochberg told the servants that tiiev might never sec him again, and disappeared. Six huaared members cf the Cambridge University officers' corps, including twenty "Blues," applied for commissions in the special reserve and Territoriala. The Government [has recognised the Boy Scouts as a non-militarv bodv of ilie public service. A conference of London business nien decided to organise a fifth line of defence, utilising the spare time of Londoners to leam the rudiments of drill ami the use Of arms, on the principle I of tin: Irish volunteers. j Mr. Harconrt has gj,,. n Nuneham aiK as a convalescent hospital, in connection w,t)h U,, i, aK „ Uog jta , f wounded soldiers. Received j-_>. 1.20 a ., n London. August II (Morning). M x ships, conveying 8000 stranded Americans, have ,-aiied for Xew i'ork. Fifteen thousand English and Aniori--1 "» Sl m " > stranded in JJv.itzcrland. The French Government i- -"ndinff specia" trains io convey them France. The Iluma sent the following „k----«age to the House of Commons: - with joy the powerful sitnpoi. of Britain. May God bless the courageous arms of the Entente, which are defending a noble and just cauf>." Copenhagen. August 11. lae express routes carrvin" fooil have resumed their services'to"En-dish ports. " No German troops have been withdrawn from Schleowig. The ex-Shah and his family, and l.iO Russian refugees in Germany have reached Malmo. The Shah proceeds a. Russia. He slates that he fears assassination, owing to the anti-Russian feeling in Germany.