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LORD KITCHENER AT ROME. London, Nov. 26. Renter's Rome correspondent states tliat Lord Kitchener lias arrived there, and is the object of general deference, all classes of the people and the entire press welcoming him. TWO APOLOGIES. Sir John Simon, in a letter to the Times, apologises for having failed to notice that the extract from the Russkoc Slavo was a paragraph from its Paris correspondent, therefor" the criticism did not originate in Russia. Lord Derby frankly withdraws his accusations against Lord Ribblesdalc. A GENEROUS CTFT. The Canadian Government has cabled 00,000 dollars for the Anglo-Russian hospital, which is being organised i%r the Russian front. A sum of £IOO,OOO is required, whereof £-10,000 has already been subscribed. Tt is hoped that Australia and the other dominions will assist. THE FRENCH LOAN. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail says that the lowest estimate of Thursday's subscriptions to the new loan at the Bank of France alone is (100 millions sterling. Other estimates of the day's subscriptions at all the banks are 1000 millions, HERMAN HALL NOT LICENSED. The County Council refused to renew a music license to Bechstein's Hall, the famous ooncert-room, on the ground that jit was an enemy concern. Two of the Bechsteins are in the German army. THE MUNITIONS SUPPLY. A French official wireless states that . a conference in London of the four Allies instituted a permanent organisation for the manufacture of munitions. LADY PAGET. A German official wireless states that Lady Paget is safe at Sofia, nursing Piiilgarian wounded. THE FAMOUS MR. BARTLETT. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Nov. 20. Mr. Ashmead Bartlett, in a lecture, stated that it was undesirable to say anything about expeditions in the future. None knew much; even the Government did not know. It would depend verv largely on the operations in the Balkans. Whatever happened, the conduct of the Australians, New Zenlanders, Indians and Maoris, had done miu-ii to hind the Empire. lie did not think there was any reascn for pessimism. If wc had failed in one quarter we should win in another. Hi! .referred to the Australians and New Zealandcrs as men who thoroughly enjoyed fighting. They were .wonderful with, the bayonet and at close quarters. It was a pity they had been wasted on the Turks when they might have been killing German*. They would sooner kill Germans. The leal tragedy of Gallipoli was that these wonderful men were used against a race which, handled carefully, might have .been at war on our side. MORE TAXATION FOR GERMANY.