UNITED STATES.
/. i.OTE TO FRANCE. eOMOKKNIKti A CRUISER'S ACTIONi Received Dec. 14, 8.10 p.m. Washington, Dec. 13. America is preparing a Note ta Fraace questioning the legality of * French cruiser removing Austro-German* from the American ships Carolina, Coana, and San Juan, which were bound for Porto Rico, while in neutral wlt»r«, THE BREACH WITH AUSTRIA. Washington, Dee, IS. It is understood that America, expecti Austria to comply with her demandf withi» a week. DOMINION'S PARTSIR JAMES CARROLL FAVORS CONSCRIPTION. By Telegraph.—Press Association' Wellington, Yesterday! Speaking last night at a meeting,.of the Commercial Travellers' and wafto housemen's Association, Sir James ofr< roll delivered a speech advocating con* 'scription, which, he said, he would Hk« to see in force to morrow. "I anr Utit' tied," said Sir James, ,- we have gitea the utmost limit to our voluntary mCH» and after this we must have coo«crip« tioß."
WOTER CLOTHES. Wellington, Yesterday. Referring to Captain Bean'* cable M» garding winter comforts for the troops* the Hon. J. Allen said that the Imperial Government had undertaken to (Upply sheepskins, also water-tight trencb 1 boots, while New Zealand was sending aj large supply of leather waistcoats. , 600 MEN LEAVE AUCKLAND. ' Auckland, Yesterday. Three hundred men, Auckland'*! draft of the Eleventh Reinforcements, left for Trentham this afternoon with the tcmni , try qubtas, bringing the number to 60?. The Auckland quota is full, and a t'ftll ii 1 now made for a hundred men to-fill the gaps in Southern quotas. SERIOUS SHORTAGE FOR THE ELEVENTHS. Wellington Yesterda-y. There is a serious shortage In' th». Eleventh Reinforcements to-day, * and many groups are unable, to make up their quotas in the South Island. It ii reported that they paraded 100 short In infantry alone.' Wellington City's response is also poor, only 144 men mu*« tering out of 23S required, or M,short, Wellington City has now been asked to make up its own shortage, and the South Islajid Infantry shortage It w«H by January 3. * ;
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1915, Page 5
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