CANADA.
tfEW WAR VOTE. Ottawa, February Sti^ The now war appropriation of £IOO/ o!W,<k)o luis passed its first reading ik Parliament. , T GENERAL ITEM FRENCH OFFTCTAL- REKVPJI. London, February 3. , A French comiuujiiq'.ie states that th#i enemy made a Mipriie attack on a pout in I'.elgium which failed. In the region ol fyt. Michael, our arLillery carried out a destructive lire against the organto lions of Appremont Forest. Artillery, i actions continue, ecuecklly in Struma, Doiran and Vardar zoat M/J Ui of Monaster. THE AURORA SIGNALLED, AN UXDBCIPHERABLB MESBAftPy By Telegrapi:.*».Preis Auon'ation. Wellington, Feb. &, v A message of nearly two hundred* words was received from Captain Davis, ■if the Aurora, but It ia in a cod's wWeid cannot be deciphered here. The message has gone to Australia, wheri* the key4 word is held, and the contests will tHrtl be available till the key can bn oMatfiM from Melbourne. ' The Aurora will be also conuntnucrttn v illi, asking for a translation, but thW njnals are very faint in the 1
(Sir Ernest Shnekleton left New Ze**J land in December to pick up thf meaJ who had been left ashore when '42 A.ii i*oi a was driven to sea by stornN,|i
SAVES -MEN tRESOUHfIf ' , THREE Of THE PARTY DSAIfc Wellington, Last The wireless message from Gaptafci Davis reads as follows:—Aurora arrived; at Cape Evans, nil well, on January I®< nml relieved seven of the surviving nnii bers of Hie Shackleton expeditien, namely, Stevens, Joyce, Cepe, Wild. Richards, fiage, anil Jack, who found all well. "I regret to report that during the second year_of the expedition A. Pj Spencer Smith died of scurvy on This .Bar liei, on Mulch Mackintosh and V. 0. Havward perished on May 8, 1010, being overtaken "by a blizzard, which broke up the sea i«a over winch tliev were attempting to. cross from Tint Point to Cape Evans. "The Aurora left McMurdo Sound oni January lil, and should arrive at Wellington about February 10. The nextn of-kin of Smith is his mother, who re« sides at .">1 l'alace Street, Westminster, Ixmdon; that of Mackintosh being hi« wife, Ethel Indcns, of Bedford, Eug> land; and tliat of Hay ward, liis mother, living at Keklimville, Conn aught Harlesden, Loudon." A RETICENT MINISTER. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association. Received Feb. 5, 8.40 .p.m. MelboiJrne, Feb. 6. The Minister for the Xavv refuses to give any information regarding tlH| Aurora. - „ -
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