HOLLAND.
EXCHANGING WAR PRISONERS. AGREEMENT BETWEEN BRITAIN AND GERMANY. Received Dec. 17, 7.55 p.m. The Hague, Dee. lfi. The British and German Governments have agreed to arrangements for exchanging and transporting wounded and invalid war prisoners. Three vessels will be employed, sailing under the Dutch and Red Cross flags. The first leaves Rotterdam for Boston on January 1, carrying 750 liberated British prisoners. It is expected the work of exchanging will tato four months. Germany was compelled to resort to substitutes in finance very early in the war, and two interesting samples of titer enemy's paper money have been received by Mr. W. A. Chote, of Wellington, from 6ne of his sons at the front. 'Chcy were given him by a starving German, found in a dugout, in return for a go»d square feed. One is a slip about 4% inches by 2%, of value 20 kopeks—roughly sd. This was issued at Posen, in Prussian Poland, and the elaborate letterpress upon it is partly in German and partly in Polish. The date of the note is April 17, Ifllrt. The other note is. however, of deeper interest. It is about four inches by two, and although its Wine is only one mark—ll %d—it is exquisitely printed in half a dozen colors upon high-class paper. The date of" this little note is August 12, IM4 proof in itself that the Germans had the. plates required for printing these warnotes ready before the war began. If you want the charm of sound white teeth, and a clean sweet breath, you should use "OZO" TOOTH POWDER. <H tins everywhere
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1917, Page 5
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266HOLLAND. Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1917, Page 5
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