REPATRIATION OF PRISONERS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1918, Page 5

REPATRIATION OF PRISONERS.

AGREEMENT WITH TURKEY. Received April 2ti, 12.5 a.m. London, April 24. Mr. J. F. Hope, in the House of Ornament, announced that an agreement had been ratified with Turkey, providing for the repatriation of all British invalid prisoners, irrespective of rank. A thou- j (and would be repatriated immediately. NO AMBASSADOR TO RUSSIA. • Received April 20, 12.5 a.m. London, April 25. Mr Balfour said Britain did not intend to appoint an ambassador to Russia. PARIS CONFERENCE RESOLUTION. London, April 24. Mr. Bonar Law, replying to question, said the Government's general policy regarding the Paris Conference resolutions was unchanged. They had not asked the United States to accept the resolu- ' tfon*. CLERGY ASKED TO ENLIST. London, April 24. The Bishop of London. speaking at /ower Hill, said the clergy did not wish to be excluded from the Man Power Bill He had sent r. letter to all the clergy in the diocese, up to 41 years, asking them to enlist voluntarily. DISTRESS AT IRISH ATTITUDE, London. April 24. English Catholics are deeply distressed at the unpatriotic attitude of Irishmen. The Catholic Bishop or Southward led a procession of three thousand, carrying a wlic of St. George, and invoked the Divint blessing upon the British arms.