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Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1919, Page 5

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'BRITISH ARMY ON THE RHINE. ONLY TEN DIVISIONS. London, March 4. The House of Commons agreed to the army vote. Replying in the debate, Mr Churchill said that the War Office estimates covered practically the half year just closed. The British army on the Rhine amounted to ten divisions.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. In a noteworthy passage in his sneech on the army estimates Mr Churchill, pleading for a speedy peace, said that Germany was starving and dangerously near the collapse of her social and national life under pressure of hunger and malnutrition. To delay peace indefinitely would be to run the risk of having nobody to settle with and another great part of the world would sink into Bolshevist anarchy. Once Germany had signed the peace terms food and raw material could be imported immediately. It was repugnant to us to use the weapon of starvation a moment longer than was necessary to secure just terms.

OFFICIAL FAREWELL OF OVERSEAS TROOPS. London, March 3. The Morning Post deplores that the Australians, New Zealanders and Canadians are going home wfthout an official farewell. The Government should arrange a ceremonial leave-taking which would express ' what England feels regarding tier kinsfolk. Instead, our friends are drifting away in silence. If the pre-occupied Government cannot attend to this, let them instantly create a Ministry of Courtesy.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.