NORMAN ANGELL AND THE WAR.

A GERMAN ASBERTION.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

'Received Aug. 22,

1 a.m.)

■■-,:•■ NEW YORK, Aug. 21. A Berlin wireless message reports that Britain sentenced Noianan Angell to 1$ months' imprisonmenti'because ■ho.sdeclinocl to take part in the war. 'J^e-report is^not confirmed from, other sources. '.*'-.:.'•■■■■ -:;: ' •■•"•'•• .'. ■--t... r',

~ CNqrman Angell is an author,and; newspaper tnnnager. He 'is a son of the 'late Thomas Angell Lane, J.P., df SEJolbeach. T2iigland. Hie youth was passeH in America.: was general manager of the Paris Daily Mail from 1905, t<o -1914. Ho is best known by his book "The/Great Illusion?' .He is the only scout-Ttiaster holding a: 3Baden-Pbweil warrant for France.^ : ■'•":'/ .- .. ■■. ; > .-'■'''■:'■■■.',.