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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 174, 22 July 1916, Page 5

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TRICKED BRITISH PAHTT. I ' FERPETBATOB SHOT. V' (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received A.50 p.m.) LONDON, July 21. A soldier writing home says that a Prussian ofticer and a number of Germans approached the British holding up their hands. The officer then threw his helmet containing a. bomb at the British officer's feet. - The British officer was killed and three men were wounded. The Prussian officer was shot. DRINKING IN WAR TIME, CANCELLING OF LICENSES URGED IN ENGLAND. (Australian and S.Z., Cable Association.) LONDON, July 21. A memorial, which has been extensively signed by distinguished men and women not connected with temperance bodies, urges the Government to withdraw all drink licenses during the period of the war.- • - . .. THE N.S.W. EXPERIMENT. SYDNEY, July 21. A proclamation has been gazetted that all hotels are 'v> be closed at six o'clock as from to-nigkt. BRITAIN'S SOARING BILL. REASON FOR INCREASES. (Heuter's Telegrams.) LONDON, July 21. In the House of Commons, Mr E. McKenna (Chancellor of the Exchequer), in reply to questions, said the rise in the rate of national expenditure during the' put seven weeks had been due, firstly, to the Government's purchases of American securities; secondly, to the rate at which the advances to the Allies and the Dominions had been drawn upon. Hβ was hopeful that the.-eq»en4jtnie would decline.