BEFORE COMPULSION.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 235, 2 October 1916, Page 6

BEFORE COMPULSION.

ORDER OF ENROLMENT. <Anatral___i ami X-Z. Cable Associaflotu)(Received 11.30 a_n.) SYDNEY, this day. Mr. Hughes (Federal Prime Minister) states that men are not to be enlisted according to their alphabetical order, but the names only will be called in that order for convenience of registration. 'WENTS" AND "SENTS" TO BE KEPT APART. (Australian and X-Z. Cable Association.) (Received 11-30 a.m.) | MELBOURNE, this day. Mr. Pearce has announced that conscript camps will be kept distinct from those of voluntary recruits. NEW AMERICAN LOAN. MORGAN GOES TO EUROPE. (Beuter's Telegrams.) (Received 13.30 a.m.) J NEW YORK, October L | Mr. J. P. Morgan, jun., has gone to j London, presumably to arange for the new 250.000,000 dollar loan to the Allies. | NEUTRALS FIGHTING. | A GERMAN WHINE. (Received 11.45 a-m.) NEW YORK, October I. Inspired German organs, commenting on the death of the American aviator Rockwell on the French front, vehemently protests against America's alleged breach of neutrality in allowing her citizens to enlist and against Gcrmanv.

bulgapja;s yoke. (Anstralian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) AMSTEBOAM, October 1. A German daily newspaper is shortly to be established at SofiaGERMANY'S LATEST FOE. COW DECLARES WAR. LONDON, September 25. A distracted cow charged and smashed up a German aeroplane which was forced to land near Lutzk, on the Russian front. The aviator was taken prisoner. OVER-EAGER TROOPS. •ONCE WE GET AT "EM." LONDON, September 25. Mr. Beach Thomas, tbe "Daily 3lail" representative at British headquarters on the western front, writes:— "The famous regiments of the New Army, and of Territorials and overseas Dominions troops, equally participated in the victory at Lesboeufs and Morval. It was a glorious advance, and the over-eagerness of the troops was the only fault, this entailing heavy losses amon" some of the units. The battlefield was an undulating ridge interspersed with shell-holes, and a gridiron of trenches and i battered villages. The crucial spot was a position flanking Barleux Wood, bristling with machine guns and defending Combles. But the British infantry unearthed the ogres from their dens. The Germans fled or surrendered. A victorious Tommy told mc: Tt's always all right once the artillery lifts and we get at 'em.'"