ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
VICTORIA CROSS.—The Cross can be awarJed more than once to a 6oldier. A second or subsequent award takes the form of a bar to the cross. There have Ueen double awards. There is a book giving the history of the Victoria Cross, which you may find in the Public Library. G.O.— You may have some ground for uneasiness, but your letter impugns the honesty of a number of men, and as regards the particular case you mention is libellous. WAGER, Manunui. —In Great Britain a lullion is a million of millions (1,000,000.000,000 i. In France and the T'nited States a thousand millions represent r billion 11,000.000,000).
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 244, 12 October 1917, Page 6
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