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Accidental Mobilisation (Front "The Dominion,” November 30, 1912.) Extraordinary scenes occurred at Nancy, France, in connection with the mobilisation mistake. General Blion, Brigadier of Gendarmies, who lias been arrested, believing that a telegram was an orrler to mobilise, opened his scaled mobilisation instructions. The church bells were rung and the town crier roused live thousand men from their beds. Fosters were hastily pasted on walls summoning all men between 25 and 45 years of age to join the colours. The reservists left their weeping wives and hastened to headquarters. It was five hours before the error was discoverer!. Meanwhile military telegraphists had taken possession of the jiost offices. Sections had marched to protect the railways, and patrols had hastened to the frontier.
Excellent progress is being made by Messrs. Sanders Brothers, contractors for the Wellington Opera House Company’s new theatre in Manners Street East. The building has already been outlined by trenches for the foundations. On the eastern side of the block the excavators came upon the brick culvert which encloses the stream that flows from Folhill Gully across Te Aro to the harbour.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 54, 27 November 1937, Page 10
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18725 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 54, 27 November 1937, Page 10
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