SURCEQN-CENERAL'S DEATH.

Evening Star, Issue 16352, 19 February 1917, Page 6

SURCEQN-CENERAL'S DEATH.

LONDON, February 13. (Biwivcd February 19, ai 5.55 a.m.) fcir Benjamin Franklin, tjuryeon General of His Majesty's fom-s. is dead, in lii.s 75 rd vcv.r.

EAST FRONT:

Atrfitrnliaii and N.Z. Cabb Association and

Ketifr. Admiralty per Wireless Press.

I,ON DUX, February 13. Itu.v.siaii official: The Germans, clad in white overalls, look the oflYn.-Jve t'outhwi'4 of Dviusk, ;uni penetrated our front line, but w.> immediately th-ew them out. We surpris-Ml and captured a fortilied height .smith westward of Okua.

ANOTHER DRAFT GOING

eleven more men are to leave Dunedin to-mornuv for Trentham to help to mak"? up the -hurt-age in the 26th Reinforcementi.

PRESENTATION OF HONORS,

Sir James Allen, Minister of Defence, ivas to reach Dinicdin by the first express this afternoon. Ho is to present the D.U.M. to Sergeant-major Little and the Military Medal to Private Church at a parade of veterans,' Territorials, Senior Cadets, and the National Reserve, to be held at the Kensington Hall at 7.30 p.m. to-morrow. Trie public are invited to be present in the gallery. On Wednesday the Minister stays at Oamaru, on his journey north, to present the Military M«3a! won by Private. Kennedy. As Private KennedV i.s dead, the medal will i*> given to his'father.

MAJOR HICKEY AND CAPTAIN

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