CONVOY SYSTEM.

Evening Star, Issue 16625, 7 January 1918, Page 5

CONVOY SYSTEM.

ELUDING THE SUBMARINES. LONDON, January 6. (Received January 7, at 8.40 a.m.) Sir G. Chiozza Money, M.P., in an interview in the 'Pall Mall Gazette,' Bays that the convoy system is proving a magnificent success, and is circumventing tlio submarines. Out of 176 homeward-bound convoys, comprising 2,430 ships, with 17,500,000 tons of cargo, the losses were only 1£ per cent. PORT CHALMERS SOLDIER DECORATED. Private Alf Driver, of Port Chalmers, whoso name appeared in the list of New Year military decorations, left Now Zealand with his brother Tom" in the Second Reinforcements. Tom returned to New Zealand invalided from Gallipoli, but Alf remained in the thick of it until ordered backto Egypt. In Egypt he was offered " stripes " in the instructional department, but declined promotion, preferring to remain " amongst the boys as one of themselves." The trying work in the East was followed by more strenuous duty in France. In a recent letter to his people at Port Chalmers he said that he had been mentioned in despatches for a stiff bit of work on the communication lines. Ho* was on " Headquarters " at the time, and more was heard of the matter until his name appeared in the list of Now Year honors. Private Driver is a member of a well-known Port Chalmers family, and much pleasure was expressod when it was seen that his dauntless courage and conspicuous bravery on the field of battle bad been officially recognised.

Mr W. J. Mulrooney to-day received cable advice that his son, Private John P. Mulrooney, had been admitted to the New Zealand General Hospital at Brock - enhurst. He is suffering from a severe gunshot wound in the left leg.