NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1918, Page 6

NEWS FROM ALL PARTS

THE PREMIER’S VAST TASK. “I have terrible tasks on niy shoulders. I have a task which is almost more than man can hoar. 1 ask you, whatever you may led, whatever you . may think —I, .the chief Councillor of the Clown and the nation —in the hour of the nation’s greatest peiplcx.'ty, ask for your help, for your sympathy, aye, with reverence, 1 say, for your p.avers.” —Mr Lloyd George. A TRAITOR TRAPPED. Captain Henkes, an officer of Herman descent, who was dismissed from the U.S. Army, and sentence! to 25 years’ imprisonment with hard labour for tendering- his resignation, was taken back to the United States from France, owing to his insistent demands for permission to resign. On his arrival he asked leave to visit his wife, which was refused, Lutf lie was allowed to telephone to certain persons. The .wire was tapped,' and Henkes was heard to tell his wife to burn his private papers, but before his wife could carry out this order the paper? wer* seized. These papers proved that Henkes hud not onlv been in communication with Count Bernstorff, late German Am - ba.f.sador, bufc had also contributed to German, Austrian and Turkish funds, and had been an active propagandist. Henkes entered ’he United States Army at the time of {he Spanish-American war‘as a private. He was born in lowa,, bis father being Imm in Germany. His mother ’was of German parentage, and was of American birth. the giddy limit. “I think the only time I lost my temper in Germany was: when a seemingly reasonable and polite gentleman. . • in 1016 remarked how splendid it was that Germany had nearly two null ion prisoners of 'war, and that these would go back to their homes imbued with an-in-tense admiration of German h ul-t'w,;'-—J, W. Ggvnnl flat- United Cfetes Ambassador in Berlin).