GENERAL WAR CABLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4966, 5 September 1918, Page 5

GENERAL WAR CABLES.

NEW OFFICE FOR lAN HAMILTON.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received Sept. 4. 9.5 p.m.) LONDON. Sept. 3. Sir lan Hamilton has been appointed Lieutenant cf the Tower oi London.

SIR R, BORDEN ON THE LABOR, PROBLEM.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Associ&tl.va (Received Sent. 4. 9.35 p.m.) OTTAWA. Sept. 3. Sir R. Borden, speaking at the Labor Day demonstration at Toronto, said: Canady has sent 227.000 working men overseas. The formation of a Board on which hot]} Labor and employers would be represented would, lie believed, constitute tie solution of the labor problem of tie dominion. U.S. HUGE WAR EXPENDITURE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received Sept. 4. 9.35 p.m.) WASHINGTON. Sept. 3. The United States war expenditure for August exceeded 340,000.000 dollars on the American front. German machine-gunners are using qrmour-piereing bullets against tie British tanks which Americans are operating. The Germans regard anti-tank warfare as similar to anticavalrv warfare.

FURTHER AWARDS TO NEW ZEALANDERS. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Renter’s (Received Sent. 4. 7.20 p.m.) LONDON. Sept, 3. Bars to distinguished conduct medals have been awarded to tie following New Zealanders :—Battery-Sergeant-Major J. Riddeit. Field Artillery ; Sergeant McMurray. Rifle Brigade. Twenty-one New Zealanders have been awarded distinguished conduct medals.