ARMAMENTS AND MEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 84, 21 March 1911, Page 1

ARMAMENTS AND MEN

ESPONIAGE IN GERMANY.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPY7IGHT. J

(Received 21, 8.0 a.m.) Berlin, Mar. 20. Three Germans, including a woman, were arrested at Bremen in connection with the Hamburg ' espionage case. It is reported the arrests have totalled twenty. Several have already been released.

AN ENGLISHMAN ESCAPES. (Received 21, 9.40 a.m.) Berlin, Mar. 20. The second Englishman suspected of Hamburg espionage has disappeared. The police stated they arrested an Englishman who had bribed shipbuilding workmen to furnish confidential information of certain types of warships. Two of the Germans arrested are workmen and the others are clerks. RECORD HEAVY GUN SHOOTING. (Received 21, 9.30 a.m.) Melbourne, Mar. 21.

At the annual naval gun-layers’ test petty officer Moody, of the Powerful, placed six shots on an eight foot target, at a range of 2000 yards, in thirty-six seconds, the world’s record.

N.Z. TRAINING SCHEME.

A RACE CLUB’S OFFER. *

[per press association.]

Wellington, Mar. 20.

The stewards of the Wairarapa Racing Club have written General Godley stating that with a desire to show their sympathy with the defence training scheme, they will grant the use of their grounds and furniture to a military camp free of charge.

General Godley has replied thanking the stewards for their courtesy and generosity, and expressing the great indebtedness which all ranks of the Defence Force owed them for their kindness and sympathy.

THE TAUHERENIkAU CAMP.

LORD ISLINGTON’S APPRE-

CIATION.

Lord Islington’s private secretary has written to General Godley as follows: —I am instructed by the Governor to convey to you and ask you to transmit to Colonel Herd and the officers and non-commis-sioned officers under his command at the camp of instruction at Tauherenikau an expression of His Excellency’s high appreciation of the military efficiency displayed by all ranks during his visit to the camp on Saturday. His Excellency was greatly impressed by the admirable manner in which the attack was delivered during the morning proceedings, also the smart and efficient manner in which both the company and troop drill were performed in the afternoon. His Excellency is sure all who witnessed the day’s proceedings must, with him, have realised that so high a standard can oly have been attained by the most careful training and assiduous application in camp during the past two months. He begs to congratulate all ranks on the splendid effort being displayed to start the defence scheme on such lines of high military efficiency.” N.Z. STAFF CORPS. SENIORITY LIST OF OFFICERS Wellington, Mar. 21. The following is the seniority list of the new officers and N.C.O.’s of the N.Z. staff corps ana permanent staff who lately passed out from Featherstone. They are on probation for a period of six months from the date on which they first joined the camp. Their seniority has been determined mainly by the result of examinations held in camp, but the age of previous service and former seniority has also been taken into consideration and allowances have been made for officers who did not have the opportunity of being Sn camp for the whole period. The <new N.C.O.’s take rank next to old instructional staffs.

Commissioned Officers: Brown, Finnis, Midding, Melville, Andrews, Powles, Morrison, Mathews, Knutsford, Bosworth, Polson, Lampen, Thornton, Glendining, Fraser, Hudson, Burgess, Marton, King, Turnell, Blair, Hume, Hay, Skelly, Hawkins, Avery, Nicholls, Thoms, Richardson, Robinson, Kelsall, Henderson, Burns, Banks, Wheeler, Garland, Braddell, Dyer, Wood, Cardale, and Rassan. Non-commissionea officers: O’Sullivan, Tingey, Mooney, Stedman, Ivimey, Woodward, Right, Jameson, Muir, Bond, Walker, Salt, Moncrieff, Seal, McGowan, Stevenson, Connolly, Roberts, Hatt, Ohara, Davis, R. Morrison, Steel, McHardy, West, Edwards, Alexander, Cuff, Olney, Hobbs, Manners, Brighting, Dunham, Glanville, Lyons, Thatcher, Turner, -Ritzma, Gillett, Donaldson, Davis, C. Ballinger, Mair, Collins, Corkill, Mahoney, Webb, Small, and Notley.