ARMAMENTS AND MEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 174, 10 July 1911, Page 1

ARMAMENTS AND MEN

ARREST OF A BALLET DANCER. [PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COFYRIGBTj. St. Petersburg, July 8. Madame Kresinka. a ballet dancer, has been arrested on a charge of espionage, documents seized pointing to the communication of important military secrets to Germany and Japan. JAPAN’S NEW DREAD- , NOUGHTS. (Received 10, 9.45 a.m.) Japan is building two Dreadnoughts of 27,500 tons each. AH four will he ready early in 1914. three with Parsons’ 64.000 horsepower turbines, the fourth with Curtis’s turbine. RETIREMENT OF SLR PHILLIP WATTS. London. July 9. Sir Phillip Watts, director of naval construction, has retired from the Admiralty. LORD ROBERTS’ CONGRATULATIONS. London. July 8. Lord Roberts telegraphed to Mr. Fisher. Prime Minister of Australia, as follows:—“I, together with the whole of the National Service League, send warmest congratulations at the commencement of the ; training of the youth of Australia under compulsory service, and wish your great Commonwealth all sue- 1 cess.” Mr. Fisher replied : —“All Australians will be pleased to read your telegram.” A USTR A LIAN AMMUNITION WAGGONS. (Received 10, 9.50 a.m.) Melbourne, July 10. The Minister of Defence has' placed an order for a hundred and : twenty-three ammunotion waggons with the British Government, at a > cost of between thirty and forty

■ thousand. BOER WAR BANNERS. Sydney, July 10. At the Military parade Lord ! ' Dudley presented the banners: i granted by King Edward to the In- ; fantry battalions for services in : the Boer war. N.Z. DEFENCE FORCES. APPOINTMENT OF INSTRUCTORS. [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.] i Wellington, July 9. The non-commissioned officers ; who recently arrived from England have been posted as follows:—Corporal F. H. Norris, Royal Horse Guards, assistant to brigade ser-geant-major-instructor to the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry. Sergeant V. C. S. Beer, 2nd Dragoon Guards, scrgcant-major-in-struetor to the 3rd (Auckland) Mounted Rifles. Sergeant C. L. Nicholls, sth Lancers, sergeant-major-instructor to ’ the 6th (Mauawatu) Mounted Rifles. Sergeant S. M ood, 3rd Dragoon Guards, sergeant-major-instructor to the sth Mounted Rifles (Otago Hussars). Sergeant J. E. Partridge. 3rd Battalion Worcester Regiment, posted to the Auckland district as sergeant -major instructor. Sergeant J. Shortal. 4th Battalion Leinster Regiment, posted to the Otago district as sergeant- , major-instructor. Staff Sergeant Major-Instructor ! Salt has been transferred from the Canterbury ) eomanry ( avalry to the Nelson Mounted Rifles. Staff Sergeant Major C. G. Davis transferred from the Auckland Mounted Rifles to the North Auckland Mounted Rifles. Whangarei. Lieutenant Ra<sam. of the head--iaff, ha< been promoted captain. The latest appointment to the - genera! staff is a Victoria Cross . man. Captain Grant. V.C.. of the Eighth Ghiirka*. Ort arrival in New Zealand he will probably go i to one of the districts ; which_one_