ARMANENTS AND MEN.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 275, 9 November 1911, Page 5

ARMANENTS AND MEN.

U.S. NAVY. TORPEDO SQUADRON CRUISE. [PRESS ASSOCIATION 01-YIiIGIIT.] Washington. Nov.' S. Owing to probable stormy weather the cruise of the first and second divisions of the Pacific torpedo squadron to Hawaii has been abandoned. THIv CONSCRIPTION BOGEY. London, Nov. 8. Sir George Reid, in a letter to the newspapers, contradicts a pamphlet circulated with the intention of discouraging emigrants to Australia and New Zealand by alleging that conscription was enforced on all males between the- ages of 12 and 55. Sir George Reid explains the general principles of the defence schemes ami states that it is supremely ridiculous to describe them as conscription.

N.Z. GENERAL ST.U-F OFFICERS

Wellington. Nov. 8

The- passengers from Sydney by the Muana. which arrived at Wellington yesterday afterncem. included Captain J. i). Grant. V.C.. late of the Sth Gurkha Rifles, India, who has cmne to the* Dominion as general staff officer in connection with the- compulsory military training scheme. Captain Grant lias seen thirteen years’ service in India, being latterly dationed at Jhelum as brigade major. I'e has a distingnisr-d record as an -irmy officer, having received th** i eward of th.e Victi ria Cross for gallant conduct in hading a storming party at Gyuntse. Thibet, in 1 90 i. He lias come direct from India via A ;<i rn a. and is aceompanit-d by Mi ". < Until ami family.