LATEST WAR NEWS
PROPOSED OPENING OF AMERICAN PORTS
TO ALL ALLIED AVARSIIIPS
(Keeeived 14. 3.25 p.m.) W ashington. I‘eb. 'l3.
Senator Saul-burx rxai’d a. ievolution to open the United States ports to all Allied warships, bueh a step, he suggested, would enable the United States, without declaring war. lo assist in the preiention of violations of rights at sea be giving assistance to those at present engaged m preventing those vioia Hons. It i- understo< <1 ilia, l’iesi_ dent WiDon enlirelv appiove'- of rhe resolution, which has been referred to the Foreiun Allah’* Committee- __ Senator Stone and oilier* in.* l>e lieved to be opposed to it. MILITARY APPEAL BOARD. Dunedin, Feb. 14. At the sitting of ths Alilitary Service Board, the case of A. C. H. Button, clergyman, of Lumsden, for whom the Primate appealed, was called. The chairman said that this adjourned case was one in which it was stated that the Alinister of Defence had given an exemption certificate, but it had not come to hand. The certificate had now been received, and the Board granted conditional exemption.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 354, 14 February 1917, Page 6
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