MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
English solicitors have been permitted to advance their fees, barristers by 20 per cent., and doctors of law by 50 per cent. The Red Cross has offered the Dominion societies half a million sterling for the treatment of wounded and general sickness “The Times” fund closed at £16,219,390, comprising the bulk of the’£l9,ooo,000 raised. The British Red Cross War Society is handing over £1,350,000 to nursing institutions on condition that priority is given to dependents of combatants. The War Office’states apart from aviators, a few invalids and the naval prisoners concerned in the Scapa sinkings practically all the German prisoners have left the United Kingdom. A total of 6720 Turks and 27 Germans were repat. riated from Egypt, Salonika and Malta a fortnight ago. Influenza has, reappeared in Paris and a number of deaths are reported.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 16, 2 January 1920, Page 5
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138MISCELLANEOUS CABLES. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 16, 2 January 1920, Page 5
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