MISCELLANEOUS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1915, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

[Pebss Association.]

LONDON, May 25. The German Governor of Belgium ■has published a budget showing twenty-three million francs deficit foi 1915.% He states this must be made up later. . ■ A neutral correspondent or The Times found that practically the whole of the male population of Ger-m-any between the ages of nineteen and 'sixty., was on compulsory service for war purposes. The majority, are ■*working' men, who believe that it. is ; ? a- struggle for the existence of their I

MELBOURNE, May 2d. Tho Federal Executive considered the case of Second-Lieutenant Moore, who was found guilty om the second count only. The Executive approved of the sentence reducing Moore to the ranks and his dismissal from the defence forces.

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