SECOND ECHELON.
MOBILISATION* ON JANUARY 12. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 29. The Second Echelon of the Special Military Force is to be mobilised in all camps throughout New Zealand on January 12. Officers posted to the echelon have been in camp since early November, and prospective non-com-missioned officers began their training at the beginning of November. It is stated that all the men concerned in the mobilisation of the Second Echelon will be notified individually in ample time for them to report on January 12. Men are still being recruited for this detachment and to provide a nucleus for the third, and there are vacancies in practically all units.
The secretary of the German-Ameri-can Bund, James Wlieeler Hill, lias been arrested on three counts of perjury, one of which i 6 based on his evidence at the trial of Fritz Kuhn, leader of the Bund, on a charge of theft. The information specifies 15 allegations of perjury. The triy.l will be held bn January 29.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 27, 30 December 1939, Page 2
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166SECOND ECHELON. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 27, 30 December 1939, Page 2
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