Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1940, Page 4

Twenty-Five Years Ago

• King Constantine of Greece, in | on audience toith "The Times” t correspondent, warmly resented f the Allied suspicions regarding • Greece. I He declared it an insult to him I to suspect treachery. | The Grecian commander (Geni eral Pallis) wet to Salonika to f confer with General Sarrail, who 4 was in command of the Entente | troops. ? German officers were discussing | a combined German and Bulgar- • ian attack on the Allies in Macet donia. ! It-was reported that the Gerf mans loere planning to invade | Egypt in the spring with 2,000,000 • Turkish troops. | Ford’s peace ship, the Arc of | Peace, was to visit Norway, where f peace meetings were to be per- | mitted. ; The Pope said: “Such peace as, f we suggested in our original let--4 ter to the Powers should be based i on the exchange of ideas setting f forth the completeness and clear- | ness of the belligerents’ aspiraf t ions, eliminating those unjust. | “It is absolutely necessary that l each group should cede some • points and renounce others, mak- | ing concessions with good grace, i even if it costs some sacrifice, in f order not -to assume be/ore God l and man the enormous > responi sibility of a terrible slaughter.” ? Under the New Zealand War | Regulations Act, 1914 regulations " were gazetted making it a pun-

“ ishable offence for any person to „ bring, or send, or cause to be V brought or sent any intoxicating V liquor into a militarjj camp.