SHORTAGE OF JURORS
BILL TO; DISPENSE WITH JURIES,
'Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
,Rec. 'May 17, 9.25 a.m.) LO'NiD'ONi, May 16. Owing to the shortage-'of. jurors-.the' Government has introduced] a Bill in the House of Lords dispensing with juries in England and Wales an certain cases during the war.
DOMINION FLAGS
PRESENTED TO EXETER
(Published in The Times.)
LONDON, May 16. Generals J, W, McCay and H._ E Hart, and Captain Oates, on behalf of their Governments, presented the -Aus? tralian,'New Zealand and African to Exeter in gratitude for its hospitality to overseas troops. . The flags were aeposited at the: Guildhall with .ommemoratiye tablets. " ~ The Mayor. Sir James Owen, mid the ancient city had. ™ wr ™ M ££ ■rifts of greater significance. Iney -v ie Imblemalc of the unity, of the nati >ns of the Empire.
MERCANTILE MARINE HEROES
PROVISION FOR DEPENDENTS.
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, May 15. Twelve thousand five hundred members of the mercantile marine have Si killed during the war and their dependents are receiving £170.000 a veur Hie Majesty has, approved of the award "of badges' to officers, seamen, firemen, and stewards who ; continue to go to sea-after bein S torpedoed mined. The badge ;*ronld: be.; m the form of ft torpedo, and will he worn on the left sleeve, :
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 113, 17 May 1918, Page 5
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