DOMINIONS AND THE WAR

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13664, 5 September 1916, Page 4

DOMINIONS AND THE WAR

AUSTRALIANS FOE SERVICE ABIIOAD. iW 11 KG UL AT lONS. (Australian and N./,. ftil,]',. Assodrtioii.) SYDN.KY, September 't Au Order lias been issued staling that physically lil men employed on home service are reipiired for service lllirninl. FURTHER LIQUOR RESTRICTIONS, piiOTFrn.v! .soi.niKiiS. MiMrnliiin mill N.Z. f'ulilf .\-.sn.-i.-irinn). tfeplemlier I, A prnidainatinii prohibits |li<> nalrf of liipior fur roiisiiniplioii oil' Hie preniisef williin a live inih> radius of Liverpool camp.

AUSTRALIAN. ■■ REINFORCEMENTS.

DIFFICULTY OF TRANSPORT,

MELBOURNE, Sept. 2

In the House of Representatives, Mr Hughes said: "Our transport for troops is at present limited (to a, capacity of J;!,()U0 a monlh, and in order to obtain other transports we shall have to appeal to the British Admiralty, which will mean ten weeks before the ships will be available. Therefore taking a referendum will not nulan any delay in sending reinforcements."

IN EAST AFRICA, IMPORTANT ALLIES' SUCCESSES. ("Renter's Telegrams,") LONDON, Sept. 2. General Smpts reports: The enemy are in full retreat cast and west of the Uluguru mountains. A smaller parly, believed to include the German military headquarters and the provisional Government, has retired to the mountains, and we are pressing the pursuit, Ungoro was entered on August 2(1. It is the most important town hitherto occupied, and was recently the seat of the provisional Government -The enemy abandoned many sick and wounded in the hospital, also a large number of Fiiiropcaii women and children. The rapidity of our advance prevented the enemy from importantly damaging the central railway. in the High Commissioner's cable the additional information is given that "part of the German heavy artillery seems to have been destroyed and hidden. A naval gun was found destroyed."

KILLED IN FRANCE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) SYDNEY, Sept. 3. Lieutenant Kenneth A. Hell, son of Mr E. A. Bell, well known in New Zealand shipping cirelels, has been killed in France. FUTURE OF SOLDIERS AND DEPENDENTS, PEOPOSED ACTION IN NEW SOUTH WALES. SYDNEY,.Sept. 3. Mr Holman (State Premier), in opening the new premises for returned soldiers, said he proposed laying before Parliament proposals by which the Government would take charge of the claims of returned soldiers and securing by Statute the permanent establishment oil the whole of their futures and the futures of their widows ami orphans.