BASTILLE DAY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 10027, 19 July 1918, Page 6

BASTILLE DAY

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MESSAGE FROM U.S.A. TO FRANCE. Australian and NZ. Cable Association, (Received July 18, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 16There was nation-wide observation of Bastille Day. The Tricolour was flown from all public buildings. President Wilson sent the following message to President-Poincare: "The Fourteenth of July, like the Fourth of July, has taken on a new significance throughout the whole world. We celebrate the Fourteenth as France celebrated the i'ourth. The war is being fought to save ourselves from intolerable things, also to save mankind." Mr N. D. Baker, Secretary for War, sent a statement to France: "We were comrades at the beginning of our democratic careers.' Frarice and the United States are again brothers-in-arms in defence of Democracy." ■-■■-■• SUCCESS OF BRITISH WAR BQ.DB Renter's Telegrams. (Received July IS, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 16. When the War, Loan Bill was taken in committee in the House of Commons, Mr Bcnar Law said that no new operations would be necessary to meet the next nine months,'as the war honds organisation had succeeded to a greater extent even than was anticipated. ALLESZQ T3EA3HERY THE MALVY TRIAL. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received" 'July' 18, 5.5 p.m.) PARIS, July 17. The Senate, sitting as a High Court of Justice, opened the Malvy trialThe indictment charges Malvy with having informed the enemy of all the French military and diplomatic plans, especially the Chemin des Dames offensive. THE KONiNGES BEB3STE SINKING DUE TO A TORPEDO. Australian and X.Z. Cable Association (Received July 18, 5.5 p.m.) AM3TEfd>AM, July 17. The chairman of the Naval Court, who is investigating the sinking of the Koningen Kegeutes, said the evidence proved that the vessel was torpedoed. &R!TI3i'SHIP3UILBINS 'A NEW AND CHEAPER PROCESS. ■ australian and N.Z. Cable, Association I .{Received.. July ,18, ,5.5,,p.m.) ~...,.- LONL-ON, July 16. I The first steel vessel with plates | electrically welded instead of riveted has been launched at air English port. ■lt is estimated that welding saves %\i per cent-of'tane and labour. AIR MINISTRY'S REPORT GERMAN TOWNS RAIDED. Australian and N.Z rrhle Association _/ LONDON, July 16. The Air Ministry reports: Our aviators successfully bombed railway sidings and sheds at' Offenburg', and an ae.'odroine. Good bursts were observed. They also attacked the railway and sidings at. Thionville. . Several bursts were observed on the railway, a large fire was started, and there were several heavy explosions.- Ail our machines returned. QUENTIN ROOSLVILL KILLED IN FRANCE., Australian and" N. 7" "■ *-•»" \"wiation PARIS. July 17. Lieutenant Quentin Roosevelt was killed in the fighting in France: "Quentin, the youngest son of Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of U.S.A., 19 years old, was," says Lawrence F. ; Abbott in "Munsey's Magazine" for December, 1917, "just completing his • sophomore year at Harvard when this country declared war on Germany. Ho | telegraphed his mother that he was ; leaving college to come to New York |to enlist. He came on from Boston ! and enlisted as a private in the Signal ; Corps and was later transferred to the i aviation service at Mineola, and provjed so efficient that he was selected as j one of the first twelve American a-via-I tors to go to the front in France. He j Has what is known as 'air sense'—for | the aviator, like the poet, is horn, j not made, and the work of the avia- ! tion schools is to train and cultivate \ the born flyer. During a recent visit i at Sagamore Hill I asked father and mother if they did. not feel • it a special hardshin in his-eflfip that at so early an age he should have to give up his education and mnny of his associations at Harvard, which he eonld never renew, even if fhe war leaves him unscathed. They Doth replied that i they were particularly glad that on his j own initiatve he had taken exactly j the course which has put him in one of the most exacting and dangerous j branches of the service. 'I would not have stopped him if I could,' added j Mr Roosevelt, 'and I-could-not have stopped him if I would. Moreover, the more American bovs of from 19 to 21 [join the Army the better it is for the '. countrv. To tnkp them out of our civil lit j entails the smallest economic ! lo«> upon the ooun+ry. and hecu'e of |th«ir elasticity and great powers of recuperation they are its greatest miltary asset.' "

"mm -t rous?." rfl'E BUVAL EXECUTED FOR TREASON Renter'" ~~'- '■• P'T? T S .Tvly 17. Duval, who was found anility of Jreason, by cominvnieati"!.: Hth the enemy, has been executed.. ~»