ECHOES OF THE WAR

Otago Witness, Issue 3467, 24 August 1920, Page 39

ECHOES OF THE WAR

LETTER BY GROWN PRINCE. PARIS, August 14. lie Matin publishes a letter wrtiten bV the Crown Prince to the Kaiser in July, 1917, strongly urging peace. The Prince declared that the spirit of the German people was deplorable. "If peace does not come before the end of the year," he says>. "revolution is imminent. It* is no longer a question of victory, but. of the life of the German people. Our dynasty Is in danger. That is a_great misfortune, but nothing compared with the danger which 8 threatening Germany," WASTEFUL EXPENDITURE. LONDON, August 14. A report on the public accounts, taining glaring examples of prodigious waste, gives instances in connectiort with, the erection o! hutments which verge on being scandals. Much money was als& | spent in the Ministry of Information with* out any attempt at securing Treasury apV proval. The commissioners found that there wa?f much unnecessary loss through remiss ad> ministration. Seven hundred thousand 1 pounds were advanced to the Y.M.0.A., of which £IOO,OOO was repaid. It was even'" tually decided that the balance should be treated as a, War Office grant in respect of such services as education. The Food Production Department made; a loss of £4,000,000 on various schemes' which were over-optimistically under* taken. THE LOST LEGION. LONDON, August Pk - A-': The King contemplates the erection of a memorial on Gallipoli to the lost legiogt. of Norfolks which mysteriously disapV, peared. A majority of the men worked on the Royal estates at Sandringham. - / UNEMPLOYED EX-SERVICE MEN.. ) LONDON, August 17. . ' His Majesty has sent a letter to Lord Lieutenants, Lord Mayors, and Lord Prq* Yosts emphasising that he is anxious That' every effort should be made to support '.'■[ Lord Haig's appeal on behalf of unemployed ex-service men, and requesting the recipi-. ents to co-operate whole-heartedly to efface % what might be regarded as a" reflection on the fair name of our nation. ; MONUMENT OF THE DEAD. * T PARIS, August 18." Arrangements are progressing for a v : grand monument to the Allied dead in thd ', Artois province, where thousands oji .■ Frenchmen, Britishers, and Australasians laid down their lives. The site is a, hill- 1 §j top," and a bell-tower will overtop a dome'* 1 in which a shrine or lantern of the deaq '"■. will be visible for miles. , Y -