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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 5

Milton suffered from the ''aeroplane st are" at tho .beginning; qi last week. Sbveral residents were positive that they ■j-a-w a machine .hovering- ' over the dis-. trict, ail'd evidently trying to locate'' Diniedin. The police S have had many similar scares on different occasions in tli_.«. Otago district. Thus Otic has now been cleared 'up by Constable Fox, of Milton.' A' local -resident, for his own amusement ■ and tliat of others, sent up a ■•paper balloon, which he -atferwards. .*■:!'•.' Hying high, ••and making good progress towards tho coast. -X fhei'e us ho <:'oubt tliat tliis was the ''aeroplane" that oausjed'-w> -m : uch alarm. Lord ; . Lalisdowno proposes '*prolitab_e conversations*"' with t,he Germans! llom' profitable — to the Huhs—wcrc the conversations ..'ith the Bolsheviki and the resulting Gcrm-an domination in Itussia, ix emphasised, in." an article in tiie ■■ June number of "Tlio KounaYTable," entitled, "Xho Ordeal.'' . This describes the rovi. val of the Prussian demand for *'a good German peaoe." Why thi present crisis 1? the sunreme test of thp British ConiniouwealtTi is oloqu'entjy explained. Th* growth' of A^mpriean war -rower,' theTrjsli! crisis, India's present' poHiical- posit^oij, .nui tlie German colonies in .tlie Pacific .ire dep-.t with fu-lly, iif thiß number. The avlfic.e -entitled .".Russia, Germany, and Asia*, shows how the .reia.lt >*f the pi*o-. Milt struggle will affect Hie whole Ka«t, with its lure to Germany of India and China-.' Canada's attitude with regard to liguor, women, titles, profiteering and political patronage, and tho. operations of conscription in Quebec are vividly de. picted. "The , Round Table" is a British paper for .vßritif.h people; therefore you should support it. Frojn all Booksellers, or" a free copy of 4' 'back uisii© wi V ue Kent on application to "The Hound Table." Box i.77, G.P.0., Wellington.*