THE FUGITIVE SLACKER.
CANADA REFUSES HIM.
NO BOOM IN EMPTY SPACES.
London, Oct. 2!
The Canadian emigration offices in London are not assisting slackers to escape enlistment. They are told that Canada has no room for them at present.—Times and Sydney Sun Cables.
BRITISH RECRUITING
LORD DERBY’S APPEAL,
UNWILLING ASKED TO RECONSIDER.
London, Oct. 22
Lord Derby has addressed a personal appeal to every man of military age not marked for other war services, asking him to reconsider whether the reason he has hithero not enlisted holds good in the present crisis,
SHIRKERS SLINKING AWAY
APPLICATIONS FOR PASSPORTS
London, Oct. 21
Tim Evening News learns officially that there has been a pronounced increase of eligible? applications fo r passports to leave Britain.
BRITISH PRISONERS’ LETTERS
London, Oct. 21
Lord Robert Cecil said the Government were inquiring into the restrictions of Britisn prisoners in Turkey, who, he said, were not allowed to receive letctrs.
DEATH OF SIR A. NOBLE
London, Oct. 22 Ouituarv.—Sir Andrew Nobel.
FIGHTING IN FRaNCK
ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED.
London, Oct. 22.
The High Commissioner reports that the enemy attempted unsuccessfully an attack against salients east and "south-west of Fort Givenchy.
In the valley of Souchez the enemy’s attempted progress was easily repulsed. In "the Champagne country a very violent bombardment at three points was everywhere visibly effective. A curtain of repression tire was made on German trenches and batteries.
In the Argonne a mine explosion destroyed a German post. A group of Allies’ aeroplanes bombed a German aviation park at Ounel between Argonne and the Mense.
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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11405, 23 October 1915, Page 5
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258THE FUGITIVE SLACKER. Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XL, Issue 11405, 23 October 1915, Page 5
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