The Thames Star Our Motto: Fear of None; Favour to None; Justice to All. MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1915. NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS

Thames Star, Issue 14664, 19 April 1915, Page 4

The Thames Star Our Motto : Fear of None; Favour to None; Justice to All. MONDAY, APRIL 19, 1915. NOTES ON CURRENT TOPICS

NEW ZEALANDERS IN EGYPT. AND THEIR DESaWATION,. Every stenafp' of neFS from Egy.pt, is of iiiteresifi. of cour.se, to Nteiw Ze<akikteft, 'but juis£ at prasem* th^ie is more i"imw>ur'.*h ia.n» fapt. Fromi N'eAV Z&a.liani(iea«' letters it is evident tbalb at the end cif February the *mojpa were under. the imipreission that they wiould ■soon/be leavdnig; tihe liand of the Fhiaiioaiha, and Australian tile* receiv.ed yesterday show: thiait. -the AustiWifam ti-ooips, toci, had • tihe ide« thia;t they were about to be called for diuty elsewkete. The Sydney Siusn for. instiance. prlnlts a. letter from, o« ; e of the' Vicitiotriiaais in. Bgyipt in which the writer say» the .ta-cicupisi hadl juab receiivedi* Trond! tlhat they would 'b©' leaving; Elgyipt "in a yery sboiife t'hne.'.' "OKir deipiantui^© this time is 'diiiijkuim),' amd ro

rumour," he writes. "Alt presenit no one knoiw® our ne-xit desittmiaStioin. but it is believed tihaib we will go: tlm A^arsieiltes, proibaibly to a conioenitrar. tion oamp, though I have beeni tiold that wie ap' fromi, Maa'seil'les tlot. Plairisi and then to Ainiiens, wlhiich latter place wall be our basic." This note is qjuoitled hei'e cihieily boauisfe Hsugg!est«! the source o-f a sitory. tihiait has been; in eireoilaitioni lately <toi the effect: .that the New . Zeafendbrs are now in th© wvtth <xf France. lit may 'be tame 'that tihe colonials are to. bo used! in Fiiamice), but seeting 1 that, a coinsiideiiablfe force will be needeia for the r oiperaitiiom,® og.a.iniat Turkley it would -not 4 aippelar to "he ecooiplmjifcial to semd troops fi'oim, E^yipt to France' and _ replace liheimi by tnolojps fo^oim Fnaiiice iaofd 1 Grejaib HritSaim. TJie c*> | talblislhied facta are thus thait aiti the end of February the Alu^traliiamja aiid Xew uZedllaindeTrisi ex(peotedl shontily to> ibe-leaviimg E^yipt, but that they had no d'efinnie knowledge of their iee.--itin&tionl. •