FOUR TONS OF IRON.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11685, 29 April 1916, Page 1

FOUR TONS OF IRON.

NAILIG GETS ANNOYING. PROFESSOR'S PERTINENT PROTEST. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (ReceiTcd April 29, 10.45 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, April 27. Professor Bazaurek, a weft-known figure in Stuttgart, protests against the nailing of images in Germany, such as that of Field-Marshal von Hindenburg in Berlin, Admiral von Tirpitz at Wilhelmshaven, Muller, of the EmderL, at Weddigen, and his ship at Kiel, The doors of town halls and churches havo teen hammered with memorials in nails in countless places, in the shape of huge iron crosses, and von Hindenburg's statue at Berlin contains four tons of iron. Professor Pazaurek protests against this disfigurement of public gardens and squares. IMMIGRATION. (Received April 29, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 29. Sir Rider Haggard, who was entertained at luncheon by the Colonial Institute, referred to the urgent necessity for land settlement to keep the Empire intact. He appealed to Australia to, get her share of immigrants after tho war and prevent the United States mopping them up.