NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17060, 13 August 1917, Page 7

NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS.

NELSON, August 11. Cecil Eoss aged 17, was yesterday fatally, gored by a> bull on his father's farm at Upper Moutere. He was discovered shockingly mutilated, and died before the arrival of the doctor INVERCARGILL, August 11 A special meeting of the executive of Division League, representing 6000 members in Southland, resolved to emphatically protest against the Government's intention to reduce the military age for conscription to 19 years.

AUCKLAND, Auust 11. The executive of the Auckland Second Divison League assed a resolution emphatically protesting against any attempt to lower the age limit for military service, and will-urge-the central executive to use every effort to prevent the same.

DUNEDIN, August 11. A mass.meetidfe of citizens, the Mayor presiding, undeFthe auspices of the National Welfare Association, is to be held on Monday night 1o ' protest against the lowering of the age of recruits to 19.

ROTORUA, August 11. At the Magistrate's Court, Thomas Funicane and; John Patrick O'Neill were sentenced'to eleven months for seditious utterances.

MASTERTON, August 11. At a meeting of the executive of the Teachers' Institute, ib was decided this morning to enter a protest against the suggestion entertained in certain quarters that, while the primary male teachers had been, and will be, conscripted to the detriment of the State Scfcool system, other teachers in private or denominational schools shall be exempted. The Institute, desires to call the attention of parents to the menace to efficient education, which the continual conscription of the depleted ranks of male teachers will involve.

LONDON, August 19. British Salonika official.-Our cavalry repulsed a Bulgarian raid at Cucuruk. Wo bombed an aerodrome at Divunovo. There is a marked improvement in the health of the troops, ilie admissions to hospital being one-third less than in 1916, and the deaths from diseases nearly two-thirds less.'

GENEVA, August 10. The Karlsruhe Volksfreuud recognises that it is impossible for Germany to compel her enemis to pay indemnities or surrender territory. Tlie con+inuation of the war will lead to the complete exhaustion of all nations. If the result enabled Germany's enemies to demand an indemnity or territory, it ?s too terrible to contemplate. The pan-German aims are the sheerest madness, leading to inevitable ruin for conquered and conqueror. It is time the maj< ritj in the Reichstag urged peace by reconciliation.