GENERAL ITEMS

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13245, 29 July 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

TO PROTECT OUR SOLDIERS. USE OK ARMOER IRGER. I CON AN DOYLE'S ADVOCACY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received July 28, 8.50 p.m. LONDON, July 28. Mr (Junan Doyle strongly advocates the addition of body armour to stop machine gun bullets during the rush over No Man's Land. A steel shield

seven-sixteenths id' an inch will stop a point-blank bullet. A sheet two feet broad and three feel deep would weigh .'500), hut it would only need to be carried a few hundred yards. If the first line of siormers carried shields, steel helmets and a bag of bombs they could clear out the enemy machine guns. Some of tin' attackers would be hit in the arms and legs, and high explosives would claim some victims, but many casualties would he saved. Sheets of steel cut to a size, furnished with a double thong for an arm grip, would suffice; they could be turned in any direction so as to form a screen for snipers or wounded. AROUND VERDUN. VIOLENT CANNONADE AT FLEIRY. Received July 28, 8.:5 a p.m. PARIS, July 28. A communique reports that, the cannonade continues along almost the whole front, and is particularly violent at Fleury, Fuinin Wood and Chenois ; Wood. ENEMY FINANCE. GERMAN ASSISTANCE FOR TI'RKEY. i DEPRECIATED EXCHEQUER BONDS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received July 28, 8.15 p.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 28. Official reports slate that Turkey is obtaining a further advance of £2,000, 000 from Germany in the shape of depreciated exchequer bonds, on which e will base a fresh issue of paper money. This transaction illustrates the methods of the enemy finance. GERMAN AIR RAID. FRENCH TOWN BOMBED, (Reuter's Telegrams.) Received July 28, 8.30 p.m. PARIS, July 28. Three German aviators bombed Crespy en Valois, killing a girl and wounding three: women. UNIVERSAL SERVICE. NEW ZEALAND'S LEAD. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received July 28, 10.30 p.m. SYDNEY, July 28. Canon Garland, speaking at a universal service meeting, asked what objection there could be to conscription. Every Australian lived in a daily atmosphere of compulsion. "New Zealand," he said, "both in time and extent was » far more advanced than Australia in socialistic legislation, yet New Zeland led Australia in the adoption of universal service." LABOURITE'S ALLEGATIONS. SCENE IN SOUTH AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received July 28, 10.30 p.m. ADELAIDE, July 28. There was a heated scene in the Assembly when a Labour member read a document alleging that when Mr Peake, the Leader of the Opposition was defeated at last election, Mr McDonald, the member for Alexandra asked £IOOO for resigning his seat in favour of Peake, but utlimately agreed to accept £250 per annum for three years and certain o«t-of-pocket expenses. The Liberals strengly resented the allegation. THE MILITARY CROSS. AWARDED TO' DECEASED JOCKEY r \ ■■ Received July 29, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, July 28. Stanley Wootton, the ex-Australian jockey, has -died of weonds. -He-waa • •varied t4» liiftMtfJ Ctqm.