In the course of the letter she states that the commanding officers are full of gratitude to the women of the Empire for their splendid help in keeping the sailors warm.
Another parcel of mufflers, several of which were made by the children of Maori Hill, has been despatched for the comfort of the sailors.
• The ladies in Maori Hill who are working on behalf of the Lady Liverpool Fund are very grateful to the residents for donations of goods for the New Zealand soldiers at the front.
It is hoped that another lot of goods will be sent away in August.
Contributions of wool, balaclavas, socks, mittens, handkerchiefs, and comforts will be gratefully received by Mrs Barton (the manse), Mesdames Bett, Nevill (Bishopsgrove), Gibson (Woodhaugh), Robertson, and Miss Henderson (Leith Valley).
• Amsterdam: The German Humanity League has issued the following manifesto: - ''Friends in Europe and America, - No State coveted our land or menaced German integrity; our ships were welcomed on every ocean; our citizens enjoyed the fullest civil rights throughout the world; our commerce was increasing yearly; and the German flag was respected everywhere. Today it is the badge of infamy. To their last hours the Kaiser, von Tirpitz, and Bethmann Hollweg will carry the brand of shame for the unparelleled ruin they have brought and the misery into which they have plunged the world by their barbarism by land and sea. We appeal to democratic Saxons, Bavarians, Hanoverians, and Wurtembergers to join those who realise the unspeakable crime of unprovoked war, and to persevere in demanding the evacuation of Brabant, Flanders, and Luxemburg, and the cessation of bloody outrage in Alsace and Lorraine.''
• Washington: Germans fomented a strike at the Remington Arms Company at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The United States Government has ordered an investigation into German plotting throughout the United States, as it is known that extensive industrial disturbances are designed to interfere with the preparations of munitions for the Allies.
The Times Washington correspondent says that public irritation is growing on account of the activities of German spies and their agents. The New York Times asserts that German spies have even penetrated the State Department.
• The pathetic incident in connection with the home-coming of the wounded soldiers by the Willochra was related to a Wairarapa Daily Times representative by a Wellington lady.
About a week or so previous to the arrival of the Willochra, she had been informed that her wounded son was on board.
She prepared a room and bed for him, and obtained a next-of-kin permit to get aboard the vessel. On the very day the Willochra arrived in Wellington she received a parcel and a letter.
They were from a friend of her son, who was at the Dardanelles.
The parcel contained the son's personal effects, and the letter informed her that her son had been killed in action on May 29. - ODT, 22.7.1915.
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