London, Apr. 14. a despatch to the Secretar {for the Dominions, Lord Passfcld, jon the subject of the New Zealand Jearthquake the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, pays tribute to the Work of naval officers and men both Jat the time of the disaster and subsequently. He states that presence and behaviour of the men of the sloop Veronica, who landed with= jin 15 minutes of' the disaster, did much to check panic and greatly helped maintain the morale of the population, encouraging them to participate in valuable rescue opera tions, In' addition to the officers and men of the Veronica the crews of the. cruisers Dunedin and Diomede performed indefatigable services of varied descriptions for the benefit Jof the strike towns, Lord Bledisloe also comments very highly on a small band of doctors and nurses who helped to bring' relief and comfort apparently endless stream of jured in the first hours of the dis-faster and who reorganized the hospital services as rapidly as posje—Wireless through Reuter.
[westernization mov Under the Constitution the exist ing Assembly must continue in office there was considerable time for the Popular Party leaders to have changed their mind and allowed t women to vote, had it not been de-gided to retard the emancipation of the feminine sex there are approximately eligible voters, The old National Assembly was ordered dissolved by President Kemal on March 5, shortly after hho had returned from a long tour of inspection throughout the coun tour confirmed hig serio signs of disaffection existing every section.
He immediately Cabinet, ordered month each and solution of the National Assembly. Two days Inter it was unanimously voted.
The reduction in salaries ordered by the Gazi will result ina saving: of $500,000 a year.
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