THE MAILED FIST

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 17, 15 October 1917, Page 5

THE MAILED FIST

NO SIGN OF PEACE IN RECENT SPEECHES ; i VON HINDENBURG'S DEFIANCE j Amsterdam, October 12. ' j Field-Marshal vos l 'Hindenburg, reply- : ing to the German National Chamber of j Commerce, said that England's envy had j closed the door to international commerce. "She 6halt feel tho sharpness o£ the Bword until she perishes." Admiral von Scheer, replying to^the Stendal Peace Committee, said: "Your j confidence inspires the TJ-l)oat men. Wo \ 6hall ensure that the British shall never j again dare to pick a. quarrel." / 1 Baron von Hertliijg, speaking in J;he Bavarian Diet said that the British were j hard-hearted, calculating, business men; ! but they were also beginning to doubt, ' whether the war was a paying business. i —Reuter. ALSACE AND LORRAINE i REDOUBLED EFFORTS REQUIRED I TO REGAIN THEM. j Paris, October 12. j The emphatic declaration of Herr von. KnhJmann, tho German Foroign Minister, on the subject of, Alsace and Lor-'; raino, 19 the topic of comment in the ; newspapers, which urge that the Allies' I; efforts to secure victory should be re- j doubled. It is clear that they will either. ! have to defeat tho Contral Powers or to 1 abandon the hopo of liberating Alsace and Lorraine—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE HEEL OF THE HUN IN THE i STOLEN PROVINCES. j London, October 12. Correspondents report that the prison# in Alsace and Lorraine are crowded mostly isith persons accused of entertain- \ ing sentiments hostile to Germany. Mills, factorias, and industrial establishments : i have been stripped of their contents, , j which have ■ been sent to Germany, cs- \ pecially those in Mnlhouse. The popula-, i tions have.beon sent into various parts, ; of Germany, and are 415 widely dispersed; ' ns the Armenians in Turkey. Forty, thousand people have escaped to avoid] j service in tho German army— ! Cable Assn. i

MICHAELIS IMPOSSIBLE GERMAN "VORWAERTS" SPEAKS- I . CANDIDLY. | Amsterdam, October 12. j The "Vorwaerts" declares that Dr. Mf-. I chaelis, the Tecent scenes in the) ' Reichstagj is "finally impossiblo a»' Chancellor."—Reuter. :

REICHSTAG ADJOURNED. I Amsterdam, October 18. The Keiohstag has adjourned tfll <• cember s.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. !