THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 April 1915, Page 3

THE WAR

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[EIKUTIUIJ TBLKUKAI'H —COI'YUKJHT.] [I'KIl L-KESS AHSOCiA'IJON. i ANOTHER IRON CROSS. Amserdain, April 29. The Kaiser decorated Houston Stew-, art Chamberlain with the non-combat-nut'fc iron cross. THE SENTENCE ON LONSDALE. The Oolonge Gazette states that tlie Imperial Court has confirmed the Military Court's death sentence on Lonsdale. It rejected the application for a revision of the sentence which now requires the Kaiser's coTfTirmation. ■Lonsdale, a British prisoner of war, was sentenced to death for striking one liis guards. THE DARDANELLES. Athens, April 29. The British Forces operate on the European coast and the French on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles. Tuesday's bombardment lasted twelve hours and was mainly against Kilibrahar forts. THIE CAMPATG.N IN SOUTH AFRICA". Capetown, April 29. The Union forces occupied Daberos, south-east of Gibeon and captured transports and a quantity of stock. The country north of Daberos is clear of the enemy. (Received This ©ay 5?.55 a.m.) THE DRINK QUESTION. London, April 29. The Rt. Hon. D. Llovd-George, explaining his proposals on the drink question, said that the Government proposed to deal with excessive drinking among a section only of those engaged in the output of munitions. The nation should exert its whole strengtli and subordinate everything in the present struggle, and remove every obstacle in order to win tlie war, the outlook being one of life to the Empire. The evil was so serious that nothing but strong action would enable tlicm to escape therewith. The consideration of the question >vas forced upon them by the reports of the officials responsible for the output. Tlie I slackness in some shipyards was causing anxiety to commanders of the fleet. (Received This Day 12.25 p.m.) The Rt. Hon. D- Lloyd-George, continuing, said that—all honour to the men— 78 per cent were working sixty hours and upwards weekly, compared with the normal forty-eight hours. The men at some other places were doing less than the ordinary week's work under normal conditions. Out of the 8000 men at one firm, after three days' holiday at Easter, 1800 failed to return on Tuesday. Every report declared that the slackness in the shipyards was due to excessive drinking among a section. It was ascribable to the fact that they wore earning; more money than they knew what to do with. Reports to the end of March showed no perceptible improvement. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. London. April 29. ! Pet rograd reports that on Tuesday the enemy was active in the direction of Tilsit and Kavlio on the Szeznppe. The collisions ended in the Russians' favour. North of the Niemen on Tuesday morning the Germans made attacks on iboth banks of the Ordec, but the Russians using the bayonet repulsed the attacks, and also in the region of the village of Jednaroivec. On the rest oP the Mlawa railway attempts to advance by the enemy's advanced guards were repulsed. In the region of the Uszok Pass- on .Monday night there were energetic attacks against the heights north-east of the villages of Lubno and Buda with heavy enemy losses on the entanglements. In the direction of Stryj <i desperate engage' ment still is progressing. London, Ajiril 29. The Belgians heavily bombarded Ramcapelle. Pervyse. Lampeimisse, and Cosvleperem. The Belgian artillery vigorously co-operated with tho French attacks on Steenstraate. The Belgian aviators showed great activity. In Belgium the French maintained the ground recaptured in the last three days and continue their progress. Cooperating with the Belgians on the north and right bank of the Yser Canal, the French made 150 prisoners and two mitrailleuses. Tlie German aviators bombarded with incendiary bombs the open town of Epernav. which is occupied exclusively by, medical establishments. The Zeppelin which last week bombarded Dunkirk was seriously injured by the French artillery and completely put out of action. It is stranded m the woods 'between Bruges and Ghent. LIBERTY OF SPEECH. New York, April 29. Professor Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard University, replying to Professor Kuno Mayer's resignation of his professorship because Harvard awarded a prize to a poem wherein Germany was denounced, asserts that neither the professors or students of any American university limited freedom of speech. This was the only course consistent with file principle of academic freedom. He hoped that all German professors some day would recognise this.

Of 114 men in one firni engaged in .submarine work, 58 were off one day

and 55 the next. This was due almost entirely to excessive drinking. In regard to armaments, letters from firms ascribed the slackness to the same cause. The Director of Transport stated that the service was conducted under serious difficulty owing 'to excessive drinking. He added that the delay was a real danger to the success ot the naval and military operations However unpleasant the task the Government wou!d be betraying the trust of the country unless it proposed a remedy for this evil by a double duty on spirits and a surtax on beer of 12s per barrel of 43 to 48 specific gravity, 24s beween 49 and 53, and 36s after that. The dirty on sparkling wines would he 15s a gallon.

Mr John Redmond said that the Hon. D. Lloyd-George's statements were cruel and uncalled for so far as Ireland was concerned.

Mr William O'Brien said the proposals struck an unjust and possibly fntal blow at the only considerable manufacture left in three of the southern provinces of Ireland. . The latter ought to be excluded. He added that if the Rt. Hon. D. Lloyd-George succeeded in imposing new taxes, they would -have results as horrible To Cork as if Cork had been bombarded' and sacked by the Germans. A FIERCE BATTLE. London. April 29. Greece reports a fierce battle on "Wednesday at Suvillibag. The Turks suffered heavy losses. The Allies captured an entire battalion. (Received This Day 2.30 p.m.) AUSTRALIANS IN THE DARDANELLES. "Athens, April 29. Tt is reported from Volos that a portion of the Australian troops paf ticipating in the Dardanelles operation disembarked on Tuesday and were immediately installed in batteries on the coast.