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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 October 1915, Page 3

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Uiccoived i'nib Uay, W.Lo a.m.)

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l\{iw iork, -OcLober 2o

Further startling developments navi , . ijix-u discovered jii the Oomb conspiracy and Uie police are seeking lor Max

jjiLiuiny, secretary anil uvaaurc-r oi the Oil Weil Supply Company, who iU accused ol' furnishing the uuLk of thirty thousand dollars, recently spent by Fay. The police are making an investigation oi IJroituiig is supposed relationship with Brcitimg, the Dacia's purchaser. Heiiize and Paul Eaeche also have been arreston for conspiracy. l'lyun, the heau ol the Federal Secret Service, declares that Jireitung and i (l ay paid Paul Seibo lor tiie. purchatJc of explosives. Soibo lormeily was a German soldier and will Lkj a Government witness. Sciiolz lias confessed that he and I , 'ay tested explosives and had mado mines, and had almost perfected an explosion apparatus wheu thoy wore arrested. He denies that any loaded mine had been attached to any ship. Scholz believes that Fay received 4000 dollars from tHo German Government.

It is officially stated that Fay has confessed that the German Secret Service sent him to the LJuited States after he had exhibited his exploding invention.

Received This Day fO.Go a. in

TEE OFFER TO GREECE

London. October, 2G

When the House o£ commons met Sir P. Magnus asked .Sir Edwarfl' Xlvey a lu. could give information re flic conditional offer of the Government to ceffe Cyprus to Greece.

Sir Jfthvard Grey replied that we felt abound, in tlio very critical position wherein our iSei'bian Allies were placed, to make every possible effort to obtain for them tlio only assistance which was immediately available. Accordingly the Government made it known that if Greece would give full and immediate support to- Serbia against Bulgaria,

Great Uritau would be prepared to give •Cyprus to Greece. As Greece had not seen nor way to support Serbia, and conditions wliorotindor the offer was made had not been Mulled the oiler had la/peed. BOMI3AIIDING VENICE. A I , ronch wireless messa.ge statios tii i. the Austrians continue bomlbaxding Venice from their aeroplanes. They wreak their vengeance upon the works of art, whose glory belongs to tine world. RUSSIAN SYMPATHISED SHOT. ►Six Bulgarian colonels havo been hbol for showing sympathy with "lluscsiu, the deliverer." THE ENEMIES' BOSSES. Amsterdam. October, 2G. The Nieuwe 'liotkrdamsche Courant estimates that the Prussian lossesthe war began total 2,021,0715. Tho last ten lists covering a period from the eleventh to the twentieth October com-j prised 58,021 killed, wounded and niii-s-. ing. There also haa been 228 liavar- j km, 209 Saxon, 2oo* Vfurtemburgh, j3. naval,' and a number of iurkish iists. j The Austrian and Bulgarian lists must ■ bo added, and tfils makes tlie German-1 Austrian losses h'vo millions.

CASUALTY LIST.

following embarked lor England.— Auckland Mounted.—Trooper H. Quiuland. Field Artillery.—Guimor A. E. * Wilks. Auckland Battalion. —Private 3. Smith. Wellington Battalion. —I'rivatu G. Steer. Canterbury Battalion.—Private A; F. Well. Disembarked at Malta.—'Private- J Simpson. Field Artillery.—Dangerously ill: Gunner J. B. Wilbio.