THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 January 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

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A JOURNALISTIC ACHIEVEMENT.

Loudon, Jan. 20. The Daily Mail claims that its correspondent litis carried, out one ul the most remarkable joumaiistk aioliicvemouts of tile war. He twice visited Constantinople, penetrated Asia -Minor, and was one of the four reporters liresent at the banquet that J 1 erdinaud gave to the Kaiser at. Nish. This town now is a vast arsenal, especially containing big guns and ammunition. All i.ie largo houses have been turned into hospitals. One munition train-includ-ed numerous trucks loaded with 1 ( okker flying machines. The reporter witnessed; the Kaiser s almost diminutive figure beside the massive figure oi King Ferdinand who lias .a curious duck-like waddle. The Kaiser's lace is that oi a tired, broken man, and his hair js white though his moustache is suspiciously dark. There is an absence of that quick, nervous wheeling aboiii which was noticeable m 190 ST The Kaiser perpetually used a huge red Turkish handkerchief which wife embroidered with a star and crescent; it was necessary to assauge his continual coughing. He spent more time coughing than eating. General Von Falkenhayn attended the bonijiiet. He has ail alert movement ; the personification of vigour, vivacity and virility, that will well stand iii.s tremendous responsibility. lie looks youugei than his years.

GERMAN -ACT IS ITV.

Pa ris, Jan. 20. Greater German activity oil the westfront is shown by bombardments and occasional attempts to attack. It is expected to reach a climax on the Kaiser's birthday—Thursday.

THE FORD PEACE I'ARTY.

Stockholm, Jan. 26. Mr W. J. Bryan has arrived to join the Ford -committee, and help in drafting peace proposals.

A LABOUR CONFLUENCE

London. .Jan. 2(5. Mr Anderson, M.P., presiding at a. Labour Conference at Bristol, representing 2.093,31)5 men, said that inilitan'sm and democracy cannot live together in Germany, or anywhere else. There were signs ol reaction in Cire-at Britain, where (he Rt. lion. 1). Lloyd George Would like to seo the rules ol the army apply to the workshops, lie was not very successful in h : s -il - -- through the Munition Ai.t. The Military Service Uill iiad not- redeemed the Rt. Hon. H. H. Asquith's piedge. No lorin or words offered immunity from the risk ol being industrial service, and any attempt to use this weapon to coerce trades unionists would lead to great bitlemess and end in failure. tie emphasised that rt was impossible for the country to bo a great naval, a great military and a great industrial power. After the war it would be a dilfeieut world: a hard bad world, unless labour took a hand in shaping it. On behalf of the Liverpool dockers lie moved a resolution expressing riorror at lleruian atrocities and pledging the conference to assist, the lnovemuieuL as far as possible,iu the successtui prosecution of the war. He remarked that if Uermany won nothing else on God's carta would matter. Mr Millikan, <jt Liverpool, seconded, the motion. Mr Ramsay McDonald appealed for foresight and toleration. They were too early and too late to pronounce an opinion on the origin oi the. war. asked the conference not to divide on this question lest it interfere with their unity in fighting the common enemy.

HIGH OOMM LSSI ONER'S REPORT.

London, Jan. 26. I'i the House ot Commons, ihc .1! ( Hon. A. J. Bel four stated that the Government had noted, tliat Germany was possessed of 18-inch guns. The Rt. Hon. \V. Runcniian sakl thai the Government was taking steps to restrict unnecessary imports, and that a fuller statement would up made later. Artillery activity in the course of the night enabled the Krenrli (o carrv out an attack, driving the Germans out of the crater tliey occupied as the result of previous explosions. tiouth of Chaulnes the French batteries destroyed an enemy observation post.

Co; 5u and Curfu

WilEßi'J TRUCPS AUE BEING LAN UED. Cori'u ia soinetJUiug more than a mure islet; it is, in lact, uiie ol the largest islands in the lonian and neighbouring seas. It is quite lorty nnles long and about twenty miles wide •, its area is 227 square miles, and its hills run up to a grand mountain backbone more than tlnee thousand feet high. The name Corfu holds a reference to the mountainous character of the island, for it comes from the Greek word lor "crests."' In shape it is not unlike a sickle, to which it, was compared by the ancients. with ihe town oi Uurfu in the centre of the hollow side which is turned towards the Albanian coast. Its population, -at latest figures, is very close on iUU,OIiU, of whom more than 20,000 are iu the town of Curfu. Tile island is, as may well he imagined, saturated with history and legend from time immemoi ial. V\ e read of it as long ago as -1.80 B.C. manning the second largest Greek fleet, sixty ships, during the Persian invasion, and of tile Athenians making considerable use ol it as a naval station in tfie Peloponne.sian war. It became an importtint nieic.mtile place and its ships traded to every place in the Mediterranean. It was the scene of war and sieges innumerable, and on many occasions the natural strength oi the city asserted itself. JUiVen a Biitisli fleet- (in 1809) besieged it in vaiu ; that was when a Krench administrati m he*!*', it foi a brief period. In 1815 when the lonian were placed, und-sr •» • protection of Great Britain Co 'i 1 e came the .seat, of the .>ritisli Hig't Commissioner, and remained the lonian capital until 18(il. when the islands wore .restored- to Greece. Now, after the lapse of hall a ont.nry, Britain, France and [talv jointly use the storied island for which their fleets contended <it various periods in the days o' old — Manawatu Times.