THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 February 1916, Page 3

THE WAR

I i-KLKUIIUc I'BLItUKM'H-.COI'IfUIOHX,. | [I'KIl I'UESS ASSOCIATION.] AMERICA AND GE LIM AJN Y. Liondon, February -1. A liiii'opoaii edition 01 tho Xew I'ork Herald says thait an early severance ol iolations with Germany over tiie Lusitaiiia incident is imminent. German newspapers regard the situation with misgiving. Washington, Feb. 0. •The Gorman-Auiorican situation is unchanged and is still grave. It is expected tliuit two or three days will elajpse before a definite result is achieved. The crux ot the difficulty consists in the interpretation of the word "illegal" regarding the Lusitania'. President Wilson conferred with ill E. Lansing, American .foreign Secretary on Saturday and cancelled all cn-gagemen-te. Amsterdam, Feb. (5. Tin.' Bourse in Berlin is in a state ol panic owing to the dangers of the American situation. j [ ZEPPELIN Ll9. London, February 4. Denny, the King Stephen's mate, stated that there was 110 chance of saving the Zeppelin. It was impossible to tow her owing to tho dead weight. She would not. standi the strain and the wind was freshening considerably. When the King Stephen left all the Germans upon the airship had life lines with the ends, fastened to the hatchway. When the skipper intimated £nat it was impossible to taiie such a large number aboard there were angry cries as Lhe trawler was' leaving. The Germans shouted "Gott strafe England."

The trawler steamed ten miles, ami, seeing a flash from a signalling lamp found a sailor lashed high on the wreckage operating a signal. "There were about a hundred) lesf.b oi the Zeppelin afloat," said the mate. "A huge hulk of inflated gas bag towered above our mast. We counted twenty-two Germans. The commander of the Zeppelin offered to give '.is plenty of money, but we lea red to semi a boat thinking the Huns might overpower the boatmen and hold them hostages , inforeing any terms that treacneny might suggest. If we had ailov, - c' them 011 the King Stephen the Germans would have been in Willie Insliafen by now. '•We were loth to leave them, bu. 't was not a question of money but 01 common-sense. Soon after we left tiic sea got- up. Probably the gasbag hampered the heavy machinery and tie Zeppelin foundered.'' 'The newspapers point out. that there ere nine or .ten men 011 the trawler without weapons. There were twenry or thirty men on the ZieppeTin, who were fully armed. They would dou .1less have seized the trawler and navigated here to a JDOtoh port. The German Admiralty admits t .c less of 1,19 on a reconnoitring tour. GERMANS INDIGNANT. '

Amsterdam, fob. 0. There is a storm of indignation in Germ-any over the King Stephen's action the trawler being compared t. > the Baralong. TURKS EVACUATE ERZEROUM. Petrograd, Eeb. 4 The Novoe Vremyia states that the Turks have evacuated Ezeroum in As'a Minor. IT Ald AN TOWNS BOMBARDED. London, Eeb. I. An Austrian squadron (.states an Austiiau communique) bombarded Ortoua cmd Sanvito on the Italian coast ana damaged the railway stationtrand stoic houses. They destroyed the railway bridge north ot Ortona, across the An:' ello river.