GERMAN AERONAUTS CAPTURED

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 May 1916, Page 3

GERMAN AERONAUTS CAPTURED

Admiral De Robeck reports that ohey oaptured tour officers and eight men— the survivors of the wrecked Zeppelin at Salonika. MISTAKES IN SUBMARINE WARFARE. Washington, May i. Mr R. Laming said ilhat mistakes id submarine warfare was inadmissible. Ho might iisk Germany to produce its earlier orders to the submarine commanders in order t.o compare them with the new onee THE GERMAN REPLY. I The New York World: describes the Gorman reply as arrogant, insolent, and insulting. America could not contemplate the suggested alliance with' Germany with a- view to Breaking fcho British WockadP. It would he a permanent stain on America's honour. There is a significant increase in the number elf newspapers demanding compliance with the laws of humaimy. A LIFE SEXTEX'OE. London. May 7. Albert Bri'jJit, an Iron merchant, at Sheffield, has been sentenced to pen.il servitude for life. He pier clod guilty to collecting information trom an employee of Vickers Company, regarding war material, which was useful to the enemy. PRINCE OF WALEffIN ITALY. Rome, May .. The Prime of Wales is visiting the front. He is the guest of King Emanuel. GERMAN EFFORTS IN INDIA A FAILURE New iork, May /. Tlie Rt. Hon. A. Chamberlain, in a statement to the American press, said that the Germane made every endeav>ur to create trouble in India, but in i population of .320 millions there were mly a few malcontents, and it nad jeen a complete failure. The fantas:ic conspiracy of Februiary, 1915, was evidence of the stability of British •ule. The viceroy reports that !he ituation could hardly be more favourible. Twenty-one regiments of Indian :ava.lry and eighty-six battalions of innntry are fighting abroad.

TURKS AND BULGARS. Bucharest, May 7 . Tlie Germans have concentrated near Constantinople eighty thousand Turkish and forty thousand) Bulgarian infantry, who shortly are going to ho west front. TO ESCAPE COST OF LIVING. Amsterdam, May /. The Brazilian and other Ministers in Berlin have gone witht their families to Switzerland, to escape exorbitant food prices, especially the prices of milk and egge. A FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. Paris, May 7. A communique states that after an intense bombardment the Germans, on Saturday evening attacked southward of Libons, but our curtain of fire dispersed thorn before they reached our entanglements. A night-long violent bombardment occurred in the Verdun region. Twenty captive balloons broko their moorings during a storm on Friday. Most nt the observers landed by means a! parachutes, but some were oarried into tho enemy's zone. GERMAN ATTACK AT VERDUN. Pari., May • It is senii-officially stated that German attacks of incredible violence on 11 ill 304 tailed to overwhelm -.he French. The battle has been resumed in ihe last forty-eight hours with a fury unknown prior to Verdun. After heir repeated failure to capture Hill 304 from tlie real 1 ,. they at-

i .npto i a fiank movement, involving a front: i! attack on the northern stapes. There was a intense bombardment from the biggest calibre guns, and tlie French batteries replied vigorously. The Germans, at some points reached the French lines, but the northern slope now 'is a- neutral zone with the French at the summit and the Germans at the bottom. The German bombardment continues with sustained intensity, but the inifantry are not moving. This probably is flue to their overwhelming losses.