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Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 August 1916, Page 3

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i.S iA LI LAND. Lunuun, J ;tiy 31. •Uiiicliii. - Aii uviupi.ilie Uiuio oil i mia tiLc Cuuul. eai .j uii3 morning. UNCii. AUAi-i. I ii.- New* Agency fetutca tmiL uie .hiupeior i'laiiz josui is ceriutiniy ill, ami tho Archduke Ixuii has ueci'. cal'eu Lo iiib bediiUL*. TliOOPa 1 i.U'GUESti.

»u f -Uouglja iiuig leporls: —\i e »u----vaiiecu at joints poUiU> on the plateau uorunvurda ol iiazeutin iu i'etio. i' lih-N Cli GOALU I AIQIK f l J .aris, Jujy 31. A communique states that violent trerman counter-attacks at Hemm Wood a-tid Monacu Farm gained a footing. Our counter-offensive drove them out. We progressed south-east of i'leurj. MISERY IX SYRIA. Rome, July 31. Refugees give siiockiug details ol ti situation in Syria. The Christian population is starving. There are wholesale executions. Atrocities commenced vvitli Enver Pasha s visit, when Djemai Pasha's attitude towards the Christians became more hostile. Many villages have lost a third and even half of -their inhabitants, through starvation due to the food blockade at Lebanon. The Christian leaders have been executed or exiled. Four bishops called up to the colours have been unheard of since. THE EXPLOSION . Xcw Yoin, July 31. Damage by the explosion is estimated at £4,600,000. The death roli still is matter of conjecture, though it is believed to be relatively .small. Many included in the first estimates escape,! before the second explosion. Tho crews of several barges are missing. Three arrests for negligence have been ordered. The authorities are investigating the movements of a mysterious tug whereon the fire allegedly started. CAPTATN FRYATT. (Renter Telegram). In the House of Commons the Rt. What fate is in the word "farewell! It tells of parting, pain and sad It oft sobs the sound of friendsirp knell, Faia well, spelt this way, ruga"" otherwise. Fare well with health, make stre.i , seoure. Rose clicks, red lips and dan« CQTCJ

Hon. ji. H. Asquith said the OoreraI luvut had iearutxl with the utmost in-

dignation of the atrocious muriler 01 Captain JFryatt. The question of baking immediate action \v.is eiigcj;ing the Government's attention. Coming contemporaneously with the lawless cruelties in connection with the wholesale deportations from Lille and other parts of France, it showed that tlie German high command, under -tress or military defeat, had renewed its policy of teiTori.sm. It was impossible to conjecture what further atrocitM ! would occur, hut- the I'livcminont would repeat emphatically tli ir re solve that the.se crimes would not ' unpunished when the time arrived to bring the criminals (whatever tli ir position) to justice. Cases such as

this, of a man who authorized a system whereundcr crime was committed may well he deemed guiltiest of nil. Sir TOdwnrd Carson su?r<:estecl tlie introduction of a bill ma-aig it clear that Great Britain refused to admit the German people into the community of nations untii such crimes were expiated. The Rt. Hon. H. H. Asfjiiitli said the Government would consider the •nggefltion. I'IXEM Y VESSELS .SEIZED. Lord Robert Cecil has announced that the following enemy viesols had been seiz.'d in the Allies' purts: British ports 11-1 ; French ports 12; Russian ports, 30; Italian ports 59. Great Britain and, Italy were employing all their seizures. Portugal has seized 71 j stonniers and three sailcns. All would he employed a.s soon as repaired'. I AN EDITOR'S TROUBLES. Palmeifcton Xortli, This Day. ■Judgment was delivered to-day by Mr fit witt, S.M., in the ease against the editor ol the -Uaiuuvatu Times for aliped, breach of tlie War Regulations iu publishing letters signed "'Shirker, containing "matter likely to interlere wiln recruiting." It was admitted there was no disloyalty on the part oi the paper, but the magistrate said the question of intent had no bearing (except in extenuation of penalty) ; if the matter published proved to be a breach of the regulations, defendant was liabl" no matter what the motive. The caw was not one for a. substantial penalty. Defendant would be fined, '20s and costs.