Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 25 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Australia-New Zealand Cubic Service) (Received Tliie Day 9.'20 a.m.) BRITi.SH AIRSITTP.S. London, August 24. The Kt. Hon. E. Montague, in a speech at Bury St. Edmunds, said that three or four of new 780 feet long super-Zeppelins would be ready in October. One already had manoeuvred over the North Sea. (United Cable Service). AWKWARD POSITION KOR BELGIANS. Paris. Aitg. '21. Tho Journal 'Dobats .states the Germans have decided to place prominent Belgians in the Zeppelin hangars as a protection against Allied air raids.

AN APOPLETIC STROKE. London, August I\. The Daily Times' Rome correspondent- says the Bavarian King has "had an apoplectic stroke.

TffE TROPBLES OF GREECE. The Times' Athens correspondent states that M. Veniziilos. interviewed, thinks the elections will be impossible in the districts occupied by the Bulbars, who apparently are disposed to advance as far as Larisea.

(Renter's Service). DR LTBBKNEQEtT'S SENTENCE IX- j CREASED. j Amsterdam. August 24. A supreme court-martini in Berlin I dismissed Dr Liebknecht's •- appeal against his sentence of years penal servitude for war treason ; on the con- . tra.i-y it increased his sentence to four years one month, and further deprived him of civil right® for six years.