Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Australia-New Zealand (Jable Service). (Received Thin Bay. 9.30 a.m.) KOrMA'NTA I>KOT/AR.Efi WAR ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. London, Aug. 28. aOUMANIA HAS DEC 1. A RED WAR ON Ar.STUiA-II I'NGARY. The -High Commissioner reports:— London. Aug. 28, 3.15 p.m. A Berlin official report states that Rouwaiiia has declared war on Austria. (Received This Day, 8.50 a.m.) TtJJtK.S TREAT'PRISONERS KINDLY. New York. August 28. Two instructors of American Oollego at Beirut, .Syria, who traversed Turkey, have returned. They assert that the British ''Tommies" and Australian prisoners of war are given the same rations as the Turkish soldiers. In nome districts the prisoners have a double allowance of meat. Kindness was shown to the prisoners in all the camps visited.

(Received This Day 9.5 a.m.) WORK OF THK THAW LRUS. London. August 28. Alfred Noves. in the Daily Chronicle, states that Britain's trawling fleet cnrta®E<l in mine-sweeping and KiiTjiiuiniie hunting. comprises 3000 vessels, and tVw

I civws total 100,000. Xotliing was said | about- the fleet's way with submarines till tho (Instruction of the fiftieth was quietly celebrated et a small gathering in London. '.Everything was done in silence, and the summaries went out and never returned. Others went out, perplexed by mystery, and also did not return. The innocent line of trawlers lunl more nightmares in store tor tile German submarines than the fleet of battleship*. Any submarine reported in home waters could be enclosed in steel traps, within twenty-live minutes, wherefrom there was no escape. The writer saw a trap one hundred miles long; that could shift its position and change it.s shape at « signal. (Received This Day. 11..'30 a.m.) GIORMAN Y DECLARES WAR 'ON HOI'MA^IA. Portland (Oregon), U.S.A.. Aug 28. j (M')l(i.M ANY If AS DKCIf/A R FJD WAR OX kolmaxia.