Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Received This Day. !).•'■)() a.m.) (Renter's Service. ' TiTK KING OK GREIOCE ILL. Athens, August 'JSI. The King is suffering from inflammation of a wound. A small operation has been performed. (United Service.) RUMANIA'S ARMY. London, August '.the Morning Pout says a well-inforin-ed authority .states that Rumania lias eight hundred thousand men trained equipped, and ready for the field Eoda.y ; and also three hundred thousand trained reservists. The authority further .stated : 'We have money f'romEngland. guns from France, a<rul transports "Rtienia." (Times Service). VALUE OV SA l/ONI f\ A EXPEDITION". Paris, August i!!>. British opponents of the Salonika expedition on military grounds now havo cause to thank firmness in maintaining it. It was vital for political reasons. ALLEGATIONS AGAINST IM'LG ARIAiSTS. Mr. Culvert, a wan- con espondent, wtates the Servian .staff lias certain information that the Bulgars frequently murdered wounded Sell*. (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service)/ (Received This Day 10.50 a.m.) E X Gl, A NT)' S WORK ON THE SKA. London, August '3). Mr Alfred Xoyes, in a second ailicle. states that for many months a. certain strip of the North African Coast wa.s strown with wreckage, and men's bodies from the merchant whips. Allied and neutral, which met German submarines. We dispatched a flotilla of trawlers and drifters to that coast and to-day it is as clean as any in Britain. On one occasion a squadron was withdrawn from the mouth of the Adriatic Sea in order to deal with unexpected trouble in the Aegean iSea. Submarines promptly emerged from the unguarded gates, and more wreckage and i dead Iwxlies strewed the nil watched j shores. British longshore fishermen may be found patrolling, or frozen in, in the 'White Sea. Others always were patrolling the coast of Bulgaria. The sinking of unarmed fishing boats was one of Fritz's favourite amusement earlv in the war.

Mr Novos relates a typi«'ii 1 and true story recorded in the official log-bonks, how n siilmiiirino nurprised the trawler Victoria off n fishing hank 130 miles from lanrl. The trawler took the forlorn hope and tore homewards. One after another the shells came and kiUo I tlw crow until onlv four wore loft. Tito

submarine pickod up survivora, and the commander examined them singly concerning the patrol system. All refused to answer.

Mr Xoyes continues: '1 lie sinking of the.se fishing boats suddenly ceased, except on rare occasions. It is a fact now acknowledged that when a subinairme sees one it submerges or bolts. .Details must not be given, but they

may give one instance. There was once a simple fishing boat shooting nets, when the submarine gave tile men five minutes to leave. Immediately there was panic aboard the boat ami two of the crew went down on, their knees asking for mercy (which had been part of their drill in port), while others hauled at a boat aboard like men possessed. Passing oV'er details again, tlu' resulta-nt picture showed that the dummy boat on deck was in foui pieces, which when removed showed a fine big gun levelled at the submarine, with the navy's gunners in attendance, two Germans leveling for mercy, an abolished submarine and oil upon the troubled waters.

The w.'ir has made many queer transFormation*: What looks like a battleship may lie a comparatively harmless thing resembling iNoali'.s Ark. (Torman wars-hips run from a boat as harmle.ss as a mouse. They are confronting the most terrible bluff in the war gamble. Passengers on American and other neutral lines heave sighs of content 011 flighting a British .supposed man-of-war, which is not a rnanof war at all. while all aronnd the sea is dotted with insignificant craft, like ships of Drake's and Hawkins's time, loaded with unimagined thunderbolts. They are England's worldpa trolling batjtle fleets.