Late Wat News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 September 1916, Page 3

Late Wat News

(Received This Day 8.50 a.m.) AMERICAN STEAMER- SUNK. (Renter Service). ■London, Sept. i£ The American steamer Admiral Cfark has been mink. Six persons were saved.

GERMANS SEIZE DUTCH STEAMER A Geiman torpedo boat seized the Dutch steamer Axel in the Baltic Sea. GE KM AN C A LiLO U iSN'ESS. As the Germans have sent children to Hollandi a committee was formed .to receive the French children from occupied districts of France, but the German Government has prohibited their removal. This callousness has sho •■! Ed the Dutch. VON HiINDE'NR URG \S SUCCESSOR. A German communique shows that Prince Leopold of Bavaria commands the army hitherto commanded by von Ilindenburg. A FIERCE GI I '.K.MAN COUNTERATTACK. Paris, Sept. 3. The German counter-attack on Thursnlglit in the neighbourhood of Delvillo wood was the fiercest attack as yet delivered. Picked troops were employed andi the desperate character of the assaults suggests the Germans attached the utmost importance to their success at this spot. The trenches wherein a fooing ultimately was effected were so battered that they did not afford any shelter. The attack probably was meant to signalise Von. Hindenburg's promotion, but if the casualties are published! in Germany they assuredly will produce black dismay. AFFAIRS TN GREECE. Mr W. Jeffries states the Germans 1 have fled from Athens. M. Yenizelos in a statement urges instant action. He says: "Who can doubt that 'Bulgaria may now seek a separate peace. Who doesn't understand that if this happens before we join the allies it will mean the permanent extinction of Greece! El GIFT-HOUR DAY FOR RAILWAY WORKERS. Washington, Sept. 3. The.Senate passed the Eight Hours on Railways Bill by 43 to 28 audi the strike order has been rescinded. THE FLIGHT FROM TRANSYLVANIA. New York, Sept. 3 Von Weigand in a despatch states Austro-Hungarians are retiring before the Rumanians in Transylvania and tho fighting is only rearguard actions. Tho Austro-Huiiga rian centre already is shortening the defence Vine by ono hundred kilometres. Five thousia'nd refugees from the evacuated districts arrived at Budapest and there is a stream fleeing westward from the Rumanian border. INTERVIEW Wirril BAVARIA'S PREMIER. Von Wiegand,- in a wireless despatch, reports an interview with Count Von Berthing, Premier of 'Bavaria,who adnnits the great importance of the intervention of Rumania. He said "It appears certain that Rumania in the near future will become the most tragic and most terrible of battlefield.--' What that means to Rumania must be learned from Belgium. Poland and Serbia. Whatever the outcome, Rumania has been drawn under the wKeels. It is significant tliat the Entente has been compelled to cajole the emails nations into the war. This is heart- | less nindi meTcilesss coming from a great | nation like England. With the entry | of Italy and Rumania, Germany has tface a third winter of terrible conflict.

Von Worthing said he could not understand the pronounced and extensive anti-German sentiments in America. Perhaps the sinking of the 'Lusitania was the cause, but in the submarine question Germany gave up her most effective weapon against England for no other reason than to show a sincere desire to maintain friendly relations with America. (Australia-New Zealand Cable Service.) j THE CAPTURE OF ORSOVA. London, September 3. - The Rumanian successes in the Orsova district are much commented on. The press point out that the capture i of the town opens the Toad along the Danube to Belgrade. The swift advance was fatal to the enemy. The latest success is more satisfactory inasmuch as there was a large stiffening of Germans among the Austro-'Hungiar-ians. CAMPAIGN XN EAST AFW'U ENDED. j The campaign in East Africa virtually has ended. There only remains the

rounding-up of the remnants of the scattered German foroee. M. VENIZELGS'S MESSAGE. M. Venizeloe, in a message to the Sunday Times, says although he is deeply grived that Greece lias so much delayed paying her due contribution to the struggle against Prussian militarism, and for the independence of smaller states, he trust the influence following Rumanian intervention roflflers further persistanoe in policy of neutralty absolutely impossible and that Greece at the earliest poesible moment will join the camp of traditional friends in order to accomplish her own national ideal* ■ REVOLUTION I)N GREECE. Paris, September 3. The Petit Parieien'a Salonika correspondent states the National Committee of Defence ha» proclaimed a. provisionml government in Macedonia. All the troops, gendarmerie, cavalry 'and artillery hav* i£on« or«r fco th« National movement. BRITAIN'S ECONOMIC WAR, The Times's Berlin correspondent say* there is resentment owing to in report thta Norwegian shipowners have closed a contract to place immediately at tho disposal of the British Government fifty fit earners of a tonnage of 150.0P0 ton's. It is believed: the contract is for a year ancl the rate four to five shilling* ahead of current rates. Germany sees here another move in Britain's economic war.