Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 September 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Aiistr;i]ia-_\eir Zealand Cable Service). (.Received This 'Day 9.20 a.ni.) THE CHICAGO WHEAT MAJUKET.

London, Sept. 0. Tlio Chicago wheat market is strong: September options closed at 101 l and ■December at 152:{. A BIG "AMALGAMATION 1 . TJIO Daily Mail states that negotiations ore proceeding to establish a working agreement of most of the arms and ammunition businesses in the United Kingdom ivolring aggregate e.apta.l- - oi' £3'0..000,000 with tlie (inject, of placing JJritsh ndustry in a powerful position in the world's trade after the war. G-REEIvW TO DEAL WITH SPIES. Athens, September 6. The Allies .are discontinuing the' arrests, leaving the Greek 'authorities to carry out anti-espionage measures in accordance with Greek law. (Baron Von iSehenkj the Gernwin agent, is in the same position as the others. It is i untrue that lio went to the British Legation and 'surrendered.

CONDITIONS IX EASTERN MACEDONIA. Terrible* icondi'tions revji/II *,aJnong the population in Eastern Macedonia. J he crew of a Cireok sailer, navigating

I inshore, heard civics and discoveled - two hundred women and children ap- | pealing to be c.uried to Thnsoe. ilie ■I Irkippt'i R-connr:-»!«tgd as rn:niy as possible when Bulgarians appeared and ordered them to disembark. A .British destroyer, in the nick of time, dashed up and opened fire, routed the .Bulgarians and saved the refugees. .STEADY PRESSURE BY THE MtEXCII. New York j Sept. 6. , The Xew York Titncs's Paris correspondent. uiio via;ted the fc'oni-me front, ■ says that in a two days' battle, the , French i.nflictedi a crushing defeat- on the flower of the German forces. They stormed vhat the Hermans claimed to be impregnable fortifications with a minimum of trass on their own side and caused <50,000 German casualties. The correspondent asserts that the Germans are trying to fight the war on lineK originally' laid down, but the •French have adapted their tactics to the changed ; conditions, with tlie result tlia.t since J July the French have advanced along.: a fifteen-mile front to a depth of from

five to ten niiie.s. They jiro Ti [( . and (st-renjrLltenin<r the eapturod ground o not trying to break through the Gc)' 0 'M" linos, but exerting a steatliy inex c orable pressure before which the who! sector eventually Aril] lie forced to giv r "ay. r e :1 THE .MAX i'KO.YI HUHLEBttX. William Simpson; a Sydney mercLaint. j lias arrived in New York en .roilto to Australia. He spent 18 months as a prisoner in the camp at lluhle'bcn. When ho lelt a feu- weeks ago tliero still was more than 4000 there. There wi,':re many 05 years and even 70 years of a,ge, but ivore not released because they had been .shipmasters and marine engineers. »Simpson tr,a veiled wrtf ■ five othcre and was placed in a horsebox ten feet square with damp, filthy straw oil the floor. The prisoners were treated harshly. The fish often was putrid, and other food coarse and unwholesome. When two patients escaped from the hospital the others were forced to walk through the snow to the horse boxes. Three deaths occurred through exposure. uUHaMm itmwJaaßmmamama