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Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 September 1916, Page 3

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(Auisfcralia-'New Zealand Cable Service.) (Received llii-s Day 2 p.m.) THE SUFFER INGS OF THE ARMENIANS. New York, Sept. 11. A Presbyterian missionary in North- 1 ern Arabia, in a despatch, describe* the awful sufferings of the Armenians at Meskene, He smv women and children throw themselves in trenches and beg tlio grave diggers to bury thern. The Armenians have no bread. In tents at Hama he say 7000 deportees whereof 3000 were .naked and jiving on locusts and dogs. Men graves while awaiting death. He saw whole rows of ghastly forms rise out of these graves and beg for bread andi witter. The number starving at Hama. Rakka and ■Meskene exceeds 30,000. iO.ises are reported of fighting over the bodies of the dying in -order to obtain fresh food. AUSTRIA'S* POSITION'. Vienna, Sept. 11. Baron Buriaii admits that Austria wouldl hail peace with delight but not the peiaco th© Allies want to impose. He says: "We are unwilling to discuss peace while the Allies want to take part of our territory. It lis untrue that we are eager for peace on !any terms. I admit being surprised that Rumania finally came to a decision so quickly. We did .not offer R.umlauia territorial concessions, and knew that in June Italy and 31. Bratiano had made a definite bargain. M. Bratiano hoped to play a part in taking from the Austrian corpse what he could but the Allies resisted, and 'hence Runmnia's declaration of war. Our relations with America, are satisfactory, but we maintain that America's exportation of munitions to the Allies has protracted the war and thereby inflicted irreparable damage on mankindl. Some may contend that Austria should (for military reasons) originate peace overtures, but we never will agree while our antagonists speak of the partition of our Country." CANADA'S REINFORCEMENTS. (Router Telegram). Ottawa, Sept. ll.' Seventy per cent of the half million men promised by Sir Robert Borden h/.ivo enlisted : Alberta and British Columbia have supplied their full quotas; Quebec province made the worst showing, and has contributed only one quarter of its allotted quota. ANOTHER GERMAN RUSE. Peti'ograd, Sept. 11. Russian prisoners in Germlan uniforms wore marched in the rear of the FrancoGerman front for the purpose of deceiving the French air scouts by whom them were frequently bombed, the tirinen mistaking them for Gerniijus. MOVING OX ARMENIANS. Constantinople. Sept. 11. Tt is announced thlit' the Armenian population has been removed to other parts of the Turkish Empire owing to the spread of the -revolutionary movej ment. It is fearedi this points to fresh cruelties.

REPORTS EROM GERMAN AGENITS. . (United Service). Amsterdam, Sept. 11. (lor in an agents report "th'at von Falkenlwyn .succeeds Prince von Hollweg at the end of September and a new submarine campaign is commencing on October Ist. WHAT THE iDAITJY MAIL AiGENT LEARNED. The Daily Mail recently sent to Hlollhnd the man who dined with the Kaiser. He has returned and relates tliat lie mixedi freely with the Germans frontier troops who are mostly middleaged men belonging to the Landsturm. They informed him there were plenty of young men st : H nrai!iible. The Gcrpians fighting in the Somme have been ordered not to take prisoners, bxit to use the bayonet. Three hundred thousand men now are preparing new defensive works behind' the third line. Over Verdun there was the most bitter disappointment—two Bhvarinn regiments were mutilated. AUSTRIA'S 'TROUBLES INCREASING. Austrian wnr correspondents state the Rumanian pressure in southern Transylvania is increasing and compelling the Austrians to retrelat in order to prevent outflanking by the enemy, while the great Russian attacks in Bukovina lias forced abandonment. of the strong'y fortified mountain positions.