Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 October 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Koceivocl This Day 9.10 a.m.) GERUIAX .SUBMARINE POLICY'. Amsterdam, October 1. According to private advices from Berlin tilt* GoiiiUmi submarine pvlicv f wiH remain unchanged before the J A merit-;> 11 prer-identiail (-lections. Mean- | "' l,lle Gornisuiy is closely watching I Judge Hughes's attitude. t OKI!MAX PRESS COMMENTS ON I LLOYD GEORGE. There was a great outburst of li.nger , in the German newspapers at the Rt. HOll. J). Lloyd George'.s warning netitia.lx against any peace .intervention until Prussian militarism has been definitely crushed. The Koelnischo Vol'k Zoitung compares Lloydi George to a howling hyena and asks if tiie visit to the front has not overtaxed lus sanity. 'J lie VosMf-ehe Zeitnng says Mr Llovd George s cheap rhetoric shows how popular this vile, method 1 »f thought is in England. The Taeglische Ruiidschau declares thait if hif? visi.t to the front lijas noi taught Mr Lloyd George a lesson, tho German troops sooner or later will bring it home to him. GERMAN* PAPER. FOR BULGARIA. A German daily newspaper shortly will be established at Sofia. ALLEGED BREACH OF NEUTRALITY. Ill.spiro.dl Germlan origans, commenting «n the American aviator, RoekwellC death on the French front, vehemently protest-, against Amerk-a.'s breach of neutrality in allowing her citizens to enlist against Germany. TIIE GERMAN EXPLANATION. ' The latest explanation of the Sommo reverses say the Anglo-French infantry is worthless, but the banks of overwhelming artillery fire sometime enabled it to rush the .fortified positions that have been reduced to ruins. Thus George Quari, the Tageblatt's military critic, says the infantry fighting no longer i.s man against man hut man against cripples, wounded and dead. The trench in rushed onlv when it has been blown to dust. This is the enemy'* confession that his infnntrv i.s of poor quality. Quari overlooks tho

50,000 uinvounded Genu,mi ]>iisoners u the Sonime and forgets the euloigii officially bestowed on the German Gei oral Staff in .sparing tha infantry n Verdun by mentis of artillery prcpara tion. ATROCITIES J3Y BOXCARS ANI GERMANS. London. October 1. ,f The Daily Chronicle's Bucharest correspondent states it is more than Preble ablo tli'ait when all the 'hoirons perpetrated by the Bulgarians and Germans p at Turtakai are officially confirmed they [ "ill rival 'anything yet recoidedi in Balka.n warfare. It was a competition s between the two Allies which could inflict the 111 ovsit .torture: the Germans usually did things systematically, putting the Rumanian prisoners in Latches and shooting them in the market place and squares. A regular massacre of the Rumanian civil population was organized in whicli Bulgarian soldiery wa.s aided by Bulgarian residents, going from street to .street, killing, maiming •'and torturing. Some who escapedi narrate that among the Bulgarian participator® were well dressed women and i young men in light suits, the women inciting the children to share in the revel. Knives and hatchets were cm ployed Mid the women even used their teeth. Three are in. the Bucharest hospital to-dav. raring lunatics. A lad.y of ;i good Rumanian family, the wife of :t judge, hearing the' Rumanians hekig massacred, rushed to the tribunal to save her bushand. She arrived just in time to sec a hatchet deseeml 011 his head and clclave his ! body nearly in halves. Some Rumani- | j an officers found, her and recognised ' her and brought her to .Bucharest:. I During the previous fighting:, Bulgarian women and children followed the lines eif advance, stabbing nn<l torturing the wounded. Corpses were found with twenty and thirty cuts on them, ami dozens of Rumanian soldiers are in hospital who li'ave heon tortured on the battlefield. It is narrated that many women were armed with rifles.

A strict enquiry is proceeding, and an official report will be addressed to the AlLicK and neutrals.