Late War News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 November 1916, Page 3

Late War News

(Received This Day 9.10 a.m.) (Reuter Telegram). GERMAN' SUBMARINE WRECKED. Copenhagen, .Nov. 6. j A German submarine stranded on the "West Coast of Jutland. The crew blew her up after unsuccessful efforts to tow her off. A Berftn official statement admits that tho boat was U2O. (Times Service). BRITAIN'S AIR SERiVTCE. ■London, November 6. Lord Montagu Beaulieu, discussing the air crisis, writes that the air boardl should immediately cultivate imperial ideas regarding aviat'.On and become the- agency through which communications with the great dominions should be carried out. It is a clear the Mother Country never will be able in future to make war without the assistance of her grown-up, sturdy sturdy children. This, viewpoint must, in a special degree, be considered in connection with a new service like aviation The training facilities whi'th. any of the dominions possess exceed ours both in climate and country. There is also a growing supply of brave sagacious voting -men who have come: to the front from the dominions. Since the wa<r began the dominions have sent ' their best designers, inventors and engineers. and these will bib valuable regarding the manufacture of ltiachfoes. GERMAN RULE IN ALSACE AND LORRAINE. London. Nov. 6. The Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent says the Germans have created special courts in Alsace and Lorraine for the punishment of sympathy era with the Allies. The French language is forbidden and Strasbourg prison is full of Alsatians for speaking French. During July the sentence?

in Alsace and Lorraine courts totalled 3000 years. WOMEN AS RAILWAY WORKERS. Mr J. H. Thomas, M.P., is urging the Ta.ilwa.ymen to drop their prejudice against women ns railway workers. Ho foreshadowed the announcement of a war bonus and a minimum wage tor women.