MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 September 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

GEM AN REPORT DENIED. fiMIl PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, Sept. 25. Tim Admiralty denies the German allegation that Ostend Cathedral was struck in the recent bombardment. The photographs indicate that the factory dock sunk and the workshop and dockyard were completely demolished. Seven other places were damaged. THE BUTTER IMPORT. [AUSTRALIAN it N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION it REUTER.] (Received This Dav at 11.25. a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 25. The Press Bureau states: —Lord Rhondda has been appointed to an Advisory Committee of eight, including three large importers to arrange details of a scheme for the complete control of the imports of butter.

enemy ships. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received This Day at noon.) BANKOK, September 25. ; ■ The Prize Court condemned six I German steamers of a tonnage of 802 J. SPIES ACCOUNTED FOR. | [PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] (Recived This Dav at 12.25. p.nO i AMSTERDAM, September 25. The Telegraph states that, in the past, three weeks thirty were shot tor es pionngo. MONEY MAKES MONEY. (Received This Dav at 12.25. p.wO LONDON, September 25. The Bank of Australia after paying a bonus to its staff, shows a profit of £205,204. Tho dividend for the half year is 14% with a bonus of 3%. GERMAN OUTRAGES. VILE METHODS OF THE ENEMY. LONDON, September 25. A White Paper lvas been issued which gives shocking details of the treatment of British prisoners and na tiros in German East Africa, Sworn (depositions prove that civilians including missionaries and ladies, were /compelled to carry out ’disgusting tasks in order to humiliate them m the eyes of the natives and to undermine* British prestige. Several missionaries were confined in vermin in- , felted cells for the most trivial of fences and tho women were tioatod with scandalous indecency in the preI senee of native guards. : The natives were continually beaten with hippopotamus hide whips. The victim would be laid in the centre of ! the prjiflbn yjamp with five natives holding his limbs and bead, while a ; sergeant applied 25 lashes. | After parade at Roma sometimes as many as ft quarter of the native soldiers many of whom had been pressed into service, were flogged form intakes at drill. j FIGHTING IN AFRICA. | ITALIANS ROUT THE ENEMY. I ROME. September 25. I After six hours’ hard fighting an * Italian column on September 20th. routed 7000 enemy riflemen and 800 cavalry with artillery and machineguns. They wore commanded by -*‘uri ' Pasha and other Turks at Zangur and - in the region of southern Tripoli. i 'Hie enemy’s losses are estimated at 1600. A quantity of material, all of , German make was captured.