THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 March 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

4 VORIWAERTS WANTS PEIAOE. London, March 26. "The Vorvviaerts" urges Dr. von iJcthmann Hollweg to offer peace to Russia, adding: "The outlook of the war has suddenly changed. We no longer light Czarism and its Allies, but an alliance of the world's democratically governed peoples which asserts its will to tear down in Germany the last bulwark of reaction." C'N THE FRENCH FRONT. London, 'March 26. Great battles- in France are developing with immense 'possibilities. French critics are exhilarated, declaring that the greatest event since the j Battle of the Marne may be expected i immediately. } I (Received This Day,8.45 a.m.) SENSATIONAL. London, March 28. The Bernstorfi "mystery box" has been opened at the Foreign Office, in the Swedish Minister's' presence. Information as to the nature of contents is unavailable. RUSSIA'S NEW POLICY. I Stockholm, March 28. Mr .Miliukoff announces a new regime that will give Finland complete autonomy and a legal oonstjitutijonj. Mr Miliukoff adds that Sweden therefore will have nothing to fear from Russia, and nothing need prevent a cordial relation being established. The Russian Government announces that -an amnesty has been granted to three thousand young Finns, who, desperate at seeing their country oppressed under Ozarism, ■entered the* German army. U.S.A. NAVAL SERVICE. New York, March 28. The Navy League is opened to recruit 100,000 naval men. GERMAN BRUTALITY. New York, March 28. Wythe- Williams, the New York Times' Paris correspondent, was the first civilian to survey the whole 300 square miles of reconquered territory. He cables: We look into the utter blackness of the German soul. Other atrocities are trifling compared to this orgy of hatred and frightfulnees. The wilful destruction is indescribable. I was impressed by the enormous strength of the evacuated positions. The main concrete line seemed to be impregnable; it was practically ten miles from barrier to barrier, with barbed wire and solid formation. I am convinced that the inhabitants lived in bondage worse than that of a galley slave. American food was received, but much of it was taken iby the Germans themselves. Old men, women 'and 'children and Cripples were left near the charred remains of houses. Young . women and girls were herded with the retreating army in slavery one does not care to contemplate. A woman told m© that her husband was shot, her two sons sent into 'bondage, and three daughters forcibly carried off. This is a typical experience. COMITADJIS. Athens, March 28. Concerning the suppression of comitadjis, General Sarrail 'announces that certain armed comitadjis, including a Greek officer, were captured: and shot. He has given orders to shoot al lii-regulare; he cannot allow tthis bands to remain, as they involve the question of the security of the Eastern Army. DESTROYER SUNK. A-N.Z. and Renter Servioe). London, 'March 28. The Admiralty reports that a British destroyer recently was mined and sunk in the Channel. Only four officers and seventeen men were saved. (Reecived This Day 11.10 a.m.) BERESFORED'S' BELIEFS. . London, March 28. In the House of Lords, (Lord Beresford said he did not think the British captures of German submarine® equivalent to the German output of new boats. He predicted that there i would be a world famine during the next three years. He believed the Germans had more men and more food than was imagined. The For--1 eign Office had too much power ever | the navy. !We were very much,

blockaded. {Losses of the, British, Allied and Neutrals, in February, were : - 281 vesels out of 505,000 tons. In 1 March, to date, 255 vessels of 520,000 1 tons (had been lost. The would become worse as the days be- ] came longer and the weather calmer. AUSTRIAN MATTERS. j j London, March 28. ; A. Zurich wireless message states j that on pretexts that assistance was I rendered to the Rumanian invaders, | the Hungarian authorities have sen- I tenced to death 236 Transylvania Ru- | manians, including the principal in- j tellectuajls. KLausenburg, tseraral j professors, doctors, and orthodox priests. At Kronstadt eleven hundred were sentenced to servitude for life. Properties to the number of j 600 were confiscated. Twenty-six factories in Bohemia wjill ibe closed, owing to the shortage of beetroot. w—'