TO-DAY'S WAR NEWS.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 29 January 1918, Page 3

TO-DAY'S WAR NEWS.

© GERMAN CITY It AIDED. A NIGHT OF TEItllOIl. "GIVE US PEACE." [ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH —COPYRIGHT.J [Plill I'KI'.HS ASSOCIATION. ) lleceive'd This Day, 10 .15London, January 28. The Daily Express Geneva correspondent says the Jiritish raid on Mannheim 011 Thursday eclipsed all other raids, showing Germany the penalties that may he expected for bombing open towns. Travellers in hot. flight from Mannheim tell that the town spent a night of terror. Panicstricken people rushed into the streets half clothed. The British fliers swooped so low that the engines could be heard from the streets. They surprised the German anti-aircraft gunners. One bomb fell in the barracks. When the British departed an angry crowd gathered in the market square crying: "Down with war. Give us peace !" ON THE BRINK C?F THE ABYSS. GERMANS SUSPECT EACH OTHER. Received This Day, 10 .15Amsterdam, January 28. The Frankfurter Gazette reports an unprecedented tumult in Berlin pqlitical circles. The Pan. Germans are kicking up a tremendous row again, declaring that Hindenburg and Ludendorif threaten to retire. The Deutsclies Tages Zeitung assails Iluhlmann, Czernin, Hertling and Count llodem, Finance Minister. The Tages Zeitung begs the confederated German princes to intervene energetically and prevent Germany sinking into the abyss which these four men are preparing for her, adding: "The King of Bavaria has already approached the Kaiser, on the matter." While Count Czernin's declaration that he sent a copy of his speech to President Wilson was cheered in the Austrian House, the announcement was graeted with howls of rage by the German annexationists. The Deutsche Tages Zeitung says Czernin's speech raises serious questions regarding the Austrian alliance. BIG CI7NARDER~ TORPEdoed. Received This Day, 10 .15London, January 28. The Irish Daily Telegraph states that the Cunarder Andama with forty passengers and 200 of a crew was torpedoed off the Lister coast. The ship was abandoned and all hands were picked up Tie liner did not sink and it is hoped she will be brought to port. __ AMERICA PREPARED. EXPECTATIONS EXCEEDED. MANY MEN SENT TO FRANCE. Received This Day, 10 .15Washington, January 2b. Mr Baker has issued a statement that every man in tlnrtytwo Army camps is ready to be sent to France. Washington, January 2S. Mr Baker, the. War Secretary, made a statement to the _ Senate Military Committee with the puipose of refuting the charges that the War Department had broken down. Mr Baker did not deny that mistakes and false starts had been made, adding:''lt is impossible to conduct a great enterprise without shortcomings, but the eix'ors were quickly rectified. The War Department consumed it better to send men to camp without rifles than to wait foi the rifles. , , Despite the fact that many times the number of troops had been despatched to France tlia r was expected no nia,ii went untrained or without a rifle. I'i.jnce desired American troops quickly, s) they had agreed to supply them and also the biggest guns.