GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1752, 28 August 1917, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE EGYPTIAN COMMAND. When Hie appointment of Sir Edmund Alienin' to I lie Egyptian command, in succession to Sir Archihald Murray, was announced, the I'anious cavalry general was in London enjoying' a brief rest. Next to Sir Douglas Haig’, none of the commanders on the western front has seen s« much of the campaign, from tlie first days of the German rush to Paris to the present ascendancy of the Allies, as Sir Edmund Alienin'. It was he who, after accomplishing splendid work as the leader of: the British cavalry during the historic retreat, succeeded Sir -Herbert Plainer in the command of the Fifth Army Corps, rather over two years ago, when (he older officer took the place of General Sir Horace SmithDorrien at the head of (ho Second Army. Sir Edmund served in this capacity in the sector which has witnessed Sir Herbert's triumph in June, and some months later was given, the command of the Third Army. It was Sir Edmund Alicnby who inaugurated the 1017 offeirsV ' in April by the battle of Arras. GERMAN ‘-'MODESTY.'’ ii is; not (he German habit to boast, said the Kaiser the oilier day. Mr William Archer has collected “ATI Goins of German Thought,” from which a few examples of Teutonic'modesty may he culled: — ‘‘We must vanquish, because the downfall of Germanism would moan ilie downfall cf humanity.” —Pastor fv. Konig. ‘‘We mu-1 win, because if wo were defeated no one in the whole world could any longer cherish any remnant of belief in (ruth and right, in the God, or, indeed, in any higher Power which wisely and justly guides the destinies of humanity.” -W, Ile’m. “The German people is always right, because it is the, German people, and numbers 87,00t),000 •muls." —(). R. Taiinenberg. “Germany is precisely—who •would venture t-> deny it? —the representative of the highest morality, dl the purest humanity, of the most ■ •hastened Christianity,” Pastor ill. Franc he. GERMAN BI'CCANEFRS. An extraordinaip; exploit on the part of certain Germans interned at Lourenco Marques was recently reported. As the outcome of a, conspiraey hatched among these interned men, a parly of 40 prisoners obtained revolvers through some mysterious channel, -overpowered and gagged their guard, and escaped. Half the party immediately plunged into the low veldt wilderness surrounding the town, while the others boldly proceeded to the harbour, where they found a brig and boarded her, the captain being forced by their t'areals to make sail. At this juncture a shore battery observed sonu-thing of what was going on and prevented the vessel sailing. Thus foiled, the Germans on the brig returned to the shore and plunged into (he bush, where they rejoined their comrades. The Portuguese authorities promptly sent a party of cavalry in pursuit if the fugitives, and an encounter took place, with the result that after two Germans had been killed and ■ighl wounded the rest of the fugiives .surrendered. “G()TT STRAFE AMERICA.” In Germany itself, and also in Austria, the hatred at present agninsl'tlm United States and everything American almost exceeds belief, says a correspondent in Borne, it is no longer “Golt strafe England,” but “Golt strafe America,” which is the cuckoo cry; and at public lectures, in churches, and Roman Catholic chapels, (bo uticranccs of speakers and preachers breathe out llircatcnings and slaughters against the United States. No reports, however, are permitted io appear in the press. The,, one section of the public who bless Proddent Wilson are the democrats. All (he hyphenated Americans still in Germany have been mobilised to make inflammatory speeches aguinst the United States, President Wilson, Mr Lansing, Mr Roosevelt, and, above all, Mr Gerard, who is called “Judas Gerard.” A former American consul, who was dismissed from the United States consular service, now has become a kind of German propagandist agent. Other men of like character are employed in Berlin manufacturing “American passports” for the purpose of enabling pseudo-Americans to go as German spies to neutral and, if possible, allied countries. PRINCESS MARY’S Y.A.D, Princess Mary has organised a voluntary aid detachment, which has been registered under the War Office. Colonel James Cantlie, M.fhi is giving a course of lectures' on first aid to' this detachment.