GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1833, 30 May 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

GERMAN “MISSIONS” TO PERSIA.

At the last meeting of the Munich Geographical Society it was announced that several of the German conspirators in Persia who had fallen into Russian hands have now returned home. One of them is Professor E. Zugmeyer, who “almost three years ago was entrusted with an important mission” —a mission which was cut short by “the co-op-eration of Russia and England in Persia.” Another member of the party who has returned to Germany is a Munich doctor named Niedermeyer,

ANOTHER GERMAN OUTRAGE. There is reason to believe that the Germans are inoculating animals in the Argentine with bacilli. The British authorities have informed the Argentine Government that numbers of horses and mules reaching England from the Argentine have been found to be suffering from glanders, a disease which is staled to be practically non-exist-ent in the Argentine. The chief effect of this fresh act of barbarism is likely (o be felt in Argentine itself, as, owing to the rigorous examination of animals arriving in Britain, all contaminated beasts are discovered before landing. PAPER SUITS IN GERMANY. Paper trousers are now being worn by a large proportion of the men in Germany. Woollen clothes are quite unobtainable by civilians* the whole of the available stocks of woollen fabrics, and even huge quantities of kecond-hand (do)lung having been taken by the military authorities to enable them to furnish clothing for the armies. Whole suits are being sold to civilians which contain practically no fabric but paper, and the demand exceeds the supply. Boots with wooden soles are worn even by the better classes. TRAITOR IN AMERICA. David Honkes, formerly a captain of the Kith United States Infantry, has been sentenced to 25 years’ hard labour for aiding the enemy. An investigation of the accused’s papers disclosed the fact that in spite of his holding a commission he had contributed to Count Bern-i stuff’s propaganda fund, and, had worked hard for a “peace at any price.” Honkes was brought back from France, after lie had insisted that the should be relieved of his; duly, because he wished to avoid lighting relatives and friends. Hou-

kes was born in America, of a tierman father, and enlisted as a private in the Spanish War.