GENERAL NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 67, 19 July 1915, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

United Press Association, v, ■ Amsterdam, July >B. . Three Belgian officers went, to Ypres during two German bombardments. • and rescued some celebrated paintings , from Saint Martin’s Church and the Cloth Hall, and removed them to ■ France for safety. , i Rome. July 17. v ' ; The Pope has written to Emperor Franz Josef, exhorting him to respect the international law of humanity and f to spare towns containing priceless) works of religious art. During the capture of Monte .Veto a Sicilian soldier named Dimarco. ■ after a fierce struggle on the edge- of : a precipice, lassoed and captured au Austrian Alajor-Goiferal. King Emanuel decorated Dimarco with a gold medal. Rome. July 17. It is semi-officially announced that while a surpliced priest, accompanied by two medical men and stretcherbearers, carrying a white flag, was burying thirty Austrians outside the Italian trenches, they were deliberate! v tired on by the Austrians at . a short distance. The priest and two bearers were wounded. and the funeral was abandoned.