GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 78, 30 October 1916, Page 5

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Four English aeroplane?" and eight; aviators flew 312£ miles, from' Lmbras to Bucharest,, in five hours. Frenck aeroplanes to. the, nunibei; of !2S have arrived in Roumania. Official.—A Dutch report states that the object dropped by a Zeppelin (as cabled on October 23) was part of a reservoir, and hot a bomb.

Mr Lloyd George, in a speech at Newport, saidf : tbe service Wales cou 1 wa£- to. sgjp* ply niore lies. He sufficient men for Brill's be found in J ' The Social : in tke Reichstag decided by, a Majority of. 57 to 15, to. vote for .the new war credits. ' ;- ,' r

Colonel Moraht, writing li the Berliner Tageblatt, says the French success at signifies the strength, unity, and determination Wffk tli» French troops, which; '-'the Germans must break.

The Auzae Bill 'inflicts a fine up to £lO for a first and up to £IOO for a

The Government has, partially relaxed the prohibition on the export of tallow, and some shipments have been made to the Allies. Sir T. Mackenzie points out that private and semi : public efforts to send comforts suit in much overlapping and waste, and he advisaesrihat everything be sent to Zealand War' tli*f New Zealand - """ : A German official mit- announces., that all captain? of enemy merchontmen captured will be .trenU-d lis prisoners, it being alleged that' their Governments have instructed tliem to carry on espionage. v

, The Russians captured Austrian v: trenches at Dornawatra, which weroj constructed on a new £lan, with fiie object of forcing the soldiers to fight under any circumstances. The trenches are thrice a man's height, and they arc closed with heavy doors, whereof the officers keep the key. Newspapers describe the seventyfives as ploughing up the Germans in Thursdfiy's counter-attack at Verdun. Three regiments melted away in two hours, and some battalions T%pvc re- = formed ten times. Mr Ashmead Bartlett. states that '< an eye-witness at Verdun says that - since the battle of the Somme opened, the Germans at Verdun have been putting up a gigantic bluff. Divisions are being constantly' withdrawn - and changed, and Verdun has become a rest camp for divisions shattered on the Somme. Oae-third to half the guns had been withdrawn, when finally General Joffre decided to fall on the enemv bands.