GENERAL WAR ITEMS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 64, 14 November 1914, Page 5

GENERAL WAR ITEMS

(y COPPER SHIPMENTS TO NEUTRAL COUNTRIES. SATISFACTORY" ARRANGEMENTS ARRIVED AT. Press Association —Copyright. (Received 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, November 13. The Daily Telegraph’s Washington correspondent says that Sir Edward Grey lias informed Mr. Bryan that Britain will permit copper shipments not exceeding the consumption of neutral countries contiguous to the enemies if a guarantee is given they will not find any of the enemy. ENGLISH NON-COMBATANTS IN GERMANY. ORDERED TO LEAVE. LONDON, November 12. Reuter’s Amsterdam eorrspondent reports that the German authorities have again recommended English women and children, girls under 17, doctors, and other men over 55, to leave Germany. They may choose any train until November 20th, after which they will be transported in parties on certain days BAVARIAN PRINCE’S RIDICULOUS WORDS. LONDON, November 12. The Bavarian Crown Prince addressed a general order to his troops say-ing:—-Soldiers the eyes of the world arc upon you in your present task. Do not relax the struggle with the bated enemy until you break his arrogance once for all. He is already weakening. Numerous officers and privates of the enemy have voluntarily surrendered. A great decisive blow remains to be struck. Do not let the enemy slip be- 1 tween your teeth. We must conquer,” j CIVIL WAR IN ALBANIA. BERLIN, November 12. Albania has been pillaged. Anarchy reigns in the Valeria region, which is ej prey to civil war. The Governor w m forced to haul down the Turkish tl : hM Soldiers have been sent to restore ’ \ffl der. vH GERMAN TRENCHING METHODS- W SACRIFICE OP MEN. J LONDON, November .12. The Daily Telegraph’s Paris correspondent says that interviews with German wounded reveal that the follow- ■ ing method of beginning trenches under I fire is common with the German army. First the officer selects a man and orders him to divest himself of his rifle and heavy pack, to take a spado and J march from cover some paces to the I front. If ho refuses, the officer puts j his revolver to the man’s head and] covers him until he has turned the firs' I sed. The man seldom survives longoi | than that. A second man is then soni I out, a third, and a fourth, until the be I ginning of the trench is deep enough J to cover a man, when another is sent I forward with an armour-plate shield,* which is set up in the hole previously made, and enables the rest to work in comparative safety. On the average fifteen are shot down before the beginning of a trench is effected. KILLED IN ACTION. PRINCE OF WALES’ EQUERRY. Rec. 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13. Major William Cadogan, the Prince of Wales’ equerry, nas been killed in action. BANKRUPTCIES IN GERMANY. DEFICIT OF £25,000,000 IN HAMBURG ALONE. (Rec. 1.5 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 13. The Standard states that the petitions in bankruptcy died in Hamburg alone since the beginning of the war disclose a deficit of £25,000,000. THE KAISER AT COBLENTZ GUARDED BY TWO ZEPPELINS. (Received 1.5 p.m.) THE HAGUE, November 13. A telegram from Berlin states that the Kaiser is now at Coblentz. Two Zeppelins are constantly circling over the residence. A piGHT FOR VANTAGE POINTS. (Rec. 10.4 Oa.m). LONDON, Nov. 13. The fighting in Belgium and northern Prance is really for vantage points for ground, such as woods and quarries, which enable a battery or two to become unasailable from any position, and also enables the organising of attacks behind.