WAR NEWS

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

W AR NEWS

BREACHES OF NEUTRALITY. , SOUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS WARN GERMAN CRUISERS. . WASHINGTON, November 12. j The State Department announces > that Britain and France have warned Ecuador and Colombia that they must keep neutral, owing to the presence of German ships in Pacific waters. The Allied Ambassadors expressed the hope that the United States would bring pressure to bear to induce the South American republics to accede to the Allie 'a request. } It is understood proofs exist that wireless messages were allowed from the republics warning the German warships of the whereabouts of the British cruisers. WASHINGTON November 12. It is definitely stated that the British Government’s representatives to the American Government concerning the South American breaches of neutrality included a statement that the loss of the Good Hope and the Monmouth was directly due to wireless information afforded to German cruisers through sympathisers ashore. The Chilian Ambassador assured Sir Gordon Spring-Rice that Chili was taking every step to close all suspected wireless stations. The Colombian and Ecuadorian Ministers denied that their Governments had any cognisance cf allege dunvbgkqj ETAOlvyßhtrie SH leged unneutral acts. j ALLIED WARSHIPS OFF FIJI. SAN FRANCISCO, November 12. The Ventura, which has arrived, reports seeing some warships off Fiji. Officers from the warships boarded the Ventura and examined her papers. NEW ZEALAND’S MESSAGE APPRECIATED. SYDNEY, November 13. The Hon. Fisher cabled Mr. Massey; Read your warm-hearted message of congratulations to the Sydney to Parliament. It was received with cheers. EMDEN RELICS. ■ WANTED FOR FEDERAL CAPITAL. MELBOURNE, November 13. Searchers are endeavouring to obtain the Emden’s guns and anchor for the 'Federal capital. INJURED MEN SHOT AND BODIES STRIPPED. LONDON, November 12. Many German wounded were brought to French hospitals naked. Comrades had stripped them -and sent their clothes to Germany for fresh drafts. One of the wounded said the German Red Cross had orders to pick up officers only unless there was ample room for the men. Several times he saw sevral wounded men shot as they lay on tho field, and stripped of unif-rtns and accoutrement before their bodies were cold.—Times and Sydney Sun services. REFUSED TO ADVANCE. GERMANS’ SUMMARY PUNISHMENT. LONDON, November 32. The Figaro (Paris) states that the Allies found numerous bodies of Germans tied to trees in the vicinity of Ypres. They had been executed because they refused to advance.