WAR NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 71, 23 November 1914, Page 3

WAR NEWS

! GERMAN LIE FACTORY. 'DASTARDLY STORIES CIRCULATED IN URITED STATES. | AMERICAN PRESS GIVES TACIT ENDORSEMENT. ' BRITISH AND FRENCH EMBASSIES TRY TO STEM TIDE OF \ LIES. ) j Press Association— Copyright. NEW YORK, November 21. ■ i Berlin is still despatching budgets i of lies throughout the United Stales by j mean s of the Salyville wireless. j The latest samples include alleged j statements cf the London Times aoj knowledging enormous Russian losses, I that the rebel army lias Surrounded | Bloemfontein; that a Sudanese rising | lias taken place at Alexandria; that j serious British defeats have occurred ! off the Arabian coast. ' Tbe American press daily publishes I these reports without comment. Several violent pro-German papers are being published regular?y in Western States, the authorities making no objection. • The British and French Embassies ' at Washington are regularly issuing bulletins with the object of counteracting the German mendacity cami paign. DURATION OF THE WAR. THE TASK BEFORE THE ALLIES. (Received ') a.m.) LONDON, November 22. Sir J. Simmon, at a recruiting meeting at Ashton-under-Lyne said that ; the war would not end until the Allies ■ righted Belgium's wrongs and crushed the hateful spirit of Prussian militarism, which was a menace to Europe, that was worse than war, not only to the smaller natiou s but to the Germans themselves. HOSTILE SUBJESTS IN HAMBURG ORDERED TO LEAVE AT SHORT NOTICE. AMSTERDAM", November 22. All subjects of hostile countries I have been ordered to leave Hamburg Iby the 29th. They may reside in an- | other large district subject to restrlc- ! tions. | BELGIAN REFUGEES FOR ENGLAND. SCHEME IN OPERATION IN HOLLAND. I • (Received 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, November 22. Two Britishers, members of the ' House of Commons are in Holland ofI ficially arranging for the emigration cf j many Belgians to England, with the I British Government's assistance. \ There are. over a quarter of a million i refugees in Dutch territory. ! DARE-DEVIL FRENCHMAN'S FEAT. j GERMAN SOLDIERS HEAR TRUTH FOR THE FIRST TIME. (Received 8.50 p.m.) . j PARIS, November 23. ! The opposing trenches in seme dis- . I tricts are so close that the infantry |i s able to exchange messages. A dare-devil Frenchman speaking in i Get man left the French entrenchment, ; stood up and translated the full text cf the French communique, prefacing j it. by the remark: " Your officers all ' tell you lies. Here's the truth. The Germans held their fire to listen to the Frenchman who escaped by sud. I denly jumping back into the French J lines before the Germans had realised that the message had finished.

! ANDENNE'S RECORD OF ATROCOTIES. j j NO OTHER TOWN SEEN SO MANY I GERMAN •' CULTURE'S " CROWN- : ING GLORY. LONDON, November 21. | The Press Bureau has issued the | Belgian Commission's third report. It j states that no other town has seen so j many scenes c? atrocity and cruelty ! as Andenne. Three hundred were mas- ! sacred in the presence of their wives ; and children and three hundred houses j burned in Andenne and Seilles. Woj men were ordered to gather the bodies and wash the blood from the i streets' and houses. THE TENNZ-SSEE INCIDENT. NOT A HOSTILE ACT. WASHINGTON, November 21. Captain Decker, of the Tennessee, I reports that the firing on the United States warships by the Turks in Asia j Minor was not a hostile act. It was merely intended to give warning to prevent the Tennessee entering the harbour of Smyrna, which Turkey had declared closed. THE PORTE'S EXPLANATION. WASHINGTON, November 22. The Ports explains that the shot fired on the Tennessee's launch was a, warning against mines. BAVARIANS DISCONTENTED, INVARIABLY SACRIFICED BY THE KAISER. 100.noil LEFT OUT OF 300,000. (Received. 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 22. A Dutch newspaper confirms the report that the. discontent among Bavar- ; ian officers is increasing. They complain that they are sacrificed by the Kaiser, being always placed in the front of the firing line. They declare that out of three hundred thousand men only a third survives. GERMAN LEADERS SUICIDE. PETROGRAD, November 21. Generals von Bredow and von Bromel suicided at Czenstochowa after the great German defeat. A GERMAN REPORT. AMSTERDAM, November 21. A German official report states that no decision has yet been reached in the lighting round Lodz and east of Czenstochowa. POLISH COMPLIMENTS. PETROGRAD, November 21. The Kaiser offered to xeplace Czenstcchowa's figures of the Virgin and the golden crown which the Germans stole, but the Poles rejected the offer as blasphemy, emanating * from liars, incendiaries and violators and murderers of women and children.