AUSTRIA’S LAST EXTREMITY

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 105, 6 January 1915, Page 5

AUSTRIA’S LAST EXTREMITY

LAST LINE CALLED UP. SOLDIERS TO EQUIP THEMSEjLVES Press Association —Copyright, (Reed. 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 5. Berne, Switzerland, reports,to which considerable significance is attached, that Austrian proclamations are made calling out the last line of reservists. Medical examination is waived, and each soldier ia required to bring a bowl/knife a,nd fork, stout pair of boots, warm clothing and blankets. THE POPE’S HELP IMPLORED. AGAINST AUSTRIAN THREAT. TO BLOW UP CRACOW. r ; . (Reed. 8.55 a.m.) S? LONDON, Jan. 5. The "Daily Mail’s” Petrograd co&respOndent says the Poles sent a delegation to implore the Pope’s help in saving the Cathedral at Cracow, in case the Austrians carry out their threat to blow up the city. AMERICAN CONTRABAND. A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION. S • . _ S- : (Reed. 8.55 a.m.) LONDON. Jan. 5. A letter in the “Morning Post.” by Arthur Kitson, suggests that the simplest way out of the contraband difficulty is for Britain to take for the Entente the'cotton and copper supply ofithe United States for a year or two. This would shorten the war, by depriving Germany of these commodities. -■ RUSSIA AND TURKEY. WHOLE ARMY CORPS CAPTURED. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) ;■ LONDON, Jan. 5. Reuter’s correspondent states that the Russians at Sarykamish captured the whole 6t the Ninth Turkish Army Corps. 5 GERMAN LYING EXPOSED. THE NAVAL ,-FIGHT OFF CHILI. '• (Reed. 8,45. a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 5. A writer named Verbruggen publishes, in a Santiago de Chile newspaper, “La Patrie,” a German clergyman’s interview' with a German officer after the naval engagement off 'Coronel. The officer stated, confidentially, on his ship there were 13G wounded, not, six as officially stated. He admitted the sea was not excessively heavy. They did not rescue the British, because of an order not t,o rescue. Ver bruggen attests the absolute truth of Ihe interview. • A BRITISH PROTEST. AGAINST CONDITIONS IN MEXICO. *•'. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.) r NEW YORK, Jan. 5. The “Times” states that Britain pro. tested to tbe United States regarding conditions in Mexico, and interference with British property, especially on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where a tunnel, bridges and railway wer. blown up TO CONTROL BREADSTUFF**. GERMAN GOVERNMENT’S V, SCHEME, AMSTERDAM, Jan. 5. The Gerjaan Government is forming a co-operative company with a large -capital to control breadstuff*. It will T)0 empowered to requisition stocks. 'The profits pre limited to five per cent. •The prospectus indicates that imports •i&aiinot be relied on during the war.