RUSSO-GERMAN FRONT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 162, 13 March 1915, Page 5

RUSSO-GERMAN FRONT.

AN EXTRAORDINARY POSITION. NEITHER SIDE CAN REMOVE GUNS. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) PETROGRAD,, March 12. A communique -states that Germans in the Pilitza region brought up new troops and advanced their guns to the open in front of our trenches. The gunners were killed and niaither side are now able to remove their guns. SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION. HERTZOG APPLAUDS AND ACCUSES. REBELS MAKE REPARATION. LONDON, March 12. CAPETOWN, March 12. Hert/.og, in the Assembly, attributed thle rebellion to the Government’s unconstitutional action. He admitted the Government had dene its duty in suppressing disorder. Neser, chairman of committees, announced that Beyers, on the 14th August, told commandants they were going to the border to receive Geman guns and ammunition, then return to Pretoria and establish a Republic. The rebels in Orangia have resolved to repay all damage done to some Loyaliistsj, who merely p-laimjed the cost price of articles commandeered.

A MAURAUDING GERMAN. ESCAPED FROM TSING TAO. (Reed. 9.35 a.mT) PEKIN, March 12. Captain von Pappenheimt, Gferman military attache and a party which escaped from Tsingtao, left Pekin after procuring Chinese passports to go on a hunting expedition. They reached Buhaidu, gcinjg to Manchuria, with twenty camels and a great quantity of explosives intending to blow up the Siberian railway. The Russians are endeavouring to capture Pappenheim, who has offered a Chinese official fifty thousand roubles for assistance. AMERICAN ANGER. AT GERMAN PIRACY. (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. American newspapers, of all classes, savagely comment on the sinking of the William Frye, as vandalism and piracy. It was sublime impudence for a piratle to enter an American port. BRITISH WORKERS. TAKE DECIDED STEPS. TO LOWER FOOD PRICES. (Reed. 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, March 12. At the Workers' Food Conference, Mr Henderson presiding it was resolved to summon the Government to reduce the price of Wheat and obtain the control of ships. PANAMA EXHIBITION. DEDICATiION OF AUSTRALIAN PAVILION. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 12. Tien thousand people witnessed .the dedication of the Australian Pavilion at the Panama Exhibition. Mr Deakin's and ether speeches were largely in favour of peace. Mr Clifton, the New Zealand Commissioner, concluded a brilliant address: "I hope your great President will find some way of bringing warring nations to their senses, and before this great Exposition closes its last days may be marked by the ccnferencie cf that which will mean an honourable and lasting seace."