GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 28 July 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

HOLLWEG’S MANOEUVRING. RUTHLESS SUBMARINING ADVOCATED BY TIRPITZ. (Reed 11.40 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, July 26. Hollweg’s first published extracts from the American Note are accompanied by semi-official statement, insisting on the correctness and politeness of the Note. The manoeuvre, however, failed as the complete text produced an explosion of anti-Ameri-ca sentiment. Newspapers and public are almost unanimous in favouring Tirpitz’s policy of ruthless submarining. ZEPPELIN DESTRUCTIONENCOURAGED IN ENGLAND. GERMAN DUPLICITY. TAKE HIM BY FORELOCK. (Reed 12.35 p.m.) LONDON, July 26. Baron Michelham, of Hellingly, has offered £IOOO to the first British aviators destroying a Zepp'ejlin in tjh e air, and £IOOO apiece for the next nine Zeppelins destroyed. Mr Isaacs states that although the, ultimatum did not expire tlli midnight, Germany at five in the afternoon of the. 4th August wirelessed worldwide, stating that war was declared and ships were to make for neutral ports as quickly as possible. Sh e thus saved a great part of her merchantile marine. Germany bad spent two millions upon these wireless stations, hut recouped it by the saving of a single one of her largest steamfejrs. A great explosion is reported at Malta. A military buliding was blown up, and 20 men killed.