GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 11 August 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

THE ROLL OP HONOUR. NEW ZEALAND FORCES. LATEST CASUALTY LIST. GERMAN REPRISALS. PARIS, August 9. Five thousand French prisoners chosen on account of their education and rank are in camp at Neukirchenland, and are treated like convicts, as reprisals for the conviction, aft,er courtmartial, of several German looters who were caught red-handed. AN ITALIAN IN GERMANY CLANDESTINE NEWSPAPERS PUBLISHED. -PERTINENT QUESTIONS ASKED. (Reed 1.15 p.m.) : , . ' * ROME, August S. An Italian who has been travelling in Germany says that Clandestine newspapers are widely published and .read. They ar e asking at what price ( have results been gained during a year of war, and what hope is there of arriving at a peace such as they desire. A famine is threatening in metals, not in bread. Editions of newspapers not purchasable outside Germany admit a shortage of munitions, and there may soon be imminent wonder whether German science can find substitutes for ingredients lacking. GERMAN MUTINEERS REFUSE TO WORK RINGLEADERS SHOT HAVRE August 6 Mutineers in the garrisons at Liege, Ghent and Bruges refused to march to replace exhausted troops on the 1 Yser front. Th e ringleaders were shot in thej presence of their comrades. ON BOARD KING EDWARD VIIThe “North Sea Timejs” is an illustrated newspaper printed on board the battleship “King Edward VII,” by one Scribe and two Pharisees. It is an interesting publication, as the few following excerpts will disclose: Most of the Gentian submarines are U’s, or at any rate they U’sed to be —if they are not all U’sed up. Do we< hat e Germany?, No, not at all, we love ’em. This war is simply : a skylark. Say, Pitcher, all right for your tot to-day? No. Townie, sorry the skipper’s coming round for mine. It’s a wonder the Germans haven’t thought of torpedoing the Gulf Stream and so freezing ,us in. That would he n —ice. Dear J—. I am sending you postal not e for 10/ which I hope you will get, but you may not as this letter has to pass the ce : nsor. Overheard on the Queen Mary—Say, Lofty, do you think we shall ever get to Berlin? Why, of course, what thej blazes do you think we have been! practising the goos e step for, Note — j This exercise is carried out at physi-! cal drill every morning on many bat- s tleships. |