KITCHENER IN ATHENS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 22 November 1915, Page 5

KITCHENER IN ATHENS

CREEK ANXIETY ALLAYED tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmi A MOMENTOUS-CHANGE EXPECTED GERMAN NEWSPAPER FEARS THE CHANGE VENEZELISTS INDICTED FOR TREASON KITCHENER INTERVIEWS CONSTANTINE ■ ! . -lie _ LENCTHY CABINET MEETING FOLLOWS KITCHENER HAS ILEFT ATHENS

THE BALKANS. GREECE'S SIGNIFICANT ACTION. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20. A Berlin private message states that Greece has ordered all Greek perchantmen in French and Italian ports to withdraw immediately. IMPORTANT EVENTS EXPECTED. WITHIN 48 HOURS. ; LONDON, Nov. 20. Athens messages do not confirm the German report that the Allies have delivered an ultimatum to Greece, but correspondents' messages tend to give credence to the belief that important developments will immediately Tesult in a change in the present critical situation. WHAT WILL IT BE? LONDON, Nov. 20. * An Athens message says: There is no news about Lord Kitchener, but correspondents assert there are reasons to expect an important change within 48 hours. THE GREEK ATTITUDE. KITCHENER INTERVIEWS CONSTANTINE. A LENGTHY CABINET FOLLOWS. KITCHENER HAS LEFT ATHENS. ATHENS, Nov. 20. King Constantine received Lord Kitchener, accompanied by the British Minister. (Reed. 9.10 a.m.) ATHENS, November 21. A lengthy Cabniet meeting followed Lord Kitchener's interviews with Constantine and Skoulousis, Kitchener has left Athens. t A LENGTHY AUDIENCE. ATHENS, November 20. Lord Kitchener arrived on Saturday morning and lunched at the Legation. King Constantine granted an audience to Lord Kitchener and Elliot for upwards of an hour in the afternoon. Lord Kitchener was loudly cheered at the Palace. INTERVIEW WITH GREEK PREMIER. ATHENS, November 20. Lord Kitchener visited M. Skouloudis (Greek Premier), and conversed for two hours. A large crowd heartilycheered him. KITCHENER A SOURCE OF STRENGTH. LIKELY TO IMPRESS COfNSTANTINE. LONDON, November 21. An Athens message says: Lord Kitchener's presence is a source of immense strength and is calculated to impress King Constantine that the time has come to abandon indecision. KITCHENER JfLLAYS ANXIETY. ATHENS, November 20. Lord Kitchener's presence has somewhat allayed the anxiety aroused by the announcement that the Allies were determined to bring pressure to bear on Greece. The announcement caused indignation in official circles, which hold Government is seekiig a. solution satisfactory to the Powerj scna compatible with -Greece's dignity.'

GERMAN NEWSPAPER'S FEARS. GREECE'S POLICY MAY CHANGE. OWING TO KITCHENER'S VISIT. (Reed 9.10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, November 21. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" says in an editorial that it fears Kitchener's visit? will produce a sudden change in Greece's policy. GREECE STILL A MYSTERY. A BERLIN REPORT. VENIZELISTS INDICTED FOR TREASON. (Rec. 8.35 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Nov. 21. It is reported from Berlin that Scouloudis is indicting several Venizelos' followers in Crete for high treason. MAY BE OF USE. GERMANS TEACHING GERMAN. • •■"* ' (Rec. 8.35 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Nov. 21. Travellers from Maubeuge, Turcoing, and other occupied towns state that the Germans are compelling men. women, and children, between the ages of 12 and G 5, to learn German. They are fined five marks for every lesson missed. GREEK PROMISES NOT ACCEPTED. ALLIES WANT GUARANTEES. LONDON, Nov. 20. Reuter's Malta correspondent says it is understood that Greece's consent to allowing the withdrawal of the Anglo-French-Serbian troops into Greece if the occasion arises will not satisfy the Allies without sufficient guarantees. There are indications that the Allies demand the immediate intervention or the immediate demobilisation of the Greek army. ALLIES TAKING PRECAUTIONS. LONDON, Nov. 20. The Petit Journal says the Allies are going to take the guarantees they deem requisite in connection with Greece's consent in order to ensure complete security of the troops and operations in the Balkans. REPORTED BLOCKADE BY ALLIES DEEP IMPRESSION IN GREECE. LONDON, Nov. 20. An exchange telegraph. from Athens states that newspapers publish a British Legation communique stating that the Entente has declared an economic blockade on Greece. The communique created a deep impression in all' circles. The Government has no official knowledge of the English communique. GERMAN SUBMARINES. FOR THE MEDITERRANEAN. (Reed 10.5 a.m.) GENEVA, (Nov. 21. Bulgarian reports state that many German submraines are passing towards Turkey to German workshops at Rodosto, where they are refitted. ENEMY ADVANCE ON PRISTINA. AMSTERDAM. Nov. 20. An Austrian communique says: The German-Bulgarian advance on Prishtina is progressing.

SERVIANS RETIRING ORDERLY. LOSING NO PRISONERS. ONLY OLD GUNS CAPTURED. GHASTLY BULGAR ATROCITIES. GERMANS INTERVENE. (Reed 10.5 a.m.) 1 ATHENS, November 21. Arrivals from the front report that the Serbian retreat is orderly. They have lost no prisoners, only guns being captured which were old and of little value. So ghastly were the Bulgarian atrocities at Pirot that the Aus-tro-Germans intervened at places near Nish to save innocent people. RETREATING SERVIANS. ' - ... - STOPPED BY THE BULGARS. PARIS, Novembe* 20. The "Petit Journal" says Serbians from Monastir had advnaced several kilometres towards Prilep when the apparently stopped them. INVASION OF OLD SERVIA. BERNE. Nov. 20. German advices state that the Aus-tro-Gernians have entered Rashka, thus completing the invasion of Old Servia. The Servian Government has gone to Pri.zrend. ROME, Nov. 20. The Messagero states that AngloFrench marines who participated in the defence of Belgrade have reached Resna, on the Albanian frontier. SERVIANS FALLING BACK. ON GREEK FROTIER, I WILL THEY BE DISARMED? LONDON, Nov. 20. An Athens message says: There are indications that the Serbians are hard-pressed in the Monastir region and are falling back on the Greek frontier, which is heavily guarded, but there is a general expectation that the Serbians will not be disarmed. ————————— 5,000 SERBIANS CAPTURED. AMSTEDAM, Nov. 20. A German communique says: During yesterday's successful pursuing battles, 5,000 Serbians were captured. i BULGARIANS OCCUPY MONASTIR. SERVIANS IN FULL RETREAT. ROME, November 20. The "Tribuna's" Athens correspondent says the Bulgarians have occupied Monastir. The Serbians are in full retreat. . ■■■: <t « . ■ , ; r FRENCH REPULSE BULGARS PAR*IS, November 20. A communique states: We repulsed a Bulgarian attack at Strumnitza with appreciative enemy losses. ATROCITIES BY BULGARIANS. 1 WOMEN BURNED ALIVE. PARIS, Nov. 20. An official wireless states that Serbian refugees at Salonika give most terrible details of atrocities by the Bulgar soldiery, which surpass the worst horrors of 1913. All Serbians captured are massacred, regardless of sex or age, with the utmost refinement of torture. There were unnameable cruelties at Nish, where hundreds cf women and children were burnt alive in churches where they had refuged. Not a house was left standing in Macedonia after the Bulgars had passed. THE POSITION SUMMED UP. ALLIES MUST ACT QUICKLY. LONDON, Nov. 21. Military critics, summing up the position in Servia, say the Northern Serbian army is falling back into Montenegro, and the Southern Serbians are divided, if not surrounded, at Babun. They are not in effective touch with the Allies and may be compelled to retire to Albania. If Italian correspondents are right, we are liable to incur Greece's hostility when in difficulties. Within a fortnight heavy German reinforcements Avill reach the Near East. The Allies must act quickly. AUSTRIANS' SAD PLIGHT. LONDON, Nov. 21. Newspapers in Vienna state that the Austrian forces are encamped in deep, snow in the Serbian mountains and are suffering terribly from cold. They have the greatest difficulty in keeping communications open and bringing up supplies. MONASTIR STILL SAFE. SALONIKA, Nov. 21. ' It is stated that the Bulgarians are monoeuvring in the Prilnp regioon and have suspended their march on Monastir.

FRENCH TRANSPORT TORPEDOED. IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. 53 OUT OP 800 SAVED. BRUTAL GERMAN OFFICERS. (Reed 8.25 a.m.) LONDON, (November 21. An officer of the steamer Lady Plymouth tells the story of the French transport Calvass being submarined in the Mediterranean. They picked up a boat containing 46, who were French soldiers that had been in the trenches for fifteen months and were going into the trenches again. The officer stated that |b.e saw three soldiers after losing hold of a raft swim to the submarine hoping to be taken aboard, but the submarine's officers kicked the men's hands off, their comrades being obliged to look on helpless, while the men drowned. Some were rescued terribly cut rind bruised. The Lady Plymouth saved 53 out of 800, there being no tidings of the remainder. TORPEDOING THE CARIA. A SURVIVOR'S NARRATIVE. (Reed. 9.10 a.m.) LONDqN, November 21. A member of the crew of the Caria, cabled on the eleventh, states that the German submarine was manned by Austrians. It twice torpedoed the Clan Macalister. After the crew took to the boats it then shelled and sank the Caria, after ordering the crew, already in the boats, out of the line of fire. ■ The commandar before leaving, apologised, saying that he was only obeying orders. The submarine seemed almost entirely of aluminium. It looked like a silver strip in the sun's rays. EX-KING OF DAHOMEY'S SON. DIED IN FRANCE. ' A BRAVE, CLEVER SOLDIER. CAME TO FIGHT THE GERMANS. (Rec. 8.35 a.m.) PARIS, Nov. 21. Moulery Quibers, son of Behanzin. ex-King of Dahomey, has died at Neufchateau. He served through all the French colonial campaigns, winning eleven decorations, including the military medal'. He came to France to fight the Germans. HOW COMMANDER LAYTON ESCAPED. FROM GERMAN BARRACKS. (Reed. 9.15 a.m.) 3 COPENHAGEN, November 21. The "Politiken" states that Commander Layton tlod a barrack commandant his promise not to escape would only apply when on the Jubide barracks. The guard was ordered to keep a strict watch on Layton. He retired to bed saying he wa|s taking a; sleeping draught. He escaped from a window, from thence by a friendly boat. He left a dummy in his bed with a sponge for its head. Two other officers attempted to escape but were caught climbing the wall. POPE'S TEMPORAL POWER. PREPARED TO RENOUNCE IT. . FOR INTERNATIONAL GUARANTEES. DESIRES TO ATTEND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE. ROME, Nov. 19. It is understood that at the approaching consistory the Pope intends to substantially declare his renunciation of temporal power, in return for international guarantees of liberty of the spiritual word . With Italy's consent the Pope desires to be present at the European conference after the war. (The Italian Government, on taking over the civil jurisdiction of Rome and the States of the Church, at once framed a law known as the Law of Guarantees. By this law the Pope and his successors were guaranteed full sovereign privileges. The person of the Roman Pontiff was declared *n be sacred and inviolable, and whenever he should choose to appear in public the same honours were to bo accorded to him as 'would be accorded to any reigning sovereign. A large sum of money was to be yearly paid to the Vatican as indemnity for the civil' revenues of his expropriated territories, while the palace of the Vatican and other Papal palaces were exterritorialized, or constituted domains absolutely under Papal control and indendent of the Italian Government and State. As a protest against the Italian occupation of Rome and the Papa) States, the Vatican refused to accept this Law of Guarantees. Nevertheless every clause of this law is scrupulously adhered to by the King of Italy's Government.) '

LORD RIBBLESDALE PILLORIED, j « * BLAZING ' INDISCRETION.' > GIVES HELP TO ENEMY. LONDON, Nov. 20. Newspapers protest against Lord Ribblesdale's "Blazing Indiscretion" regarding General Monro favouring withdrawing from Gallipoli. It is worse as Lord Ribblesdale is married to Mr. Asquith's sister. At one time he was Chief Liberal Whip. Lord Ribblesdale lost his only son in GallipoM. The Evening Standard says the extent of Lord Ribblesdale's help to our enemies cannot at present be estimated. The Morning Post says disclosures of this sort seriously affect the safety of the armies. TURKS CLAIM SUCCESSES. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 20. A Turkish communique claims that a flanking fire and counter-attack at Krithnia were repulsed and that the enemy are on their old positions. The enemy's losses were severe. A TURKISH REPORT. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2L A Turkish communique says: Artillery fighting is taking place at the Dardanelles, the enemy's cruisers participating. During a violent storm on the niglir of the 18th, two enemy landing bridges were destroyed and a tugboat and nine large boats were stranded. The enemy at Seddul-Bahr continuously bombarded our trenches in the centre. UNEARTHING GERMAN FIREBRANDS. MORE ARRESTS IN AMERICA. WOULD-BE PIRATES CAUGHT. (Reed 8.25 a.m.) 1 NEW YORK, November 21. . A number of Hamburg-American Steamship Company's officials are under indictment, charged with breaking the neutralit laws. . The evidence implicates Captain Boyd, the German Military Attache, who, it is alleged, attempted to purchase the ships in order to raid British commerce in the North Atlantic. Dr. Moricar, who previously charged the Austrian Embassies with fomenting strikes and bomb outrages, is a material witness in the case. IN CENTRAL AFRICA. ' THE POSITION WELL IN HAND. GERMANS AT TAJSGAiNYIKA. LONDON, November 21. (Reed 8.25 a.m.) ; The military position between the Tanganyika and Nyassa is well in hand. Although the Germans have a strong force at Tanganyika, including tlhe officers and crew of the Konigsberg, the guns wherefrom were transported up country. EAST AFRICA. UNION SENDING A FORCE. PRETORIA, November 20. Colonel Beves will command the Union contingent in East Africa, BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY AMERICAN EMBASSY REPORT. BRITISH BRUTALLY TREATED. (Reed 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. The Press Bureau publishes a report by Mr Osborne, of the American Embassy, of the Wittenberg camp, where four hundred English, including thirtycivilians are encamped. He says clothing is the chief source of trouble, there being ao overcoats allowed. A watchman took a fierce dog into the barracks which attacked several of the prisoners, tearing- their clothes. Soldiers in the bathhouse struck with closed fists several prisoners, including one crippled in the right arm, to.' dressing too slowly. Mr Osborne says the impression of the authorities at. Wittenberg is utterly unlike that formed at other camps visited. Instead of regarding their charges as honorable prisoners of Avar, it appears they are regarded as criminals for whom a regime of fea* alou«* should suffice, for all evidence of a kindly human feeling between authorities and the prisoners, which is lacking. AUSTSIAN§ BOMB VENICE. AMSTERDAM.. Nov. 20. A Berlin privte message states: Austrian hydroplanes bombed forts, arsenal, hangars, barracks, gasworks, and railway station at Venice, and rei turned safely, despite iSre suttaeks bj three Italian aeroplanes,

AUSTRIAN AEROPLANES BUSY. ROME, November 20. Enemy aeroplanes bombed Verona, Vicenza and Grado. There were few casualties. They also threw fifteen bombs at Udine, killing twelve civilians and wounding nineteen. RIGOROUS CENSORSHIP. LQNDqN, November PL All news of military value, including the dispositions of the Allies' naval forces which were last reported to be an imposing array at Salonika, is now rigorously suppressed. ZEPPELIN ACCIDENT. AIRSHIP DESTROYED. (Reed 9.10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, November 21 Soldiers were pumping gas into a Zeppelins-hen a violent explosion destroyed her, killing one and wounding eight. "THE MOUNTAN OF CORPSES." PICTURE GHASTLY BEYOND IMAGINATION. TREMENDOUS STRUGGLE FOR GORIZIA. ITALIANS' GREAT CONCENTRATION OF GUNS. A HAIL OF SHELL AND SHRAPNEL. LONDON, November 20. Karl Wiegand, cabling to the "New York World" on the 4th in St., says: A great battle on the Gorizia-Doberdo Plateau began two days ago. The weather was probably without example on any other front. It rained in torrents for two weeks, the low-lying places along the Isonzo being a sea of mud hips deep{ Trenches basted! through rock converged mountain tor*rents into this mass. The Italian batteries poured a hail of shell and shrapnel day and night. The concentrated Italiana artillery is splendidly served; surpassed anything I have seen. When the Germans smashed their way through the Russian lines, those who participated on the Russian front declare it was child's play compared with this on the Doberdo Plateau and portion of Monte Pogdor, called Hell, a name justified. General Cadorna is concentrating 1500 guns and the full weight of the army against the Plateau of Gorizia, on a front not exceeding twelve miles. The Italians' bravery is unbelievable, and the endurance of the Aus'rians under indescribale condition? is heyona imagination and revises the widespread idea that the Austrian? will not fight well unless under German officers. The Italian conflict appears greatly underestimated, especially in .regard to its bearing on the general situation of the Central Powers. The Austrians have held these lines for six months against 3to 1 odds. The Italians gained a firm footing on the edge of the plateau and advanced" somewhat at terrible cost, but progressed elsewhere not appr ?ci.ibJy. There has been desperate fighting on the slopes of San Michele, Pogdora, and San Sabotina, which, if taken, means the loss of Gorizia. San Michel is known as "the mountain of corpses" from the heaps of Italian dead in front of the Austrian trenches or those long dead lying in all directions.