GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 25 November 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

AUSTRIANS ON THE DANUBE. RUSSIAN MINES SPOILT BY FLOODS. LONDON, November 23. The scene on the Danube is extraordinary. Sets of six and eight immense steel lighters towed by tugs and convoyed by Austrian monitors, are passing down. Three *armed paddleships are used. s Thousands of waggon loads of munitions, six lighters with barbed wire and two with telerapn wire- and several with heavy guns, have reached Bulga-

The Russians mined the narrowest passages, but the stream was swollen and the monitors passed over the mine s

BULGARIA'S POSITION.

LONDON, November 23

The “Times’ ” Buchslrest correspondent says M. Radoslavoff held a conference with M. Malinoff and Oppositionists and made an agreement to convoke the Chamber, the Oppositionists forming the majority. They demand that Bulgaria should not further participate in the war after the occupation of the Macedonian districts offered by both groups of Powers. If a separate peace is impracticable, Bulgaria shall cease hostilities.

EAST AFRICA,

BEITISH IN A TIGHT CORNER

GALLANTLY EXTRICATE THEMSELVES.

LONDON, November 23

Saisi, on the Rhodesian-German border, has been heroically refended by an Anglo-Belgian force of 300 against a mixed German force of 1500 in a ten days’ siege. Despite the remoteness, the Germans wejre wonderfully equipped with eighteen cannon, rockets, stars and heliographs, showing pre-war preparations. The Germans kept up a tempestuous fire and captured a British relief convoy. They frequently demanded their surrender, but were fought off, and retred leaving thirty Germans and rows of native corpses.

LAYTON'S ESCAPE TO DENMARK.

A DRAMATIC EPISODE. LONDON, November 23. Details of Lieut. Layton’s escape to Denmark show that though closely guarded by sentries at the door, he slipped at night to another room, donned a civilian suit and descended by a rope to the street. He met two sentries and by a ruse passed them. It was bitterly cold, and though he was suffering from influenza, he swam a canal and gained the mainland. He

reached a ferry boat, took a iob as porter and calrried luggage to the station, where he boarded a train.