RUSSIAN WARSHIPS

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

RUSSIAN WARSHIPS

GOOD-BYE TO ANZAC. WITHDRAWAL THE ONLY COURSE. 'HE SUVLA B'AY FAILURE. SUPPORT AUSTRALASIANS. LONDON, December 20. ie abandonment of Anzac and Suvs the sensation of the day. The spapers were hurriedly bought up the placards dashed along the ets. Later editions were equal to demand, but the hope for some .ils beyond the bald War Office anicement was not fulfilled, here is meanwhile much speculawhether the retirement is the pres to the complete evacuation of ipoli, and also whether the Antroops are being given a temporrest by protecting the Canal, or e been transferred direct to Salohe are unanimous in masising tjxe. services of the Ausians and lew Zealanders, and are iting vivid stories'of their doings, ides reproducing diaries of. the icipal events at Gallipoli and pho•aphs of the generals.

[xperts generally state that the hdrawal from Suvla Bay is the y possible course after the sur;e initial attack failed. Some newsers express the . opinion that Sir Hamilton reported to this effect, . that Earl Kitchener came to the le conclusion.

?he "Star" comments as follows: — j endsi an enterprise upon -which highest hopes were built. The ops were always within a few es of victory, but the final cause failure was the inability at Suvla fulfil our contract with the Austrais and New Zealanders advancing m Anzac. The Australians alone t twenty-five thousand men at Galoli. The movement, however, has mobilised a quarter of a million rks."

THE AjNalaC EVALUATION, 7ARIOUS NEWSPAPER COMMENTS. LONDON, Dec. 21. The Pall Mall Gazette states, the rdanelles will always evoke memies of unparralled valour. The terprise had been a case of "too ;e and too little." The Westminister Gazette says: •ave men have not died at Gallipoli vain. So long as the British race sts Suvla and Anzac will be imperiable names, full of proud memory r the Commonwealth which had nt its sons at the Old Country's ,11, and an undying inspiration to all ho might be called thereafter - to nulate the example. The Manchester Guardian says the rst landing on Gallipoli Peninsula now recognised exoit of British infantry as a whole. London (quotes an re witness v2tto declared there .was roba|Ky never such resourceful and >arless fighters as the splendid Aus■alians and New Zealanders. Troy, sross the Strait?, never echoed with le feet of such heroes, and he quotes ie lines, "All Was Done That Men 'ould Do,- Bui. All Was Done In 'ain." That was the Anzac's epiath,

: /ARE BOMBARDING VARNA SIXTEEN TROOPSHIPS WAITING AN ATTACK ON BULGARIA TO GOME FROM BUKOWINA ALL QUIET IN SALONICA THE IMPORTANCE OF MUNITIONS URGENT APPEAL TO WORKERS

WASHINGTON, December 20.

NOT LEAVING ALTOGETHER. ' STILL TO HOLD ON. AT CAPE HELLES. THE TURKS DID'NT KNOW. THE ALLIES MOVEMENT. LONDON, December 20. The British operations on the other sectors at Gallipoli are to be continued. The withdrawal from Anzac and Suvla was effected wtihout the knowledge of the Turks. THE ALLIES PEACE TERMS. JUST ONE OF THEM. GERMANY MUST PAY THE FULL INDEMNITY BEFORE A SHIP SAILS.

Correspondents of New York and other American newspapers are giving prominence to an unofficial reply to the pro-German peace terms. One of the main points of the Allies' peace terms, it is remarked, i& that on no account shall the German merchant flag be permitted to be seen on the high seas again until Germany has paid the full indemnity. The Allies have the power to give effect to this mandate and mean to use their power to the fullest extent.

EGYPT'S MENACE. HALE A MILLION TURKS AVAILABLE. ALSO 50,000 GERMANS. ROME, Dee. 20. German calculations received from neutral sources state that half a million Turks and 50,000 Germans are available for Egypt. GAS ATTACK REPULSED. LONDON, Dec. 20. Sir Douglas Haig's despatch says: Early on Sunday morning the enemy discharged gas against our line north ward of Ypres, "accompanied by a heavy bombardment. Except in a few places they were driven back before reaching our lines. They were unable to leave their trenches, owi* 1 - to our fire. Our protective measures against gas were effective. Our line everywhere is intact. Hostile artillery -was unusually active east of Ypres and west and south of Messlmss*

We "brought down an enemy aeroplane east of Arnientieres. RUSSIA BOMBARDS VARNA. LANDING TROOPS IN BULGARIA. FROM SIXTEEN TRANSPORTS. * (Reed. 9.50 a.m.) ATHENS, December 211. The News Exchange at Athens reports that Russian warships, -while es. corting sixteen transports, bombarded Varna. THE TORPEDOED BREMEN. BRITISH SUBMARINE'S WORK. COPENHAGEN, Tfecemher 20. Two British submarines torpedoed the German cruiser Bremen, which was retnfmT.ir -p-v,™ qn inspection of tne entrant of the Gulf of Finland.

PATH TO VICTORY. TRODDEN BY BRITAIN. A NEUTRAL'S OBSERVATIONS. GERMAN IDEAS OUT-jl ,ASSED. LONDON, J)oc. 19. A neutral whose; conrributions to the London Press, are- attracting attention, declares that Britain's share is not understood on r_h..> Continent evtu by her Allies. Tli*» Continental natons do not appreciate the work of the Navy, and as the German Navy is undefeated, fail to comprehend the tremendous importance which has resulted from Britain's use of sea power. They are also struck by the short British front in Elanders.

Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden believe that the Englishmen's individualism renders them incapable of co-ordinate effort. "They little know -what England is doing," iie continues. "I ha\ r e just cropped Great Britain from one end to the other, and -have visited innumerable towns and cities. Britain at last >s mobilised for ever.

"The achievement far surpasses the wildest German idea of what is colossal 1 . I have factory afrr factory working steadily for twentyfour hours a day and seven days a Week, employing thousands of men and women, making shells;; shells! shells! I have seen factory after factory making aeroplanes, seen guns being forged under hydraulic, pressure of 12,000 tons, howitzers forged of the stoutest steel requirin;.16 hours in the blast furnace -»to heat, motor-lorried, staff row upon row of motor ambulances, waitto be sent to the front, seen shell cases presed out of the living ingot in less than live minutes."

"J have soon shells forced at * speed thrice as great as the smaller shells, chiefly IS-pounder, turned on a lathe by young girls cf 16 to IS

years, many frail and slight, for whom it is difficult to lift the heavy metal, yet the shells are piled in growing pyramids about them in •every available spaco. I have seen young girls turning out fuse's of aluminium and brass, working steadily without looking up from rhe lathes, mCn working at great forges wheiv gun parts are cast, straining every nerve and muffll-a to juisompiisli the. difficult task of handling great lumps of redhot metal with lightning dexterity.

"I have seen machine-guns by hundreds and rifles by thousands, all of the most careful workmanship and finish. I have seen mile upor*. mile of khaki cloth reeled off by looms, thousands of yards of specia*ly prepared, while woollen cloth for wrapping the propelling charges, hundreds of pairs of knit khaki purtees are patterned by a single knifecut.

"This list might be extended indefinitely. The whole north eountrv has been turned into o.ri3 Irifforsvmal. All this means that England has turned at last her full energy to i*r«. mighty task. The whole industrial output of Great Briain is under Government control, not, as in Germany by a transformation of industry, such as a lead-pencil; factory being mobilised to make shrapnel.

"In England old plans are at work on their usual products, while guns, shells, aeroplanes, and all other necessities of war are being mai*» in many cases in new factories which have sprung up with mushroom growth all over the country. Nor mort' striking example of national energy, directed, consolidated, and centralised under direct Governmen control can be found. "The master mind behind this gigantic enterprise has created a- compulsory industrial, system stronger and more powerful than any hitherto devised even in Germany. Employer and employee have been merged into State servants. Great Britain is now awake, and has chosen the path to victory.''

QUERULOUS NEWSPAPER MAN. (Rec. 0.50 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 21 The Daily Telegraph's Parliamentary correspondent, referring to tU3 ,-reglect to supply machine-guns, asks why it was not realised at ♦rlra War Office till June, and why left to a civilian Prime Minister to press the truth upon the military authorities. BULGARIAN BRUTALITY. STARS AND STRIPES INSULTED. SALONIKA, December 21. The Bulgarians at Monastir seized a quantity of flour belonging to the American Red Cross, which was under the American flag. A Bulgarian officer said: "I know that, rag—it is only fit to frighten Mexicans with-" The flag was torn down.

, IMPORTANCE OF MUNITIONS. I EMPLOYERS AND LAB'OUR. CAN QUICKLY END WAR. WHAT HAS BEEN ACHIEVED. URGENT APPEAL BY LLOYD GEORGE. (Reed. 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, December 21. Mr. Lloyd George, in the Commons made a statement with respect, to mu-nition-making- during- the past six menths. He said since Mr. Asquith invited njm to * ake ovei * tlie provision cf munitions, he had given instructions to increase supplies 'in order to lessen the losses when attacking periIcus positions. Previuosly, while we stinted in material, we squandered I'.ves. The shortage of shells was known to cur troops and to the enemy, but neither knew how really short we were in some very essential particulars. Military experts believed the days of high explosives were numbered except fo,r siege guns. They considered that shrapnel was the only weapon for field warfare and the British were reluctant converts to the conclusion that a,very substantial proportion of high explosives was essential to success in trench warfare. Experts now believed that quite half high explosives was necessary, but they came to that conclusion too late to prevent a shortage cf shells. In the beginning cf the year the Minister of Munitions erected buildings to supplement works owned by private firms. The Ministry organised forty lecal ammunition committees in the most important engineering centres; they also, put up national shell factories which were con--picucusly successful. We now had net only an increasing supply, but we have minimised labour difficulties, enabled the government to check prices and the result, had been that last week the factories turned out three times as many high explosives shells as all the arsenals in the United King-

dom did in 1 the month of May. The quantity cf shells fired in operations in September was enormous. The battle lasted a week, yet there was no shortage of this particular amm.un.itic.i, the result cf four months' careful husbanding. The whole was replaced in a month and soon the position will be replaced 'v n *■

The position regarding medium guns and howitzers is thoroughly satisfactory. Up to midsummer of this year big guns were not ordered on a large scale. Considerable reductions have been effected in prices of raw materials and there has been an aggregate saving of about twenty millions by the Depatment securing control of the metal market. He told an astonished House that it was not until Mr. Asquith visited the trenches in June that the overwhelming,importance of machine guns was realised. One of the first things wa s t 0 multiply the output of machine guns. A new factory to produce smaller guns has been equipped, and two new factories erected, which are turning cut a new type of machune gun. an dthe result that they are delivering fivefold the previous output. The cost of ammunition had been reduced by forty per cent, and other things proportionally. They wanted labour to man all the factories; machines for making machine guns were idle for lack of men. He stated, if we could get skilled men where they were wanted the problem was solved. For new factories thejy wanted 80,000 skilled and 300,000 unskilled men. He heard talk of over-ordering and over production, but nothing was more mischievious. They could talk of overordering when they had as much as the Germans. A good margin was a wise insurance, less than enough was foolish extravagance. While we spared money we spilled blood. Tn no war that was ever fought was the preponderance of machinery so completely established. German successes were almost entirely due to mechanical preponderance, successes achieved in the beginning. We appointed a number of hustlers to visit factories an<j find out what was wrong and set it right, and to press forward contracts. The net result was an increase in deliveries over old orders of 60 per cent. Two emergency factories were erected in six weeks at a fine price by hustling. Mr. Thomas went to America and he reported that Mr. Pierpont Morgan had saved Britain millions by preventing inflation of prices. He had a remarkable photograph of the loss on battlefields, shewing the barb wire had not been destroyed while only one machine gun remained on its emplacement intact. Every soldier say s . there is only one way of doing it. With enough ammunition they can crush every enemy trench, every complete emplacement, shatter every machine gun. and rend every yard of entanglements. If the enemy wants to resist he must do it in the open. In conclusion he appealed to employers and workmen not to have "too late" descried in the portals of their workshops. Fatal in thigj war was because k jgo late in moy-

ing here, too late arriving there, too J late coming in this direction, too late I ki starting that enterprise, and too late in preparing. The footsteps of the Allies were dogged with the mock- [ spectre of "too late." Unless we quicken our movements damnation [ will fall upon the sacred cause for \ which so much gallant blood had flown. Victory depends upon employers and workers. It is a question whether we are going to drag the war out another year victoriously, or linget along a blood stained path for years. SHELL OUTPUT COMPARED. GERMAN AND BRITISH. (Reed. 9.50 a.m.) LONDON. December 21. Mr. Lloyd George in the Commons j disclosed that the German daily out-' put of shells was as many as a quarter of a million. The British was 2,500 high explosives and 13,000 shrapnel, i

RUSSIAN ARMIES MOVING. THREATENED ATTACK QN BULGARIA. LONDON, Decmeber-21. The "Frankfurter Zeitung's" correspondent at Bucharest fully confirms the report that the Russians are moving a large number from Reni to the Bukowina frontier for the campaign against Bulgaria. Other messages state that the bridge between Belgrade and Semlin has been rebuilt. QUIET AT SALONIKA. SALONIKA, December 21. Not a shot has been fired on either side since the Allies entered Greek territory. THE KECRUITING STATEMENT. UNAVOIDABLY POSTPONED. TILL RESULTS ARE AVAILABLE. LNDON, Dec. 20. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith said that owing to the difficulty of classifying the results without Earl Derby's figures, which it s had been hoped would bo available to-day, it was impossible to make the promised statement on Tuesday. He hoped, however, t-hat it would be possible to make it before the adjournment. WIDESPREAD RUMOUR. ABOUT LUSITANIA PIRATE.

DENIED BY ADMIRALTY. LONDON. Dee. 20. Referring to the widespread rumours that we have captured the submarine which sank the Lusitanjn, Mr. Maenamara stated "-in the Houpe that the Admiralty was without information. FORTIFICATION OF SALONIKA. GREEK REPLY TO GERMAN PROTEST. LONDON, December 20. The "Daily News" Rome correspondent says that Greece, in her repfy to t»b'«J Austro-G-erman protest, declares that she is powerless to prevent, the fortification of Salonika. These are indispensabe for the safety of the An-glo-French, which she guaranteed a* Serbia's ally. The reply is not likely to satisfy the Austro-Gtermans, but ' latter are cautions fearing that insistence on their demands would compel Greece to join t-be Entente.

THREE ROADS 10 SALONIH^JH WHICH WILL BE CTL|j|| \ i ALLIES CALM AND iM LOXDcjB Mr. Stevens, i n jH * *■*-'<Sailr--' graph," "writes:- gm 'X 7 ?}''.' 1 - for the ,-ra«||j,oi , —from the noijH Tan: from sing the reaching La>H ;*'■' Monastir, fcjflj eastern routH cultifcs. FroiH. ' +i3ti^Spiiswiiiwt must pass Ik| " Meanwhile vW < " - the af:jjrca<«H ' i'.t they are cumH ? ~ defend. jR ,'n^Ps^^^S^l Tliei Bulga.M offensive -wesfjH jeet of satt - !H s]: a in, anD fl Bahiag Powci' and GHEAFEtfI botmd to riso. ,; ;*wjnasHßHß|Kj A sensible onM weather, is io ialßp; Nazol Itfbaler iH all chemists. H