THE KAISER CRITICALLY ILL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 8, 11 January 1916, Page 5

THE KAISER CRITICALLY ILL

STATE RULERS SUMMONED TO BERLIN FEARS OF GOVERNING AUTHORITY PLACED ON THE CROWN PRINCE COLOSSAL FIGHTING IN BUKOVINA OPPOSITION TO COMPULSION DWINDLING IN BRITAIN

IE KAISER CRITICALLY ILL. JEWS ACCEPTED AS TRUE. THE CROWN PRINCE. ASSUME GOVERNING POWER. - (Reed. 8.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 10. Paris cable says Lelemps learn s 1 Madrid that the rulers of Gerstates are being called to Berlin; fear the Crown Prince is about ssume governing power. Rumours the Kaiser_is critically ill have i .accepted by the German Emy as true. sIOTED DOCTOR'S OPINION. VERY LITTLE HOPE. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 10. Baltimore message states that West, American specialist in rai cure, and head of the great Bercancer clinic, writing to friends, that two years ago the Kaiser's acians deemed the knife necessbut an operation was not perled. One doctor called a consulm land in that capacity expressed belief the trouble was an ulcer :h had been burned out. This was entirely.the case and it wa s only atter of time when it would rejar 'and* as a final recourse it it be necessary to remove the ox and insert two tubes to admit .th and food. In some - cases it rt be practical to cut half the ax away ,but in the present case e wa s danger of blood poisoning, of pneumonia through air reachthe lung flaps cold. While if only ially cut there might be a possi-

y of saving the vocal cords 'as as the power of speech, le doctor opines that the Kaiser 3 badly afflicted, and the growth spread in such a way 'as to make to remove the whole QX. IAISER'S NARROW ESCAPE. A" SENSATIONAL STORY. PETEOGEAD, Jan. 10. te Bourse Gazette ' publishes- a' r of a narrow escape --ofc the Kailuring a Zeppeiin flight over WarOne of the screws broke and a great hole in the'envelope, the listing heavily. A parachute had prepared for the Kaiser's use in event of the machine—collapsing, countryside was roused, and mopatrols hurried out:.. Everything ;hty, V Including the officers' >ds, -werd;'jettisoned, but the Zepl continued to fall' until .the aucaught a -tree, and the...machine j to the ground without serious age. The Kaiser rewarded everyon board ■•'.-;■■-"■ - POBD'S PILGRIMS. 3N ROUTE TO THE HAGUE. 0 MEETINGS IN GERMANY. COPENHAGEN; Jan. 7. >rd's party, with have departed for Hague, ivia Germany. They have ial permit, but it does 'not allow i to hold meetings in Germany. TALJANS SURPRISE ENEMY. $../i ROME, January 8. . states: By 'a bold jffse-we occupied San Biovanni, the southern slopes of Monte Spe-

GERMANS PREPARING FOR BIG BLOW. LONDON, Jan. 10. Early in October 13 German and two Austrian divisions assembled on the Serivan frontier. A fortnight ago the missing divisions began to reappear. There are now 245 battalions between Kovel and Lemberg, under the Archduke Joseph Ferdinand, and 250 battailons and 75 squadrons under Mackensen, in addition to divisions returning from the Danube. They expect the severest .blow from the Russian left flank, and are "endeavouring to counter it by striking at our centre and left. A slight frost has hardened the soil without preventing entrenching. The Russians are capturing line after line of the enemy's trenches. '\ ENEMY TRENCHES SHELLED. REPORTED MOVEMENT OF TROOPS. PARIS, January 9. A French communique states: We bombarded enemy communication trenches south-westward of Butte du Mesnil, where movements of troops were reported.

A SIGN OF THE TIMES. GERMAN- SECURITIES FALLING PARIS, Jan. 10. The principal bank in Zurich refused to advance more than ten per cent, on German railway seeurities at The Hague. The mark loses 33 per cent. and. the crown 48 per cent. A FRENCH COMMUNIQUE. PARIS, Jan. 10. A communique states: We blew up an ammunition depot at La Felleniorte and forced the enemy to evacuate Stocka, north of Metzeral. The Germans occupied a hill north of Hirzstein at the cost of serious losses. We evacuated the summit of Hirzstein. Enemy aeroplanes bombed the Allied cantonments at Salonika, but lhe damage . was insignificant. We brought down, one aeroplane. GERMANS CLAIM SUCCESS.

.PAEIS, January 10. A Berlin communique says: We captured/the last: of the trendies at Hartmannsweilerkopf, taken on December 21, making prisoners 20 officers, and 1,083 Chasseurs, and captur : ing 15 machine-guns. . POWDER WORKS BLOWN UP. EIGHT KILLED, MANY MISSING. TWO PRO-GERMANS ARRESTED. (Reed. 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 10. The Dupont powder works, at Carney, have been blown up. Eight are known to be dead and many are missing. A steamer alongside the docks was. blown partly out of the water. Two arrests of pro-Germans who are suspected, have been made. INDIGNANT WOMEN. LONDON, January 10. The "Times" correspondent reports tha't German women are indignant with, the authorities for cancelling the annual "drapery sales and insisting that-it is inadvisable.to offer special feminine inducements to extravagance in war time, reducing the change in fashions to a minimum.

CAPTURES BY RUSSIANS. PETROGRAD, January 10. A communique says: We took prisoners 1200 of the enemy north-east of Czernowitz. A WONDERFUL CONTRAST. LONDON, Jan. 10. The Times' correspondent at the Russian headquarters states that last New Year t-ha whole Russian army was reduced to one shot per gun daily. The present contrast is a matter for the heartiest congratulations. RUSSIA'S SOLDIER GIRLS. ASTONISHING STORIES. PETROGRAD. January 10. There are several well-authenticat-ed stories of women serving in the Russian army. The most extraordinary is that twelve Moscow schoolgirls, at the beginning of the war, purchased uniforms, boarded a troop train, and reached Lemberg, where the soldiers welcomed them as comrades and concealed their identity. Officers heard the story and ordered the girls to be sent bach, but they pleaded to be allcwed to remain, offering to get their hair cut. The regiment passed the Carpathians, the girl s sharing all the horrors. They admit that they sometimes blubbered when' the Germans' shells fell, but add: "Even the men were afraid." One girl, aged fifteen, was killed by a shell and others were wounded. One Was made a corporal and decorated' with the Cross of St. Gecrge. The ~girls were finally persuaded to leave the firing line and act sls nurses in the hospitals.

BELATED MAILS. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE SNOWED UNDER. LONDON, January 10. The New Zealand High Commissioner's office is snowed under with undelivered Dardanelles mails. Two hundred bags are arriving daily—- • letters, newspapers and parcels dating from April 'and May. A dozen sorters are working busily. THE SUNK BATTLESHIP. TRIBUTES TO THE CREW. LONDON, Jan. IP. Newspapers pay a tribute to the wonderful discipline and resource of the King Edward's crew, which enabled them to save the entire ship's company in circumstances of great difficulty and peril. KING CONSTANTINE UNEASY. LONDON, January 10. Mr. Jeffries, the Daily Mail's correspondent at Athens, says that there is a slump in pro-Germanism throughout Greece, and it is noteworthy that the people are heaping kindness on the Allies. The pro-German press is fiercely assailing the Government, despite the fact that permission has been given for the entry of the Bulgarians. King Constantine is most uneasy, as he fears for the army, and sees the prospect of Greece rising np against the Bulgarians.

AMBITIONS FERDINAND. PEOPLE WANT WAR TO END. LONDON, Jan. 10. Mr. Jerkies, the Athens correspondent of the Daily Mail, says the enemy forces in Macedonia are not pulling well together. King Ferdinand is credited with the intention of having himself crowned Czar of Macedonia at Oehrida. Onlty- a thousand bales of the Adana cotton crop have reached Constantinople, because the trains are choked with arms, ammunition, and foodstuffs which German agents are buying in Asia Minor at sellers' prices. The Times' correspondent at Bucharest says'a Bulgarian who has-airi-er from Salonika describes the situation in Bulgaria' as extremely obscure. The nation is divided into two camps. The populace-are intoxicated with successes.'are entirely faithful to King Ferdinand. The Eadoslavoft Cabinet and the more enlightened section remain hostile to the Government. A" movement is shaping throughout the country to insist that the occupation of Serbia ■ and Macedonia should end the war, since Bulgaria has realised her aspirations. The Government, contends that it must continue in order to remain faithful to Germany and assure the permanent possession o f the conquered territories. The Bulgarians' casualties are estimated at a hundred thousand. Schools and public buildings in Sofia arc crowded with the wounded.

TURKISH REPRISALS. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 10. As a reprisal for the arrest of the Consuls at Salonika, Turkey has -ofdeed the arrest of. the Anglo-F.reneh offieiab left in charge of the Bmbas'j sies; As a reprisal for the arrest of other Turks at" Salonika, a t&mtsa'iy! subjects of the Entente Powers h:-<: also been interned.

THE EVACUATION OF GALLIPOLI ONE BEITISHER WOUNDED. FRENCH LOSE NONE. ALL GOOD GENS SAVED. LONDON, .Tan. 9. An official message states that only one British soldier was wounded 3 the evacuation of GaD'tpoli, and that the French had no casualties. All the guns were saved except 3 7 wornout ones, and these were destroyed. MORE ASHMEAD BARTLETT. TRUE NORTHCLIFFE HARRIER. UNPROFITABLE DISCUSSION. (Reed. S a.m.) NEW YORK, January 10.

Ashmead B'artlett, interviewed in connection with Sir lan Hamilton's report, said he thought it a great mistake to publish it at this stage. While he preferred to read Sir lan Hamilton's unabridged story, he went on to comment upon expert opinions published in America. He declared that operations were fooled, because they were operations which should never have been undertaken under such conditions, in such country. It was sheer nonsense to represent that the_ strategic plan almost succeeded at Anzac, where they suffered twelve thousand casualties without attaining any objective. A few Ghurkas reached the summit of Chanabair and of Kojachemintepe, which was only a lower slope leading to Saribahr. Losses ' were so terrible, and even supposing the troops had reached the top i' wculd have been, utterly impossible to maintain themselves. Why were unskilled troops employed first at the Suvla landing, when the heroic 29th division, which was unhesitatingly sacrificed later on, could have been utilised? ,Why was 2,500 men of the first Australian Division sent to their docm in an effort to acquire an apparently useless ip'ositfion. at Lone Pine? Why were thousands thrown away at .other posts which were disassociated from the main operations if the objective was to get astride Kcjachemintepe? _ Why was the weight ot attack not thrown against that point? Why was there no control from; headquarters at Suvla, and how could Stopford get his men forward if they were split up and lost in brokerl .country, without water or teler/honei; communication, 'hiarrassed by enemy snipers? Apart from all other considerations it had not been sufficiently established that even the Anafarta 'hills and the Kojachemintepe would have forced the Narrows or cleared a road to Constantinople. Sir lan Hamilton states: in the middle of August the Turks had 110,000 bayonets .; against his 55,000 and- he claims that if Kitchener had sent 50,000 more it would have brought the campaign to a successful conclusion.

A NEW COMMANDANT. FOR MESOPOTAMIA CAMPAIGN. TURKS IN FULL RETREAT. (Reed. 9 a.m.) LONDON, January 10. Sir Percy Lake has been appointed to the command of British forces in Mesopotamia, where, by last accounts, it was stated the Turks were in full retreat. SIR lAN HAMILTON DEPENDED. LONDON, January 10. Lord Sydenham, in a letter,: Jig. agrees with the Times' view that Sir lan- Hamilton, on the spot at Suvla Bay on August - effaeod himself at the most critical moment. Lord■ Sydenham■ points; -put? Sir lan Hamilton's function was" to give corps commanders general directions for the ;attack. When he visited Lieutenant-Genera 1 Stopford, Sir lan Hamilton'appears to have done everything' possible to secure a general advance, which was plainly and immediately 'required. The.' attempt', failed because two divisions spread out over a front of two mile,s,..with.. a.depth of a mile and a half, were not sufficiently in hand to undertake a nig-ht attack. Visions of Napoleon galloping about and by a few inspiring words galvanising the host . into activity suggest themselves, but this was physically impossible in the conditions. The Bth of August was lost before Sir Lin Hamilton landed. Lord Sydenham does not think Sir lan Hamilton can be justly blamed on tin's occasion, though the dispatch as a whole must inevitably provoke criticism of an expedition whioh will always be associated with gallantry that has never been surpassed.

SUVLA BAY FAILURE. LONDON, January 7. General Siopi'ord' *ias demanded an inquiry into the Suvla Bay operations, during the course of ■which he V"»« superseded by the command of Sir ila-zli.jii.

THE COMPULSION LEGISLATION OPPOSITION DWINDLING. OPPONENTS DOWN TO FIFTY. AT THE SECOND READING. (Reed. 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, January 10. Week-end meetings were generally bad for anti-compulticnists. Audiences of working men severely heckled Mr. Thomas and labour leader Winstone, who was rejected by the Merthyr Tydvill. disorderly reception is not expected to take any further action against the Bill, so the opponents at the second reading, which commences in the House of Commons tomorrow, will be below fifty. Newspapers are giving prominence to the question of reopening .the group system. The Daily News appeals to single men to enroll as the last chance of saving voluntarism. The Daily Express demands a general election to clear the air, while other newspapers state the Govern : ment would not hesitate to appeal to electorates if the progress of the Bill is unduly hampered. ... - LABOUR AND COMPULSION.

A MEMBER'S SUSPICIONS. ABOUT THE CONSCRIPTIONISTS. UNITY OF THE NATION ENDANGERED. LONDON, Janauary 9. Mr. Thomas, the Labour M.P., had a mixed reception at Swansea. While; expressing the utmost contempt for the unmarried slacker, he denied that voluntarism had yet failed. He contended that it ought to have been continued. He disagreed regarding the service of the undesirable, because it was playing into the -hands of the enemy. We were determined to smash German militarism, but must not create a despotism in Britain which might easily be extended to tiro workshops. He suspected that to be the object of many conscriptionists. He, himself, was prepared to face his constituents upon the issue, but was opposed to a general election, as it would be likely to arouse bitterness and destroy the nation's unity. An anti-conscription resolution w;is carried. RIOTS IN AMERICA. ONE KILLED, FORTY WOUNDED.

EFFORT TO REDUCE WAGES. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED. MANY PLACES BURNED. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 10. A .serious strike with rioting, occurred lat Youngstown, Ohio, resulting in one being killed and 40 injured. A hundred rioters were gaoled. The business section of the town was destroyed by fire, causing £200,000 damage. The trouble commenced in an attempt to reduce the wages of tubing mill employees, by 25 cents daily. The strikers took possession of the streets, looted them and fired a saloon. Drinkmaddened they attacked other saloons and a number of large general stores in the main street. Out of twenty saloons in the town only two 'are unburned, and they "are looted. A mixed crowd jeered workmen crossing a bridge, when a wild shot was fired which guards answered by firing over the heads of the crowtf. Exchanges followed and an urgent call was made and a s citizens were being maltreated and indiscriminate shooting was taking place in-the streets, several companies, of militia were brought by train.: Brigadier-General Sparks proclaimed .martial lawt Order is being gradually restored. THE BARALONG INCIDENT. ANOTHER SIDE TO THE STORY. LONDON, Jan. 10. The Daily News, publishes statements by two Americans of the Nieosion's crew, stating that the Barslong did not fly the American nag after she began- liring. The Baralong's crew did not fire on Germans in the water. They add that (lie wit--nasses High. Tower,' arid Crosby, uho swore the affidavits published by the German Government, are •; ..intensely anti-British.