GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 40, 17 February 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

NEXT AIR RAID.

PROBABLY IN DAYLIGHT.

London paper's prediction.

VANCOUVER, Feb. 14,

The Daily Mail, according to a Press message from London, has issued a warning to the public to the effect that the next German air raid over London Avill probably take place during daylight.

In support of the prediction the. pa- ] per quotes metrologieal data forecasting the probable cloud and -wind conditions whie-a are likely to make the approach of Zeppelins easy and pursuit "by aeroplanes difficult. The public feeling regarding the controversy over the Zeppelin raids is summarised by the Westminster Gazette's comment that the story of ■wrecked Zeppelin found in the North Sea has given real satisfaction. As yet only the story from the trawler has been published. "We look for an addendum in the shape' of the capture of the crew," the paper adds. "In their Taids the Zeppelins, we feel, have had less than their natural share of disaster, considering the risks they take with the weather and the delicacy o their structure.

"To -wish for reprisals against thfl Germans for their air raids is -human and natural. If we can be sure that the reprisals will serve military ends, lef us have them by all means possible, "but let us keep a clear mind as to what we mean i o do.''

As a result of the recent Zeppelin Taid on England, 13 Staffordshire people were killed, and one injured. Quiet has now been restored.

In the industrial portion of the town four women, seven children, and two old men were killed.

A weeping woman, whose husband was blown to pieces whilst working, and who -had a baby in arms and two children clinging to her skirts, said: "My husband went to work at five o'clock in the morning, but turned back to kiss the baby. All night we sought news of him. He was found next morning, mutilated beyond Recognition. It was only by means of a ring and his shirt that he was identified."

A child was killed in bed in one house, and two other children were killed in houses close by. "A broken-hearted mother was hear! to ask: ""What harm had my child £lone!"

THE ARMED MERCHANTMEN QUESTION.

BEENSTORFF'S VIEWS

LONDON, Feb. 15

The Times correspondent at Washington states that Count Bernstorff, interviewed, said it. was inconceivable that submarines will attack passenger ships, armed or unarmed. That principle was permanently established by the Lusitania settlement, which the German Admiralty religiously obey. The new order relates primarily to armoured freighters supplying the Allied forces.

MERCHANTMEN PROPOSAL MAY BE WITHDRAWN.

WASHINGTON "WILE AWAIT DEVELOPMENTS."

WASHINGTON, Feb.- 14,

The United States is likely to withdraw the proposal made to the Allies, that armed merchantmen should not carry guns in future on pain of being treated as wars-hips. The United States will await developments, or in other words, do nothing further.

THE POLICY POSTPONED.

(Eec-d. 1.20 a.m.) LONDON, February 15

The Daily Mail's New York correspondent says Count Bernstorff, in response to President Wilson's suggestion, has promised the postponement of the armed merchantmen policy pen<i ing America's exchange of views with belligerents.