SICKENING WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 57, 7 March 1916, Page 5

SICKENING WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER.

OF GERMANS AT VERDUN. PRUSSIANS DRIVEN WITH REVOLVERS. SUFFERINGS OP THE WOUNDED. LONDON, March 5. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Paris correspondent states that Douaumont village changed hands many times. Brandenburgers, Pomeranians and Hanoverian reinforcements debouched from the north-west and north-east, converging on Douaumont and Vaux. The enemy losses were so heavy that new battalions had to be brought up, but were swept back. As the weather is freezing cold, the wounded are bound to suffer unspeakable agonies. The enemy attacking Vaux reached the barbed wire, where they met a, terrific fire from the seventy-fives and. mitrailleuses. Four thousand corpses are lying near the entanglements. Many of the Prussians, driven on by their officers with revolvers, climbed over piles of corpses of. their comrades, and were then mowed down. _ ANOTHER ZEPPELIN RAID. FROM YORK TO KENT. « •• TWELVE LIVES LOST. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, March 0. Zeppelins visited several counties in England from Yorkshire to Kent. Twelve people were killed and 33 injured. ITALIAN SHIP SUBMARINED. NO PERISCOPE SEEN. (Reed. 8.20 a.m.) LONDON, March (5. A British steamer brought to Piraeus 54 of the crew of the Italian steamer Giava, which was sunk by an Austrian submarine. ' Forty shots were fired without warning and help was refused to the survivors. It looked as though the submarine had no periscope. It is believed that the Germans are utilising a new subaqueous periscope. GREAT MUTINY AT SMYRNA. TURKS TIRED OF GERMANS. SALONIKA, March 6. A great mutiny is reported at Smyrna, due to the intolerable privations of the troops and their hatred of the Germans, who are regarded as the authors of Turkey’s ruin. BUCHAREST, March 6. The Russians are pouring troops into southern Bessarabia. HEAVY FIGHTING IN THE BLACK FOREST. GERMANS ANNOUNCE HEAVY CANNONADE.

AMSTERDAM, March (5. German newspapers announce an extraordinarily heavy cannonade at. Mannheim; especially severe firing was heard in the Black Forest. SUBMARINE LOSSES. A GERMAN PRESS REPORT. LONDON, March 6. The “Frankfurter Zeitung” states that since the beginning of the war England has lost 19 submarines, France eight, Italy four, and Russia two, of which warships destroyed three. I