A BRUSH IN EGYPT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 97, 25 April 1916, Page 5

A BRUSH IN EGYPT.

TURKS ROUTED BY AUSTRALIANS. $ EiiMY AEROPLANE VISITS DOVER. GERMAN BOASTED TRUMP CARDNOW UP THE RUSSIAN SLEEVE. BEST ROAD TO THE RHINE. IS THROUGH THE BOSPHORUS. FRENCH TAKE GERMAN COMMUNICATORY | TRENCHES. THE GERMAN-AMERICAN CRISIS. GERMANY WILL MAKE CONCESSIONS TO AMERICA. AN AMICABLE SETTLEMENT IS HOPED FOR. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.). WASHINGTON, April 24. It is understood that Germany is willing to make concessions to the United States. Officials of the State Department are hopeful that these concessions will lead to amicable settlement. BERNSTORFF AND VON IGLE'S PAPERS. SEIZED PAPERS LEAD TO SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS CODE BOOKS MAKES OTHER PAPERS READABLE. BERNSTORFF INVOLVED WITH DTJMBA AND PAPEN. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.). J LONDON, April 24. The Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent states: von Igle's documents include a code book, which has enabled the police to identify many sensational papers previously s.e'ized. The book shows that Bernstorff is in the same category as von Papen and Dumba. Bernstorff's claim for return of the documents was met by Mr. Lans ing's claim to discriminate betw-een official and unofficial. A SHORT-SIGHTED LABOUR POLICY. ; URGED BY INDEPENDENT LABOUR. •'*&' A LEADER,'S REMARKABLE STATEMENT. "','.' " • • - '- •'• . (Reed. 8.45 a,ja.y. '' '.'.".'.*• ,'. "'■■ LONDON, April 24. . An independent Labour Party conference was held at Newcastle, 400 .delegates being present Jowett,' the president, declared that the party refused to assist the Government in its war of adventure, which was bound to be disastrous. Whatever the result of military operations was, he protested, against men being compelled to fight whether or not they believed in its justice. The war would be followed by industrial strife. If skilled workers were dragged down to the level of unskilled men, and women's labour cheapened that of men, or capitalists were so enriched that workers were made weaker than before the war. There are an increasing number of women assiting in agriculture; the Marchioness of Londonderry and Countess Feversham having joined them. The latter has been ploughing.

ANOTHER BRUSH IN EGYPT. THE TURKS. DRIVEN BACK LOSING HEAVILY. (Reed. 10.5 a.m.). LONDON, April 24. The British replused an attack on Saturday on Dueidra, Egypt. Australians', acting in concert with aeroplanes, harrassed the retreating enemy, who suffered heavily. FRENCH PROGRESS IN ENEMY COMMUNICATION TRENCH. IN THE LOCALITY OF CAURETTES WOOD. ■y AIR SQUADRON BOMBING EXPEDITION. (Reed. 10.5 a.m.). PARIS, April 25. A communique says: fWe pregressed by grenade fighting in enemy communication trenches north-westward of Caurettes Wood, taking prisoners. Our air squadrons dropped forty'eiglit heavy bombs on Vyfwede station in South Sulst forest. Many struck. ENEMY AEROPLANE OVER DOVER. ! - ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS DRIVE IT OFF. ;■ /- NO BOMBS WERE DROPPED. (Reed. a.m.). Official: An aeroplane flew over Dover from east, at eight o'clock, 6000 feet high. Anti-aircraft guns drove it off. No bombs were dropped. TO-DAY'S SECRET MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. TO CONSIDER THE COMPULSION QUESTION. THE NORTHCLIFFE PRESS CHAGRINED. (Reed. 10.15 a.m.). LONDON April 24. The Times states that nearly all the trouble in Mr. Asquith's administration have sprung from want of candour. The Order in Council, wherein 3ie now seeks refuge, is to cloud everything in deeper mystery. The Daily Telegraph says: In an attempt to destroy a Government campaign. of invective which has been carried to an extreme, it hopes the Government will firmly hold to its resolution to maintain secrecy in the Cabinet, bpt if Ministers fetter writters and speakers they must keep a tight guard on their own expressions. The Daily Mail says the Order-in-Council means that the Premier has no hope of inducing Ministers to hold their tongues. If there is any Cabinet leakage it must be due to indiscretions of talkative Ministers.

THE BITER BADLY BIT. THE GERMAN BOASTED TRUMP CARD. NOW UP THE SLEEVE OF RUSSIA. (Reed. 9,5 a.m.). PETROGRAD, April 24. Since May 1915 Russians have been fatally subjected hundreds of times to gas attacks, and all remonstrations have been received with laughter, Germans describing gas as their trump card. Now they are astonished to discover that the Russians are formidably provided with the same weapon. Meanwhile, during the winter months Germans have been manufacturing 8000 pounds of chloride daily, foreshadowing an extensive use of it on the Russian front. THE AMERICAN NOTE DID NOT ELECTRIFY GERMANY. MAJORITY OF NEWSPAPERS DISCUSS THE NOTE. SUBMARINE NECESSARY TO GERMAN EXISTENCE. (Reed. 10,35 a.m.). NEW YORK, April 24. Messages from Berlin state that the majority of papers comment at length on the American Note. Some consider there is a probability that Germany is attempting to meet President Wilson's demands. The Zeitung Gamittage declares the Note did not electrify Germany as it was reported it would, but it electrified America. Germany has been willing to go to the utmost limits to meet the United States ever since the American Government sought to restrict, and even to make ineffective, our weapon of necessity. We, as been proved to every thinking man, have so far guarded the interests of neutrals, that no clash of opinion has arisen among us. To the last man the German people are united and will not let the submarine be wrenched from our hand. It is a weapon we need, because we know it is effective, and we use it accordingly on principles to justify humanity, which are always invoked in American Notes. And we will use it in the future because it is our right, and because of the human consideration of our existence as a >caie, and because the future of our wives and children compel us. Therefore we await with calmness and determination what Wilson again has to say. A MYSTERIOUS SHIPLOAD OF ARMS. CARGO OF ARMS CAPTURED IN IRELAND. STRANGE BOAT OF UNKNOWN OWNERSHIP. WHO WERE THE ARMS INTENDED FOR. ALL THE CREW WERE ARRESTED. LONDON, April 24. A boat containing a large quantity of arms and ammunition was seized on Friday morning by the police at Currabane Strand County Kerry, Ireland. It is a stranger of unknown nationality. The crew were arrested. It is unknown where the boat come from or for whom the arms were intended.

THE BEST ROAD TO THE RHINE. RUSSIAN ADVANCE TO THE BOSPHORUS. TO CAPTURE CONSTANTINOPLE. INTERESTING PROBABILITIES IN THE BALKANS. { LONDON, April 24. General Cherfils, writing in the ''Echo de Paris" forecasts a Russian attempt to advance in Asia Minor, force the Bosphorus and take Constantinople, while the Roumanians, Greeks and Serbs converge upon Sofia, the armies of Salonika, Suez, and Caucasus junctioriing m Thrace to overwhelm Turkey's final resistance. The best road to the Rhine says the writer, is through the B'osphorus. " ■-:■•■,■''■ ■-.

A GREAT WAR COUNCIL. POSITION REGARDED AS SERIOUS. LONDON, April 24. In Berlin a great war council is taking place at headquarters. Deliberation regarding the American crisis is expected to last some days. The position is viewed with the utmost seriousness by Government circles, which demand that the situation be examined from all aspects in order to meet the latest danger. Not only politicians but military and naval men are participating in the council. Newspapers supporting the Government advise caution and appeal) to America's sense of justice, but the majority of the Press refuse to hear of abandoning the submarine policy and sneer that American intervention is of little importance. The Vossische Zeitung accuses President Wilson of dropping the last semblance of impartiality in demanding the renunciation of our effective weapon against starvation warfare. A GfIAVE SITUATION. ' LONDON, April 24. In an intercepted wireless to the New Yorw World, Sign or Wiegand states gravity pervades the atmosphere of the Foreign Office in Berlin. Strong influence is working for a peaceful solution. Some do not see hope, but others are quits hopeful.

CHINESE TRANSPORT SUNK. THOUSAND LIVES LOST. COLLISION WITH A CRUISER. (Reed. 8.45 a.m.). SHANGHAI, April 24. The cruiser Haiyung collided in a fog with and sank the transport Hsinyo, south of Chusan; of 1000 soldiers and crew only 30 were saved. ANZAC DAY. WELLINGTON CELEBRATIONS. WELLINGTON, this day. The weather is fine for the commemoration of Anzac Day. A general half holiday is being observed. The principal function this afternoon is the memorial service in the Town Hall. This evening a patriotic gathering will be held, the speakers thereat include the Prime Minister and Sir Joseph Ward.

ANZAC DAY IN BRITAIN. NEWSPAPERS PUBLISH TRIBUTES TO IMPERISHABLE RECORDS. (Reed. 9.5 a.m.). LONDON, April 24. Apropos of Anzac Day, newspapers publish many descriptive tributes to the imperishable record at Gallipoli. OPERATIVE COTTON SPINNERS. MAY STRIKE FOR HIGHER WAGES. (Reed. 9.5 a.m.). LONDON, April 24. The Operative Association of Cotton Spinners of Lancashire are ballotting as to whether they will strike for 10 per cent advance in wages.

I IN TH EVENE OF WAR, | U.S. AMBASSADOR WARNED. WASHINGTON, April 24. Mr. Gerard has been warned to safeguard Americans in Germany and Allied countries in the event of war. SOLEMN WARNING TO GERMANY. BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. LONDON, April 24. Maximilian Harden publishes a. remarkable article in Zukunft entitled "If I were Wilson." He makes the President, in th e form of an imaginary speech, deliver a stinging indictment of Germany's relations with America. Herr Harden warns Germany how untenable are her demands and the consequences that will accue if she breaks with America. She will losvj all he v ships and also have to provision Bo'gium, as no further supplies will reach Scandinavia.

VON DER GOLTZ DEAD. GERMAN MASTER IN TURKEY. DIED AT BAGDAD. LONDON, April-23. The death has occurred of ttie German general, Field-Marshal von dcr Goltz, at his headquarters in Bagdad. The cause of death was spotted fever.

GENEEAL BIRDWOOD. WOUNDED ANZACS VISITED. A NOTABLE RE-UNION. LONDON, April 23. General Birdwood visited Harefield Hospital and inspected the wards. He shook hands with every patient, renewed recollections of Galiipoli, and made- personal inquiries as to the nature of the men's Avounds and whether they would b e able to return to the front. The general spoke cheering words to two hundred patients who remain in the hospital. Medical men point out that there has not been a single- death from operations, some of which have been ex- • coptional'ly severe. General Birdwood was delighted with the arrangements, and.was struck by the most wonderful cheerfulness of all the patients. Said General Birdwood: "Everybody knows my opinion of the Anzacs. I needn't say any more.'' DESPERATE TURKISH ATTACKS REPULSED. PETROGRAD, April 24. A communique says: At Ashkal, in the Caucasus, desperate Turkish attacks were repulsed with heavy losses. We counter-attacked an important enemy position. SOCIALISTS DISAGREE. A SPLIT IN THE PARTY. LONDON, April 24. The annual conference of British Socialists, held at Manchester, resulted in a split in the party. One hundred and fifty delegates, including a strong Cfyde representation, passed a. resolution to hold the conference in camera, whereupon twenty proper delegates withdrew. The remainder made a frantic demonstration, rising and cheering wildly and singing "The Red Flag." ITALY'S LIMITATIONS. LONDON, April 24. The Times correspondent at Rome says that Italian newspapers, commenting on Mr. Sydney Low's published suggestion that Italy should send half a million troops to the West front, states that are excellent military reasons why Italy is unablfe to afford men for France. The public, it is pointed out, is eagerly following the conscription struggle in England. The AntiCompulsionists' statements that no military operations have suffered through lack of men' causes bewilderment in Rome, where it is well known that the Dardanelles failure was due to a shortage of men.

THE WORDS OF WILSON. ARE "HANDS OFF." ROTTERDAM, April 24. The Lokal Anzieger says: President Wilson, does not Jov e us. We are not trying to gain his affection. We stand on our good rights, hitting the enemy where he is most sensitive. President Wilson does not frighten us. The word for Wilson is "Hands off." GERMANS ABANDON TRENCHES. LONDON, April 24. A Berlin communique says: Owing to underground floods rendering organisation impossible, we evacuated the trenches won on the LangemarckYpres road. Minor British attacks were repulsed at St. Eloi and ,the Baupame Albert road. A gas attack at Tracy Ie Val failed. The gas clouds were blown back on the French positions. CAPTURED OR SUNK. DANISH STEAMER TAKEN. PIRATES STILL BUSY. LONDON, April 23. The Danish steamer Esbjerg, laden with win e and coffee from France to Copenhagen, was captured and conveyed to Swinemunde, in Germany. The British steamer Mabbia was sunk, the crew being picked up. The Norwegian barque Olga was torpedoed, and the crow were landed. THE NEW PIRACY. INDISCRIMINATE SINKING. AIM OF THE POLICY. A POST-WAR ADVANTAGE. LONDON, April 23. The latest theory prevalent in shipping circles in London is that Germany, in destroying shipping irrespective of nationality, aims at securing after the war a mercantile advantage owing to the security of her own interned ships. Mercantile sJripbuilfling is almost a*a standstill in belligerent countries and even neutrals are handicapped by a shortage of steel. ;

WILSON WANTS WAR. GERMAN PRESS VIEW. A RUPTURE ANTICIPATED. UNRESTRICTED MURDER.- ! LONDON. April 23. ! Comenting oil President Wilson's I Note, the "Kreuz Zetiung" anticipates I a rupture, and hopes that the development will secure to Germany unrestricted freedom for submarine warfare. The "Kolnische Volks Zeitung" says that President Wilson wants war. If he maintained his menace the only conclusion for Germany is naval war with all that it means and all its consequences. The Vienna newspapers regard the Note as creating a crisis, and accuse President Wilson of favouring the Entente. They demand that Germany shall reply with dignity corresponding to its rights. The Washington "'Evening Post" says that the Government will look favourably upon an immediate declara--11 by Germany that she abandon her warningless attacks and only destroy prizes in calm weather, and near the shore, pending discussion of the equities and principles involved. HOW TREBIZOND WAS CAPTURED. ENEMIES' BATTERIES SMASHED. HOUSE TO HOUSE FIGHTING. PARIS, April 23. The "Journal's" Petrograd correspondent, in telegraphing details of the fall of Trebizond, states that a fierce engagement was fought on the Kara Dere River on Monday last, the Turks being routed. Russian hydroplanes located the enemy's entrenched batteries. The fleets opened up a formidable bombardment and smashed the batteries, while they also destroyed the liquid fire apparatus with which the Turks hoped to arrest the Russian march. Another severe battle was fought on Tuesday, when the Turks fled, abandoning their guns and a large quantity of material. The Russians then entered Trebizond in triumph, and telegraphed a glowing message to General Yudenich, who was in command of the operations. Another account states that before the town fell each quarter was contested house by house and street by street, the Russians being obliged to overcome desperate resistance.

GERMAN-AMERICAN CRISIS. HUNS SEEKING POSTPONEMENT. BERNSTORFF MAY BE SHUNTED. LONDON, April 23. A telegram from Copenhagen states that directly Mr. Wilson's Note regarding the sinking of merchant ships by submarines was received, the German Chancellor, Dr. von BethmannHollweg, proceeded by special train to the Imperial headquarters to confer with the Kaiser.It is expected that Easter will be made a pretext for delaying the reply, and that then an effort will be made to secure another indefinite postponement of the crisis. Reports are circulating in ,Wasliington that even If the submarine crisis is settled, the German Ambassador, Count von Bernstorff, will be given his passports. It is impossible, a telegram states, to ascertain the actual intentions of the Government. The Buenos Aires newspaper "Nacion," says that all the American republics share the sentiments of the United States, and welcome with deep sympathy Mr. Wilson's policy of taking up the defence of all neutral peoples.

PEACE MOVEMENT IN AUSTRIA. MR. ASQUITH'S FORMULA APPROVED. DESTRUCTION OF PRUSSIAN MILITARISM. LONDON, April 23. The "Daily Telegraph" states that Mr. Asquith's recent speech, when he said that there could be no peace until Prussian militarism had been crushed, has attracted much attention in Hungary, "where the peace movement is growing"owing to the belief that Germany intends to break up AustroHungary into small autonomous States in order to easily swallow them \ip later. The "Azest," the leading vernacular newspaper at Buda Pest, says that all sfine men approve of Mr. Asquith's declaration that the Allies did not want to crush Germany, the only object of the Allies being to prevent the recurrence of the present carnage. The newspapers "Vilag" and "Pestinaplo" similarly demand the opening of peace negotiations on the basis of Mr. Asquith's declaration.

. GERMAN ATTACKS ON YPRES i NOT INDICATING BIG OFFENSIVE. A BRITISH PUSH IMMINENT. i LONDON, April 23. I Correspondents at British headquarters point out that the four German I attacks on the Ypres salient are indicative of th c growing fierceness of the j fighting during March and April. They : are not necessarily preliminary to a I big German offensive, but are proof j that the enemy feels compelled to con- | front the British line with a strong 1 force, regarding a British push as imminent. Though the enemy does not ■ dare to detach from other fronts for- | ces necessary for a big German offenj sive, they keep the British active, in ; the district where the ground is most difficult. The purpose of the British in fighting at Ypres is to kill Germans as a definite objective, apart from the killing incidental to the general plans. ! GER3TAN CLAIMS. LONDON, April 24. A German communique says: We captured trenches west of Mort Homme and south-east of Haucort. A LONG FLIGHT. SALONIKA, April) 24. A Frenc-h airman dropped four bombs on Sofia, causing fires and panic. The aviator made a non-stop journey of 400 miles.