INDEPENDENCE DECLARED.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 146, 23 June 1916, Page 5

INDEPENDENCE DECLARED.

MANY TURKISH PRISONERS TAKEN. RESULT OF GERMAN DOMINATION. DISSOLUTION OF CREEK CHAMBER. DEMANDED BY THE ALLIES. RUSSIAN DRIVE STILL STRONGAUSTRIAN ARMY IN PERILOUS POSITION

■ T NEW GERMAN SHELL

; SILENT TILL IT EXPLODES

Received this day at 9.50 a.m. PARIS,June 22. ' The Germans are using, on the western front, high velocity shells which are silent until they explode.

THE NINEVEH GANG

MOST HORRIBLE RITUAL OUTRAGE AND MURDER Received this day at 9.50 a.m. JOHANNESBURG, June *22. aPour members of the Nineveh'gang of natives, practising horrible retual, &ave been arrested on the Rand. They murdered John Smellie,a native of Aberdeen, his wife and daughter. The women were outraged. The victims were walking the veldt and' inadvertently' witnessed the horrible rites, whereupon their death was decided upon.

GEBMAN-SPANISH 'RELATIONS.

'KAISER THANKS ALFONSO ■ • . - ■ SUBMARINE’S VISIT- “ ; Received this day at 9.50 a.m* -4 - j yrjrA . MADRID, June 22. ,- h ■ XJ3S visited Cartagena, ostensibly : with repairs to be transferred to the ‘interned German steamer Roma, and with presents ’ 'for the interned men from the Cameroons. The commander stated that he destroyed fifty ships, including the Provence. He brought the Kaiser s letter, thanking King Alfonso for welcoming refugees from the Cameroons. "Warships escorted the submarine beyond territorial waters.

ANOTHER WAR.

ARABIA REVOLTED ITS INDEPENDENCE DECLARED GERMAN DOMINATION THE CAUSE Received this day at 9.50 a.m. Arabia has proclaimed its independence, The grand sheriff has captured Mecca, Jeddah and Taif. The Turkish garrison has surrendered. The losing, although only the last of a series of rebellions against Turkish rule, is greaty stimulated by bitter resentment of German domination of Turkey. Newspapers in London are giving prominence to the Government of India’s declaration of , November, 1914, regarding the holy places. Aga Khan’s emphatic pronouncement of November 1914,, concerning Turkey’s betrayal trusteeship of Islam. CAIRO, June 22. The Grand Sheriff is supported by the tribes of west and central Arabia, His operations begun on the 9th when the Sheriffs forces captured Jeddah, Mecca and Taif, and the garrisons, with the exception of two small forts at Taif, ’ surrendered, Forty-five officers, 1,400 men and six guns -were captured at Jeddah. The Sheriff is now closely besieging Medina and he holds the communications with Hedjaz.

THE INVINCIBLE RUSSIANS

THE DRIVE CONTINUES io PFLANZER’S POSITION PRECARIOUS. " i '. Received this day at 8.45 a.m. PARIS, June 22. The Echo de Paris states that Letchinsky’s vigorous advance continues; Cossacksh ave reached Radantz, and the outlook for Pflanzer’s right wing is precarious. .. .

THE ALLIES DEMANDS

HAVE BEEN ACCEDED TO

this day at 8.45 a.m

LONDON. June 22

Reuter reports that a despatch from Athens states that Greece has acceped all the Entente demands.

ARTILLERY IN FRANCE

HEARD IN ENGLAND #

, Received this day at 8.45 a.m. « LONDON, June 22. Tuesday night’s artillery duel at Ypreg was heard at Chelmsford in the county of Essex.

UPRISING AGANST TURKEY

A SUCCESSFUL REVOLT '

BY ARABS AT MEECA

Received this day at 8.45 a.m

LONDON, June -22

News has reached here that a successful uprising by Arabs against Turkey at Meeca has taken place.