HUGE CAPTURES BY RUSSIANS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 153, 1 July 1916, Page 5

HUGE CAPTURES BY RUSSIANS.

INTACT AUSTRIAN BATTERIES SEIZED. THE BARKING OF BRITISH GUNS. GERMANS DAZED AND BEWILDERED. TERRIFIC WORK OF BRITISH SHELLS ITALIAN DRIVE STILL CONTINUES. AUSTRIAN RESISTANCE GETTING STRONGER

CAfrFOB AND CAPTIVE.

SCHOOLMATES AND FRIENDS.

A KUT COINCIDENCE

Received July 1, 8.45 a.m. Capetown, June 30.

A British colonel in Mesopotamia, in a private letter,, states that the Turkish commander at Kut-el-Amara and General Townshend were schoolmates and friends in France, and that they immediately recognised eacli other.

ITALIAN CHAMBER.

SOCIALIST CAUSES DEMONSTRA-

TIONS.

Received July 1, 8.45 a.m. Kome, June 30. In the Chamber, the Socialist member for Treviso denounced the war. The whole iiouse, including several SoeiaSsts, rose in protest, shouting cheers for the army and demanding war against Germany. The incident led to a great patriotic pro-war.demonstration.

starving british prisoners:

DISCUSSION IN PARLIAMENT,

London, June 29

Bir Edward Grey, iu acknowledging ihe report of Mr. Gerard (American Ambassador) on the prison camp at Trtruenbrietzen, considers the allowance of tlllounces of meat weekly, supplementeii by some sausage, is entirely inadequate in cases where men are performing manual labor. > Mr. Asquitli, in the House of Commons,, said the Home Office Committee had been appointed to determine the work whereto genuine conscientious objectors should be put. Those who used their conscience as a cloak ought to be treated with the utmost rigor. The genuine objector who understood national work would not bo subject to military discipline. Mr. Ascfdith refused to be dntwn as to whether two of his colleagues had resigned.