INTERESTING ITEMS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 17 July 1916, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

GERMAN BRUTALITY

LONDON, July 13. A ■ correspondent .at headquarters tele a story of the . shameful conduct of Germans at the Somme. A wounded English officer was brought to a German trench. The popular idea was ,to despatch him forthwith, but ultimately the suggestion of two officers was adopted and the i officer hoist, ed and tied to a parapet amidst jeers, and informed. “Now, see what your cursed bombardment is like.” The Germans descended to their dug-out, where, the correspondent says it i« he-

iievod they wore bombed to extinction hy British' infantry who stormed the place and rescued the British officer. D RUNKEN ARCHDUKES. ROME, July 13. The newspaper “Mattino” says it is reported that when the offensive began tiie Archdukes Frederic and Ferdinand were in the midst of a halt-drunken re-, vel at Lutsk, celebrating the formers birthday, and neither was in a fit condition tr conduct operations. The Emperor Franz Josef refuses audience to the Archduke Frederic, holding that he was mainly responsible for the reverses at Lutsk. INTERESTING REPORTS AWAITED. LONDON, July 13. The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith will make a full statement as to the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia on Tuesday. , THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. PARIS, July 13. 11l the opinion of the French authorities, thirty thousand troops and'thirty thousand tons of war material could he transported daily to France if the Channel tunnel was in existence.

The Minister of Commerce told the chairman of the Paris Economic Conference that .the full execution of the conference’s decisions largely depended upon the construction of the tunnel.