THE KAISER’S VASSAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 19 August 1916, Page 2

THE KAISER’S VASSAL.

PARIS, August IG, Newspapers regard' the appointment of Herr Androssy as Minister of Foreign Affairs as the unification of the Central Empire’s armies and policies in German hands. They describe Androssy as the Kaiser’s clinging swollen-headed vassal. BRITISH MINOR SUCCESS. LONDON, August 17. General Haig reports that they stopped an enemy attack cast' of Mountquet Farm, exploded a mine west of Vimy, and occupied the crater. RUSSIAN COMMUNIQUE. PETROGRAD, August 16. A communique says; There are no changes en the European*front offensive. Attacks by several enemy detachments in the Kalaposava region, south east cl Lake Urenia, were frustrated. KUROPATKIN'S SUCCESSOR. PETROGRAD, August 17 General Russky has been appointee* commander in chief of the northern armies in succession to General Kuropatkin. NEW ZEALAND DESERTED. THE EXPECTED HAS HAPPENED. The Hon. Mr Massey states that information has been received that cue of our men has deserted to the enemy. The man’s name was such as not to give any indication of German origin, and no suspicion was aroused by him nior to the dace on which he deserr3d. Until detailed official information of the truth of the present report has been received, the man’s name will not be disclosed. This is being clone In order to prevent possible injustice to iis parents, who are resident in New Zealand, should the report on investi;ation prove unfounded. THE U.S.A. LOAN TO BRITAIN. SECURED BY AMERICAN BONDS.

NEW YORK, August 16

In connection with the loan of £SO, 109,000 raised by Britain in America to steady the exchange rate, notes will shortly be offered to the public at 99 y] lis interest. There will be no British taxer, against the notes. The securities consist of three groups of bonds and stocks in American corporations, Canadian Government bonds, Canadian Pacific Railway bonds, and bonds and ether obligations of specified neutral Pew

ers. n each case the bonds must have a total value of 100,000,000' dollars, and the aggregate market value must be a least 0 per cent in excess cf the face * value of the loan. • THE ATTACK ON VERDUN. There must exist something particularly attractive in Verdun for the Germans, for just as the two months’ vain attack on the supposed fortress had ceased, it commenced again with renewed energy. Fortress is really an abstract word for Verdun, which is but an entrenched position of highlydefensive possibilities. The obsolete concrete and steel mountings no longer exist, militarily speaking; but the high-sounding and important title of ‘fortress,’ which the Germans insist upon when referring to the scene of their gigantic activities, evidently pleases them and offends nobody. Of course, the fall of so formidable a “fortress’’ would send the Kaiser’s

subjects into paroxyms of uncontrollable eeslacy: but, in spite of the greatest artillery display yet directed at the heart of the great “fortress” this week, it still stands where it did. There is every indication. however, that the German offensive, opened from the cast of the Meuse, may extend as far as Woevre. Even so. the cry oven hero is. “They won’t have Verdun! ”