DOBRUDJA BATTLE CONTINUES

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 28 October 1916, Page 5

DOBRUDJA BATTLE CONTINUES

ITHE GERMAN ADVANCE CHECKED I TCRBIBLE STRUGGLE AT MONASTIC IBULGAR REINFORCEMENTS FROM THE I DANUBE I A NAVAL BATTLE I 10 HUN DESTROYERS ATTACK I TRANSPORTS I VERDUN CAPTURES SECURE

■prison CAMP HORRORS. Lloushess and brutality. ■starVed and ill-used. I LONDON, Oct 26. I. British official report states that ■vphus epidemic at Cardelegen in I spring and summer of 1915 re■fid horrifying German mismauage■it and callous cruelty equalling Htenbmg. ■he area, of the camp was 550 ■ls square. The prisoners were not ■wed leave, except for fatigue dut- ■ There was a single bath-house ■ eleven thousand men, of whom ■ thousand were Russians, six ■sand French, seven hundred Bel■s, and 230 British. The overHding was terrible in the huts, Hh. were devoid of tables and stools ■ sat on beds to eat their meals, I here lay sick and even the H. The atmosphere day and night ■ indescribably foetid. The food H of bad quality, and the prisoners Htantly felt the pangs of hunger. Hians (vfho received few private ■els) were seen on their hands and ■s crowding round a pit where po- ■ peelings were thrown. Few of Hjrisoners had boots and overcoats ■ the suffering was intensified by Hextreme cold and the absence of Her fires. The sanitary conditions ■ hopjble. Twelve hundred bad at a single standpipe Hjersonal washing, and for the Hiing of eating utensils, and clothHll without soap. Some men were H months without a bath and the ■t was that lice swarmed in evHgarment and blanket. He commandant and the guards esa reign of terror and bruMr in ,the camp. Soon, in their H of utter misery and desolation, Hfcone of them was anaemic and Hss. The authorities, early in Febfearing an epidemic, chose |Hi British, French and Russian doc |H and brought them to Cardelegen. found the smallest one H of drugs, including four ounces salts, three or four dozen ot quinine, asperin and caloand a few lint dressings. The now 50 dally. A commis|H of German doctors arrived, and an hour at the camp, and half later the German guards pack |H}, and soon there was not a GerM inside the camp. The sick were SHitterly unattended. The commanIHof the camp summoned the seven IHrs to the edge of the barbed wire them the sentries would H anyone attempting to leave, tie SHI thaOie would return to the spot SH to receive reports. The doctors ■ the appalling situation. There no beds for the sick men, and of the patients on the floors There was no milk, for the sick, who were fed II black bread and raw herrings, rest of the prisoners. doctors commenced to sort the |§f9 and isolate the convalescents. lasted four months, and Hed two thousand cases, of whom cent. died. The commandant |H:he other camp authorities were hostile throughout. The docgames of football. the German authorities ordered pH stopped on pain of severe pen- ■ i HeRICAN LOAN TO BRITAIN. ■ RAISING £60,000,000. ■ NEW YORK, Oct 26. |H J. P. Morgan has completed a IHtoan to Britain of £60,000,000. |Hate .of interest is 5| per cent. BaSWEEPER SUBMARINED |KtCERS AND 73 MEN LOST. H ' TV LONDON, Oct 26 i|H ’Admiralty reports that on MonH minesweeper was submarined. |He officers and 73 men were lost.

ATTACK ON TRANSPORTS. BY GERMAN DESTROYERS. COMPLETELY DRIVEN OFF. Received 10.37. LONDON, Oct 27. The Admiralty reports that during last night ten enemy destroyers attempted a raid on across Channel transports and failed. One ' empty transport was sunk, the crew being saved.. Two enemy destroyers were sunk, and the rest were driven off. One British destroyer is missing, feared to be lost Nine of the crew were saved. Another, disabled by a torpedo, was being towed, when the tow rope parted, owing to bad weatl? er, and the destroyer grounded.

A DESTROYER FIGHT. IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, TWO GERMANS SUNK. ■ ' 0 Received 9.20 LONDON,, Oct 26. British and German destroyers were engaged in the English Channel. Two Germans were sunk and one British was sunk and one disabled. THE GERMAN FRONT. WHAT WEDGE-DRIVING MEANS. SUBMARINE RUMOURS. ANOTHER REPORTED IN AMERICA Received 9.10 NEW YORK, Oct 27 Advices from London state that the Allies’ operations in France are seriously adding to the length of frontage the Germans have to defend with fasfwasting reserves. Every wedge driven into the German line, like Thiepval and Douaumont, make sthe front zig-zag instead of straight, thus inr,easing the mileage of trenches in which the Germans must have additional men and guns, or retreat. It is estimated that if fifty miles can be added to the German front in this manner, they will require 300,000 new troops to defend it. The Navy Department has learned that a German submarine has arrived at Norfolk. All information i s withheld. 'A later message states that a submarine’s arrival is only a report which is not confirmed. THE IMPOSSIBLE HUN. INJECT TUBERCULIN SERUM. INTO FRENCH PRISONERS. BEFORE LIBERATING THEM. Received 9.15. NEW YORK, Oct 27. A message dated September ?4, only just released, states that Gertrude Atherton, the "novelist, who recently spent four months in France, in a letter to the New York “Times” confirms French charges that Germans deliberately infect prisoners with tuberculosis. Prisoners were returning in rags and suffering with tubercular disease, requiring special treatment in French hospitals. I learned from a thoroughly reliable source that French prisoners were not only forced to sleep with tuberculosin sufferers, but also to eat and drink from the same vessels which were not washed. Moreover, there are authenticated Cases wherein they have given injections of tuberculoses serum under the pretence of vaccination against typhoid. This report is confirmed by doctors who have special opportunities for obtaining accurate information. COUNTER-ATACKS REPULSED. PARIS, Oct 26. A communique says: Four violent counter-attacks at Douaumont and Hardaumont were repulsed with important losses. The front remains intact. The total prisoners heretofore were 5000. beside several hundred wounded.

CONSTANZA CAPTURE. CONSULS LAST TO LEAVE. BRAVE RUSSIAN SAILORS. MORE HUN KULTUR. Received 8.50 ODESSA, Oct 27. The Anglo-Russian and French consuls have arrived’ here. They were among the last to leave Constanza. The last train loft for Ccrnavoda when the enemy was already bombarding tho lino. Despite ceaseless heavy bombardment of the port Russian sailors, who remained after tho troops and population had fled, did the bravest Avork in burning huge grain elevators and stores of cereals, flour and oil. Refugees state that the enemy aeror planes dropped a proclamation in the town exhorting the Roumanians not to be afraid, as the invaders were their friends. They also dropped packets of poisoned sweets bearing false names, intended to denote that they were of Russian origin. ELIMINATE ROUMANIA. AND ASSAIL ITALY. HINDENBURG’S GREAT PLAN. Received 8.50. ROME, Oct 27. The “Idea Nazionale’s” correspondent at Berne states he has been positively informed that Hindenburg’s plan is to eliminate Roumania, then strongly assail Italy.

STEURGKH’S ASSASSIN. STANDS TRIAL IN VIENNA. AMSTERDAM, Oct 26. Count Koerber, a former Premier, will succeed the late Count Stuergkh as Premier of Austria. The trial has commenced in Vienna of s Dr. Adler on the charge of assassinating Count Karl Stuergkh, of Austria. Dr. Adler was apparently indifferent to his fate. The prosecution stated that he was an excitable man. It was probable he had no accomplices. RUSSO-ROUMANIAN REPORT. GERMANS REPULSED IN MOLDAVIA. RESTING IN THE DOBRUDJA. Received 11.45. LONDON, Oct 27. A Russian communique states: We repulsed the Germans south of Riga. Our advanced posts fell back to the east bank of the Shara. The Roumanians on the west frontier in Moldavia, captured Bolian, north-west of Okua, and the Piatrarotkul heights south-west of Okua. The Roumanians arrested many offensives on the Valakhia frontier. There is fierce fighting on both banks of the Gin. The enemy is attacking along the whole front. In Dobrudja the Russo-Roumanians are resting, returning north of Hirsova Kaiapioj line. A BULGAR REPORT. LONDON Oct 26. A Bulgarian communique says: The Constanza booty includes 500 railway trucks, several locomotives, numerous reservoirs of petrol and sheds and warehouses full of corn, also seventy Turkish barges which the Roumanians had detained. RUTHLESS SUBMARINING DISCUSSED IN THE HOUSE OF.. LORDS. DIRECT CHARGE AGAINST AMERICA. LONDON, Oct 26. In the House of Lords, Lord Sydenham raised the question of Us3’s depredations, and asked whether it was in conformity with Germany’s pledge Lord Beresford said h e always thought Germany Avanted to involve America in the AA-ar to enable her to say she could not fight the Avholc Avorld, and also becaueg America Avould be of considerable assistance at the peace conference. It Avas a serious statement to make, but he maintained that America Avas aiding and abetting the shameful wholesale torpedoings at sight, and endangering lives. The torpedoing of merchantmen was becoming more serious, and Ave should take notice thereof. Earl Grey replied that we had no vmdertakign from 'America as to Avdiat information she had or what she should do Avith it when obtained. We could only get information from officers of the sunken merchantmen. The Government could not answer Lord Sydenham until they possessed all the facts. He understood the American and German Governments were discussion the subject. It wa s inadvisable to raise the subject in the House. He especially deprecated a discussion of American policy.

IN VERDUN SECTOR. FURTHER GAINS MADE. Received 10.30. LONDON, Oct 27. A French official states that artillery exploded a munitions depot in the region, of Verdun. Details of operations westwards of Vaux fort state that 100 were prisonered. We progressed generally at Douaumont and Chenois. The enemy violently bombarded us. Enemy works were aerially bombed at several points. HEAVY LOSSES INFLICTED. PARIS, Oct 27 A communique states: An attempted attack on Bois I’Abbe Farm, southward of Bouchavesnes, was easily re- [ pulsed. Artillery and infantry smashed ' two counter-attacks at Douaumont Fort, and on the front to the eastward. A third very powerful attack, debouching from Haudaumont woods, comprised four waves, which were caught under the fire of our batteries and machineguns, and thrown back in disorder, with serious losses. An isolated fraction of the enemy were made prisoners. Finally an attempted attack on our trenches southward of Chaurfour Wood was completely defeated. AN ITALIAN PROPOSAL. ALLIANCE WITH BRITAIN. Received 8.50. LONDON, Oct 27. A correspondent in Rome states that Signor Nitti, ex-Minister of Industry, urged Italy to endeavour to change the j London Agreement into an alliance, and thus convince Germany there was no hope that Allied dissent might shorten the war. TREATMENT OF PRISONERS. GERMANS MET WITH REPRISALS. THEY ALTERED THEIR CONDUCT. Received 11.40. PARIS, Oct 24. The French Government has publishmiserablc conditions at German prison ers in France and Germany, showing how reprisals secured a mitigation of brutalities practised on prisoners. The French commenced to feed the Germans lavishly. When detailed reports of the miserable conditions at German prion camps were received Germany was informed that methods would be altered unless better treatment was given to French prisoners in a fortnight. The Germans did nothing, so the allowance of meat to German prisoners was reduced from twelve ounces to four, and bread twenty-four ounces to ten and a' half, typical menus in German camps W'ere secured and duplicated in France. When the Germans stopped parcels and letters the French did similarly until the Gormans altered their , conduct. The French, however, did not give decayed food or mix healthy prisoners with those infected with typhus. The German commandant of the camp at Cassel met our protests with the remark, “I make war in my own way.” Several cases of murder are recorded, including one in -which a soldier was bayonotted for misunderstanding an order. Tortures w'ere practised,, including the brushing of bare flesh until the blood flowed. The report includes many photographs and German letters.

THE WAGES QUESTION. GOVERNMENT WILL OPEN SHOPS IN CERTAIN ARTICLES. A MINIMUM WAGE POSSIBLE. Received 11.40. LONDON Oct 27. Mr. Runciman received a deputation of the Scottish Trade Union Congress. He said that owing to increased food prices the Government was considering the possibility of enforcing a minimum wage generally throughout the industrial world, also opening municipal shops for certain articles in some districts. THE ANZAC BOOK. LONDON. Oct 27. The sale of the Anzac Book realised £d()00 ior the Red Cross. A new edition is being published. BRITISH PENSIONS BOARD. LONDON, Oct 26. In the House of Commons, Mr. Asquith said a Bill would be introduced shortly to establish a Pensions Board under a Cabinet Minister. EXPLOSION IN MUNITION FACTORY. LONDON, Oct 26. By an explosion in a munition factory in Kent two people wore kf uo-s. and ten seriously injured.

BATTLE FOR MONASTIR. LONG AND SEVERE ONE. BULGARS REINFORCED FROM DANUBE. Received 11.40. LONDON, Oct 27. The “Daily Chronicle’s” Athens’ correspondent says the battle for Mon astir is unabated. The continued arrival of enemy reinforcements makes the struggle very severe and likely to last some time. Through the desperate push against the Roumanians the Bulgars have been able to send men from the Danube to Monastir. ANOTHER MAD HUN. EXPOUNDS GERMAN KULTUR GOING TO COVER THE WORLD. Received 9.20 NEW YORK Oct 27. Professor Mlensterberg, in an extraordinary utterance, said the German ideal was not for individual works but for universal service for. the whole State. That was the true meaning of Kultur. Ho predicted an early peace, then German kultur would conquer the globe, spreading to all countries, and be the distinctive stamp of the next century. There would be Gerraanisation of the world after the war.

COLONIALS IN LONDON. A NOTABLE GATHERING. LONDON, October 26. There was a notable gathering at the Mansion House, when the Lord Mayor gave a luncheon to 300 overseas resident and visitors to meet the various Higif Commissioners and Agents-General This was the first time in the Mansion House’s history that it has been devoted purely to a Colonial function. The guests included Sir Thos. Mackenzie and party, Mr. Massey and party, Sir Joseph Ward and party, Sir James Carroll and party, and Lieutenant Seddon. The Lord Mayor proposed the health of the “High Commissioners.” Sir Thomas Mackenzie presented the Lord Mayor, on behalf of the High Commissioners, with an address, thanking him for his generous hospitality towards overseas troops and his gracious reception of Colonial representatives. Mr, Bonar Law, in proposing the Lord Mayor’s health, expressed, on behalf of the B'ritish people, the debt of gratitude they owed tEe overseas dominions. The war. had shown we Avere working as one. It was true that Ave Avere winning, but we had a long road to go. Our victories in the past had not been Avon by wealth, or even courage, but by staying powers. We must still rely on that until victory Avas secured.