BUNDLED OUT OF GREECE

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 24 November 1916, Page 5

BUNDLED OUT OF GREECE

THE HUN MINISTERS DEPART W WITH ALL THESR SPY RETINUE ALLIES' NEW MILITARY TACTICS k CASUALTIES VERY MUCH REDUCED NEW METHODS OF ATTACK THE NEW AUSTRIAN EMPEROR AUSTRIANS SLAVE-RAIDING SERVIA

AUSTRALIANS AS SOLDIERS

FINEST IN THE WORLD. A GLOWING PANEGYRIC. BY AMERICAN WAR CORRESPONDENT. Received 9.43. NEW YORK, Nov 23. Mr. Frederick Palmer, the New York journalist, expresses unstintec admiration for Australian soldiers. Interviewed by the Australian Press Association, he says: I have seen soldiers throughout the world, but never anything like the Australians advancing to the attack, and they impressed me as being the finest soldiers and men to be found on any battlefield. The world does not yet realise tne greatness of .the feat of the capture of Pozieres Ridge, which was due to tne Australians' dash and tenacity. The Australians had achieved a world name at Gallipoli, but a new and greater test awaited them in France, where they were pitted against the Germans' best, yet they entered the fight smilingly, with an unwavering Cfcfidence; the Tesult the world knows. Individual Australians are a distinct type—courageous and unflincn ing in danger, dashing, with amazing initiative and resourcefulness, while not underestimating their task. Am xong the magnificent heroes of tfie front, the Australians stand out, because of their adaptibility and general intelligence. The Australians do not show unthinking courage; they are clearbrained and capable, conscious of the seemingly unequal conflict of newlytrained men against Germany's super drilled legions. They not only accepted the challenge, but forced the issue, and gloriously triumphed. Originally difficult to restrain when they reached their objective, they are rapidly learning the necessity of discipline, and the futility of one section out-pacing the line This light curb of discipline is moulding them into perfect soldiers. I was forcibly struck with the Australians' early insistence on the equality of privates and officers. This is typical of the grand, free, independent spirit of the colonies; but they now understand "that officers must be paid formal respect, and they are becoming adept at saluting. The Australians' democratic ideals are leavening the' English Tommies, and I predict the result will be a striking growth of the democratic spirit in England after the war. i

FRANCE'S 1919 CLASS.

TO BE CALLED UP. PARIS, Nov 22. The Chamber of Deputies has concluded a secret sitting on the bill calling up the 1919 class. It was finally decided that this class be examined medically. It is understood that the question of the ereation of an inter-Allied army was considered.

NEW ZEALAND MINISTERS.

VISIT THE GRAND FLEET. Received 8.45 LONDON, Nov 23. . Mr Masscy and Sir Joseph Ward visited a portion of the. Grand Fleet, cinding the New Zealand. Sir Joseph Ward, speaking at Glasgow, insisted on the Dominions' right to a voice in the peace terms and in future treaties. ' The Dominions were entitled in the future'to equal responsibility for the Empire navy. It was their undeniable duty to provide a tonsiderable portion of the cost. The party visited shipbuilding yards.

ON THE SEA.

J THE SINKING OF THE BRITANNIC. TORPEDOED FROM BOTH SIDES. LONDON, Nov 22. The '' Daily Chronicle V ' 'Athens correspondent states that of the outrage prove that the Britannic was the victim of another example of Germany's unmitigated barbarism. Two Hun submarines lay in wait in a. narrow sea for the sole purpose .of fending the hospital to the bottom. The submarines attacked on both sides simultaneously. Each launched a torpedo. One missed, but the other struck fatally. It was a deliberate crime, which was all the worse because the submarine commanders must have noticed that the vessel was going north, a fact which implied that she was carrying only hen usual crew and complement of nurses, doctors, etc. That did not count with the cowardly foe. The Britannic was going to Mudros to take aboard sick and wounded. She was fitted to carry 5000. A survivor, says perfect order prevailed. The nurses, like the officers and men of the Medical Corps,, lined the deck. There was not the slightest suspicion of panic. A stewardess tells a terrible story of the launching of the first two boats near the stern. The ship heeled oven, and the screws, out of the water, whirling.round two loaded boats, sucked the boats towards them and cut them up like matchwood Many were killed outright and others were horribly injured. WAS THE BRITANNIC TORPEDOED NOT YET DEFINITELY KNOWN. Received 1d.50 LONDON, Nov 23. Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons, stated it was not yet definitely known whether the Britannic was torpedoed. SUBMARINES WILL WIN THE WAR GERMAN CLAIMS. LONDON, Nov 22. Berlin announces that 306,500 tons of Allied shipping were destroyed in October, and that 2,500,000 tons of British shipping have been sunk during the war. Newspapers are delirious with delight. They claim that submarines' destruction of commerce will inevitably end the war, in Germany's favour in twelve months.

AN OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER.

APPOINTED BY AUSTRALIA. Received 11.50 LONDON, Nov 23. The Commonwealth has appointed an official photographer with • the Australian forces on the West front.

AUSTRIANS SLAVE RAIDING

FOR MUNITION FACTORY WORK. Received 11.15. ROME, Nov 23. Austria is deporting one thousand Servians, including women, to work in munition factories, hoping thereby to liberate during the next three months one hundred thousand Austrian* for active service.

GERMAN TANKS.

SUPERIOR TO BRITISH. COLOGNE PAPER'S CLAIM. LONDON, Nov 22. Reuter 's Amsterdam correspondent reports that the Koelhiseh? Zeitung says that Germany intends to use laud cruisers superior to the tanks, which are regarded as too slow and not heavily enough armoured.

ON THE WESTERN FRONT.

BRITISH NAVAL DIVISION'S GOOD WORK. ' LONDON, Nov 23. Mr. Giblin, in the "Daily Chronicle." reveals the presence at the Ancre battle of a British naval division. He says: No account of last week's fighting can omit the division's attack. It made good the great name won at other points. The division attacked the lines between the Ancre and Beau-mont-Hamel, a sprawling series of trenches, communications and redoubts, also the village of Beaucourt. The first battalion gained its first object and settled down to let the second line through. A German redoubt stood on a steep slope, containing four casements, each armed with a battery of machine-guns in unprecedented numbers. Nothing could live within range. The attack was .-hung up. b reserves arrived promptly. An eager colonel of one battalion was four times wounded, but succeeded in holding the attackers together until they neared Beaucourt. The colonel then collected all the forces within reach and pushed on to the German position aii(j occupied it all night. Meanwhi l '- the force upheld at the redoubt was still unsuccessful at nightfall. Every attempt to progress was mown Gown. Three tanks started out. One reached within a hundred yards of the redoubt. The crew opened the door and emerged with a machine-gun. The Germans did not wait longer, but frantically waved a white rag pit 7 surrendered. The same morning the eft-wounded colonel led his men forward to the village. There was intense handto-hand fighting, but thn sailors could not be denied.

GREECE

WRONGLY 'ACCUSED OF HELPING THE GERMANS. ATHENS, Nov 22. It has been officially announced that th e charges of espionage against the Deputy, ,M. Kallimasiotis, have been proved false.. The incriminating letters were the work of a forger, who lias since confessed. i " TWO MINISTERS DEPART. LONDON,, Nov 22. The "Daily Chronicle's" Athens correspondent witnessed the departure of two of the expelled Ministers from Athens. They left the capital for the Piraeus. BUNDLED OUT OF GREECE. THE SPIES HAVE LEFT. Received 5.45. 1 ATHENS, Nov 23. More than twenty- persons compromised in the espionage charges left with, enemy Ministers, including Sehehkjh), the principal agent and Caro director of the German school. THE EVICTED MINISTERS. LONDON, Nov 23. The l*nited States Legation represents the Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian interests and Spain has been entrusted with German interests after the expulsion of the four Ministers. The Greek Government protested against the expulsion to the last, but Admiral du Fournet replied that the Ministers were engaged in espionage and must go. GREEK GOVERNMENT'S REFUSE TO HAND OVER WAR MATERIAL. GERMANY MIGHT DECLARE WAR. Received 11.55. ATHENS, Nov 23. The Greek Government also bases its refusal to hand over war material on the ground that it will provoke a German war declaration. Anti-En-tente circles are Jubilant; they declare they will face resolutely the possibility of blockade.

PEACE OVERTURES

WILL BE CONSIDERED. IF THEY GIVE WHAT WE FIGHT FOR. LONDON, Nov 22. Lord Derby informed an American journalist that any German peace proposal will be met in consideration of its worth. Any proposal not giving what we are fighting for will 7iot be considered for an instant Mr Llcyd George's interview still exactly summed up the situation.

EMBARRASSINGLY RICH.

NEW YORK, Nov 22. The abundance of gold is becoming a great problem to American financial writers. "We are the heaviest lenders on earth- yet wo are in the haricis of the borrowers," 'says one paper, which blames the awkwardness of the American banking system for the threatened era of o vet-speculation.

THE ROUMANIAN CAMPAIGN.

THE POSITION STILL SERIOUS. AN OMINOUS SILENCE. LONDON, Nov 23. The "Daily Chronicle's" Petrograd correspmident auyo the jnfuation ,i;n Eoumania is evidently serious. The capture of Faliash, fifty miles south of the frontier, is important. Within three days the Roumanians have retired thirty-five miles. It is noteworthy that this success has been achieved in the Jiul Valley, where the Roumanians recently routed the Eleventh Bavarian Division. No communique has been issued by Bucharest sinuc Sunday. There is no Roumanian information regarding the fall of Craiova or the western retreat. BIG BLOW AT MACKENSEN. LONDON, Nov 23. Marcel Hutin, in the "Echo dc Paris," says a big blow is impending against Maekenscn. Amplb supplies are available. •

THE BALKAN CAMPAIGN.

J BULGARS STILL FLEEING. PARIS, Nov 22. A Servian communique says: Yesterday we successfully pursued attacks on the whole line. We captured the village of Budiniras and the surrounding heights.inflicting heavy losses. The 1 Allies also progressed. At least twenty-four fresh German battalions reached the Monastir front prior to the 15th inst., and others have since arrived.

POLISH AUTONOMY.

"UNGRATEFUL" POLES. DON'T WANT AUTONOMY. UNDER GERMAN GUARANTEE. LONDON, Nov 22. The German papers are generally shocked at what they characterize as the ungrateful and irreconcilable atli tude of the Prussian Poles regarding their incorporation in the future kingdom of Poland. The "Koelnische . .Zeitung" warns them of the consequences of continued hostility towards Prussia.

BRITAIN'S FOOD PROBLEM.

HOTELS MUST ECONOMISE. LONDON, Nov 23 Mr. Runciman, in an impressive address to hotel-keepers, urged the necessity for greater economy There must, he said, be one or two meatless days weekly. There must be a cre-

crease in the amount of imported foods. If hotel-keepers did no" act, the Government would intervene. LONDON, Nov 23 Mr. Runciman conferred with hotelkeepers as to economising in food. Subsequently he conferred with manufacturing confectioners on the question of the consumption of sugar. It has been arranged that Cabinet Ministers shall address meetings in different parts of the country. THE BRITANNIC. NO WOUNDED ABOARD. Received 11.5. LONDON, Nov 23 The Admiralty states there were no wounded aboard the Britannic. Naval aeroplanes attacked on the 22nd, seaplane sheds at Zeebrugge and destroyers alongside the Mole., one whereof was hit and the sheds were damaged. The machines returned. General Haig reports that the enemy shelled the new front yesternight on both sides of the Ancre, and in the neighbourhood of Hebuterne. AUSTRIA'S NEW EMPEROR. " CHARLES THE. EIGHTH. Received 11.5. BERNE, Nov 23. The new Emperor of Austria is Charles the Eighth.

BELGIUM'S TOLL.

TO. THE HUN INVADERS. Received 11.5. AMSTERDAM, Nov 23. Germany has increased Belgium's monthly levy from forty million to fifty million francs. SUBSTITUTE FOR FOODS. HEATING OCCUPIED BUILDINGS. Received 11.15. ZURICH, Nov 23. The municipality of Munich is establishing refuge halls fitted with stoves, for the purpose of counter-act-ing the absence of heat producing foods, cooking appliances, literature writing materials. and children's games.

THE DEFUNCT EMPEROR

GERMANY INDIEFERENT. . ROME, Nov 22. The Emperor Franz Josef was regarded as the incarnation of AustroItalian enmity. It is doubtful if Austria's enthusiasm in the war will survive his death. The "Messagero" says the Emperor's deliverance was not deserved. The reward of a man who governed for sixty years in blood and by the gallows was that he should have lived to see the decomposition of Austria's monstrous feudal organism. May God show kindness to him on his last journey! Individuals and peoples who suffered by Austria's violent rapacity will not forgive him. AMSTERDAM, Nov 22. The death of Franz Josef was received indifferently in Berlin, where he was unpopular. Much is expected of the new emperor, who will t/e a tool in the hands of the Germans.

THE NEW EMPEROR

LONDON PRESS CRITICISM. LONDON, Nov 23. The newspapers published long, outspoken, but not ungenerous obituaries of the late Emperor Franz Josef, pointing out his belief that he ruled by Divine right, and the circumstances under which he became the catspaw of Germany. It is expected that the accession of the Grand Duke Carl will greatly diminish the influence or Germany at the Austrian Court. The new Empress was born in Italy and has strong French sympathies, but it is unlikely that she will influence the war. The Grand Duke Carl has been described as "featherheaded," with n,o more capacity for public affairs than a rabbit. He commanded the Austrians in Galicia, Serbia, and the Trentino, and finally in Transylvania; but was everywhere a dismal failure. His wife, the Princess Zita, is a clever woman;'and an accomplished linguist. She finished her education and spent her holidays in a convent on the isle of Wight, where her sister is a nun.

The Emperor Carl is a fine horseman and motorist, and is popular witn the army. He represented Franz Josef at the coronation of King George.

NEW MILITARY TACTICS

LESS CASUALTIES, iBETTIfR 3}E

SULTS. Received 9.10 Reuter. LONDON, Nov 23. New infantry tactics, whereby fewer men are employed aud much more power when fully armed is gained, are described by Renter's correspondent at French headquarters. Hand grenades, rifle grenades, machine-guns and rifles are largely displacing the old rifles and bayonets as the main weapons. Users of the new weapons are called specialists. Demonstration showed that hand grenadiers, trained in groups, combine like a football team. They are interspersed with voltigeurs, namely men armed repilation (?) fashion, whose duty is to protect at close quarters and clear the way at difficult moments. These new methods make greater demand upon the intelligence and initiative of the men, especially where waves of assault are necessary and when speed and combination are essential. Important demonstrations showed that the attacking line is able to bring a terrific and impassable fire to bear; equally convincing are the lessons on the art of smothering paces where the enemy groups are holding out after their wings have been driven back. The value of the new tactics is evidenced in the fact that the French had fewer casualties in the first four months of the Somme offensive than in a few days fighting in the Champagne last, year. Furthermore, the casualties in the advance south of the Somme and in the recapture of Douaumont and Thiaumont are well under half the number of prisoners. The methods are also being taught to artillery engineers.

TORPEDO BOAT v. DIVER

ROME. Nov 22. Further del ails have been received of the fight between an Italian torpedoer and an Austrian submarine in which both were sunk. The submarine was preparing to torpedo a troopship with 3000 soldiers on board. The torpedo-boat, one of old construction, attempted to ram the submarine, which submerged. The torpedo boat, using bombs, forced the submarine to rise in a crippled condition, but the submarine succeeded in launching a torpedo at close range, and both sank in a few minutes. Eleven of the crew of the submarine scrambled on board a boat and rowed to the Albanian coast. Eater the sur-vivors from the torpedo-boat reached Albania, and made the crew of the submarine prisoners.

AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Received 11.5. NEW YORK. Nov 25. Mr. Hughes concedes that Mr. Wilson is elected.