INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 13 January 1917, Page 3

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

LONDON, Jan 11. General Jacques succeeds General Wielemanns as commander-in-chief of the Belgian armies. Germany claims that 70 per cent, of the wounded return to the front, six per cent, are unfit for service, and 24 per cent, are relegated to garrisons.' Herr Seresimann, in a speech in Hanover, said it would he impossible to collect the large amount of new taxation necessitated by the war, therefore it would be necessary to confiscate immediately one-third or onequarter of all private fortunes. Mesopotamia official.—An Indian division on Tuesday dashingly captured 1000 yards of trenches at the Tigris bend, on the right bank, northeast of Kut. NEW YORK, Jan li. Franz Bopp, German Consul-General at San Francisco, and four attaches and employees, have been found guilty on all charges of violating the neutrality of the United States.