WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 17 July 1917, Page 6

WAR NEWS.

ITALY AND GREECE AGREE, ATHENS, July 15. An Italo-Greek agreement has been completed. YENIZELISTS’ BODIES HORRIBLY MUTILATED. ATHENS, July 15. The exhumation "cfl has aroused general indignation, the bodies being found to be horribly muitlated. *THE SWEDISH BOMB OUTRAGES. ADMITTED BY GERMANY. COPENHAGEN, July 15. The German regarding the Christiania bomb plot admits that a German military party sent explouives by a German courier. The German Government is disappointed at this unjustifiable proceeding, and is taking steps against ’ those responsible. NEW WAR INVENTION. AN EDISON DISCOVERY.. NE WYORK, July 13. The “New York World’s” Pittsurg corespondent states that the Westingliouse Company is requesting 1,000 volunteers to accept imprisonment for ten months to work on a new plant to manufacture a powerful war implement ■whereof secrecy is essential. It is reported that it has been invented by Edison. BOMBS RESEMBLING BRICKS. . TWO FINLANDERS ARRESTED. _ COPENHAGEN, July 13. Two Finlanders, Handvik, and Handstroexn, have been arrested at Christiania, charged with being implicated* in a plot in 1916 to destroy railway "bridges and hamper transport in Finland. Eautenfeld supplied them with bombs resembling bricks, and they went to Vardor Harbour in December to try to blow up ships conveying roods to Russia. In April they went to Kirkenaes on a similar mission agaiait Norwegian and British traffic to Russia. INFANTRY HEROES IN THE GREAT PUSH. (The following extracts are from a letter written by an officer attached to Divisional Headquarters with the armies in France, which has been placed at the disposal of the Daily Express.)

There is no doubt that the Boche does his work thoroughly in the villages which he has devastated. He set a mine In the cellar of the town hall with a three days’ fuse, and it might have meant many deaths, but luckily only three people were caught.

I was looking at a village this afternoon, or at least it was a village. There was not even one whole brick in it. The only way I spotted it was by a few cellars that remained. Above ground there was nothing.

Of course, there are a few unpleasant things, but with it all out here one has only th« feeling of turprise and wonder at the achievements of our infantry. If I ever pray for any one in the future I shall always put in a word for “The Feet.’’ They are The Goods, and how they stick it is a marvel —living in shell holes half full of water, and pushing on day after day, always cheery, and taking the w’hole thing as a joke.

We have difficulty to find a bit of ground without a shell hole large enough to pitch our tent on. The holes here are full of water, which, in a way was lucky for us, as we watered our horses from them But just fancy the poor boys in ‘ ‘ The Feet. ’ ’ They had to live in them, to get cover, and lie in water a foot deep if they wanted rest. We had a team coming back from the line the other day. The leading pair with their rider, went down in one of the big shell holes in the road, and it took four hours to get them out. I had to go and tie a rope round the man’s ■body before we could rescue him from mud that you cannot imagine. It was five or six feet deep. The last enemy aero shows that came over us, two batches of seven and eight,, had, I hear, a hell of a fight, They lost seven. They are -great boys in the Flying Corps. No weather, wind ■or anything else stops them. Our chaps fly quite low over the Boche lines to reconnoitre, and, of course, the Boche flier is above them many times so they start at a disadvantage, as they are being shot at from the ground and very often from above, too. Still, they seem to like it, so u*hat does if matter?