GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 29 January 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

ISSUE OF FIVE-SHILLING NOTES

IMMINENT.

Received 8.45. London, Jan 28. The issue of sixty million five-sbil ling notes in Britain is imminent.

JAPAN AND THE WAR.

NEW YORK, Jan 2j.

Advices from Tokio state that Baron Ozaki, speaking in the Diet, denounced the Terauchi Administration. He lamented its indifference to the war, and urged Japan to state her war aims. He asked why British and American warships were at Vladivostok, when Japan had agreed to protect the Allies’ interests in the Pacific,

N. Z. PRISONERS IN GERMANY.

BRUTALLY TREATED,

LONDON, Jan 27.

New Zealand soldiers from Germany, now interned in Switzerland, spent much time at Dulmen. Two attempts to escape failed. They say Allied prisoners were brutally treated. Many of our men were starved at DdT-. men and were in a pitiful condition. There were three camps, each holding

900, attached to Burgsteinfurt. They consisted of undergrond dungeons In the sand. In winter they were awful and In summer they teemed with fleas. A New Zealader spent eignt months in one camp. The German non-commissioned officers treated the prisoners well, but at Hohonefurst, a similar camp, was hell upon earth. A

New Zealander witnessed the Mannheim air raid. Though it failed, it had considerable effect on the people. He was convinced that if the raids continued drastically they would do much to hasten the end of the war.