HUN FLEET SURRENDERS

Taihape Daily Times, 22 November 1918, Page 5

HUN FLEET SURRENDERS

Shocking Condition of British Prisoners A THREAT TO GERMANY. AMERICANS ENTER LUXEMBURG Turks' Horrible Treatment of Prisoners Influenza Epidemic Well in Hand.

AMERICANS ENTER LUXEMBURG Received 9.5 a.m. "LONDON, Nov. 21. An American communique states: — We have entered Luremburg, and progressed further in Southern Belgium, reaching the line Grandritzen, Weimeringen, Dudelange, Mondercange, Antclbas, and Grandil. A FRENCH REPORT. MORE TOWNS OCCUPIED Received 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 21. A French communique states: We have passed Givet, where eight thousand Allied prisoners were collected. We occupied Neuf Chateau and Etable, and reached St. Avoid and Saarbrucken, in Lorraine; Obqjnai, south-west of Strassburg, in Alsace. We " occupied Nefbrissach, .Huminge, and'St." .'Louis on the jeft bank 'of the Rhine.' " REPATRIATION OF WAR" ; ' ';; prisoners. ;' ' large.numbers arriving in' ; i ' BRITAIN.

tions that even the Turks were unable to make them do useful work. Therefore they were sent to camps in September, 1916, in the interior of Asia Minor. They had marched over the Taurus mountains, driven by gendarmes with rifle butts. Many dropped and died, but the main body somehow, beaten and driven, crossed the mountain range. The survivors finally were taken to Arion internment camp, where flogging was habitual. Turkish naval officers ruled with a cowhide wbip, the prisoners being lashed on the bare- back.

AWFUL CONDITION OF BRITISH PRISONERS. STERN NOTE ADDRESSED TO GERMANY. .;• REPRISALS THREATENED. :•..,:.-;, ,<. Received. 9.55 a.m. .., ... , :'■. ■''" ~'_';' LONDON, November 20, " i. •; In. 'tiio House. ,;of , .Oounmons Mr .Bonar ,Law.;states,, : that Sir Douglas Haig has wirelessed, German .headquarters that information had reached the British Government of the shocking lack of organisation in connection with release of prisoners,: who are returning on foot, miserably clothed and foodless, without escorts or. guides, resulting in lamentable sufferings, and mortality.: ..,. The .Government ..cannot tolerate a continuance of this cruel treatment, and must insist on adequate arrangements by the German authorities, with whom full responsibility lies, otherwise we will be compelled to take this into account, in revictualling Ger*many or satisfying the requirements of the German population and govern'ment. Sir Douglas Haig forwarded food Clothing, and transport to the- prisoners' camps. Our Allies are being ask- ! ed ! 'to" co-operate.

Received 9.15 a.m. i '. . LONDON, November 21. .It. is officially announced that the •conditions .of., the. .'repatriation of wa.f prisoners is working, satisfactorily. Large numbers,are arriving in Britain. CO.'S NOT TO BE RELEASED. ~. Received 9.15 a.m. ,--ij, ; ~,,; .. LONDON, November 21, i. The. government has declined to release, conscientious objectors, .from ; their present. -employments, as they confer an, advantage on soldiers and sailors. - . ..,., ~. . FOOD SUPPLY TO GERMANY . HELD DP. V Received 9.15 a.m. LONDON, November 21. The Ministry of Food announces that no food supplies will be permitted to be sent to Germany until the Allied Food Council has satisfied itself concerning the conditions in Germany. HORRIBLE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS IN TURKEY. BEATEN, DRIVEN, KICKED AND STARVED. TREATED WORSE THAN BEASTS.

I'FOR THIS THE HUNS MUST PAY.

LONDON, November 20

'"Correspondents continue their pitiful accounts of British prisoners arriving at Nancy, all in a lamentable condition, with faces pinched and tunics held together by string, some wearing horse clothes and women's garments, and all terribly hungry. They have been treated like slaves. Several hundred British were lost in the woods at Chateau Salins. French soldiers, searching discovered three hundred dying of hunger and fatigue. The newspapers' angry protests against enemy barbarity are increasing

A DRAMATIC STORY. LONDON, November 20. Speaking before the Empire Parliamentary Association. Sir Wm. Harcourt told a dramatic story of how the Empire learned we were at war. When the ultimatum time limit expired at midnight he sent out the war telegrams, and within seven minutes the whole Empire knew, and before morning he had received acknowledgments from every Colonial protectorate, even from the islets of the Pacific. So the grim machinery began revolving in perfect order. Because Belgium was previously at war, a book had been prepared and was at that moment locked in each Governor's and Commissioner's safe. They knew at once what to do." ' BELGIUM'S EMANCIPATION. LONDON, Nov. 20. Mr Gibbs writes: The King and Queen of the Belgians' State entry into Antwerp was marked by most intense onthusiasm. JjThc city shows few signs of war, and was everywhere decorated. The Germans left behind vast stores of merchandise. Fifty-four of their ships and many British are lying in the harbour. The city's most precious treasure, Reuben's "Descent from the Cross," still hangs in the Cathedral.

Received 10.10 a.m,

LONDON, Nov 21

A White Paper is. being issued making appalling revelations of the treatment of British prisoners in Turkey. Some officers were treated with almost theatrical politeness, hut most of the men were tormented like beasts. The greater part of the sufferings were due, however, to Turkish incompetence. Three hundred Kut prisoners were dead a week after the surrender, Turks having neither the will nor the power to save fhe lives of the Kilt prisoners. Out of 19,583 prisoners in Turkey 3290 are already reported dead; 2222 are untraded and doubtless perished, most being of the Kut force, who died during the 500 miles' journey across the Syrian desert. In consequence of an urgent message to the Turkish commander the British medical staff was allowed to go to Samara. The medicals picked up hundreds of Kut prisoners lying on the Toadside suffering from the miseries 6! dysentery and starvation, but many were beyond help. Others were dead, and lay unburied, stripped stark, by the Arab villagers. The last stage of the march over the mountains was the worst of all. Yet the survivors were immediately taken to the Tarsus arffl Adama to finish tunnel blasting operations for the Taurus railway. The prisoners were so weakened by priva-

GERMAN MAIN FLEET SURRENDERS. • ;;.. . Received 10.10 sLm, NEW YORK, Nov 21. The German main fleet ■ has, surrendered. THE SURRENDERED SUBMARINES. LONDON, Nov 20. The crews of the surrendered submarines were transferred to a transport and immediately sent back'to Germany. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. HAD THE GERMANS WON. BERNE. .Nov 20. The "Neueswiner Zeitang" publishes a letter by Herr Ballin, written shortly before his death, discussing forecasts of the armistice. He admits that it is unexpectedly moderate, and says: "If Ave had been the victors we would have demanded the occupation of London and Paris, dictated peace at Buckingham Palace, and annexed the entire continent between the Urals and the Bay of Biscay.

GREAT AMERICAN NAVAL PROGRAMME.

WASHINGTON, Nov 2(T.

Mr. Davies is conferring with Colonel House. } The Naval Committee has recommended continued naval expansion irrespective of the League of Nations or the reduction of armaments. Immediate security must precede future settlement, which was a difficult question. The United States must establish a large sea police force with the view to assisting and maintaining the world's peace. The present programme calls for the construction of ten super-Dreadnoughts, s'ix battlecruisers, and 140 smaller craft. The restrictions on fhe export of cotton have been removed, except to enemy countries. LE QUESNOY HONOURS NEW ZEALANDERS. :, ,n?.! ;"" LONDON* Nov 20.;-'-The civic authorities of Le Quesnoy have presented the New Zealand Rifle Brigade with the first flag hung in the Grande Palac'e after their entry. It has been decided to include the 'fern ! leaf in the town's "coat of arms. HUNS START TRADE WAR |W CHINA LONDON,' Nov 20. :., jo Advices from Tientsin state that Germany has started a trade war. in China. Agents are busy buying contracts at ridiculously low., prices, and advising the Chinese to cancel existing contracts, and hot to buy" from the Allies. ' ;••'. ••.-■ '.-a- od'<-. W m!HOMEWARD BOUND. H ■;.■,,

COPENHAGEN,' : Nov ; 2?: ''■ 'The. Britisjfci Government has char 1 terod Danish steamers to bring fifty thousand prisoners from North German ports. AFTER-WAR MEAT TRADE. LONDON, November 20. The Australasian section of the Incorporated Meat Importers' Society has formulated a scheme for after war trading in submission to the authorities. The main object is to encourage the Empire's meat output, it is suggested that Australasian imports be freed from Government control, simultaneously with foreign, -at the latest by September, 1919, Hefrigeratcd tonnage should first be allqeatcd to Imperial products, but in order to ensure ample supplies from other sources a bonus of a farthing per pound should be granted to the Empire's meat works and an eigth of a .penny to foreign British owned works, on condition that the former allocate 75 per cent, of their output and the latter 60 per cent, to the B'ritish Asspciatioh, embracing the entire British import trade. A bonus is also suggested to prevent foreigners from dumping cheap meat, reselling through the Association. The scheme is all-British, including production, shipping, finance and distributing.

BULGARIA STILL IMPENITENT GUILTY OF FRIGHTFUL ATROCITIES. LONDON, November 20. The "Times" Sofia correspondent writes: Bulgaria is still thoroughly impenitent, and needs stern punishment. The people regard themselves as unconqured and act as though they had actually won. There have been repeated evasions of the armistice. The British authorities are patient, but the French generally recently ensured obedience by threatening immediate bombardment. There are only fifty-three thousand survivors of a hundred thousand interned Serbs, Greeks, and Macedonian civilian pribsners, They were horribly maltreated, flogged, and starved. Ty-

phus patients were locked in empty houses and died in thousands. 250 British, captured at Doiran, were forced to march to Sofia bootless and foodless. Many died.

ONCE A HUN ALWAYS A HUN LONDON,- November 20 The Germans',' before leaving Brussels, exploded waggon-loads of depots' munitions at three stations simultaneously, shaking the city and wrecking numerous houses. A number of dead were extricated from the ruins. The casualties are unknown. After the enemy's departure there were enthusiastic demonstrations of citizens, the Allied flags appearing magically everywhere*

COLONIALS TO ASSIST IN OCCUPATION. LONDON, Nov 20. General Rawlinson, in an order of the day for November 11th, says: The Fourth Army has been ordered to participate in the occupation of the Rhine. I ask you men from all parts of the Empire, when on German territory, to show' the world that British soldiers are not like Germans, and do not wage war against women and childrn. I rely on you sustaining the army's fair name.' BRITISH DOCTORS FURIOUS. AT CONDITION OF RETURNED. SOLDIERS. Received 10.40 a.m. LONDON, November 20. Doctors are furious with anger in describing the horrible marks of German brutalities on some of the returned wur prisoners, but the majority show a hardy resistance, and are recuperating rapidly. All agree thatonly the gifts of food received in the prison camps from London prevented utter starvation. Two hundred and fifty Russians in one camp receiving no such aid all died. PRISONERS STREAMING OVER DUTCH BORDER. ..■;•.■:■•■•-•'' -Received Noon. • suii I »- c Nov 20. 1 of' prisoners of war Of a 1! 'nationalities' are 'streaming over the 'Dutch ; irontier." : :i: ' J '"•!>'>■->■ '<><'■' ; -;j - .HUN TORPEDO BOATS .;;>:„ 1 ' - Received' Noon. AMSTERDAM, Nov 20. Seven German torpedo boats arrived on the Dutch coast from Antwerp. They were interned. DEPORTING GERMAN INTERNEES Received Noon. LONDON, Nov 20. Mr. Bonar Law stated it was' impossible at present to decide the question of th*d German's' return to parts: of the ! British Empire' from •whence they were deported.

THE . GALLIPOLI STAR. ' Received Noon. LONDON, Nov 20. In the House of Commons, Mr. Macpherson stated that the 1914-1" Star would be given to local representatives or next of kin of those who fell at Gallipoli, according as the soldied estate or intestate.