Africa

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 112, 5 October 1914, Page 5

Africa

THE CALL TO ARMS. 'j MAGNIFICENT RESPONSE OP BRITAIN AND BOER, ! ' Times and Sydney Sun Services. ''}, London, October 2. , \ General Botha's call to arms is meet- ,'" '; ing with a tremendous response. Com- >-' plete commandos which served under him . A in the Boer war are volunteering. *~* Capetown, October 2. • \? The commandos which fought' in the? ' * T Boer war are Hocking to General Botha'f, Vv. standard. -/.V The Union forces have had further ]is, small successes at Grasplatz and Rietfoßt- '" <| tein. . ■ V" TAMPERING WITH THE BOERS. '*< GERMAN ACTIVITIES. [;'> Received 4, 2.30 p.m. '^ Pretoria, October 3. -^ Boer irreconciliables in German Wert' ~;\- Africa are reported to have isßued M, '& appeal to Boer farmers over the border . ji to overthrow the British rule. Thew^l offer to send a commando, to whieu ~?? Germany will grant free artillery, arm*, ' ,| and equipment. The Germans are circulating the appeal through the natives. '•'; COUNTEY LAID WASTE. X WEIRD STORY OF GERMAN NURS& ■ J London, September 25. .% For miles around Nancy the German ft shells caused holes three feet in dia- \i meter and suirrounded by heaps of earth, "i They look like huge mole-hills, and are -;| so close together that no human life:J could have escaped. ?j The Germans laid waste tJhe whole qf.J the beautiful country-side. Hundreds w of houses in Lorraine have been wreck- f ei and at Gerbevilliers only six out of \. eOO homes runiain. _ ■'s The enemy before burning the village,, £ shot 15 aged men in the market squar* *% before the very eyes of their poor oW.'S wives and children. * An officer of the 12foh Lancers, speak-';,] ing of the fighting at the Battle of tbe i Aisne, says:—"When we came to closed quarters tie Germans screamed lor* mercy and held up their 'bands. Whett'"; we had ridden through they pioked up-. their rifles and resumed firing. Bubee-s quently every German was unhesitatinrfvi killed." -^i The Novoe Vremya, a Petrogra** I newspaper, prints a story, which ha»* been corroborated by Russian HußS*ni| and Lancers, to the effect that a QeJVJ man ambulance nurse went up_ to ** wounded Russian and drew a knife foar.JS the purpose of cutting the RussianV'* throat. The wounded soldier, vaufouM ing his remaining strength, wrenohett;| the knife from the woman, and dragged •€ her to the Russian lines. ' ■* Two hundred Englishwomen who bawi aTrived safely at Queensborough, unani- j roously testify to the kindness they rejjjj ceived at the hands of the Germans. , j ARE JAPANESE GOETO TO FRANCK.^ shanghai, September 2, - '£ Travellers who arrived here to-day--! from Japam-s" ports arc responsible foJfS scmo roma !:We statements regarding? the militar activity of Japan. TheyA declared t.' r i'vom their estimates noj| fewer than liftv transports are loading,. 100,000 Jap.'.).i.sf. soldiers ait and they rdatc that some of the troops believe their destination to be Mais seillcs. The Jaoanese Consul here Am nies any knowledge of these reports. «