France & Flanders

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 180, 8 January 1915, Page 5

France & Flanders

FOUL AND FIENDISH WORK. FRESH LIST OF GERMAN ATROCITIES. ANOTHER GARIBALDI KILLED. GERMANS SHORT OF COPPER. Paris, January (I. A German officer screening himself behind two French women walked i» front of the French trenches for the purpose of reconnoitring. A marksman shot the German and the women reached the French lines safely. A communique states: "We repulsed two attacks on the dunes and southeast of St. Georges. We progressed a hundred metres north-west of Rhcims, re-captured trenches in the La Grurie wood, and repulsed violent attacks at Bagatelle and Fontainc-la-Dame." A communique states that Colonel Garibaldi, with an Italian regiment, made a victorious charge at Counteehausse in the Argonnes into a trench which had been breached by sapping and exploding. He took 120 prisoners. The colonel's brother Constantino was killed during the attack.

London, January C. The Belgian Legation lias issued a list of German outrages in Belgium. Many religious establishments have been destroyed The Parish priest at Spontin was suspended by his hands and feet, bayonetted, and shot. An octogenaria n priest at Bierchem was tortured. Amsterdam, January 6. The Germans at Liege and other towns are requisitioning copper from doors, pumps and other articles. Great German reinforcements in the Courtrai district foreshadow an attempt to pierce the line north and west of Ypres. A Dutch telegraph official has been arrested for spying. He perused telegrams from one of the belligerents and re-transmitted them indirectly to another. Further arrests are pending. Paris, January 6.

M. De Bussiers; Belgian Minister at Petrograd, asked permission to traverse Germany to visit his wife, who was seriously fll in Brussels. This was refused, and o n arriving at The Hague via Scandinavia, he learned that his wife was dead, leaving six young children. GERMANY'S MINOR TROUBLES. SOLDIERS REFUSE DUTY. TYPHOID AT ANTWERP. Received 7, 10.15 p.m. Amsterdam, January 7. A message from lirussels states {Tiat part of the 30th Regiment refused to go to the. front on the Yser, and a fret light occurred in the Town Hall, where the soldiers were billeted. The health of the German troops at Antwerp is unsatisfactory, 200 being in hospital, suffering from typhoid.

RELIEVING THE GELGIANS. AN EFFICIENT ORGANISATION. NEARLY A BULLION AND A I-iALF DESTITUTE. Received 7, 10.15 p.m. London, January 7. The Belgian Relief Commission states tliat the present food supply is sufficient to last until February 15th. Fifty thousand volunteers are distributing relief to 1,400,000 destitute people, costing half a ntTTTion sterling a month. The Commission is supplying 10,000 peasants in the Mouse valley, who were isolated and foodless. Many died of starvation.

FRENCH OFFICIAL REPORT. PROGRESS L> IAI.SACE. Received 7, 0.20 p.m. Paris, January 7. Official: The only notable incident was a lively cannonade at Zilledcke. We maintained our positions in Argoime, and slightly progressed at Cois (Je Scbirtzbach, near Altkireh.

CARDINAL MERCIER'S ARREST. WIDESPREAD INDIGNATION. THE OUTRAGE PARTIALLY EXPLAINED. London, January C. In all parts of the world indignation is expressed respecting Cardinal Mercier's arrest. The Cardinal is widely respected among Protestants. Amsterdam, January 0. The Roman Catholic community has been thrown into a state of consternation by Cardinal Mercier's arrest. If the Reichstag ia in session the Centre Party will insist on an explanation. The step is described as an unpardonable blunder. It ia semi-officially stated in Berlin that everybody is agreed that Cardinal Mereier was justified in consoling civilians in the severe times and urging quiet, but he, transgressed authority and misconstrued his rights and obligations to the church when, in a pastoral, he interfered in a political quarrel between nations. PROFOUND IMPRESSION IN PAPAL CIRCLES. Received 7, 9.20 p.m. Rome, January 7.; Cardinal Mercier's arrest created a profound impression at the Vatican

"GIVE ME A RIFLE."

A WOUNDED GERMAN FIGHTS FOR BRITAIN. Received 8, 12.5 a.m. London, January 7. (An invalided British officer states — "During an. attack on the British trenches, a German soldier, who was slightly wounded, was dragged into our trenches, and said, ' Giv« me a rTTIe. I lived for twenty-seven years out of thirty in England. It is time some of those swine over there were wounded." He fired at the Germans all day, anft nearly till evening, as a prisoner."

ENEMY FORCES MUST FRATERNISE. OUTCOME OF THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE. Received 8, 12.5 a.m. Amsterdam, January 7. As a result of the Christmas episode, a German order intimates that any fraternising with the enemy will be punished as treason. ; , A ZEPPELIN FLIGHT. OVER NORTHERN FRANCE. Received S, 1.30 a.m. London, January 7. 'Three Zeppelins wero reported between Calais and Gravelines on Wednesday morning, and six German aeroplanists flew over Dunkirk, apparently acting aa their scouts. Samson- and a French aviator chased off the intruders.