News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 213, 16 February 1915, Page 5

News from England

FIENDS IN GERMAN UNIFORM. ALMOST INCONCEIVABLE ATROCITIES. Times and Sydney Son Services. London, February 14. A special number of the Field is deVoted to Herman brutalities. It is illustrated by photographs by King Albert's physician, who states that he personally investigated the cases. A heap of dead bodies was piled up at Dinant and a Genftan officer placed on'top a li . - e rliiU, with its legs wedged among the corpses, and photographed the gruesome exhibit. Not a single villages escaped ottrages. In numerous places the citizens were forced to dig their own gravs before they were shot. The owner of a country house at Raemsdouck did everything to serve his guests. During dinner he was lashed to a chair, and his two daughters stripped and made to serve the dinner naked. When tlie officers had done with (hem the girls were thrown to the troops. One committed suicide,; and the other went mad. A priest was > tied naked, in the Ardennes, to a gun. j and in the presence of women the g'in| m discharged. The priest died from the shock of the detonation.

The report continues: "Reir ember, nil "yon Englishmen, that if the Germs v.s ever invade your country this is what they will do to English women."

IMPORTANT INFORMATION PROMISED. London, February 14. Mr Lloyd George, in the House of Commons to-morrow, will give details of his. negotiations with the Finance Ministers of Russia and France, and Mr Churchill will review the naval situation. HONORS FOR MERCHANT CAPTAIN, Received £l-"i, 7.1-1 p.m. London, February 15. The Admiralty announces that Captain Probert. of the Laertes, has been gazetted a lieutenant of the Naval Reserve, and receives the Distinguished Service Cross. Each officer gct9 a gold watch, and the crew sixty shillings * piece.

TERMS OF PEACE. | NOT CONSIDERED YET BY BRITAIN. Times and Sydney Sun Sen-ices. " London, February 14. In the House of Commons, Mr Jowett (Labour 1 asked Sir Edward Grev •whether, with a view to ending the terrible loss of life, the Government was prepared publicly to declare the basis on which the Allies were willing to discuss terms of peace. Sir Edward Grey replied that recent public utterances in Germany gave no reason to suppose that the object mentioned would be promoted by adopting the coarse suggested.

FOOD AND WAGES. j London, February 14. ! The railwayman have obtained an increase of throe shillings a week during war time, owing to the higher cost of living. Many Labour meetings protested at the Government's actio n with regard to food. Mr Philip Snowden. speaking at Blackburn, paid that Australia and New Zealand had provided useful examples of collective principles. New South Wales had showed courage in commandeering wheat and fixing the prices of necessaries. ■

IRAILWAYMKVS TROUBLES. ; CONGESTION OF WOOL. lAKUFACTUR ER S FACE SITUATION Received 10, 11-10 p.m. London, February 15. The railwaymen's agreement Rives eekiy u nployees receiving under 30s 'eckly. and -• *o those above. The eottish companies, i '-eat Northern, Disriet, and Tubes Com[i.."ie- refused to glee, and the leaders oi be railway - len threaten trouble. There is a serious congestion . '"wool t the ports of London and Liveij 001. lie railway companies being unable ;'o elirer at* Bradford where the manuuturnrs are sending their own waggons H(1 men to the station to en". ' nd prevent tie m' their macliir..-9.

I EXCHANGE OF PRtSONK-.S. Received 15, 11.30 p.>i_ Amsterdam, FeVuarv 15. The Zeelaml Company's boats eom--11 nee to-day transportinf. the English od Tennan seriously »junded pris9ers, nho are befog exchanged.