Australia

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 233, 11 March 1915, Page 5

Australia

AUSTRIAN ATROCITIES. PEOPLE BURIED ALIVE. Received March 10, 8.20 p.m. Sydney, March 10. a • A business man, writing to the Hon n „ Tudor from London, gives an exampl' of the Austrian atrocities in Servia duly certified by the Government Com mission at Loznitza. One hundred am nin e persons, from a child of eight year; to a man over 80, were fastened togethe in a double row elbow to elbow, an< the whole mass was buried alive in i trench which had been previously pre no pared. >m , . in , AN AUSTRALIAN WAR CORRES- "' PONDENT. !S. Received March 10, 9 -n.m. Melbourne, March 10. Sir George Re-id. has cabled that hi selected Mr. Harrv Gtallctt as Common ■wealth representative to join the partiei of war correspondents now allowed ti the front on six davs' tours. Arrange' nionts are being made for the dislriim tion of the news in the Commonwealth, £ SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPERS. ar ____ ff " TROTEST AGAINST CRITICISM. CEREAL PRICES UP AGAIN. 3 " Melbourne, March 10. 3 > The South African Soldiers' Associall_ tion lias received a cable from Cairo th.it ft at meeting of old South ln Africans a resolution was carried emn phatically resenting and denying Mr. Bean's statements as pernicious and unwarranted and asking that they be contradicted. |"Mr. Bean, the official correspondent s > with the Australian force, said that some of the worst wasters in the force were men who wore the South African ribbon.] e The Premier stated that the wheat 5 cargoes already secured represented ,1 1,300,000 bushels, from the Argentine and e America, which would be landed at a e cost of 8s per bushel. Sydney, Marcli 10. Sir Samuel McCaughoy has offered to donate to the Belgian fund £IOO sterling monthly until the end of the year. The Commodities Commission recommends that the price of sharps be fixed at £ll. Brisbane, March 10. t A meeting of Creeks cabled to M. Venizelos: '•'Queensland Creeks heartily appreciate your policy."