Neutral Nations

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 243, 23 March 1915, Page 5

Neutral Nations

ITALY.

OFFICERS CALLED TO THE COLORS.

WATCHING SUSPECTED SPIES.

AUSTRO-GERMANS LEAVING.

Received March 23, 12.25 a.m. Paris, March 22. Le Matin's Rome correspondent states that the decree calling to the colours officers of the first line now on half pay is regarded as symptomatic, as the majority belong to the public administration. which the Government, would be unlikely to disorganise without serious reasons. Rome, March 22. Oonsu's hav ( . n.d'ised German and Aus-♦-ian subjects to Wve It'llv at the earliest opportunity. The police are watching many new Austro-Oerman arrivals, lin' mg strong suspicions that they are military spies.

SWEDEN.

COPPER "MONUMENTS" FOR GERMANY.

THE RUSE EXPOSED.

Received .March 23, 12.25 a.m. Copenhagen, March 22. A Swedish copper foundry was engaged night and day in making hundreds of tons of copper monuments for German firms. The authorities stopped the export, believing it to be an evasion of the law prohibiting the export of raw copper.

IN THE BALKANS.

BULGARIAN RAIDERS.

Athens, March 21. A strong Bulgarian band attempted to raid Demir-Hissar, but Greek troops drove them off. Three Bulgars were killed and several Greeks wounded.

MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS,

SIXTY FAMILIES WIPED OUT.

Received March 23, 12.26 a.m. Athens, March 22. Sixty Christian families were massacred at Kimerii, in the vicinity of Airaiik.