SINAI SANDSTORMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 February 1916, Page 5

SINAI SANDSTORMS.

. London, Fell. 24. A high authority states that seasonal sandstorms are to be expected in tie Sinai iPeninsula next week: Experts agree that an offensivo against Egypt is unlikely and almost impossible, some stating that the danger of attack definitely ends early in March. • A NEUTRAL'S VIEWS. London, Feb. 24: The Times' correspondent at ,The Hague says that a distinguished, neutral lady from Berlin complains that at the frontier she was stripped, the soles of her feet washed in search of invisible writing, the heels of hor shoes removed, her hair taken down, and the lining of her hat examined. These are the means by which Germans news has been reaching England, and there is a tightening of the German search everywhere. - This ladv says there is much talk of Zeppelins, with unusual activity in the form of manoeuvres over Berlin. The poorer classes have unlimited faith in air warfare, and believe that Germany will be able to land large bodies of troops in England. Russian and French prisoners are removing garbage in Berlin, in order to release every available man.; Moet*of her women friends are heartily sick of the war, The workers are annoyed and depressed at the obstinacy of/ the Allies in refraining from seeking definite terms of peace, and there are fewer fire-eaters of the kind that formerly talked of a chain of submarines to throttle John Bull and a fleet of Zeppelins to set fire to the Bank of England and Buckingham Palace. To-day thousands question whether the submarines and Zeppelins will not cause England to tighten the blockade and deprive the soldiers of the necessities which are now coming through the leakage. There is extraordinary confidence among a certain class in Berlin that peace will give Germany Antwerp, a port on the Adriatic, an exit to the Persian Gulf, the Belgian, Congo, the return to Germany of her colonies, and the; freedom of the seas.