MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1916, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

COST OF THE WAR. OVER SIX MILLIONS DAILY. Received July 18, 3.5 p.m. London, July 17. Mr. McKenna said the expenditure was now over six millions daily. Tl>e Finance Eill passed the third reading. ASIA MINOR. TURKISH ATROCITIES. IN ARMENIA AND PALESTINE. Paris, July 17. A special correspondent of the Jouir.a! in Armenia details the h ■ ".'jla massacres at Kharpout. The Turks arrested Armenian intellectuals and bound and shot them in groups of 50. The last batch revolted the evening before their martyrdom and set fire to their prison, preferring to be burnt to death rather than be massacred. The Turkish authorities then summoned the pupils of the central school and the French Armenian colleges and assembled them in the square at night, where they were massacred and the (lead and wounded flung together in an immense ditch, which they had previously been compelled to dig. London, July 17. A Mussulman, writing in the Journal de Geneve, protests against the cruelties of the Young Turks against' Christians in Lebanon. He states that 80,000 have died of starvation since the beginning of May, and thousands of persons of the highest Syrian society have been deported. GERMANY. MORE IRON CROSSES. LESS MEAT. Amsterdam, July 17. It is officially innounced in Berlin that the Kaiser visited the general staff hospitals in the Somme battle area and conferred Iron Crosses on wounded men. This week's individual meat allowance in Berlin is six ounces. MURDER OF THE ARCHDUKE. ALLEGED ACCOMPLICE ARRESTED. Received July 18, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, July 17. The Anstrians have arrested a Serbian named Radovitz, who is a prisoner of war, and charged him with being an accomplice in the murder of Archduke Ferdinand. It is alleged that Bulgarians, while searching documents at Belgrade, found papers proving Radovitz's guilt. He will be court-martialled at Serajevo. DISTRIBUTION OF FOODSTUFFS. WORKERS DEMANDS* Reuter Service. Received July 18, 5.5 p.m. Amsterdam, July 17. Delegates representing 150,000 organised workmen resolved on urging the Government to supply and distribute foodstuffs. TRAIN LOADS OF WOUNDED. Received July 19, 12. 25 a.m. Rotterdam, July 18. Train loads of German wounded are constantly travelling through Aix la Chappelle. Eleven thousand severely wounded passed from the PozieresBazentin front LESSENS ITS SEVERITY. While influenza seldom results fatally it is the indirect cause of many deaths as pneumonia frequently follows it. We have yet to hear of influenza resulting in pneumonia when Chamberlain's Cough Remedy was taken at the beginning of the attack.' When Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is taken the influenza is greatly lessened in its severity and any tendency towards pneumonia is checked. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy helps restore the system to » l, »althv condition. Sold werywhar*