COURT-MARTIALS AT BRUSSELS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1916, Page 5

COURT-MARTIALS AT BRUSSELS.

■KXI.'LISII DOCTOR A VICTIM, Received' Oct. 18, 12.30 a.in London, Oct. 17. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent states that fourteen persons have- been courtmartialled at Brussels to-day. They include an Englishman, Dr. Hull, who is charged with providing a "Cavell Fund" to assist Allied soldiers to escape. Dr. Bull is (IS years of age and has long been a resident of Brussels. He was formerly King Albert's dentist. Messrs Brand and Whitlock, who tried to s:ivc' Nur.':e Cavell are watching the trial.

ITALY'S PART.

POSITION'S EXTENDED. '• London, 0"t, in. An Italian' communique sacs: Local actions have extended our positions east of Vertoibizza and Gorizia, also hi the, Carso. TERCE ITALIAN ATTACK.' Zurich, Oct. 111. -telegrams from the Austrian front state that 200,001) Italians have been incesantly attacking the Carso Plateau for 72 hours, and a thousand guns have been firing violently and uninterruptedly for 11 days and nights. The storming columns advance in narrow, d?ep formation in continuous waves, and are accompanied by machine-guns, and even cannons.

IN THE EAST. JIOBE GERMAN BOASTING : London, Oct 10. A German communique state-:: Russian attacks west of Lutsk, south of the Brody-Lem'burg railway, and at the Giaserka and Narajowka, all failed. We .captured Russian trenches at Coaian and repulsed counter-attacks east of Kirlitoba, taking 1000 prisoners. We drove back the enemy south-west of the Dorna Watra Pass. The Koumaniaa fighting continues. ""' ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. London, Oct. 1(1. 14 Russian communique says: Thei\> was stubborn fighting north of Koryinitza, the enemy using gas grenades. We drove back an enemy attempt to advance noftk of Stanislau! Fierce attacks at Monozmszo and Kirlibaba failed. The enemy is strongly on the offensive south (rf'Dovna, Watra. ,

IRELAND ~ , _sf> THE IRISH DIVISION ! / _ . STIRRING APPEAL FOR REINFORCEMENTS Renter Service, deceived Oct. 17, 5.5 p.r., London, Oct. Ifi. Major Wm. Redmond, in a letter containing a. recapitulation of the gallant services of the 10th Division, emphasises the need for immediate reinforcements. He adds: "It is a thousand pities that we should have almost betrayed the heroic dead if the division which has brought so much honor to the Irish name ceased to be Irish. The officers and men confidently hope that all who love Ireland will unite, irrespective of creed and politics, to hasten the response to the appeal on behalf of a division which has hitherto been awarded over three thousand military honors."

A PROVIDENTIAL INCIDENT. GAS RECOILS ON ENEMY. Renter Service. Received Oct. 17, 5.45 p.m. London, Oct. 18. Major Redmond's appeal relates that in one attack poison gas, in a most concentrated form, was used, and the division suffered heavily. But Providence was on our side. The wind changed suddenly, and the gas blew bade on the trendies whore the Bavarians were ready for a massed attack. The enemy, being taken by surprise, left their front line and ran across the open, where they were mown down by our artillery, thirteen hundred being killed, whereof a large number died from the effect of the gas. Once the Division and the Ulster Division held a line side by side

HE SKEFFINGTON INQUIRY INSANITY THE ONLY EXCUSE FOR COLTHURST. Received Oct. 17, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 16. The report of the Committee of Enquiry into the shooting of Skeflington, says that, apart from insanity, there was no excuse for the conduct of Captain Colthurst. The report animadverts on Colthurst's failure to realise the elementary principle that the shooting of unarmed and unresisting civilians without trial was murder, whether martial law was proclaimed or not.