GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

ATTEMPT TO FOMENT REVOLT LN AFRICA. 'A* London, Dec 7. A wireless from Paris says that the Gafcette of Lausanne gives a. detailed narrative of a careful and futile attempt to induce French Mussulman prisoners at Miossen Camp to join the Sultan of Tprkey, with a view to fomenting a '■ revolt in Northern Africa. Several Arab chiefs afterwards were scattered throughout Germany, and harshly ideated. POLES DEPORTED LIKE BELGIANS. New York, Dec. 7. The fPftris correspondent of the New Xork Times has obtained a Polish Deputy's speech at the secret session of the Reichstag, which was published in a Polish newspaper. The Deputy, Herr Tronpcynski, asserted that the Poles had been deported like 'the Belgians. On August 1 there ttere 23,000 Poles working in Germany vbo had been enticed by contracts, and ihen not allowed to return. Many had been forcibly transported to Germany, the employers paying them what they aleased. Many.i Poles were whipped, until they signed renewals, of their contracts. The frontier sentriej shot sevflgi who were attempting to escape. OFFICIAL RETORTS. teceived Dec. 8, 55 p.m. London, Dee. 7. An Italian official message states:— We repulsed two successive attacks on the Caiso. Our aeroplanes bombed aviation sheds at Prasecco and floating hangars at Trieste. A German official message claims the capture of the summit of Hill 304, west of the Meuse, and 9200 more prisoners in Roumania; Received Dec. 8. 9.30 p.m. ■London, Dec. 8. A Paris official report states that on the bank of the Meuse there has been a lively artillery struggle in the region of Hill '304, the enemy bombarding positions. Round Monastir there were fresh counter-attacks on Serbian positions on the northern slopes' of Socol, where they succeeded in carrying a portion of the recently-captured height. South of Seres the British cleared a Turkish trench, and brought back prilonsre.