AUSTRO-GERMANY.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1917, Page 5

AUSTRO-GERMANY.

THE TROUBLE IN POLAND. BDE TO POLISH LEGION TRANSFERRED TO FRONT.

Received Sep*. 20,11.15 pjn. Berne, Sept 20. The recent trouble in Poland arose ffver the transfer of the Polish Legion to the Austrian front. Revolts broke out at Przemysl, where two regiments wire disbanded and* the officers and men transferred to the Austrian army, The Legion to now commanded by an Austrian. GERMAN OFFICIAL MESSAGE. Received Sept. 20, 5.3 p.m. t London Sept. 19. Wireless German official:—There is intense enemy dram fire in Flanders. The French attack on a three ldlometres front westward of Beaumont broke down.

We downed sixteen enemy planes yesterday. The Roumanian attacks in the Oituz Valley were initially successful, but our tranter-attacks repulsed them.

HOW FRITZ GOES HOME. BACKED IS BUNDLES OF FOUR.

Mr. Pierre Robinson (the war correspondent) says: The British forces *ave taken 3*oo prisoners, including 85 officers, since last Wednesday. They *re a mixed lot, some of them good. Later captures have emphasised the great inferiority of the young men of the 1917-16 classes. -German officers aay that the youngsters' morale is u> bad that they flocked to the rear. It was impossible to deliver a cnonter-attaek, because they would not advance.

Search of the prisoners disclosed two snapshot photographs of three trucldoads of German dead beinz railed to the rear. One U of * flat aidelets truck, with the hodie» laid crossways side by side, their heads on one edge and their feet protruding over the other. On the other tracks they are lashod together in bundle! of four and laid longitudinally. They provide a horrible apectacle. They are to tightly lashed that their features are ground into the faces of the others. The wliolo system of tying them is callow and inhuman beyond belief. Officers and men are shown superintending their removal

Mr. Tower {Daily Mail correspondent) states that refugees from Ghent report the arrival of incessant trainloads of German wounded. They are mostly in cattle-trucks, and their sufferings are terrible. The great number contrasts rith the scant;- handfuls of British priaawrs, who march the streets with heads V ainging "Are We Downhearted!"