UNAVAILING HEROISM

Taranaki Daily News, 17 October 1917, Page 5

UNAVAILING HEROISM

NEW ZEALANDERS CAUGHT IN BOG AND WIRE

RUSSIAN NAVAL REVELATIONS

IOW BRITISH TANKS WERE GIVEN AWAY

HEAVY FIGHTING IMMINENT ON ITALIAN FRONT

aUgTBO GEEMANY. I

By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright

.\ ' • HISTORY OF NAVAL REVOLT. SEVERAL CAUSES CONTRIBUTE. London, Oct. 15. The Amsterdam correspondent of the Bailv Express gives fi detailed account of the German mutiny. Since the Jutland battle the navy liad been boiling with impatience for a decisive battle or peace. Several causes combined to undermine discipline, the prolonged inactivity, the harshness of the officers, the reduced rations, and finally the Russian revolution, especially the Kronstadt mutiny. ! Shortly after the last event the officers leaned that the men were nightly conferring and discussing politics, socialism : find peace. Several arrests only poured j oil on- the flames, and matters came to k climax early in August, following a farther reduction of Tations and numerj>n« floggings for triflling offences. THe revolt broke out simultaneously on four Ant-class battleships, the Prinz Jlogent Lnitpold, the Kaiser, Westfalen ■Ad Heligoland. At dawn on August 20 the crews assembled on the decks, hoisttd r«d flags, sang the "Marseillaise," and shouted revolutionary cries. The officers Vent to their posts, but the men threatened they would throw them overboard, Bo they did not interfere, awaiting assistance. The captain of the Prinz Regent Luit|>old hastened on board and ordered the men to haul the red flag down within Sive minutes. The crew replied by bindug him with cords and throwing him iverboard; he was drowned The majorty of the tjight guns were thrown into he im and the heavy guns rendered useto- .

UNITED STATES

BOMBS IN WHEAT STORES. ALLIES' WHEAT DESTROYED. New York, Oct. 15. A fire and explosion at Brooklyn destroyed 700,000 bushels of wheat intended for fie Allies. The damage is estimated at H million dollars. Investigation shows that the fire was caused by bombs. REMARKABLE DISCLOSURES. $ KAISER WILLED THE WAR. j THOROUGHNESS OF PLANS. New York, Oct. 15. Mr. Morgenthcu, the former American Ambassador to Turkey, has made remarkable disclosures to the World. ■He says that there is direct evidence tLaf V\e Kaiser willed the war and caused it when it suited his purpose and his preparations were made. The Marquis Pallavincini, Austrian Ambassador to Turkey, told hhn on August 18, 1914, that the Austrian Emperor had informed him in May that war was inevitable. Baron Wangenheim, German Ambassador in Turkey, in an outburst of enthusiasm after the arrival of the Goeben and Breslau in the Dardanelles, told him that a conference was held in Berlin early in July, 1914, at which the date of the war was fixed. The Kaiser pressed for the conference, at which Baron Wangenheint, General von Moltke, Admiral von Tirpitz, and a few selected leaders of German" finance and industry were present. The Kaiser asked them if they were ready for war, and all replied in the affirmative, except the financiers, who said they must have a fortnight in which to sell securities and arrange loans. Thereafter the financiers were feverishly and secretly busy, while the army marked time. All the great stock exchanges experienced acute depression as German - owned stocks were quietly pushed into the market.

(horities at Wilhelroshaven brseveral battalions of marines, declared they would not fire imrades until they knew what sned. The commander was it yielded, giving the infonnared. The marines refused to lid were confined to barracks, ry summoned' from Oldenburg, boats filled with troops surte battleships, demanding their A small fight resulted, two : ing killed and some soldiers Tae rebels soon surrendered, r all the ammunition had been to the «ea. {leaders were shot next mornm others from each ship court- . Fifteen were shot, and tho sentenced to an average term years, nderstood that the mutinous ,g the Hamburg, which was staHeligoland. The captain and ie officers were absent f rpm the the mutineers overpowered the and quietly left their moorfarway. Many destroyers fol- . ordered the Hamburg to stop. riven five minutes to return or bed. She obeyed: thirty men isted and it is believed'the were shot. kBiDS FOR CLOTHING, ueived Oct. 16, 10 p.m. Amsterdam, Oct 15. iople of Berlin are perturbed new rules fixing the quantities ig for men and women. Cards sary for many articles hitherto lie from the owners. CANADA. jtTNISTER AT WASHINGTON. Beceived Oct. 16, 10 p.tf. Ottawa, Oct. 15. VTJie Government has deefiled to apfßmt 'W Canadian Commissioner at Washington, where he will be associated •'with the British Ambassador, but will be tecorded considerable powers of initia- &«. Mr. J. D. Hazen, lately Ministei to Marine, has been selected for the posh, HE WILFRID LAURIER WILL FIGHT . ELECTION. jßeceived Oct. 16, 10 p.m. Ottawa, Oct. 15. Sir Wilfrid Laurlcr has definitely de«ided to retain the Liberal Party leader |hip and fight an election. ARGENTINA. LUXBURG'S DETENTION. Buenos Ayres, Oct. 15. •count Luxbur* will probably be hel< »t the detention camp indefinitely.

Baron Wangenheim told him that next j time Germany would be even more farsighted and have at least five years' supplies of copper and cotton before striking. Mr. Morgenthau later learned that if Germany was victorious she intended to attack America on the ground that she had supplied munitions to the Allies, and enforce an indemnity making Germany the richest nation in the world. He hrfß heard that the sum was fixed at fifty billion marks. The Kaiser had for years been obsessed with the dream of being the centre of a great moving ipicture, directing and controlling the destinies of the world. Prince" Henry of Prussia was sent to America to consolidate German strength in the United States. _ Germany's mastery of ,the situation in Turkey was so complete that she dictated the postponement of Turkey's entry into the war until the powerful wireless plant at Constantinople had been completed and guns and munitions brought to Turkey." i

COMPREHENSIVE LOAN CAMPAIGN. DRASTIC TRADE CONTROL MEASURES. Washington, Oct. 15. President Wilson issued a proclamation fixing October 25 as Liberty Day, when a country-wide campaign will be undertaken to obtain the fullest subscriptions to the loan, thus striking a mortal biow to autocracy. President Wilson has also issued a sweeping proclamation in which he take* complete control of American imports and exports. It .prescribes drastic con- ! ditions governing trading with the enemy, and give 3 discretionary power to take over enemy property. It provides for enemy patents which may help to win the war, and vests control of exports and imports in the ministerial War Trade Board. It creates a censorship board, with special control of foreign language newspapers. The proclamation effect.iv«ly cuts off financial and commercial aid from reaching Germany. SUCCESS OP LIBERTY LOAN. Sew York, Oct. 15. Subscriptions to the second Liberty Loan total 525 million dollars. It is expected there will be a great mciease in'subscriptions before the close-3B;t)c-iahtrM. ./' ~ ,