700-MILE MOTOR ROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 207, 30 August 1916, Page 5

700-MILE MOTOR ROAD.

STRIKING RUSSIAN FEAT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable AssoclatioE.) (Received 11.5 a.m.) PETROGRAD, August 20. The military have established a motor car sendee between Petrograd and Archangel to supplement the railway. Archangel, Russia's ice-free port in the White Sea, is 700 miles by rail from the capital. It is the port through which most of the communication between Great Britain and Russia has been carried on since the war began. . STILL OBSESSED. TAX-KING OF -NPEMNITIE-. (Australian and X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received 11.5 a.m.) LONDON, August 20. The German newspaper "Yossisch. * Zeitung**-" comments bitterly against Italy for declaring war on Germany. The paper says that the declaration will, however, help in floating next month's German war loan. The fact that the number of Germany's enemies has been increased means that Germany-"has a ' better chance of securing indemnities after the war. These indemnities may be regarded as the subscribers' security, concludes the "Zeitung." AWKWARD ALLIES. ■ --_■" GERMANS KILLED IN SOFIA. ~ ' j (_n<r.r_lian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Received 0.5 a.m.) i •• ROME, August 29. A wireless message states that it is reported that German and Turkish officers have been assassinated, in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. ° ■ ~. BRUTAL BULGARIANS MURDER SERBIAN WOUNDED. ("The Times.") (Received 9.5 a.m.) LONDON, Augusf 29. Mr Calvert, the -well-known -war correspondent, states that the Serbian Staff has information that, the Bulgars frequently murdered- the wounded Serbians. LYING'REPORTS '-' ~ r ~. ■•_ "■-. ■ TO HIDE GERMANS' DEFEAT. (Australian.arid X.Z. Cable -_*so_a_o_) LbNDON_ : Aognat ;29. The militaiy authorities, paint oat the remarkable 'Germak "Storied. of; the fighting for home arid neutral consumjition. - Regarding the progress of the west front, for instance,.the Australian and English troops advanced at Pozieres on August 4, and further pushed forward their line on August!): The German report did not- mention the "former ad- . vance. Regarding the second advance, they reported:. "British attacks have been repulsed." ■ •-_ ■ .'-:... It is also pointed out that weeks later the Germans refer casually to places theyliave lost, pretending that they had never been held or lost {by them.