USING DUMMY MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 238, 5 October 1916, Page 5

USING DUMMY MEN.

GEBMAWS- QCAIWT SHUT. COMBIRUTG DUTCH FRONTIER. (Renter's Telegrams.) ,-' -- (Received 8.50 ajn.) AMSTERDAM, October 4. Tie Germans have reduced the guards on the Dutch frontier from one man to every hundred metres to one man tof every fEousand metres. With a view of frightening away-any would-be, smugglers and deserters the Germans are using dummy soldiers arranged fifty metres apart on a portion of the frontier. These dummies are taken, away at daybreak. On one section of the frontier there are cavalrymen only. These steps are believed to indicate a great lack of men. A Royal decree issued in Hungary orders all members of Parliament on leave to attend the session of Parliament to rejoin the army immediately. "SHIRKING IRELAND." [ FORSAKES HER SOWS IX THE TREK CUES. CAESOK SPEAKS OUT. v_■ ' _ _ (Tie Times.")' .. -{Received am.) - -- LONDON,; October 4. Sit Edward. Carson, writes in. the Times":—Tie man power is the most serious question confronting the War Office. There are 650,000 men of m2itarv age in Ireland and under 120.000 have enlisted. In the number of men enlisted there are more from. Ulster than from the whole of the remaining provinces. Great Britain will probably be compelled to revise and extend the Military Service Act in the near future. Men are essential at whatever cost. What will Australia and Canada say to shirking Ireland, who refuses to hearken to the call of the Irishmen in the trenches!** STARVING THE BELGIANS TO MAKE THEM CRY FEACE." (The "Times:-- - ) (Received 8.50 a.m.) ■ LONDON, October 4. A correspondent writing- from Lausanne states there is almost a famine ', fie Belgium. There is no meat, butter. ■ fish, or potatoes. The correspondent says '• the Germans are doing it deliberately ': to induce the Belgians to demand peace, i SUSPICIOUS OF PRO-DANES. J SCKLESWIG CAUSES GEBMAHT AHJCEETS". LONDON, October 4. The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent at Copenhagen gives instances of n«r-* vousness on the part of Germany. At aU the vulnerable points in the pro-Danish districts of Schleswig large numbers o£ German soldiers have been billeted, and E In other districts there are many troops, t Subterranean chambers of concrete have j i been constructed on the northernmost (. defensive line. INCIDENTS OF THE WAR. OH AJTD OFF THE FXBHIG X2HE. (Anstrallan asd X.Z. Cable Association.) I LONDON; October 4. Iteli«as Ik Albaaia. The Italians have occupied Santi Quaranta,. Delvino, and Argyrocastro, in Southern Albania. Gere»BT ud Turkey. . • :_ A commercial agreement of far-reach- j ing effect baa .been concluded between r -- Germany and Turkey. j'