ALONG THE STOKHOD.

Evening Star, Issue 16185, 5 August 1916, Page 5

ALONG THE STOKHOD.

BATTLE STILL RACING. Reuter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, August 4. A communique states : Desperate fin-lvt-ing is proceeding on the Stokhod. ° CAUCASUS ARSV3Y. Reuter's Telegrams. PETROGRAD, August 4. A communique states: Wo captured Turkish positions in the direction of Diarbekr. and took many prisoners. BATTERED RAIDERS, Reuter's Telegram*. GENEVA, August. 4. Two Zeppelins, one badly damaged, have arrived at Fricdrichsiiaven, THE MEDITERRANEAN. ITALIAN MAIL BOAT SUNK, SUBMARINE SHELLS BOATS. Reuter’* Telegrams. -MALTA, August 4. Tw<mtv-cight_ survivors from the Italian mail boat Letimbro have arrived. The Letimbro carried 57 of a. crew and 115 passengers, including women and children. A submarine was observed four miles awav, and it chased the Letimbro, shelling it continuously. When it overtook the Lethnbro the latter lowered boats, which the submarine shelled, smashing five, it is believed the occupants were drowned Many were killed by shells. [The Letimbro was a steamer of 2.210 tons, and was built in 1885.] TWO BRSTANNICS. AE W YORK, August 3. In reference to the sinking of the Cocker vessel Britannic, the officials of the White Star Line state that their steamer Britannic (47,010 tons, built in 1914) is laid up iu a British port, and has not been used in the passenger service for some time.. "SLAVE RAIDERS. THE LILLE DEPORTATIONS. GERMANY’S DESPERATE CASE. SERVANTS FOR OFFICERS AND GAMP COOKS. ‘The Times.’ LONDON, August 3. A Yellow Book dealing with the slave raid on the north of Franco discloses the fact that the German authorities in Aoril issued an appeal for agricultural laborers. Only a meagre response resulted, and an order was issued for wholesale deportation, excepting young children, their mothers, an-cl old men, an hour and a-haifs warning being given. Clerical and civil _ protests were disregarded. A bishop went to the general, who told him to ‘'bo quiet and get out.” The laboring classes mostly suffered, 20 to 30 per cent, of the women being taken. Some parents lost their reason when they saw their daughters taken by “ vete.” German officers have admitted that nothing can cleanse the German flag of til's latest foul stain. The splendid spirit of the victims was an outstanding feature of the outrage. They defiantly shouted: "Vivo la France,” and sang the ’ Marseillaise.’ The deportees are employed digging, road mending, trench making, and at munition work. The worst feature is that the women are employed as cooks for the German troops and servants for the officers. Other deportees are working on railways and in factories and mines. They are employed for inhuman hours, are not paid, are liable to flogging. The ‘‘vote” sent some to mines and factories in Rhineland and \\ estphalia, while a largo number of civilians who have been interned since the outbreak of the war are working immediately behind the German lines in Franco. WAR ANNIVERSARY DAY- . SYDNEY”, August 4 the war anniversary was mailed, by a, few minutes’ cessation" of activity at men and the shipping blowing syrens. An optimistic note was characteristic of the speeches at the various meetings, and each recorded an inflexible determination to carry the war to a victorious end. ROSLYN-KAI KORA I WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION. At the weekly meeting of the above donations were received from tiio following Money : Mrs Dawson, Mrs Bowler collected by Mrs Corbett Bs. Goods ■ Mavis Boardman, Jean Bews, Marv Torrance, Alice Miller. Dominion parcels fund : Mrs Slinger, Mrs Haigh, Miss Callender, Mrs Bowler, Mrs Dawson’s Sunday school class. The following goods were forwarded to headquarters:—s flannel shirts, 6 day shirts, 2-J) sets pyjamas, 35 soap bags, 56 service bags, 3 tea towels, 1 dozen pairs socks, 3 balaclavas. It itMlie intention of the committee to hold, cariv in October, for the purpose of raisins more funds, a sale of work, which will take tho form of a daffodil fete. ANZAC CLUB. Tho executive of the Soldiers’ Chib House (incorporated) desire to thank the following donors for contributions of money and goods since last report. The club now j have enrolled 1,591 soldier members, and the attendances daily show the club house I ;s supplying a much felt need. In view I of certain statements purported to have been made the. Committee of Management desire to emphasise the fact that tins chib is run on absolutely teetotal linos, no intoxicating liquor of any kind being allowed on the premises. Tho following donations aro acknowledged ; —Overseas Club £l7 5s 6d, Otago Ladies’ Hockey Association £l2 Dr Russell Ritchie £-5 ss, J. A. Roberts £5 ss, Otago Daily Times Co., Ltd., £3 3s, A. C. Hanlon £2 2s, A. A. Hudson £1 ICs, W. Grindley £1 l s . Miss Park (oil painting of Mr W. Patrick, president) Hon. J. Allen (Anzac book), R. A. Ewi-ui (gramophone records), F. O. Bricffieman (gramophone records). Miss Double (pot plants), Waigth Bros., Roxburgh, (two cases fruit), Miss Bessie Hume (fruit) Pnvato Clark (picture), Herbert, Haynes and Co. mala staff per Miss Bradshaw (flowers), Mrs NV. Gopson (eggs for "bows in hospital), Mrs C. (two cushions), also a large number of books, magazines, and papers. ’

Applications are now being received for service in the Auxiliary Patrol aroujid the coast of the British Isles. Intending applicants can hai»] l.heir names to Mr E S Wilson, secretary oz the Yaehtaiid Motor Koat Club, who will forward' these applications to the proper authorities, "nil particulars can also bo obtained from tbo secretary of the Otago Yacht and Motor Boat Club.

INNOCENT TURKS AND TERRIBLE ARMENIANS. Tho Turkish authorities are publishing eloquent complaints of " atrocities" perpetrated by the Armenians. A semi-official telegram • from Constantinople, which appears in all the German papers, declares that " tho atrocities committed by Russian and Armenian bands in the Vilayet of Erzerum exceed all measure." The telegram gives a long list of places and names of alleged victims, and accuses the Armenians of all sorts of crimes. Finally, it is declared that, "according to authentic reports, the situation of the people round about Erzerum defies all description, and in order not to die of hunger even the well-to-do in Erzerum are compelled to perform menial duties for the Russians." The well-drilled German papers, which had nothing to say about the Turkish atrocities in Armenia, faithfully publish all this without comment.

RABBITS AND GOATS. Rabbit-breeding is being encouraged, after tho German manner, by the publication of learned essays by distinguished professors. They deal exhaustively with the habits and customs of the rabbit, and statistically with their possible contributions to the food supply of the German Empire. A professor at the University of Halle says that the rabbit population of Saxony in the year before the war was 56,000, and that it increased to 654.000 by tho end of 1915. While the rabbits obtain almost universal praise, a correspondent of the ' Berliner Tageblatt' warns the public against placing any great confidence in goats. Ho points out that those animals need great care and attention, and take up far more room than rabbits. He finds, indeed, that it is not worth while to keep them in winter, and advises his readers to fatten them in summer and then eat them.

OVERSEAS CLIiD. Tho committee will be. very busy next week preparing a case of comforts for the boys at the front. Already some splendid new garmonta have been made up. but so far donation:-; of foodstuff h;vvo not been forthcoming. Nothing gives our boys area-tor pleasure than some dainties from their .homo. To-day a number of cases- for the Belgians won. sent, away from tho club room. It is to be. hoped that. :i good rally of workers will bo present next week at the club room, so .ts to .got- through tho \vo:k. The room will be open on "Monday from 1.30 p.m. tc 5 p.m.. and on Wednesday and Friday from 10 to 5 p.m. For the workers who cannot .attend during the day, the r.jom will lie open on Monday and Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. The following donations received yesterday : —Forbury School children, pyja.ma. cirdles: .Lizzie and Isu .Jacob?, chihiien'R petticoats and face-doths; Mrs Malcolm, woollen comforts; ?>!rs .Speight, soldiers' comforts and now woollen material.

Private_ Albert E. ,T. Wright, of the Fifth Reinforcements (reported wounded in France on Julv 14). is a son of the late Mr W. .T. Wright, builder, of Kaikoral Valley, Dunrdin. He foivlit through the Oallipoli campaign, and l?ft- there at the time of ihe evacuation. He was a Keen footballer, having been a. member of the Wakari Football Club, and was a brilliant half-back. lie was a. member of the Riverton Football Club at the time he enlisted. Private Fetor Newman (who was reported wounded in France on the 14th July) sailed with the Seventh Reinforcements in September last. He was educated at the Kaikorai and Christian Brothers' Schools, and was well known in football circles, being a member of the Kaikorai First Fifteen. Nothin-g definite hni yet been received as to the extent of his injuries. Private G. R. Caple (wounded in France) has two brothers on active service. They left New Zealand before him. and were at Gallipoli fight. Both are now in Egypt and quite weli. George R. Caple is n Duncdin boy, and worked for Messrs Thomson and Co. for many years. He is a member of the Loyal Albion Lodu'e, Dunedin, and is esteemed by all who know him. Corporal Thomas Ralph Abercrombie (wounded on July 14) is the second son of Mr George L. Ahrrerombie, Oakiands, Anderson Bay. He left on the 14th December, 1914, to join the Third Reinforcements. He was at Callinoli. and ,u o t wounded on the 9th Aurast, 'bein.-r shot through the face. He was in hospital at Malta, and was then sent on to En-dand betn.g in Manchester Hosnital forborne considerable time. He returned to I->vpt in January of this year, and then went over to France. Cable advice received privately yesterday states that he had received a bullet in the foot and a shrapnel wound in the thigh. He is doiiv well in hospital at Loudon. j-f e v .- as v ,; t f, the National Bank at Port Chalmers when he enlisted. [The cable news in this issue accredited to 'The Times' has appeared in that journal, but only where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of ' The Times.']