OUR SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 July 1915, Page 5

OUR SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

BOMBAROMEiNT OF RHEIMS. A WORLD’S RECORD. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.] Received this day at 8.30 a.m. LONDON, July 1. Rheims holds the record of being the most heavily bombarded town in Europe. It has been bombarded on 288 occasions, often 3000 shells falling into it daily. A FORLORN HOPE. ROMANCE OF THE WAR. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES,] LONDON, July 1. A young Englishman named Clarke lias died in a hospital at Paris. It is •stated that he lived with a German in Vienna before the war. The German died and Clarke appropriated his papers, adopted his identity, and went to Berlin, where he enrolled in a corps of 10.000 known as “the forlorn hope brigade,” who were to be trained as aviators in order to participate in an air raid on Lfmdon at the end of July. After his first lessons he escaped, with the object of telling the British. He went to Paris through Holland ana died before he accomplished his mission, but a friend carried out his wishes. ALLIED CO-OPERATION,-A RUSSIAN SUGGESTION. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SDN SERVICES.] LONDON, July 1. Russian press extracts indicate a national determination to prosecute the war despite the Galician retreat. They point out the necessity of closer cooperation between the Allies, suggesting the creation of an allied military council. ITALY AND AUSTRIA. NAVAL ATTACK IMMINENT. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SDN SERVICES.] LONDON, July 1. Amsterdam states that German naval circles believe that, an Austrian naval attack on the Italian fleet is imminent. Two super-Dreadnoughts, two Dreadnoughts and three cruisers are at Pola, the second squadron is at Fin ms, and the third at Cattarao. Numerous torpedo boats at Sebenica are continually under steam. INCOME TAX. A DRASTIC SUGGESTION. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.] LONDON, July 1. In the House of Commons Mr. Walton asked whether the Government would make every taxpayer disgorge his income in excess of the average of the two years preceding the war. Mr. McKenna replied that the Government did not intend to interfere with the natural course of trade, except as far as was absolutely necessary in national interests. PEACE TERMS. NO PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.] LONDON, July 1. Air. D. Mason inquired whether, in view of speeches in the German Parliament in favour of peace, the Government would state the terms upon which it: was possible. Air. Asquith: “I don’t think that it would be in the public interests for me to add anything at present to what lias already been publicly stated on the subject. SWEDEN AND RUSSIA. CAUSE OF DISTRUST. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.] LONDON, July 1. The Times’ correspondent at Stockholm says that the distrust of Russia has arisen owing to a fear that she is striving, at the expense of Scandanavia, to secure an iceless port. JOURNALIST DECORATED, FOR GALLANT CONDUCT. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.] LONDON, June 1. Naval Lieutenant Piere Gordon, one of the twenty-three members on the Times editorial staff who volunteered, has beeif given the Distinguished Service Cross for gallant conduct with the landing parties on the Syrian coast. He is the first journalist to be decorated. THE BALKAN STATES. INTERESTING OBSERVATIONS. [TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.] LONDON, July 1. The Times’ correspondent at Sofia says that there has been a gi’eat demonstration of Roumanians from Transylvania in favour of war on the side of the Entente at Bucharest under the auspices of the League of National? Action. The Russian reserves in Galicia caused considerable depression at Bucharest, but their effect is less noticeable so far as the future attitude of Roumania is concerned. The correspondent adds: “At the beginning of the war, the general staffs at Athens. Sofia and Bucharest were unanimous in the ultimate triumph of Germany, but many have already modified their views. The effect of the change is evident in the attitude of the respective Governments.