WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 1 September 1917, Page 5

WAR ITEMS

THE TANKS. INVENTED BY, ADMIRALTY OFFICERS. Keiiter 's Telegrams. (Rec. August 3-i, 2.50 p.m.) LONDON, August 30. In' consequence of the liability to misrepresentation, Rear-Admiral Tv- j dor states that the tanks were really invented and tested by Admiralty officers. ' The British war effort has now reached a condition of balance Avhere the war needs the entire nations efJort harmoniously. JAPAN ANd""tKB WAR. ■ ■ • '. iDETERMINED TO CRUSH KAISERISM, (Rec. August 31, 2.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, August 30. Baron : Stiii, in. a speech in the American Senate, v said that America's entrance into the war was a great moral victory for the Allies and will strengthen the Allies in their great struggle against /the insane German despoiler of civilisation. America and Japan are at one in their national aims and their determination to crush Kaiserism. Japan did not enter the war for personal ambitions, . but because she believed in the righteousness o±' the cause. COUNT 1 REVENTLOW'S NEPHEW. DESERTS . HIS .COUNTRY. (Rec August,3l, 6.15 p.m.) PARIS, August 30. Rudolf Reycntlow, nepnew of Count Tteventlow, has deserted from the Germans. Rudolf was spending hia leave with his mother on the German sido of Lake Constance. Both rowed* to the Pwiss shore at night, the German patro) vainly pursuing them. HjUNS LOVE FOR WAR. PAGES PROM HISTORY. PETROGRAD, August 30. M. Sukhomlinbff, at , the trial of General Liselson, military attache at Berlin from iqo6 to 1911, gave evi--dence that the Ministry of War was aware that Germany was contemplating a declaration of war in 1904 and again in 1913. ■ The President asked which Power Germany proposed to ally A herself with. The answer was given with % closed doors. ' GERMAN RULE IN BELGIUM, PRIESTS SENTENCED TO DEATH LONDON, August 30. Keenrnan, the Burgomaster at Ramont in Belgium and two priests named Ballings and Mush, have beem sentenced .to death for- espionage. The Burgomaster's two sons, his sister, and five nuns were arrested on a similar charge.