LATE WAR NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume VI, Issue 273, 3 November 1916, Page 6

LATE WAR NEWS.

WORST FORM OF MURDER DISEASE DELIBERATELY i PROPAGATED. ' ! AWFUL MORTALITY' IX GERMAN ■ PRISON CAMPS. I » fSTH A f IAS "U N.Z. CaBCK AS ' ; -'•'•I (Received 3, 12.30 p.m.) Paris, Nov. 2. “Le Matin’’ says Germany deliberately planned propagation of tuberculosis among the prisoners. A medical eye-witness states that tuberculosis prisoners were placed in the same nuts in Friedrichsfield camp with weakened prisoners recovering from other maladies, and that Russian typhus prisoners were sent to Cassel camp, and were mixed with healtny French prisoners. Ten thousand are sick and 4000 deaths have occurred. LIEUT BOELCKE’S FATE [iCBTB ALIAS AND N.z. CABLE ASSN.j (Received 3, 11.40 a.in.) Copenhagen, Nov. 2. During a fight with a British airman, Lieut. Boelcke collided with another German machine and fell two thousand metres. [A cable on October 31st stated that Lieut. Boelcke. who Germany’s champion aviator, having destroyed over thirty of the Allies’ aeroplanes, had been brought down by a British airman. 1 | EMPLOYMENT OF AFRICANS. ‘ A PERTINENT INTERJECTION.’ [HEUTER’3 TELEGRAMS.J (Received 3. 2.15 p.m.) London. Nov. 2. In the House of Commons Mr. Bonar Law. replying to Mr. Outhwaite, said there, were no arrangiv ments for the employment of South African natives by France, but a number had been recruited by the British Government for service behind the lines. . I

Earl Winterton asked if it is proposed to employ South African natives in Britain on the same conditions as Fiance employed Chinese, and thus release a considerable body of whites for the army. Mr. Bonar Law said the whole subject was under consideration. Mr. Outhwaite: Does this mean the Government is considering employing blacks in Britain. Mr. Bonar Law : I have nothing to add. Mr. Will Thorne interjected : If all the whites did their duty the blacks would not be requireo.

POTATO SUPPLIES. SHORTAGE OF IRISH. I REUTER’S TELEGRAMS-i (Received 3, 2.15 p..) London, Nov. 2. In the House of Commons, Mr. Rnnciman, said that if stocks of potatoes were unnecessarily withheld the Government would take action. Mr. T. W. Russell, Vice-President of Department of Agriculture in Ireland, estimates the Irish potato crop this year at two-thirds of normal.