Late Wat News

Horowhenua Chronicle, 12 July 1916, Page 3

Late Wat News

(Australia and New Zealand Oaible" Association). (Received This Day 8.60 a.m.) NO MERCY FOB THE WOUNDED. , London, July il. The Times's correspondent at headquarters states that at one point only the Germans allowed the British to recover the wounded; mo6t of the Ger. main bayoneted and shot the wounded while the machine gunners played their

machine guns over the fields of dead and wounded lying together to make sure tliey would not fight again. Evidence of this comas from too many quarters to admit of any doubt of tnis. GERMAN RAIDERS WAITING A CHANCE. Amsterdam, July 11. The Mo ewe has been overhauled and refitted witlh heavier guns. (Two other commerce raidera, the Adler and JFucha, also are awaiting an opportunity to escape. THE DEUTSCHLAND". New fork, July 11. [ In an interview. Captain Koenig (not Kairig) said that microphones enabkd Hiem to hear a bell-buoy at a distance of five miles, also the screws of passing ships. Twenty cruiser/"will not prevent the return of the Deutechland,. She brought mails for Count Bernstorff. (Received This 'Day 9.5 a.m.) FRANCE AND BRITAIN PROTEST. Washington, July 11. The British and Frencin Consuls havo submitted a; protest against the DeutscluaiKl's presence in an American port. It is stated that a cordon of British and French cruisers will wait outside the three mile limit and many special motor boats, designated submarine catchers, also will be in readiness. TRANS-ATLANTIC ZEPPELIN S!ER VICE. Washington, July 11. A despatch from Amsterdam statis that Germany inaugurates in August-a trans-Atlantic passenger and freight Zeppelin service. GERMANY ON THE DEFENSIVE. 'H err von Wei gaud's despatch to the ''World" from Berlin says that Germany is in a vice-like grip, the pressure of which is likely to increase on ili fronts. The question is whether >70 millions can crush the 115 millions »f tlhe Central Empires. This will be uiswered in the next few weeks. For ;he first time in the war the military nitiative- has passed 'from Germany vho is fighting on the defensive almost iverywhere, even in the west. At juzk von Linsdngen's counter-offensive ias slowed diown and only at Verdun s the Crown Price keeping up a slow >reesure. ■ 'The Austrians may not be tble to hold the Russians until the Car>athians are reached.

(Received This Day 9.45 a.m.) ' THE WR~OOMMITTEE. London, Jufr 11. The Hon. E. Montague has been appointed a permanent member of the War Committee. (Reuters Gable Hal'vice). THE DEUTSOHLAXD FEAT. An Admiralty official, interviewed regarding the Deutachland teat, said it was nothing new; ten British' submarines, built in Oanadia, had crossed the Atlantic iast summer. It was known the Deutachland was merely an ordinary submarine with the lighting equipment removed. The idea of submarine traders was ridiculous. The fact that Germany has to crawl underseas is the finest demonstration of the efficiency of the blockade. GENERAL PROWSE'S DEATH. Wounded men state that General Prowse waa cheering on the troops when a. shell exploded near him and he feli. Several rushed to his assistance, but he continued to cheer on his men. His last words were, "Keep up the nam® of the stonewall brigade 1" THE EAST SURREYS.

A letter from franoe describee the experiences of a battalion of the East" Surreys which was selected to start the attack. Each platoon was provided with a football, and the commanders were picked officers. The men dropped rapidly, "but "dribbling" continued, and two balls actually were kicked into the German trenches, and recovered when the bayonets got to work. One of the footballers sVv. seventeen Germans, and another handed hie rifle to a comrade and polished off a Bosche with his fiste, explaining that "the bloke was too'*old to shoot and too thin to bayonet." The Surr©Tf; captured a machine gun, turned it *on • the enemy, and devasffltedi j column. Addressing the Eighteenth Reinforcements, Colonel Potter, commandant ol Trent ham Camp, said he was opposing six o'clock closing of hotels, which would' mean prohibition for :he men. "We have -not asked iov it, and do not want it," he- added, and tie appealed to the men. by their behaviour, to support his contention that New Zealand soldiers are capable ot looking after themselves.