THE WAR

Horowhenua Chronicle, 30 August 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

(Australia-New Zealand Cable Service) ('Received This Day 8.40 ia.m.) GtHRiMAXS SHELVING 'HOSPITALS. London, August 29. Several additional instances iare 'reported of "Germans intentionally, shelling hospitals at the front, and also casualty stations. A Melbourne doctor states: "I wan attending our boys when the Huns deliberately shelled f-u; St-it ion. Twenty shells dropped' in our iviip within four hours. K>ne fell yesterday between two wards, which we had only emptied five minutes earlier." (Received Thi® Day 1'J.,20 a.m.) I A SWISS RECIPE FOR PEACE Berne, August 29. Republican circles m Switzerland urge the Entente to threaten Germany with a commercial boyoott of five, ten or twenty years. This ultimatum would' suffice to, bring the War Lords to reason and soon convince them that the Entente means business. BOTH HARD PRESSED.

Germany, replying to an Austrian appeal for reinforcements, declares that she is unable to render assistance. She also refused to send aeroplanes, despite Italy's marked superiority in the air. FINN! VERSUS 'R.USS. Copenhagen, Aug. 29 Numbers were killed and wounded during a several hours' fight between the Finnish population of Bjorneberg and the 'Russian garrison.

GERMANY AND ARGENTINE "London, August 29. A German Jsote> to the Argentine says that owing tot a- strong desire on the ipart of Germany to remain on friendly terms with the Argentine, Germany agrees to modify the submitrine blockade to the extent of not attacking Argentine ships carrying only foodstuffs. The Argentine approves of the (Note. TANKS IN ACTION'. The British correspondent gives a vivid description of the attack on St. Julien-Poelcappelle 'road during a driv rainstorm. The tanks wallow in bogland, whiil# heavily laden with infantry ; ploughing through the mud. The attackers'- task- was to capture a ser- | ies of concrete strongholds each held! by a score of German machine* gunners. The tanks m some oaf?© 9 got within thirty yards, and fired point blank until the strongholds surrendered. The night was wild and savage, making a continuance of the fighting practicably an imipossMlitjy. POST WAR PROBLEMS.

The Empire Resources Development Committee is considering a scheme for ! a post-war distribution of population; promotion of colonisation; with means for selection and financing of intend>ing Pettlers by land banks. It considers that the State should receive a proportion of the utllmate profits. CIHAKiGIE 0!F ESiPIMMiAGE. Amsterdam, August 29. The Germans arretted Madaihe J2rrcra, wife of the Director of the Brussels University on charges of espionage and forging identity card?. GERMANY —RUSSIA. Voenvarts quotes Mr Kerensfey as saying that Russia a few days ago jected l Germany's fresh offer of ,peace. The newspaper asks Br Michaelip for :i prompt explanation, and adds that Germany! wants a general /peace founded on a Reichstag resolution. This jprospejet is marred by ifecrieb peru-e offers, the refusal whereof amounts to a moral defeat for Germany.

GERMAN POST WAR NEEDS. Amsterdam, August 29. Hear BaJJin publishes important) 'articles in the Hamburger Fremdeblatt, insisting on the absolute necessity iof recovering the German colonies intact; also rounding off thieve in Africa, and considerably increasing those! in the Pacific. Herr Baffin points out that the 'Mittel-Europa schema? are inadequate to provide the raw materials vital for Germany's indtistriefe, and asserts that countries ducing cotton, coffee, jute, rubber and other products must be unci or German control: otherwise, he says, the empire will be under the heel of England and the United States. Admiral von Orapon alsc insists on the necessity for tropical possessions, and securing portions of the Belgian j Congo. During peace negotiations thej German delegates must continu-1 ally ask whether the colonies can supply the necessary raw material and I ply German planters and! exploiters are thickly populated enough to sup- s with the ncesaary labor. The coasts j and islands of Eastern Asia are re- i garded by the admiral ns being par- f ticularly valuable. I