"THE MADNESS OF NATIONS."

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 September 1914, Page 5

"THE MADNESS OF NATIONS."

PRINCE OF WALES VOLUNTEERS

FOR THE FRONT

GERMANY AND PEACE.

"THE WHINE OF A HAIiP■CHAST3BED BULLT:"

LONDON, Sep. -M.

A Prussian G&uards' officer .who <was taken prisoner says: "My regiment 'is a skeleton. The French shrapnel was terrific. We couMn't locate the .guns.; I was fighting for long stretdi.es foodless, and was so Sred that I eouldn'ct sit on nay horse. 1 have come to the conclusion, that modern warfare is £he greatest madness of nations."

The German prisoners are gaifoered in a camp which occupies a forty-eight-acre plateau at Alflershot, and are housed in tents. They are given bread and meat, and they flraw water and chop wood for themselves, beyond which "they are not made to do anything.

Prince Adalbert, the Kaiser's eon, after having collected £240,000 at Rheims, bombarded the town for three days.

The Prince of Wales has applied to go to the front, but Lord Kitchener has advised the King that the Prince, not having completed his military training, it is undesirable for him to go at present.

PETROGRAD, Sep. 21

Eighty per cent, of the Hussian wounded are wounded in the legs and arms. The dangerously wounded only average one per cent.

LONDON, Sep. 21.

The Times, in a leader on the peace overtures at New York, says the Ambassador at Washington turns with the whine of a half-chastised bully and declares that "live and let live" is the policy which Germany wishes the enemy to observe, but the Allies' irrevocable resolve is not to stay their hands until German militarism, its causes and effects, are destroyed once and for all.