SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 17 June 1915, Page 5

SYDNEY SUN MESSAGES

GERMAN LETTERS

ENGLISH PRISONERS NOT WANTED IN GERMANY.

AUSTRIAN LOSSES

ESTIMATED AT TWO AND A-HALF

MILLIONS

ENLISTMENT OF IRISHMEN.®

SUGGESTIONS OF ORGANISATION

TO PREVENT IT-

ITALIAN ADVANCE DEVELOPING

FORTUNATELY

Times'—Sydney Sun Special Cables.

(Received June 17, 8.30 a.m.) 1 LONDON, June 16

A German letter intended for the British was thrown into the Ypres Canal. It began: "Our victorious ends are accomplished. The Serbs want peace with the Austrians and Russia is ready for peace as her interests in the Balkans are threatend 'by Italy's declaration. The Russians are tired of the great loss in Galicia. "Britons, don't you fear the end."

A letter found on a, German in Arras 'from his Gretchen said: "Don't send .any more English to Germany; they are not worth feeding. Kill them all."

The Lokal Anzeiger announces s officially that it will be weeks before the 'German answer to the American Note will 'be given, because the scope is so extensive that it will be necessary to -collect evidence from many sources.

Neutral statisticians place the Austraans' losses in the war at 2£ millions. The winter campaign in the Carpathians killed 120,000 through consumption.

The arrival at New York of three hundred young Irishmen aboard an American liner has drawn fresh attention to apparently organised efforts to induce the Irish to avoid enlistment. All the arrivals were well provided with gold, and the suggestion is that some agency assisted their emigration.

Milan states that an Austrian offensive, which has long been predicted as an event in an Austro-Italian war, is now impracticable, despite the Austrians' favorable geographical position. The Austrians are upon the defensive and are collecting all available troops for the protection of ports and the entrenchment of camps. The Italians' first task was the capture of dominating positions. The opening phase of the Italian advance developed most fortunately, and they now hold the most important Alpine passes in Trentino, Cadore and Friuli, and are breakink the Austrian resistance at some points.