LATER. BLEEDING BELGIUM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10113, 22 October 1917, Page 5

LATER. BLEEDING BELGIUM.

GREAT ECONOMIC WASTE. Received October 22, 1.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Get. 20. Afliciul advices .show that Germany continues to bleed Belgium financially, and of its working men and material. Incalculable economic waste has been inflicted. Working men have been secured and forced to work on the German front in France, and in Gorman factories. The Germans are conducting insidious recruiting uninterruptedly, and have levied war contributions of a total of over 288 millions. Fines total forty millions. THE SWEDISH MAIL DISPUTE. TO BE CLOSED IN A FEW DAYS. Received October 22, 1.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Oct,. 20. It, has been learned rbnt the Swedish majl dispute will be closed in a few days. It is understood that the British will not insist on opening the pouches. RUSSIAN EMBASSY OPTIMISTIC. PETROGRAD CANNOT BE TAKEN. Received October 22. 2.5 p.m. WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. The Russian Embassy declares Germans cannot take Petrograd this winter, and would nexer take it should the Russian soldiers offer the slightest defence. It is considered the rumour that Government is moving to Moscow will permit the carrying out of a constructive programme, eliminating the Bolshevik influence.

THE ALLIED WAR CONFERENCE 1 .

PRESIDENT WILSON PROCLAIMS A DAY OF PRAYER. Received October 22, 2.5 p.m. WASHINGTON. Oct. 20. Mr Maurice Low, correspondent of tho London Post, wires the Post that the Allied War Conference in which the United States participates will be hold in London on the earliest date possible. Tho conference undoubtedly bears vitally on the war’s future. Although tho subject primarily nuotod for discussion is finance, it necessarily follows that 'the entire plan of campaign will bo discussed, and a complete understanding reached between tha financial and military chiefs. The United States’ viewpoint will be co-ordinated with that of tho Allies. The L'nited States Treasury officers feel that increased efficiency will follow a clearer perspective, and that will follow free and frank discussion. President Wilson has proclaimed October 28 as a day of prayer for the triumph of the United States army.

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACTIVITY. SUBMARINE BASES MAY BE ATTACKED. Received October 22. 2.5 n.m. Washington; oh. 20. The New York Evening Poet’s Washington correspondent states that those who are insistin'*- that (he United States shall not fight a defensive war on sea, hut induce, a brush by joining in an attack on submarine bases, feel that the sinking of the Antilles means the ultimate change of the Allies’ naval policy. THE EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.. Telegram.) Received October 22. 1.0 n.m,LONDON, Oct. 21. An East African official message- says: Tho main enemy fomeo retreating from Mbemkuru have reached Masiwa. They abandoned the hosnitaK Wo oecunied Runoncla and Lukelodimishion, and forced tho Germans towards Nrangao. We oecupied Nyangao on Wednesday, but two Nigerian battalions became temnorarilv detached, and differed heavily. We joined them op Tbiirsday. and renulsed counter-attacks. Fighting is proceeding. THE KAISER’S MOVEMENTS.

Received October 22. 1.0 n.m. SOFIA. Oct. 22. The Kaiser has departed on his return to Germany. THE U.S. LIBERTY LOAN. ADVERTISED IN GERMAN LINES BY AMERICAN AVIATORS. Received October 22. 1.30 p.m. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. United States aviators are flying over the German lines dropping numerous Liberty Loan posters, bearing most influential pictorial and statistical data. DISEASE IN GERMANY. (Delayed Cable). ‘ LONDON, Oct. G. Reuter’s correspondent on the French front states that the correspondence found on German prisoners is full of details of the spread of dysentery and hunger typhus in Germany. The former is especially virulent in Berlin, Cologne, Wiesbaden, Stetten, and other large towns, necessitating the closing of barracks and cinemas. Professor Abarhaldeu, lecturing at Leipzig, referred to the appearance of beri-beri and scurvy, and the great increase of tuberculosis.