THE ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1019, 12 November 1917, Page 5

THE ALLIED WAR COUNCIL.

BRITAIN’S MILITARY REPRESENTATIVE. \uStrnlitn-New Zealand Cable Association Received November 12, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 11. General IVilson, who represents England on the Allied War Council, is an Irishman with a reputation for stall work almost unrivalled. He possesses genius, strategy and foresight of coming events, and has been one of the chief brains of the army throughout the war. Ho was Archibald Murray’s junior at the outbreak of the war. HOW THE COUNCIL WILL BE CONSTITUTED, Received November 12, 9.30 a.m. PARIS, Nov. 11. Lo Matin says the inter-Allied War Committee will bo composed of the Prime Minister, another Minister, and a representative General from the staff of each country. It will sit at least twice monthly and remain permanently sitting whenever necessary. M. Doumor will he Franco’s second representative. This committee collaborates with Generals Foch, Cadorna and Wilson. IMPORTANT CHANGES INVOLVED. A.mtraHan-Nc - '*’ Zealand Cable A«*ooiation Received November 12, 11.35 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 11. The Observer says that the direction of the vastly extended Allied front involves an important ro-arrangement of the military commanders. General Favollc commands the Franco-British contingents in Italy. Mr Lloyd George will visit the south of France when going home. General Foch remains in Italy for ■some time. VI. Painleve (Premier of France) convened his colleagues and detailed the Anglo-French measures to assist Italy. His statement produced a reassuring impression. ASTONISHING IF TRUE. THE KAISER'S ACTION AT RIGA. ORDERS RUSSIAN TROOPS TO PRAY FOR CZAR. Australian-New Zealand Tam*. Association. LONDON, Nov. 10. The Morning Postt’s Petrograd correspondent narrates an astonishing episode of the attack on Riga. An entire Russian division brought in their officers bound as a pence offering to the conquerors. The Kaiser, immediately realising the bad effects of such an action on the discipline of Ids own army, ordered every fiftieth Russian to be shot and released the officers, returned their swords, and permitted them to return to their homes. The remainder of the Russians who surrendered were flogged or otherwise punished. The Kaiser also ordered the prisoners not to use the prayer for the Provisional Government, but. restored the old form for the Czar. The Kaiser’s action has been published broadcast through Russia, ancj has greatly impressed the Russians, who do not realiso it is not. merely a pose in the interests of the Hohenzollern dynasty. Wiser beads see in the Kaiser’s action significant evidence as to what the fate of the revolution would bo if the Germans captured Potrograd.