Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 13 February 1940, Page 4

Twenty-Five Years Ago

1 Though recently reported to i 'have been retreating from the l Austrian province of Bukovina, f the Russians were now stated to $ he still stubbornly contesting the : ground gained. | They had repulsed a series of I enemy attacks and were fortifying l Czernowitz, the capital. • Operations were being conduct- | ed in a temperature of 20 degrees i beloiv zero, which was having a f fatal effect on many of the Austrol German soldiers. • . I French planes, it was reported, \ had been successful in dropping l bombs on bodies of German troops i and on military buildings at Zeef brugge and Ostend. • Belgian aeroplanes penetrated f about 70 miles into German terri- | tory. and dropped bombs on a f military camp near Cologne. | An endeavour tuns being made | by Belgium to raise an army of | 200,000. If an appeal to that end | failed, the Government would de- » cree compulsory military service. ? Fighting in North France was | still of the siege character, with « the Allies getting the better of t Ihe dispute. 1 A steamer, professedly carrying f sugar, but loaded with copper for l Germany, was seized by Dutch 4 authorities. f Mr Lloyd George estimated that l the Allied toar expenditure to the i end of 1015 would total £2,000,- | 000,000. I Britain, he said, would be ■ able ? to finance her share for five years | out of the proceeds of her investi merits abroad. i