WITH THE ENEMY.

North Otago Times, Volume CIII, Issue 13653, 22 August 1916, Page 3

WITH THE ENEMY.

.. 'GREATEST AND MOST ACTIVE ENEMY. GERMAN NEWSPAPER'S .CONFESSION. BRITAIN'S ENORMOUS PERSEVERANCE. ■ • ("Router's Telegrams.") Received August 2], 6.10 p.m. .■ '.AMSTERDAM, August 21, The Frankfurter Zeilnng . declares: "The British are just as pertinacious politically as they are enormously persevering militarily,- The British, in every respect,-are our greatest'and'moat' ■active, cnoiny,. tli.breTore the fighting o)i (he Soinine must"'be decisive. It is most important to us to recognise that history leaches conclusively that the Bri; tish will not yield to. fatigue before they are beaten and exhausted. ANGRY WITH DENMARK. GERMANS RESENT THE TRUTH : ("Kwlor's Telegrams.") Received August 21, 10 p.m. .■ COPENHAGEN, August 21,' Scmi-oft'icially ' th'e.Nord. DenlscliPl' furiously attacks the Danish press for jgiving publicity to Entente news and 'views and the disregards of the German standpoint, The paper is -indignant, owing to the alleged continuous attacks on Germany and the servile demonstrations of sympathy with the Allies, The article .conveys ji covert threat to Denmark. * . "•' '", FRENCH INTERNMENT-CAMPS. - GERMAN LAWYER'S TRIBUTE, (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). ZURICH, August .lib A German lawyer, released after internment for eighteen months in six different camps in France, says the conditions are, excellent, There-'-is no harshness, norV'are thcrc'lpiiee'rasary/re* strictions, especially in Corsica, where there is almost complete liberty. POLISH AUTONOMY. RECOGNISED BY CENTRAL • POWERS. (Australian and Jf.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, August 19. A Berlin telegram states,that Von Beslier, Governor-General of Warsaw, has announced that' Austria ainil- Gerinniiy have agreed to recognise Polish autonomy.. GERMAN PLOTS IN"AMERICA, - . . . mxa INTERCEPTED COMMUNICATIONS, (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, .August .20. The New York times'publishes'the text of four jumbled letters by a pro"lHimt German agent sehrfr'oiii Berlin. When pieced together they showed a request for a,fnml of 100,000 to ;>OO,OOO dollars.for'the purpose of .financing new plots here. The letters comprise a now code, the first words of the four letters forming the complete sense and then the second word;and.so on, The ..writer said, that other plots had been badly bungled and calls Count Berustorff a pliant diplomat of no value. SLAUGHTER OF THE ARMENIANS, REPORT FROM DEVASTATED ' REGION. (Australian and N.Z, Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, August ; 20. The Rev. Mr Buxton, secretary of the Armenian Fund, has arrived from the devastated regions, He states that originally there were, two million Turkish Armenians; of whom half a million have j'been massacred, a million deported, two hundred thousand had escaped to the mountains or Russian soil, and hundreds of thousands .'were interned in Mesopotamia, where they were suffering untold miseries, privations, outrages and murder. Numbers have beeu forced to labour on the Baghdad railway.

GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLIES, ■ WMMimoN'tfAHMVITX . (Australian ami N.K: Cable Association). LONDON, August L'O; Heir von Bnltocki, the German Fuci Commissioner, is visiting Hungary ami Bulgaria-with a view to arranging for the supply of foodstuffs for Germany. THROUGH GERMAN EYES, DRAMATIC EFFECT OF RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE. ■■" . ■ ' i (Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, August 2p. Prince Ilolienlohe • Seliilliiigfurst, speaking-at. Berlin on the Emperor Franz Joseph's birthday, said the-Aus-tro:Gernian successes fin 1015 justified the belief.that the war was eiidiiigylmt while all eyes were watching the Western offensive, n new (luiiide.rcloiul burst