THE WAR

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13662, 2 September 1916, Page 6

THE WAR

tmmm ! —~ i BRITAIN'S PART. ' PALL TO THE COLOURS. ANTI-MIIJTARTST PUNISHED, (P»r Cable—Pj-ms Asuonntion—Copyright.) ("Router's Telegrams,") LONDON, August 31. Clifford Allen, formerly chairman of the Ndn-Coiisc.riptioii Fellowship,' has been sentenced to a year's hard labour for disobedience of military orders. , THE WAR OF WARS. WELSH COAL MINERS. DEMAND FOE INCREASED WAGES, (Australian and M, Cable Association,) Received September 1,8,50 p.m. LONDON, September 1. 1 In the South Wales coalfields'dispute, the miners claimed 12| per cent, advaneo and owners the 15 per cent, reduction. • Mr Justice Tickford's award maintains the existing rate.

ABANDONMENT OF REPRISALS URGED. . VISCOUNT GREY'S STATEMENT. (AuHtralian. and N.Z, Oalile Association,) Received September 1, nt 8,45 p.m. The International Red Cross Committee has addressed belligerents and neutrals imploring belligerents to abandon reprisals against prisoners of war which arc a reversion to the methods of barbarism and unworthy of the nations which have given the Red Cross its present position, Viscount Grey, replied that Great Britain throughout had discountenanced reprisals, owing to the indiscrimiiinting and unjust operation of the policy. The German Government, however, had per-

petrated a succession of outrages, which had strained the temper and patience i of the British people to breaking point ' and had created a situation of the utmost gravity. These acts include the sinkjng of the Lusitnnia, the Sussex, the brutnl execution of Nurse On veil, the

criminal desertion of prisoners nt Wittenburg, when stricken with disease, . initiated by the callous disregard of the I German authorities for the ordinary ' hygienic precautions. The Internotionnl Committee appeals to belligerents not to obtain redress for their grievances by reprisals, but to request neutrals to impress upon the enemy eon-' eerncd the considerations of humanity . and justice. Tho British Government I will readily respond to the appeal, being confident that the. Committee and ■ theno'utrals recognise the surest means • of avoiding reprisals is to promote the abandonment • of a policy inspiring lthe'm. ,