GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16025, 17 September 1915, Page 8

GERMAN RUTHLESSNESS.

HOW RUSSIA WAS CRIPPLED

TREACHERY IN AN ARSENAL.

London, September 15.

The London Evening News gives prominence to a statement that the Russian retreat from the Carpathians was due to the work of traitors and German spies in Russia.

Half the smokeless powder and high explosives required by the army is manufactured at Ochta, the Russian Woolwich. German secret service men bribed workmen to blow up a series of nitrating tanks at Ochta. Petrograd was shaken, thousands of workmen were killed, and nearly all the plant destroyed. The Russian artillery was crippled, and it was impossible to counter General von Mackensen's advance.

Britain and France had to give up the thought of a spring offensive and to send their reserves of shells and explosives to Russia.

PLOTS IN AMERICA.

ATTEMPT TO STOP LOAN.

New Yoek, September 15.

Owing to widespread German plots against the members of the Anglo-French Financial Commission, whose lives were threatened, the American secret service is providing bodyguards for Lord Reading and the other members. The sessions of the commission are held secretly, and the dates of the sittings are not published, while other precautions are also taken. Fifty threatening letters, some menacing the lives of the commissioners, have been handed to the police. The number of their bodyguard has been doubled. Pro-Germans are threatening to organise runs on , the banks ™«- h d%hrX: anyßupportbea Th A ? n Ju States Government has decided that the loan the commissioners are negotiating is an or™" commercial transaction, and 5 Wth^GovernmentisnotgoinTt;

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