LATER CABLES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16190, 28 September 1914, Page 5

LATER CABLES

A WAR OF EXTERMINATION, GERMAN GENERAL'S ORDER. "KILL ALL PRISONERS—WOUNDED OR UNWOUNDEC." LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) The Daily Chronicle's Bordeaux correspondent states that General Stringer, commander of the 53rd Brigade of German infantry, has issued an order to the troops not to take more prisoners, but to put to the sword all falling into their hands, and kill the wounded, whether armed or unarmed He concludes : ''Germans must leave no living Frenchmen behind." ULSTER FOREIGN SERVICE ARMY. NUMBERS OVER TEN THOUSAND. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) The Ulster foreign service army numbers 10,524. Major-general Powell is in command, with Captain Craig as assistant adjutant-general, NORWEGIAN STEAMER MINED. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) The Norwegian steamer Hesvik was sunk by a mine in the North Sea. Two of the crew were killed. INDIAN PRINCE'S LOYALTY. RANJITSINHJI'S PRINCELY OFFER. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) ' H.H. the Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar (Prince Ranjitsinhji, the international cricketer) has placed his resources at the disposal of the Empire. He has promised to maintain 1000 men, 200 horses, and 15 motor cars. BRAVE GERMANS. AN HEROIC STAND. REGIMENT COMPLETELY ANNIHILATED. LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) An artilleryman in a hospital at Leicester says one German regiment was swept away. It made an attempt to cross a stream in front of a fiendish artillery and rifle fire. A remnant of the Germans gathered round the flag and Tefused to surrender. They stood back to back until the last man went down with the flag in his grasp. There was no shouting when the flag was captured, French and British soldiers passing bareheaded to the memory of brave men. MINES IN THE ADRIATIC. | AUSTRIAN STEAMER SUNK. ROME, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) A message from Triesto states that the Austrian steamer Baron Gautsch struck a mine and was sunk in the Adriatic. LISSA OCCUPIED. ROME, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) A British and French force has occupied Lissa (an island in the Adriatic Sea). GERMANS IN AFRICA. A POLICE POST CAPTURED. PRETORIA, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) Official : Two hundred Germans captured the police post at Rcitfontein, and held as prisoners the sub-inspector and nine men, who, however, escaped. SERVIANS ACTIVE. A FORTRESS TOWN CAPTURED. MILAN, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) The Servians state that the abandonment of Simlin was due to a determination to devote their whole strength to occupying the Bosnian railways. The Servians have captured the fortress town of Svornik (a town on the Drina), after a sanguinary struggle. The Hungarians left 2000 dead. The Serb losses, also, were heavy.

GERMAN SIEGE GUNS. ON CEMENT PLATFORMS. PARIS, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 10.30 a.m.) A refugee from Maubeuge states that the ( German siege guns are placed on platforms of cement, built on spots carefully selected by private individuals years ago as foundations for factories which were never completed. PRIZE COURT IN BRITAIN. CAPTURED GERMAN GRAIN. LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 4 p.m.) A prize court for auctioning the first five ships captured will be held on October 7. The sales of captured grain to datetotal nearly £1,000,000. LOAN TO BELGIUM. NO INTEREST~To"be CHARGED. • LONDON, September 25. (Received Sept. 27, at 4 p.m.) Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Criccieth, announced that Great Britain would not charge Belgium interest for the £10,000,000 loan. GERMAN WAR LOAN. FORCED SUBSCRIPTIONS. NEW YORK, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 4 p.m.) German despatches show that the success of the war loan was due to the Government attaching 25 per cent, of all • bank balances, and thus forcing depositors to subscribe. German merchants were, also forced to liquidate debts by investment in the war loan. Creditors were notified that, if they did not agree, Erma would discontinue business with them; they even notified creditors in Switzerland that money owing to them was invested in the war loan. RUMANIAN ATTITUDE. ' KING AND MINISTERS AT VARIANCE. POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS FAVOUR THE ALLIES. MILAN, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 4 p.m.) The Secolo reports that there is a conflict between the King of Rumania and his Ministers., The King, actuated by, family ties with the Hohenzollerns, addressed the Crown Council and produced: a secret alliance treaty. He insisted ,that Rumania should march by Germany '( and Austria's side. Ministers resisted this, and the King, finding that popular feeling was against him, is accused of seizing every opportunity to commit a breach of neutrality, and of having supplied German naval reserves with provisions and cannon. There have been numerous bellicose- demonstrations at Bucharest, acclaiming British and French victories, and demanding war against Austria. OPINION IN ITALY., LEADING NEWSPAPERS ADVOCATE WAR. ROME, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 4 p.m.) A meeting of the Conservative party carried a resolution in favour of war; only ! the Clericals and Socialists oppose wax, I which leading newspapers daily advocate. MR ASQUITH AT DUBLIN. | A BRILLIANT RECRUITING SPEECH, ' APPEAL TO UNITED IRISHMEN. MR REDMOND JOINS IN THE APPEAL. | NATONAL ANTHEM SUNG. 1 FIRST TIME FOR A GENERATION. LONDON, September 26. (Received Sept. 27, at 4 p.m.) Mr A.squith, speaking at a Dublin Mansion House recruiting . meeting, said he came to summon Ireland to>. take her place in the defence of the common cause. Germany had been preparing' for this for a generation past. She had taught her youth. to seek the supremacy of the German power. There was nothing in the Austro-Servian quarrel that could no.t have been settled pacifically, only that in the judgment of those guiding the German policy the hour had come to strike.. In their hands lay the chdice of peace or war, and they elected for war. The ground must now be cleared of militarism, so that small nations might have an independent existence and a place in the sun. The Germans had made two miscalculations. The first was that Belgium would not resist. The . second was a more capital blunder with regard to Britain and the invasion of Belgium. France contributed some of the blackest pages to the sombre annals of war. Rarely had non-com-batants suffered more severely; rarely had monuments of.piety and learning been so shamefully and cynically desecrated. Great is onr responsibility in allowing tint country to be drawn into such a welter; but what was worse than to take such responsibility was to shirk it. How could Ireland with the cry of smaller nations in her ears delay to help them in their struggle for freedom? The Empire was always proud of its Irish regiments, and now asked them for their best. There were two things which became unthinkable —the first was that one section of Irishmen was'going to fight another, and the second that Britain was going to fight either.—(Cheers.) He appealed to the National volunteers to contribute a worthy contingent to the second half-million army. He wanted to see an Irish brigade—or, better still, an army corps. "Old animosities between us," ,Mr Asquith remarked, " are dead—scattered like autumn leaves. We are a united nation enjoying liberty, wherefor we are now fighting for others." Mr Redmond followed Mr Asquith. He said that Ireland had heartfelt sympathy for the war, and would bear her share of the burdens of suffering. Having been conceded autonomy, Ireland was in honour bound to take her place with other, autonomous portions of the Empire. He said to the people of England, " You kept faith with Ireland; Ireland will keep faith with you." The meeting concluded with the singing of the National Anthem—the first time in the present generation. BRITISH WOUNDED. RED CROSS SOCIETY'S AID. LONDON, September 26. Received Sept. 27, at 5.5 p.m.) ; Fourteen hundred British wounded arrived at Southampton yesterday. The British Red Cross Society is sending 30 surgeons and 150 nurses to Paris, as well, as 100 motor ambulances. (Continued on pajje 6.) r _T . . ' — ±.-i -J~a.\ ' i .