AUSTRIAN FRIGHTFULNESS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17325, 27 May 1918, Page 5

AUSTRIAN FRIGHTFULNESS

DISEASE INOCULATION. Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association. NEW YORK. May 25. (Received May 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Advices received state that the Austrians inoculated Italian and Serbian prisoners -with tuberculosis germs. One thousand consumptives have been sent home. The Serbian Legation at Corfu reports that other disease-inoculated prisoners' camps are hotbeds of disease. The prisoners are beaten and compelled to ■work. When they collapse they are returned home to oontaminate others. JAPO-CpiNESE AGREEMENT. PROTEST BY STUDENTS. PEKING, May 25. (Received May 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Eight hundred students at the Peking University declined to attend darses as a protest against the Japanese agreement. They attempted to see the President, but the Palace was closed against them. ENLISTMENTS IN VICTORIA. PERCENTAGE OF MINORS. MELBOURNE, Mav 25. "■ (Received May 26, at 5.5 p.m.) Under the new regulation aJI minors who have enlisted without their parents' consent whilst below the age now fixed are allowed to withdraw. In Victoria, under the reduced age enlistment, minors have increased to 61 per cent, as compared with 18 to 20 per cent, previously. SUBMARINE BASE RAIDS. GERMAN SAILORS COURTMARTIALLED. AMSTERDAM, May 25. (■Received May 27, at 1.10 a.m.) Of 15 German sailors court-martialled on a charge of attempted treason in connection with the British naval operations at and Ost-end. 13 were shot and two sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.