WITH THE AIRMEN.

Otago Witness, Issue 3205, 18 August 1915, Page 23

WITH THE AIRMEN.

PARIS, August 15. Advices from Venice state that fugitives report that daily Italian air raids have resulted in the complete destruction of the military docks at Trieste and damage to the Governor’s Palace. Nineteen of our aeroidanes bombarded German works and depots in the valley of the Spada (?), and dropped 100 shells upon the objects aimed at. All returned safely. OBJECT OF ZEPPELIN RAIDS. LONDON, August 15. The Hamburg Fremdenblatt states that the recent air raid was designed to remind England that she is Germany’s chief enemy. “ There is bound to be an enormous day of reckoning,” says the Fremdenblatt, “ which will come cither by the invasion of England or otherwise. Beware, England!” AUSTRIA BOMBARDING BELGRADE. SERVIA'S EFFECTIVE REPLY. NISH, August 15. Official: The enemy on August 12 began to bombard Belgrade with large : calibre howitzers, which damaged private houses, but killed no one. We thereupon bombarded Semlin and Pantchero with a few shells, which caused the enemy to cease bombarding us. Wc ignited several houses in Semlin, and the inhabitants of Pantchero took panic. RUMANIA PREPARING. BUCHAREST, August 15. The Minister of War has instructed all factories working for the military authorities to prepare a list of raobilisable workers, with a view to more expedition in executing Government orders. TO INTIMIDATE RUMANIA. ( LONDON, August 15. The newspapers interpret the Austrian attempt to cross the Danube at Golubatz as a demonstration to intimidate Rumania for beginning the outcry against the mobilisation of an Austro-German army near Orsova to traverse Serbia and Bulgaria to relieve the Turks. GREECE’S ATTITUDE. LONDON, August 15. Reuter’s Athens correspondent reports that the statements as to differences between M. Venizelos and the King of Greece are pure inventions, emanating from German sources. M. Veuizelos will only expose his views when the King summons him. The Greek Foreign Minister and the Serbian Legation deny the rumours of Serbo-Grecian differences, and assert that the relations are cordial. It is believed that the rumours are instigated in German sources to make people believe that the cession of territority Serbia is disposed to make to Bulgaria would upset the GraecoSerbian alliance, and in the hope that the rumours would perhaps precipitate a quarrel between the Allies TO IMPRESS THE BALKANS. DARDANELLES SUCCESSES NECESSARY. LONDON, August 15. The Times correspondent at Paris says that news of further successes in the Dardanelles is awaited with great eagerness, as it is felt that the Balkan negotiations will prove resultless unless the Allies demonstrate by more reinforcements and more vigour of action that not only are they determined to force the Dardanelles, but that there is a certainty of success. Various reports indicate that the Germans share this view. They are concentrating troops and stores in the Temesvar, Neusatz, and Orsova region, presumably with the object of an offensive against Serbia, in the hopes of arriving to aid the Turks before their resistance at the Dardanelles is overcome. In those circumstance? it is felt in Paris that arguments supplied by the Allies’ troops at the Dardanelles would have more weight with Bulgaria than those of the Chancellories. AUSTRO-GER i\ IA N I’HR E A TS LONDON, August 15. Geneva reports state that an important movement of Austro-German troops has taken place on the Austro -Serbian and

Austro-Rumanian frontiers. It is believed that action against Serbia is imminent. The proximity of troops to the Rumanian frontiers has given rise to a fear that Austro-German action is to be taken against Rumania., who has called np 10 classes to the flag, raised four divisions of reserves, and generally taken very serious measures. Amsterdam reports declare that 40,000 Germans have been transferred from Warsaw to the Serbo-Bulgarian front.