NURSE CAVELL’S MURDER.

Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 19

NURSE CAVELL’S MURDER.

BISHOP’S STRONG DENUNCIATION. LONDON, October 21. The Bishop of London, preaching a Trafalgar Day sermon to a crowded congregation at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields Church, said : “ In former times chivalry lightened the horrors of war, but it is otherwise with our present enemies. Their foulest and latest crime was the murder in cold blood of a poor, defenceless English girl. This was a crime dwarfing even that of the Lusitania, What would Lord Nel-

son have done in such a case as Miss Gavell’s murder? He would not have resorted to diplomatic inquiries; he would have made inquiries with the thunder of fleets and guns. Nelson’s spirit is dead in our young men if they do not want to know the reason why this foul crime was committed.” The newspapers publish complete documents of the martyrdom of Nurse Cavell, and leading articles denounce Germany’s infamy. The Daily Graphic characterises it as the most damnable crime of the war. ALLIED SOLDIERS IN BELGIUM. AMSTERDAM, October 21. The Military Governor, General von Bissing, announces that all allied soldiers now in Belgium must report themselves to the authorities within 24 hours for internment in Germany. Those omitting to report will be shot, likewise all suspected of harbouring them. A GERMAN THREAT. AMSTERDAM, October 21. The Germans anticipate air raids on Belgium, and the authorities announce that any community so visited will be held responsible and fined proportionately to the damage dons. KAISER REFRAINS FROM MURDER. ' MADRID, October 21. The Kaiser has telegraphed to King Alfonso announcing the pardon of the Countess De Belleville and Madams Thulier and other Franco-Belgians. KAISER’S VISIT TO OSTEND. AMSTERDAM, October 22 The Kaiser visited Ostend last week, with Prince Eitel and General Falkenhayn, and later returned to his headquarters at Luxembourg. Special measures to be taken against aeroplanes’ visits are shrouded in deepest secrecy, and have not been divulged even to the highest officers. POPE’S DESIRE FOR PEACE. ROME, October 21. The Osservatore Romano, the official organ of the Vatican, denies that the Pope has written to King Albert, asking him to initiate steps towards a peace. GERMAN POSITIONS CAPTURED. NUMEROUS GUNS ’TAKEN. PETROGRAD, October 21. A communique states : After a dashing coup de main our troops carried the German positions south-east of the important railway junction of Barcnovitchi, capturing 85 German and Austrian officers and 3552 men, besides cannon and machine guns. NEW RUSSIAN PORT. , PETROGRAD, October 21. Ten thousand men, mostly prisoners, under American engineers, are constructing a double railway 1200 miles long from Petrograd to Ekaterina, on the Gulf of Kola (Arctic Ocean), which is permanently ice-free. This will open a valuable port to war traffic. Archangel, the most important seaport in Russia, is ice-bound. [Archangel was for long the only seaport of Russia, and is still the most important. It is situated at the mouth of the de’t" of the Dvina River, and has open water Lorn May to about the end of October.] IN THE RIGA DISTRICT. PETROGRAD, October 22. Latest telegrams suggest that German reinforcements are endangering Riga. They have reached Olai, 12 miles from Riga, and heavy fighting is going on on the pjlateau of Olai, dominating the marshy plains on both sides of the Mitau-Riga railway. The path of the German advance is hampered by thick woods, intersected with swampy streams. The Germans have also reached the Dvina at Borkowitz, 18 miles up the stream from Riga.