LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4943, 17 September 1914, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

CROWN PNINCE GETS AWAY. SUCCESSFUL RETTRKM ENT. (Received this day at 0.15 a.m.) Paris, This Day. The Crown Prince’s attempts to retire through tho gap between the Argonne and tho Mouse have apparently been successful. INVESTMENT OF MAUBEUGE. FORTS DESTROYED EARLY. TWELVE DAYS’ BOMBARDMENT Paris, This Day. The investment of Mntibotigo was

commenced on August 26th. 1 The first shell was fired on the 27th. The main attack was on the east and north of the town. The siege artillery completely destroyed the Bousaoir, Essarts and Cerfontaine forts and rock earthworks. Some forts surrendered in twenty-four hours and others in two days. The bombardment of the town lasted twelve days. Over a thousand shells fell on the railway station in one night. The loss of life was slight.

CIVILIANS SLAUGHTERED. DUE TO RIFLES IN HOUSES. DESPITE AN EXPLANATION. Antwerp, This Day. Brandenburg troops slaughtered 182 civilians at Soiumagn on the ground that rifles had been found in some of the houses, but despite the fact that workmen in the Liege district take rifles from the Liege factories to finish them in their homes, such rifles are minus the breech mechanism and without amunition. A WONDERFUL SPRINT. UNDER HAIL OF BULLETS. FRENCH ATHLETE PROMOTED. Bordeaux, This Day. Georges Andre, the famous sprinter and international footballer, has been promoted to Sergeant for gallantry. The Germans surrounded his company at a village in Lorraine and Andre sabred many, captured a standard, and regained the French lines after a wonderful sprint under a hail of bullets. ARTILLERY OFFICER KILLED. BLOWN TO PIECES. London, This Day. Brigadier-General N. Findlay, one of the best artillery officers, was killed in a battle at Torey, northwards of Chateau Thierry, a shell blowing Dim to pieces just as the British guns were getting the upper hand. PRISONERS IN ENGLAND. London, This Day. A thousand German prisoners have been sent to special prison camps at Aldershot, Dorchester and elsewhere. They are receiving the full army rations. A GENERAL SHOT. AN UNHEARD CHALLENGE. Johannesburg. This Day. Generals Beye_rs and Delarey, while motoring near the town, did not hear a policeman’s challenge and General Delarey was shot dead. “UNNATURAL WOMEN.” KINDNESS TO PRISONERS. DISGUST OF GERMANS. Copenhagen, This Day. Newspapers in Berlin publish a number of letters from the field complaining bitterly that German women and girls have received French and Russian prisoners with kindness, even giving them small presents of food and tobacco. One German writes: In the name of my comrades, who are shedding blood, for these unnatural women. I express the deepest regret. We are all filled with disgust at such behaviour. 'Women like this ought to be put in front of the troops that they might feel in their own bodies what our lot is.” HORRORS AT AERSCHOT. A CATHEDRAL SACKED. STREETS BLACKENED RUINS. (Received this day ot 10.15 a.m.) London, This Day. Mrs Louise Mack, Antwerp correspondent for the Evening News, describes the horrors perpetrated at Aerschot. In the Cathedral many empty wine and beer l>ottles were left on the high altar. The offertory Ixix was stolen and replaced by beer bottles Bottles of filth were left everywhere. Madonna’s head was cut off, a largec rucifix was burnt, the altar brocades slashed, and the frames of pictures were chopped. A dead pig was on one side of the chapel. All th is was the work of drunken soidiers. Street after street in Aerschot was destroyed and reduced to blackened ruins. At a chemist’s shop the Germans mixed all the drugs together They shot the Burgomaster’s two children. A Germon colonel was shot on the servant’s room at the Burgomaster’s residence from outside tho building, supposedly, by the girl’s sweetheart. The girl and her swain were instantly executed.

OPERATIONS IN THE EAST.

ADVANCE INTO PRUSSIA. REGARDLESS OF LOSSES. (Received this day at 9 a.m.) London, This Day. The Post’s Petrograd correspondent states that General Rennenkampf lia.s ordered on advance into Prussia, regardless of losses in order to relieve tho pressure in the west. Now that the rapid diversion of the Gorman ‘troops bad prevented a disaster to the French armies it would not be surprising if Russia evacuates Blast Prussia and prosecutes a more advantageous plan elsewhere. PURSUING THE AUSTRIANS. SERIFS OF CRUEL DEFEATS. NO REST TO BE GIVEN. Petrograd. This Day. R u.ssians are crossing tho San immediately behind the retreating Austrians. They avoided tho upper and shallower reaches, guarded by the fortresses a. I Jan's lev and Przemvsl, coding many millions, and are thus installed in a riverine triangle amidst a, eonsdernble quantity of Austrian stores. 'Hie Austrians are grmllv flustered as it i . ex peeled the Russians will vfb'' J a passage to the district where they hoped to rest after a series of cruel defeats.

I ' ITALIANS FIGHTING

IN GALICIAN BATTLES. A RUSSIAN SUGGESTION. Rome, This Day. It is officially admitted in Trieste that fifteen thousand soldiers from Trieste and Trent, mostly Italianspeaking, were' fighting in the first line and were killed in the recent Galician battles. Petrograd, This Day. The Wratsh remarks that Russia and her Allies would willingly see Trent and Trieste become the Italian concentration for the Austrian troops on the Italian frontier, and Austrian interference in Albania would be sufficient warrant for Italy joining the Triple Entente. ANOTHER SERVIAN SUCCESS. Nish, This Day. The Servians have occupied Vishnegrad.