LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 4944, 18 September 1914, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

THE GERMAN POSITION. CROWN PRINCE’S RETREAT. COVERED BY RIGHT WING. Paris, This Day. Le Matin states that the German, position north of the Aisne is based upon an important junction of railways. The German right seeks only to cover the Crown Prince’s retreat NEW ARMY COMPLETING. HALF A MILLION MEN. London, This Day. The first new army of half a million is near completion. London’s contribution is seventy thousand. SYSTEMATICALLY DRUNK. MORE GERMAN ATROCITIES. A PLUCKY BOY. (Received this day at 9.10 a.m.) Paris, This Day. Senator Paullist relates how the Gormans occupying Lourches were systematically drunk. A French sergeant, who was lying in a house wounded, was maddened at a German lieutenant’s insults. A French woman seized a revolver and shot the lieutenant, whereupon the captain ordered the arrest of fifteen miners, accused them of firing on the Germans, and they were taken in couples and shot. The wounded sergeant lay on the ground awaiting his turn. Emile Despres, aged fourteen, gave him a glass of water, and a German captain beat Despres with the flat of the sword, and said: “You will be shot with the rest.” Finally only Despres and the sergeant remained alive. The lad’s eyes were bandaged and he was made to kneel. The captain waited a few minutes and then ordered the bandage to be removed, end said: “You wanted to give the sergeant a drink; give him a bullet instead. Your life will be spared if you kill him.” The boy pretended to aim the rifle, but turned and killed the German captain instead. Despres and the sergeant were immediately riddled with bullets and stabbed with bayonets. SPRAYING WITH KEROSENE. FOR HOUSE DESTRUCTION. THE MACHINES SECURED. Antwerp, This Day. The authorities captured the machines used at Termonde for spraying kerosene through broken windows when the Germans intended to burn the place in revenge for reverses. Following the machines came the soldiers throwing lighted fuses on the kerosene. One spraying machine was driven by a motor, while others were operated by hand. ACUTE DISTRESS. IN SOUTH GERMANY. Bordeaux, This Day. A Swiss merchant from Munich reports acute distress in South Germany. ITALIAN RESERVISTS. CALLED FOR 28tli SEPTEMBER. London, Last Night. The Daily Telegraph’s Pars correspondent says the Italian reservists state they have been called for September 28th.