OUTRAGE IN CANADA.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5350, 5 February 1916, Page 5

OUTRAGE IN CANADA.

ACTIVITY IN THE WEST. t

parliament buildings burnt by incendiarists. DELIBERATELY PLANNED, UNPARDONABLE GRIME. APPAM DECISION AGAINST THE BRITISH VIEW. FORMER GERMAN SHIP SUNK BY A ZEPPELIN’S BOMB.

Preea Association.—Elec trio Telegraph.— Copyrmb*.

ENEMY REPLIED TO.

London, Last Night. Troops marching on Bery-au-Bac were caught in our fire In the Argonne there has been mining activity, we destroying the enemy’s subterranean works. Several infantry attacks were stopped by our fire. Oui/ effective fire in Alsace provoked a lire in the enemy’s cantonments. General Sir Douglas Haig reports that heavy enemy shelling at Loos and district was effectivly replied to. Paris, Last Night. There are indications af German activity in Belgium. Many reinforcements are arriving, and it is believed that between three and six thousand guns have been brought up.

ASSAULTS ON ERZERUM

TURKS STRENGTHENED

Petrograd, Last Night. The Russians have commenced assaults on Erzerum. The troops are compelled to drag the guns through passes 9000 feet high. The Turks have fourteen divisions on the Persian front, also irregular's and Kurds. The Russians assert that several regiments have been annihilated. Though it is a long way from Erzerum to Constantinople, the Turks are rushing reinforcements to Armenia.

THE RAID ON SALONIKA

PROTEST FROM GREECE

London. Last Night. The "Evening News” comments on the Salonika raid as being fresh proof of the extraordinary Zeppelin activity. It is computed that of ten Zeppelins capable of long-distance raids, six or seven were concerned in the raid on England .and one was reported as living over Paris. Now we hear of an eighth or ninth at Salonika. This may be the Zeppelin which made a dramatic journey to Sofia. The commander. fearing air raids on the palace, asked King Ferdinand when he should set out for the front. The King replied: “You had better pass the winter here."’ Sofia is 150 miles almost- due north of Salonika. Paris. Last Nght.

The Greek Government has prore ted against the bombardment of Salo. nika on the Ist inst., when eighteen Greeks were killed and fifty-five wounded.

DAMAGE IN INLAND TOWNS

THE KAISER INDICTED

T.ondon. I.ast

Further details of the Zeppelin 'aid were given at the inquests • n the dead, who included the family o$ a soldier, who returned on furlough, to find his home wrecked, and his wife, boy, and girl dead. A verdict was returned of wilful murder against the Kaiser, and the Crown Prince of Germanv.

The first intimation of the raid in one town was a succession of Horn Its dropping on the poorest ( quarters. Thirteen were killed, the majority being crushed by falling houses. The Zeppc-hn returned four hours Tater, ar.d ki‘led ten. mostly women. The explosions caused slight eaith tremors for mile'. A bomb fell on the roof of a theatre and rebounded into the street. The manager reassured the audience, who remained in their seats. A light shining through the glass roof of a factory attracted an airship, and was extinguished. A bomb fell in the street no«r-by, blowing two men. two women, and a ehilel to pieces.

A SINKING ZEPPI|LIN. FOUND BY A TRAWLER, t

London, Last Night. Official: Fishing trawlers report that they saw a Zeppelin in the North Sea in a sinking condition. A trawler ha*,, arrived at Grimsby reports that it discovered Zeppelin "L 19,” with a damaged cage, entirely submerged. Half the envelope, which was floating, was Itied with ropes to prevent a further A-scape of gas. Light men were on top. The others appeared to be in a hatchway lading through. There were about twenty altogether. Tapping was heard, indicating appeals. The captain asked to taken off, and several shouted "Save us!" The trawler was small and the brew only a few. There was no immediate danger of the Zeppelin sinking* and as there was considerable risk iii taking off such n large number, the trawler steamed off and reported to a warship. The same Zeppelin was report**! yesterday from Arneland to be returning from a raid on Lngland. when she was hit. lis Dutch batteries.

THE APPAM CAPTURE.

DECLARED A PRIZE

Washington, Lest Night. The State Department has ordered the rcle.ise of everybody aboard the Appam, excepting the prize crew.

ft is officially announced that America regards the Appam as a prize. New York, Last Night. The \jxpam, after landing her pass< ngers voyaged to Newport. "Hie Germans detained Captain Harrison and hi- original crew, also the gunlayers, declaring that by their resistance they had forfeited their right to liberty.

The Germans boast that if the Ap|iern is ordered tc> depart, she will be taken outside the three-mile limit and sunk.

Lieut. Berg is a short, stocky little bdlow with a pleasant smile; He said he would have stayed afloat, much

longer only he ran short of supplies. Berg came from Norfolk (Virginia), believing that British warships were concentrated off New York. He also knew that- the Germans interned ■at Norfolk were having a. good time.

MORE ABOUT THE RAIDER

FORMERLY NAMED “PONGA.”

New York, Last Night. . Cheers greeted the British officials m the launch approaching the Appam to inform the captives that permission to land had been, granted. The German guard vainly tried to quell the outburst of joy. The captives demanded tobacco and war news. Nine of them boarded the launch, including Sir Edward Merewether (Governor #f Sierra Leone) and the six captains or the sunken vessels. Sir Edward Merewether states that the raider was a steamer of about 4uJO tons . The captams declare that she was formerly called Ponga They saw the name on a plate, and also on papers in tie commander’s cabin. 1 hey also observed that the hold was fatted out for carrying fruit. She had a crew of several hundred, and the decks were strengthened to carry a heavy battery. She had four <nuix forward and two aft. Sir Edward says that the raider approached the Appam .and when she was within 200 yards the forward aft railings disiopeared magically in sections 1 bev were composed of accordeon-like s t-ips of steel, wluclv dropped into slots upon the pressure of a button on the bridge. Square structures, which had been mistaken tor deck-houses, collapsed, ami exposed 4-inch or 6-inch guns, with the crews ready at stations. It was useless to resist, especially when the German prisoners were released and * armed to act as guards, and armed Germans came a naa rd tlie Appa m. tin tiler states: 4 *Flie* way in Web the rauler caught us was artful in the extreme. When she was sighted on the horizon she was flying a red ensign. Captain Harrison bore down, and we saw a flag on the stern dropping. A 1 took it for granted that it was the I mon Jack, but it was really the German naval ensign. We lound later that it had beten weighted tc make it droop and deceive usT Wo h«d a riiree-ineher astern, but were so surprised when the raider unmaskf! 1 . t,iat d was impossible to do anything Our captors were courteous throughout which was perhaps due *o Lieut Berg's example. The raider stood by tor two days, when the Clan -Melavish was sighted with her hull down. We kept our course, the raider looking like an inoffensive lumbering freighter. Some sharp wiilonnan must have detected its identity for a .-.hell screamed across the waiter and struck oil feet astern. The raider’s deceptive, rails fell, and the fight opened. When the Clan M’Tavish disappeared, the Germans rowed to the scene with the utmost speed and picked up the badly injured. We cculd not resist the impulse to give a rousing cheer. The survivors and even the captors smiled their ungrudging approval.” One of the skipper* savs that he is sure the raider is not the old naval Moewe.

CLAN McTAVISH FIGHT.

m c«t York ■ Tjast Night. 1 h 1 v lan Molavish iwid an uns6Q<t. oned crew, but they resisted desperatejy. Ihe raider’s heavier guns made short work of the cargo vessel, which sink with , her flag flying. The Appain s passengers watched the fight from two miles off. The Appam’s steward states that six of the crew <>t the Moewe were killed. • • c tklwjitd Merewether saws the fight with the Clan McTavish was fine, though one. sided. I fas tod lully halt an lionr. The tinv 6-pouud-er on the Clan McTavish continued to berk long after the German shells had set, the vessel on fire in halt a doven places. - Einallv the Germans diseba’-g cd two torpedoes, which both • strucK tlie Clan .McTavish. She heeled over in a. snort time and disappeared. London, Last Night I he owners of the Clan McTavish learn officially that all the European crew- are safe, but prisoners. Several Lascars were killed anti four woundedf i - IN GERMAN WEST AFRICA. BRITISH SUCCESSES,

. London, Last Night. I he War Office reports that Colonel )obel| ,telegraphing from West Africa en February Ist, stated that Colonel Haywood s cohm.n occupied Daily on iho twenty fifth, with .-light less, aft* r defeating the cne'inv in another engagement Two days 'infer it. ooou. [ee<i Nya The column is in touch with the French troops at Ambam. Another British, column, under,!Colonel Coles, occupied Lolodorf on the _'H•'h. Large enemy convoys continue to pass into Muni, Spanish Guinea. General Smith-Dorrien reports that, the enemy abandoned a. small post at Kaisgar, which was occupied on Dqwmber 6th. PREFERRED TO DROWNING. Athens. Last. Night, Mr Martin Donohue has obtained a sensational story from Miss La mhos, an American, who was a survivor of the steamer Brindisi. Miss Lnmbos states that nmny Montenefcmis vowed that it torpedoed they preferred to commit suicide to the ignominious death of drowning. They kept their vow. While the Brindisi was settling down, scores of Montenegrins gathered eft, sang their National Anthem, and shot themselves. M iss Lain Isis jumped overboard, and after sivim-

ming in ice-cold water she reached a ; plank. Others did likewise, until the plank became overloaded and was sub- j merged. Then there was a terrible 1 fight to retain the coveted plank. The others succumbed to the cold. Miss Lambos, who was wearing a heavy | overcoat, was alone when rescued. j

PRINCE YUSSUF’S DEATH.

Paris, Last Night. The “Review” points out that Prince Yussuf opposed the arrest otf the Deputies hostile to Enver Pasha. He was an obstacle in the way of the realisation of the ambitions o+ Enver Pasha, Talaat Bey, and Djamel Bey. “If it was,a case of suicide,” says the paper, “it was opportune. ’ ’

ENFORCING COMPULSION ACT.

London, Last Night. A proclamation fixes February 10th as the date for the operation of the Compulsion Act. This means that i attested unmarried men will be enlisted on March 2nd, and will consequently take their places with Lord Derby’s recruit®, who are already called up. GERMAN BOURSES RALLY. Paris. Last N'iglP In Berlin the German Bourses rallied sharply when they received assurances that Germany was settling the Lusitania question.