MORE MONSTROUS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 5851, 26 September 1917, Page 5

MORE MONSTROUS.

HUNS STARTLED BY PROPORTIONS AND INTENSITY.

HAIG REPORTS CRUSHING SEVERAL ATTACKS

MISTRUST AND INSECURITY PREVAILS IT RUSSIA.

Press Association. —Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.

ENEMY ACTIVE IN WESf.

ATTACKS HEAVILY REPULSED. FIERCE ON FRENCH FRONT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Ass n.) London, Last Night. Sir Douglas Haig reports that, under cover of a. bombardment- there were two attempted raids in the neighbourhood sit Alonchy le- Prieux and southward of the Arras-D-ouai railway. They were repulsed arid the enemy left a number of dead. Another party raided to the westward of La Bassee without result. Our patrols are active and a number of prisoners have been brought in. . _ Our -aeroplanes yesterday su-cresss-fully dropped, bombs on billets, hutments ai*d aerodrpmes. Fifteen German machines were brought down. Three of ours are missing. A French communique says ; There lias been the liveliest artillery activity on t-lie -Visnc. We repulsed, a raid on outposts north ok' Braye Laonnois. The Germans on the right of the Aleuse, after a bombardment, attacked the trenches njor.th of Boi® Le C'haume on a front- of two kilometres. Fbur battalions were in the lead, supported by Stasstrup/pen. The- attack was broken by our fire and did notreach our lines, eoacopt a few elements in the centre where- fierce lianH-U>-ha-iid fighting resulted in the- ejection -of flic Germans. Simultaneously two secondaiy attacks north of Bezon and Vaux and south of Beaumont rosi>ectively, werei sanguinarily defeated, our troops leaving the trenciiles and mslring out to meet their assailant. Two fresh- attacks in the afternoon at Bois Le C'haume only increased the enemy losses. GERMAN TACTICS CHANGED. OLD AI FT HODS A FAILURE.

London, Last N;ght. R« liter's French lreadquarters corlespoir.lent reports: Tliie terrific bonil>a,rdmeut is forcing the German Higli Command to revise their tactics. A i recently-captured army order admits that the German front- lines are regularly battered to jiieces before the actual battle begins. It urges the necessity of hiding trenches, batteries i and other means o. defence from lx’ing photiograplied arid adds: “Tbei-e----tore an <Tltirely n«“w .system of defence i.s needed, namely a zone organised with a depth that is extended towards tlie tear. With such a f.ys. tern, with its defences lnHden. much i.s possible and with troops e-x-heloned ir. depths (so that tlve lines in their front became pTy>gr«ssively denser rearwards) otiglit to enable us to pass front the defensive to the offensive with- the troops occupying the more thickly held positions in the rear, rhat means we must alximlion our trenches on<l retire to shell crater rekJaubts held by machine guns.” Tlie order indicates how the craters must be organised ami connected up as ifar as possible, stressing that the essential point is that the crater so organised. 'from alxive must lie indistinguishable fnom thousands of surrounding era iters. DAAfAGE AT OSTEND. London, Last Night. Tlie Admiralty Ylenios the German allegation that ‘Ostetid Cathedral was struck in the recent bomlvirdment-. Photographs indicate that a floating dock was sunk and a workshop an<] (lockyard completely demolished. Seven others were damaged. RAIDERS AGAIN OVER lAINDON. EFFICIENT DEFENCE. London Lust Night. A emplanes raided Londpn this morning. Tlie raid lasted from 820 a.m. to 9.20 a.m. Several aeroplanes of tlio Gotha type/ were engaged in tlie raid, which was generally expected owing to the fine wlenithor conditions. Bombs cpnrmenofxl to fall on London about eight, o’clock. The GotlCas were seldom visible and were apparently divided into three ixutie-. 1 liA first moved c-astwatfl, the second and third nearer tb thle centrei of I sin don. Tin- anti-aircraft guns cxcetxlingly efficient an-d i'x t-s'iisii ve. the-ir Iwi rrages driving the raiders off from tlie eentro o> : the city. The Press Bureau reports that airships appeared in Lincolnshire and .on -lie Yorkshire coast early this mprning. 'Hie- raid is still progressing. Details have mot. vet hern received Tlie Press Bureau reports that aeroplanes attarked the son (h-ea-st constyesterday evening and different places m Kent and Essex. A flew then followed the Tlia-mcs and attacked London. Bombs were dropped at several point*). Tine caeuu ftic, nlreadv neported are six kilhxl and about twenty injured. NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED. London, Last Night. While- a, train containing New ZrlnI hinders was standing oil tile up line ait- Beerl'erroi's (?) some left the <-nr-riagi-is and crosswll the line. A (Miming express train caught and killed nine. KH (X K IN (i It RIIT A T.ITI ES. ON BRITISH AND NATIVES. London. Last Night. A White Ps(xir jut- iswikkl gives slvjeking details/ of the trientmein/t- of Britisih primiM’-tx and nntivew in Ger-nia-n, East .Alrioa. Sworn depoHitio/nx provlei th-a-t- civilians, inehiding’ missionarie/s nn<l bidies, were <-*)im>elietil to -any out disgusting luisks in o-rder to hum ilia to thnn in tli'e eyes of the

REVELATIONS ON TEUTONIC WORLD CONQUEST PLOT.

natives and undermine British prestige. Several missionaries were confinedin vermin-infested cells fior the most trivial offences, and women were treated with scandalous/ indecency in the presence of native guards. Natives were -continually beaten with hippopotamus hide whips. Thievictim w.ould be laid in the centre cf the prison camp, five natives/ holding his limb® and heal, while a sergeant applied twenty-five- lashes. After a parade at Bonia sometimes as many as a quarter jof the native soldiers, many o-t whom had been pressed into service, were flogged for mistakes at drill. GERMANS PRESSED BACK. London, Last N ight. A wireless Russian official report •says : Wie pressed l>aek the enemy’s advanced guards in the region ot Rudma, in tlie direction of Riga. The Roumanians repelled' attacks in the region k»F Mu riche] i. THE TURKS ROUTED. ACTION IN TRIPOLI. Rome, Last- Night. After six hours? hard fighting an Italian column on the 20th. routed 7000 enemy riflemen and 800 cavalry, with artillery and machine guns, commanded by Hurt Pasha and other Turkish officers in tire Zanzur region of southern Tripoli. The enemy's losses are estimated at 1600. A quantity of material, all of German make, was captured. MEASURES IN ARGENTINE. MILITARY ACTIVITY. Buenos Ayres Last Night. The Government has -equestrated all telegrams sent an.l received by the Swedish and German legation- since May anil is decoding them fo-r publication. Tlie mobilisation of the Navv lias been ordered for a rendezvous thirtyx'ven kilomctreis from the city. There is unusual military activity. REVELATIONS CONTI N L E. MORE SHAMEFUL ABI*SES. Washington. Last Night. Mr 1 rinsing. Sec tot ary of State, has revealed another -hameful abuse by the German diplomats. When the l nitod State® Minister at' Bucharest px>k charge of German interests, after the Roumanian declaration of war, a imniher of cases were -ealedl aifl placed in his care. When the Unified States entered the war the cases were examined and ‘found to contain high explosives and cultures of anthrax and glanders, with instruc for the use of the latter on cattle. New Y'ork Last Nighit. Aeqoivlmg V> pajjers seized in the raid on \ on TgeJ’s office, the German plans, when operating in the United States involved a propaganda for t/lie secession of Canada from the Empire.

Tlie “Tribune’s” London correspondent reports the latest revelation of German perfidy. Romanones. the former Spanish Premier, in an inter, view, declares that tine offered Morocco and .Gibraltar to Spain in vain 'for a- war alliance. CENTRAL POWERS' REPLIES. SIGNS OF MUTILATION. Rome Lost Night. Turkey’s and Bulgaria's replies to thle Pojx> are in similar farm and substance to the Austrian and German replies. Vatican advices state tluiti the Ceiltra! Powers’ replies only partially oorreejxmd with the summaries rent to the Pope beforehand, notably the sections dealing with territorial problems which werei apparmiitly »lch'tixl be'iore publication under" military pressure. A Milan jiajx'r says that the Po|x> will shortly make inquiries verlxillv a t Berlin for n plies to his ]>rojx>saJs to Alsace and Lorraine. NO PAPER IN GERMANY. Anisterdnm. Last Night. The “Tageblat/t” says that flic collapse of tile IXI (x-r sujiplv has pixxhirod an ill tio-'e ruble situation. The great panels are unable to obtain even the modest quantities assigned to them, and are completely hampered in giving information to the- people. BULGARIAN HARVESTS FAIL. London, Last- Night. It- is reported trom Sofia that, to-r----ribloi .heart and dry weather threaten fir destroy thi> harvests of tobacco, potatoes and other aiiturnii produce FAMOUS ARTIST ARRESTED INDISCREET. NOT DISLOYAL London, Last Night. I hi' “Daily Express" state/ M. La-szlo de Loml/os. the Hungarian nr. t-ist-, is accusixl of using tli t > official hag of a neutral Emlxissy for the convoyaneo -oil lt'/itcrs containing a. Nt-ntemcnt which the authorities consider will linvc umk'sirable results if six-n in (li'Tmany. His action luis been I’atlier inllisi reet- llvan disloyal. Lo-m----lx/s bus appealed -against bis internment.-'