LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 5855, 1 October 1917, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

INHUMAN ATROCITIES. MURDER ROBBERY AND RAPE. WIPING OUT THE SERBS. (Received this 'day at 8.35 a.m.) London, This; Day. The correspondent at the Servian Headquarters says the Bulgar® aae methodically destroying the population of Servia. Insurgent Serbs whlen prisonered are invariably hanged unless their comrades rescue them by storming the gaols, which often occurred. Gibbets are at every street cornel-, and women as well as. 'the men. Children aged 12 to 14 air©, sent, to Constantinople,. Many have committed suicide en route by jumping from the train.

Tn several towns the Serb® revolted. looting the shops and securing weapons- They were victorious till the Bidgars fought the insurgents behind a rampart of the latter’s worn." and cr.ilh en The Bulgars ordered the S«*h® to be vaccinated inoculating them with vai .ous maladies. \ to* n <;erk was hung by his tongue on Faster Sunday and tortured horribly before, he expired. The camp is in the mountain® and the revolt is spreading from Servin to Macedonia. Even Bulgarian insurgents, who defended; German battalions, fought their way out from the Regular's when surrounded preferring death to capture, which ends in a more cruel death. They make constant raids and ambush and score off the troops. Germans are robbing wholesale and giving written promises of payment when King P©ter returns. They are turning severely wounded from the hospitals and sending their beds to Austria.

The Bulgars have enrolled Serbian males of 17 t<> 65 years- in the Bulgarian army. The Serbian mothers, moved by the lamentable cries of their children, in some towns, attacked the soldiery with stone® until the gibbets were erected to bang the mothers. The Germans ravished even the Turkish women within narshot of their lmslond- and father® till the Turks murflered several German officers.

A Bulgarian doctor brained twenty, four Serbs with his own hand.. Serbian books have been destroyed and priest® ami schoolmasters killed or deported. The Serli® forcibly instructed in the Bulgarian tongue a Serbian officer-prisoner. and ordered him to take the Serbian badge from his ke.pi. IV hen he refused a Bulgarian dentist •stnblied the prisoner through the lungs in tile presence pf an escort yet. lie went unpunished. The Bulgars are everywhere extorting money from the Serbs by threats of internment and 'deportation. They obtained sixty thousand franc® from a single village near Nish.

MASSACRE OF THE ARABS. ALL LEADERS TO BE HANGED. (Received this Vlay at 8.35 a.m ) Petrograd. This Day. It is rejxxrted from Turkey that Djemal Pasha ha® organised massacres of the Arab® in Syria, re-calling the Armenian atrocities. AH the leaders of the Arab National movement have been ordered to be hang«fci. QUIETER ON FRENCH FRONT. NO INFANTRY ACTIONS. (Received this vlay at 8.35 a.m.) London This Day. A French communique state®: 'The day lias been quiet except for heavy cannonading in the Aisne, on the right ot the Meitse. There has been no infantry action. BRITISH PAY INCREASED. TO BOTH ARMY AND NAVY. IMPORTA NT CONCESSIONS. (Received this day at 8.35 a.m.) London, This Day. Increase® in the army and navy pay air© auimnunqed. A proficiency pay at the rate u; threepence or sixpence daily will lie payable after lualf a year’s sorv’ice instead of two years. There will be an increase of one penny daily in the soldionf pay for each year of service since the outbreak of war. Men with dependents will lie relieved the present compulsory al lotniont sixpence daily for private® and tenpenoe for sergeants. Hospital stoppages have been altolisjued. Able seamen will receive three pence daily ext ra after -three yi .ai’s, with a oorresjHtnding increase in the afloat allowance to mariners and con <’cssi<ms t*» the navy as regards allotment. and hospital stoppages similar t<f thei army.

AMERICA WARNS RUSSIA. MUST KEEP UP THE EFFORT. CHINESE TO PARTICIPATE. (Received, this day at 9.25 a.m.) Washington This Day. It. is reported that ithe United States informed Russia that slm must! continue the, war effort, if she expects a eontimuuice of assistaius’. Further reports indicate that the Radicals will lie overwhelmed. It, is also leiarned that China, is anxious to actively participate in the war and Vk'siroH trailspoirtatio-n facilities for 200,000 trained soldiers. COALITION FA VOUR ED. INCLUSION OF BOURGEOISIE. (Received this day at. 8.35 a.m.) Petrograd, This Day. The Maximalist, ami Revolutionary

, Socialists’ Democratic Conference votj ed in favour oif a Coalition Cabinet, i including representatives of the Hour, geoisie and excluding the Constitutional Democrats. | LONDON DEFENCES PROVED. | GREAT CURTAIN OF FIRE. ! RAIDERS ENVELOPED. | (Received this day at 8.35 a.m.) London, This Day. Every successive air raid shows the growing efficiency of London’s defences. Saturday night’s raid confirmed this by the extraordinary violence of the curtain of fire, showing a great extension of one of the leading feature® of our defensive measures. Wherever the ra'ders attempted to run the gaiunt|Let of shells, wniioh appeared to come from all quarters, a complete curt a, n of fire seemingly enveloped the 'intruders. MORE RIGOROUS BLOCKADE. EXPORTS TO NEUTRALS. (Received this day at 8.35 a.m.) London This Day. With tho object of making the blockade more rigorous, another proclamation has been issued providing for specified exports to Sweden and Holland.