DELAYED MESSAGES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13493, 23 September 1914, Page 3

DELAYED MESSAGES.

(Independent Press Specials.) LONDON, Sept. 16. Russia is already using the heavy a i«ge guns purchased from Japan. 5 The* Kaiser has conferred the Order of Merit on the Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria. The casualty lists issued by the Belgians indicate that 28,000 of their men were killed at Liege. T Mme. Melba's decision to organise and sing at concerts m aid of patriotic funds 13 highly appreciated m England. The six hundred members -of the crew of the Oceanic were gallantly saved by the crew of tho little trawler Glenogil. Ihe captam saw tho distress signals, and three times he ventured into dangerous positions, carrying out rescue work. J^ach trip he made he returned loaded to the waterline with survivors. The Cologne Gazette, m an article, admits toat it is shocking to find how the Germans ravaged Belgium. The correspondent bf that paper, after traversing the war area, says: "In order tv obtain a picture of war, before the dreadfulness of which we shudder as before the head- of Gorgon, one must have looked upon these empty, burnt-out villages and towns, with bare black walls, which_stand roofless and disconsolate before Heaven; one must have breathed the stench of the ashes and corruption: one must above all, have experienced the churchyard silence of these waste

Reuter'a Agency denies that it has any. association with foreign offices or press bureaus. Sir -Valentine Chirol has written to the press inviting Renter's to f^^^k» #ll * t ' * r « '*» wlationt -with Woolff's Bureau, which hj Tw been known, to be under the control of teS^T, 0^- (SirValen- &,„ «•" closely acquainted with S fiP w aff^ ra '^ vu, S »n official i^fiW Office' and a great travelier. nor 13 years he controlled the foreign department of the Times.) J"? AKmaon unemployed are holdin X orderly meetings, protesting that thf Prince of Wales Fund 'provides only faj men who have gone to the war, and It ?* *™ of * h^ employed destitute. HnJf J ae^a oaed *° ask Mr McKenna, edwith the new bill In whioJi he proEStabi fn 6 * K Wl r?^ all th , 6 ch »itieftnot included m the Prince of Wales Fund, so that starvation ma y be avoided. noinLt t w e fi, E, ? bas8 y "* London anS tha 5 I the /panose, m order to prevent needless loss of life, intend to conduct the operations at Ts ng C m a £»««•* Natives of &£ have csaaed^elhng provisions to the Tsing-tao

Responding m the House of Commons to criticism .concerning tlie published P?Xfl 2° Wa S to c, th . c fate of t& cruiser Pathfinder, Air Smith, K.C., head of •P»f£ fi 5 m T Th* h Z d bel^wd . that the Pathfinder had been mined, but subse SSffJ .lS\ * . submarine - The Ad-rmiaity-had heen anxious not to publish that, because it might have interfered sSn^ine afaonS ** the *»*« <***

RiiSKia is instructing all Volunteers m the u Far Bast to assemble at Harbin. Harbin is m. Manchurian territory, and is 350 males from Vladivostok. It is one of her principal points on the TransSiberian Railway, which bifurcates there, one^ part going on to Vladivostock and the other to Port Arthur.

TORTURE BY GERMANS. Refugees from Kalisz, on the boundary of Russian Poland and Germany, state that a German patrol on the outskirts of the town fired on their own advancing woops, and afterwards pretended that the, citizens were shooting at them. Tlie German commander thereupon ordered fourteen townspeople to bo executed. Someone said that the shots had been fired from the magistrate's house. Tlie soldiers then brought 100 men before tlie building, and forced them to lie m the dust, under a broiling sun, face downwards. If any of them tried to change their position or lifted their heads they were promptly Hcked by the soldiers. This scene of expiation, as the Germans described it, lasted for. an hour and a lialf. To add to the agony of the prostrated crowd, the Germans executed three of their number. Next morning the invaders left the town, and bombarded it without any warning. They repeated the bombardment on the following day. The Germans then re-entered the town and began a regular fire with machine guns, until the houses were riddled like colanders.