GERMAN COMB-OUT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14608, 18 May 1918, Page 4

GERMAN COMB-OUT.

DRAWING ON AUSTRIA. -■:■■' LONDON, May 9; . The Rotterdam ' correspondent ' of the Daily Telegraph says the Germarr general staff is making still greater demands upon Germany's' allies. A large number of Austrian infantry have been brought to Germany for garrison and other duties, replacing Germans. A great weeding-out of the civil population is going on, and many business men have been called up. This is the result of losses from the six- weeks' .offensive. •• : ILL-TREATMENT OP PRISONERS. LONDON, May. 8/ Corporal Haythorne, an Australian war "prisoner repatriated to England, says' that he saw Australian prisoners carried m from working behind the German lines, suffering from dysentery and starvation: While he was at; Ohrdruff the^ food' was b^d.- He saw Andrew Voikan, an Australian, who was passed for 1 'exchange, sent to Aix-la-Chapelle, but returned to Langensalza, which is a working camp.- - . ■ . SWARMS OP GERMAN ?PLANES. LONDON, May 7. Mr. Phillip. Gibbs, telegraphing 'to the Daily Clu-bnicle, says ;r- - ; "The Germans m the recent battles added a terror which we taught them last year by sending swarms of. loWflying aeroplanes, from 10 to 100 yards above the ground, machine-gunning and bombing our infantry. A French officer ori one occasion counted 79 of these over a front held by two battalions."