BOMB-DROPPING.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11112, 30 November 1914, Page 5

BOMB-DROPPING.

AN AMERICAN PROTEST. VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. Washington, Nov. 27. President Wilson has communicated unofficially with United States diplomatic officials abroad his disapproval of bomb attacks from aircraft on unfortified cities. President Wilson suggested that officials should suggest to belligerents how America viewed such warfare, pointing out how that 24 hours’ notice is necessary before bombardment according to The Hague Convention, to which the principal belligerents were signatories The President has acted unofficially so as not to involve the Government. THE SPY PERIL, London, Nov. 27. In the House of Commons, Lord Beresford urged greater vigilance in order to cope with spies. Mr McKenna stated that since August iu the metropolitan area 120,000 suspicions cases had been investigated, 6000 houses ransacked and 342 persons interned.

BRITISH OFFICERS PAY. Mr Tennant stated that the War Office, having learned that British officers in Germany were not receiving pay, to which they were entitled under The Hague Convention, had decided to give German officers iu Britain only half ay. KING OF THE BELGIANS. ALWAYS AT THE FRONT. London, Nov. 28, Lord Kitchener, in the conrse of a statement in the House of Lords, stated that throughout the whole of the war, while the Beligans led the field, their King, who though hard pressed, never left and never intended to leave tne Belgian territory. He added that the British troopr at the front hart been refitted and were in the .best of spirits, and were confident of success under their leader. SURRENDER OP CRACOW DEMANDED. IN ORDER TO SPARE THE CITY. The Polish party demanded thesurrender of Cracow before bombardment, in order to spare the city. THE CALCUTTA OUTRAGES. It is stated that the outrage in Calcutta was the work of revengeful anarchists not connected with the war or political situation. It is reported that fifteen Russian regiments and seventy barges with ammunition and stores have arrived at Kartuyevitz Danube, Servia. THE GERMAN OAYALRY. CEASES TO EXIST.

The Echo De Paris declares that owing to the inability to secure horses, German cavalry has ceased to exist.