FIGHTING THE DEVIL WITH FIRE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXX, Issue 11189, 3 March 1915, Page 5

FIGHTING THE DEVIL WITH FIRE.

RETALIATING ON GERMANY.

AMERICAN OPINION.

New York, March 3

The Herald states that the Allied retaliatory measures are the logical and inevitable result of Germany’s previous action. The Allies will fight the devil with fire while conforming to the dictates of humanity. A MIXED LOT. Petrograd, March 3. The prisoners’captured at Przarmsyz belong to fifteen different German regiments. \ THE GERMANS RESTING. The Germans are inactive along their whole front except at Ossowiecz, where they continue the bombardment, using forty-two centimetre guns. The enemy has assumed the oflen■sive in Galicia. AID FROM ABOVE. AEROPLANES AS SAVIOURS. Petrograd, * March 2. Aeroplanes saved two Russian regiment? during the reverse in East Prussia. Besides guiding them through the encircling enemy, they supplied them with cartridges, MEAT FOR THE ARMIES. ‘ Wellington, March 3. The Prime Minitser has received a cable Irom the Imperial Government asking the New Zealand Government to commence forthwith the shipment of meat required by the War Office for the use of the Allied armies. “Operations will be commenced. tomorrow,” added Mr Massey.

RELIEF FOR THE BELGIANS.

REPLY TO MR MASSEY’S ENQUIRY.

Wellington, March 2. The following telegram has been received by His Excellency the Governor from the Secretary of State for the Colonies in response to the enquiry by the Prune Minister: ‘j’With reference to your telegram of Feb. 24th, the chairman of the Belgian Relief Commission has been informed by the Secretary of # State for Foreign Affairs (hat the idea of direct subsidising "from the funds of His Majesty’s Government mast remain 7 in abeyance owing to the refusal of the German Government to consider the cessation of pecuniary exactions, especially the monthly levy of £1,600,000. His Majesty’s Government are, however, assured that the German authorities have stopped all requisitions of foodstuffs and fodder as distinct from peouniary levies in the zone of occupation in Belgium, and therefore there is every reason to believe that the Commission’s imports into Belgium have been and are reaching the civil population. His Majesty’s Government are therefore maintaining a generally favourable attitude to the 1 Commission’s work, and are continuing to facilitate the passage of ships to Rotterdam. The appeal issued by the Commission, in Australasia is not an -appeal tor a Government ■ subsidy but for private subscriptions similar to tbe appeal issued throughout the world. The Commission, must maintain its character as a neutral enterprise, and could not ask for recognition by belligerent Bowers*. (Signed) Haroonrt.”