BOMBARDING OPEN TOWNS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11502, 17 February 1916, Page 5

BOMBARDING OPEN TOWNS

THE POPE SPEAKS OUT. PROTEST TO THE KAISER. DISHONOURABLE AND INHUMAN. ; —f" Rome, Feb. 15. The Pope telegraphed to the Viennese Papal Nuncio protesting against the bombardment of churches and the Basilica at Ravenna, and urging the Kaiser to abandon aerial bombardment of open towns and unarmed populations as dishonourable to humanity. BULGARIAN DISCONTENT. FOOD BECOMING DEAR. GERMAN DOMINEERING RESENTED. Bucharest, Feb. 16. There is a growing discontent in Bulgaria, owing to the dearness of food and distrust of tbe Germans, who are domineering. Several Gernian submarines and two seaplanes are at Varna, where the defences hare neen considerably strengthened. Altogether there are two German divisions in Bulgaria. The Germans supervised the fortifications on the Roumanian frontier.