General War News

Southland Times, Issue 17482, 24 July 1915, Page 3

General War News

European Theatre riGETINCr IN THE WEST (By Telegraph.- I’ivss Assn. —Copyright) [•AIMS. July 22. The communique stales : There was violent fighting on Tuesday night and Wednesday on tin- heights of 1-itUe Beichsaciii-r Kopf. Following our attack the Germans eon n 1 er-a I lacked nine limes, but two i.’hasseur battalions field the enemy, inflicting heavy losses on the Germans. Our aviators dropped twelve shells upon Aulry station, north of Dinewville. There has been a calm on our 'front' at the Dardanelles since July 1 :t. THE WASTAGE OF WAS PA [MS. July 22. The Matin makes the striking statement that a.000,000 have been killed in Gurope during the war. and that 7,000,000 have been wounded. GERMAN ATROCITIES TERRIBLE CASES IN POLAND PARIS. July 22. A correspondent of tlie Paris Jourslates that in numerous Polish villages the Germans compelled farmers to wateh their little daughters being outraged by bands of thirty to forty soldiers, who were led hy o Cheers. Several young girls escaped ttnd drowned themselves, whereupon the Germans burned many bouses and thraslied and burned alive a priest who interfered wit it them. In seve,i"ai plaees wounded Hussians wore tortured. drenclied wit It petrol and Mien shut in barns and burned alive. BKTROGRAH. July 22. Prisoners of (he Sixtli Austrian Army Corps captured on the Rnblm-ivholm line stale that they saw a huge, common grave at P.awa Ituska, where r>0()0 prisoners were buried sifter being shot in cold blood. The crime indicates that Ci-rmany is feeling the pinch of the strained means of communication. REGIMENT IN DISGRACE BARMS, July 22. T.e Matin stales (hat an army order found on n German lieutenant read : The Kmporor Friinz Josef, overwhelmed wit it grief, has ordered the Twentyeighth .Regiment of (he Royal Infantry to be enisl'd from the tinny list for elernit\'. for cowardice and liigti treason in face of the enemy. Those oflicers sind men who remain will have to expiate this grievous fault with their blood. Two battalions of this Bohemian regiment surrendered to a ftussian battalion tit LJttkhi Pass in April without using their arms, POLISH WOMEN HANGED PARIS. July 22. Enrich reports that live noble Polish ladies in Vienna were convicted of espionage, ttnd were banged the riext day. The .judge who presided at the trial was obliged to see the sentence carried out. The spectacle was so harrowing that lie collapsed. NEED POR ECONOMY BOX BOX. July 22. A deputation of bankers and merchants waited on Messrs Asquith and McKenna on the subject of public economy. Lord St. Aldwyn said that the Government had not, since the commencement of the war, enforced economy in matters under their own control. He urged that private economy would be effected by an immediate increase in taxation. Mr Asquith, in reply, said that they had endeavoured to bring home to their fellow countrymen the importance and urgency of economy. They were faced with a large and growing increase in public and private expenditure. There was also the fact that the war could not lie prosecuted successfully Without large economies. Ho agreed that they had not gone nearly far enough in providing for the war out of taxation. He had been for a long time convinced (hat the income tax ought to begin at a lower scale, and that its basis ought to be broadened. They must diminish the consumption of imports and maintain exports on an increased scale. The more they bid for this the more would they contribute indirectly to the country's resources, from which the nation would defray its gigantic expenditure. He could not assent to the suggestion that they should proceed by way of a piecemeal Budget, which was dangerous. He thought it more desirable that the question should lie dealt with as a whole. There would he no delay in submitting concrete proposals to Parliament to complete, for the present year, our duty in obtaining from tbe taxpayer adequate and equitable contribution to tlie abnormal expenses. Hg, was not pessimistic as to tlie conduct of tlie war', or as to the resources of the country.