GENERAL WAR NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 17868, 19 January 1918, Page 2

GENERAL WAR NEWS

! EARLIER CABLES I j THE CAILLAUX REVELATIONS. GENERAL SARRAIL IMPLICATED. SECRET AGREEMENT WITH GERMANY (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) | (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) j LONDON, January 17. | The Daily Chronicle’s Milan correspon- ! dent says that with, it is understood, the connivance of Germany General Sarrail and Caillaux were to organise a fictitious offenI sive, culminating in a Gentian offer of peace ■ to France and thereupon begin official pourparlers in virtue of the secret, preliminary agreement whereby Germany would cede a small portion of Lorraine in consideration of a pledge that France would immediately ! sever all connections with Britain. France ! would then constitute with Italy a Latin Blue, which would conclude a formal part with the Central Powers, with the object of forming a single federation of European States from which England and Russia '■ alone would be excluded. Franco and Italy should rather aim at an understanding i with Germany, France being content to return to the status quo anti Italy foregoing I the major pan of her pretentions against j Austria. Giolittian organs and other news- ! papers were actively advocating these i schemes. This damning Dossier has been I lying for a year in a locker at a Florentine i hank hired by Madame Caillaux. It was ; opened by the Italian authorities upon the 1 request of the French Government, and 1 the contents taken to Rome under escort of i the military police, where each document ! was copied and photographed. The copies i were forwarded to Captain Bourehardon, : who is collecting evidence in Paris against i Caillaux. It is estimated that Madame Caillaux's jewels are worth Ll’o.OOO. j 11 Secolo points out that the amazing | | revelations tally with Caillaux’s propaganda ! in 1(117 among Italian politicians, wherein ■ he urged that the war was simply a struggle for world dominion between England and Germany, and that the interests of France and Laly were diametrically opposed to Britain’s triumph. CAILLAUX REMANDED. ' BARIS, January 17.

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BRITISH PRISONERS IN GERMANY. HORRIBLE PUNISHMENTS. lON DON, .lamnry 17. j F r -;.,.i,0r.- wK<« c-caped from (li’nnan camp.- ami i-ached Kmrlund narrate hornbif* on }-]ngli!>hnien refusing t,i work in the mine-. < Mtenders were •ti ipj ed mik-d anil thrown into a cell hemal with Iml a-r, The ’.calls ami roof were 1.. • ..ani-i). anil Hi- heat was sulTo caiin-. Tie- ceil w;i< only ventilated i•>* a hole the size of a crown piece. Gasping men were then taken make.! am! made To stand outside- in any weather. The extremes of el i m ate are re til torture. If the spirit of the man was -till uritimk. n he was knocked unconscious l>y :i Mow on the head with the hull end of a ntl-, and then taken to the mine, not being allowed to come to the surface uni’l h- agreed to work. SWEDISH PARLIAMENT OPENED. KING GUSTAVS SPEECH. STOCKHOLM, January 17. King Gustav, in his sp-rch from the throne, said he sincerely hoped free Finland would co operate with other Scandinavian countries in the common effort towards peace and progress. He announced the initiation of negotiations with Finland to .- t tie the A aland islands nuestion. King Gustav added, referring to the difficulties of overseas trade, that negotiations were progressing for its resumption under conditions harmonising with Swed'di independence and neutrality. FIGHTING IN ODESSA. BOLSHEVIKS AND UKRAINIANS. I.ON PON. January 17. I’etrograd telegrams report that the newspapers publish accounts of a pitched battle fought in the streets of Odessa between the Ukrainian troops and Maximalist soldiers and sailor,-. The Ukrainians held the Theatre Kocia building and posted ma chine guns in the si-rei-s. The chief of the Heil Guards was mortally wounded. The ships in the roadstead opened lire on the town. Account- differ and it is uncertain whether the Maximalists have taken the arsenal. COMBING-OUT SCHEME. ENGINEERS’ MEETING BROKEN UP. LON"DON. January 17. Members of the Amalgamated Flngineers at Woolwich Arsenal attempted to hold a meeting to protest against Sir Auckland Geddes’s e.omhtng-our scheme. Other workers attended and pelted the engineers with dirtv cotton waste, end broke up the meeting. RUMOURED ESCAPE OF THE CZAR. PKTUOGRAD. January 17. There is no confirmation of the frequentIv repeated rumour that the O.ar and his familv have e-raped from Tobolsk, but the at! I m past, rat ion is making ;nr|uiry. FRENCH SHIPPING LOSSES. UONIXIN, January 17. French shipping returns: Arrivals, 793; departures, 7-il ; sinkings, five above and one below 1900 tons ; unsuccessfully attacked, two. RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WANT CARDS. BURN"It. January 17. The Germans have erected four hundred trading booths on the Russian front. Russian soldiers are anxious to obtain playing cards anti are readily bartering machine guns for a park. NAVAL MUTINY AT KIEL. LONDON, January 17. The Daily Express states that in the naval mutiny at Kiel on the 7th inst. if. is reported that thirty-eight officers were killed. ROUMANIANS KING. THREATENED ARREST. WASHINGTON. January 17, The Bolsheviks are threatening to arrest the Roumanian king. An order for this pur;M>se has been signed. U.S.A. COAL SHORTAGE. WASHINGTON, January 17. The Senate adopted a resolution postponing the operation of the coal order for five days.