BELGIAN REFUGEES.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 5

BELGIAN REFUGEES.

ARRIVAL* AT PARIS. ENGLISH TOURISTS TREATMENT IN GERMANY. (Received August 28, 9.10 a.m.) PARIS, August 27. Two thousand five hundred Belgian refugees, mostly women and children, have arrived. They are in a deplorable condition, and the Government is sending them to assist in the -harvesting work in the provinces. Forty-eight English tourists who were detained at Wesel, have now been sent to an inland fortress, where they are occupied in light duties. There -have been other similar cases of the treatment of tourists.

RIOTS IN BERLIN, NEWSPAPER OFFICE WRECKED. GERMAN NAVY MEN FOR CONSTANTINOPLE/ (Received August 28, 11.30 a.m.) .COPENHAGEN, August 27. Militarists have wrecked the offices of the Socialist paper, '' Vorwaerts,'' at Berlin. The journal published making the Kaiser responsible for events which resulted disastrously for the unity of Germany. LONDON, August 27. Athens reports state that one hundred and fifty German navy men have passed through Phillipopolis, en route to Constantinople. EFFORTS FOR PEACE. i. ■ REFERENCE IN THE COMMONS. KEIR lIARDIE HOWLED DOWN. Mr Keir Hardie, in the House of Commons, asked why the Government had rejected Prince Lichnowsky's suggestions for a settlement. Sir Edward Grey explained the facts as cabled, and added that Prince Lichnowsky had not made any suggestions differing from those of the German Government. Prince. Lichnowsky had worked for peace, but the real authority did n<St rest with him. That was one of the reasons wily Britain's efforts for peace failed. (Cheers.) Mr Keir Hardie made several attemps to speak, but was howled down. BRITISH ARMY COUNCIL. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. TWO NEW MEMBERS. (Received August 28, 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 27. The War Office denies that prisoners of war are being better fed than the soldiers. The personnel of the new Army Council has been gazetted, and is as follows: —

Earl Kitchener. General Sir Charles W. H. Douglas. Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Sclater. Major-General Sir J. S. Cowans. Colonel S. B. Van Donop. H. J. Tennant, Esq., M.P, H. T. Baker, Esq., M.P. [The previous Army Council contained Field-Marshal Sir J'.W. French and Lieutenant-General Sir J. S. Ewart. Earl Kitchener and Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Sclater are the new members.] DUTIES OF HOLLAND. NEUTRALITY STRICTLY KEPT. SUFFERING THROUGH THE WAR. "Times'" and "Sydney Sun" Services. (Received August 28, 8 a.m.) LONDON, August 27. "The Times," in a le%3er, says:— Holland has scrupulously performed her duties as a neutral country, and we are convinced of her honest desire and intention to perforin them to the end. Whether Germany will permit her remains to be seen. With

tlie exception of the actual bel

liferents, Holland is already suffering' ; more from the effects of war than! any other country. |