THE WAR.

Temuka Leader, Issue 7674, 22 January 1918, Page 1

THE WAR.

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LONDON, Jan. 17. The Admiralty reports that two British destroyers on. the night of January 12 wore totally wrecked on 'tin; coast of Scotland during a violent gale, and heavy snow. Both crews. wore drowned, except one man. Mr Bonar Law stated that had arranged for the Treasury to lake; over the rights of British holders of Russian Treasury Bills maturing on January 28, in exchange, for twelve-year J per cent. Exchequer bonds at par. Blizzards prevail / ovi fry where tin. Europe, breaking down telegraphs and telephones, and suspending traffic. Germany is almost isolated. A ■ld I lor gale swept over the West front for forty-eight hours, and snotw is still falling. Prisoners who have escaped from Gorman camps and have reached England miniate horrible punishments on .Englishmen: refusing to work in the mines, .An offender is striped naked, and is thrown into a cell containing heated hot air. The walls and roof are double* boarded, and the . heat is suffocating, the only ventilation being a/hole tile size of a crown piece. The man sweats and gasps for -a time. Lie is then taken, still naked, and made to stand outside in riuy weather. The extremes <J climate are a real torture. If the spirit of the man is still unbroken, he is knocked unconscious by a blqw on lps head, with the hutj end qf a V-iHf’. He is then taken to a mine. He is neft allowed to conic to (he surface until ho agrees to work. AMSTERDAM, Jan- 17. Merr Duruburg, speaking in the Prussian Upper House, said that they must abate the shoddier livings conditions in the cities, or ’ihore would be. a terrible decline in the birth rale, and the mortality among children under one year of ago would bo stifl worse.