WAR NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 29 January 1918, Page 6

WAR NEWS.

HOSTILE ARTILLERYING. | (Australian—N.Z. Cable 4sanation; LONDON, Sunday. . _ liritinh official: There has boon hos- ' tile artillerying in the neighbourhood ! of Ribeeourt, south-westward of Cam- i brai. j i GRAVE REVOLTS. i COPENHAGEN. Sunday. |« Semi-official: The Finnish Agency i ' states that there have been grave 1 revolts during the pas"t lew days, chiefly at Vibo«g, where tlie Russian soldiers participated. A general strike has been proclaimed. Th e authorities are stopping the railways in order to prevent the movement of Russian troops. ■ 1, A GENERAL STRIKE. I (Australian-.V.Z. Cable Association.) j AMSTERDAM, Sunday. ; The Berlin newspaper "TagebhiU" states that a general strike ai. Mucin- t pest, commenced on th e morning 0 f January JStli; Bosnian soldiers, nnned with ma-V chino guns, surrounded the inner city * and. strongly occupied all the bridges. The strikers massed in the outer portions of the capital, and were m,t allowed to Pnt?r the inner city, j Strwt traffic wa s entirely Mispoujed and tlie shops closed. ' J Thirty members of the Labourers'. ] Soldiers' and Students' Union were arretted before the strike. A STEP TOWARDS, PEACE. NEW YORK, .Sunday. > A United Press telegram from Rome reports that the Vatican regards Count Czernin's speech as a positive step towards peace. GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS. I PETBOGBAD, Sunday. I>he_ Bolshevik newspapers stat-' that great demonstrations are :t :_ held over the whole of Austria and Hungary. Soviet organisations have hec u j formed in Vienna and Budapest. A big strike has begun at Warsaw. ACUTE MEAT SHORTAGE. \ustralian and N.Z CaMo AMp^intion LONDON, Sunday. : The meat shortage is the most | acute yet recorded. - ■; Queues assembled at the Smithji" 1 I market; at five o'clock, and "the stalls were cleared before noon. Latecomers secured only liyer, sheeps' kidneys and tinned meats. Many queues were formed in tlie suburbs and provinces. Six thousand workers at Peterborough downed tools as a protest against the food shortage. A procession was , formed to the recreation ground, where speakers urged a strike which should continue until the food upplies were adequate. Toms of disewd meat are reaching Smithfield fnmy Ireland, and this is being condemned as unfit for consumption. FOOD OFFICIAL STONED. LONDON, Sunday. | The mounted police amd special constables were called out at Tottenham and Edmonton to control a milelong queue. . ' ' At Bootle the crowd stoned ihc i food official, and made an effort ti { commajndeer the margarine. : AMERICA'S EFFORT. , WASHINGTON, Sunday. President Wilson has issued a -•••- clamatioii, asking Americans to reduce their wheat consumption by 30 per cemt, and to observe Mondays and < i i

Wednesdays as wheatless days, Tues- : days as meatles* days, and Saturdays as porkless day.-;, and also one wheatIt ss meal daily, j President Wilson declared that sacrifice was necessary to meet a grcai rcsi)onsibility, as European subsistence rests very largely on the iiouiders of tho United States. I Mr Hoover has announced that j bakers hereafter will make "Victory" j bread, which must not contain more than HO per cent of wheat. Mr Hoover lias also announced that the Govemnnent will purchase .') |< r cent of the nation's flour, an uu-mit i totalling three million bushels .monthly, for exportation to the AULvs SUBMARINE SUNK. .A--N.Z. Cable Assn. and R-euter., PARIS, Saturday. A French dirigible threw several bombs at a submarine. Hits were observed, causing the submarine, to bc- ! cine, unsteady in her. move n-hits. Minesweepers thereupon fired shots, ! which apparently took elfe-t, a Surge j oil patch remaining where the sub- . marine was seen. ISLANDS BLOCKADED. ' (Australian-—N.Z. Cable Association; MADRID, Sunday. ! Reports show that German submarines are literally, blockading the Canary Islands, and are not sparing Spanish ships. j T!i 0 ishinders are protesting ngMtnst Germany extending the Sanger zone. j WORK OF GERMANS. j ,H. ' ' T.T, ~-:</! W ' j I NEW 7 YORK, 'Sunday. ] German sympathisers have apparently launched a fire offensive. 1 Extensive damage has been done in many cities, aggregating £1,000,000. Two Baltimore plants working on munitions were burned, six persons Isr'injj killed, and many injured by explosives in the torpedo works. ( FIRE OF MYSTERIOUS ORIGIN. NEW YORK, Sunday. ; Seven army department warehouses and several municipal docks have been destroyed by a fire of mysterious . jorijrim at an AtlariftoTpbrt. The storehouses were empty. Tlie shipbuilding plant was save'd. NATION-WIDE PLOT. i WASHINGTON, Sunday. Two steamers at Atlantic ports arc . afire. President Wilson recently received [an anonymous warning of a'nation-- , wide polt to destroy -docks and warplants. A FATAL EXPLOSION. WASHINGTON, Sundn.v.. An explosion at a torpedo manufactory at Newport killed eight person.Sj aaid injured seven. . TROUBLE AMONG GERMAN 1 SOLDIERS. . f (Australian —N.Z. Cable Association) ZURICH, Sunday. Two hundred invalided soldiers, i who interrupted the Fatherland t Party's meeting in Berlin, have been ' arrested. . The news of their arrest caused indignation among the garrison, culminating in a meeting at Fricdrichsi dorf, near Berlin, the result of„which [ was that eight thousand of the sol- ' criers were confined to barracks miclthe ringleaders im])risoned. "LONG LIVE FREEDOM I" - COPENHAGEN, Sunday. Peace demonstrators broke up the Fatherland Party's meetings at j Frankfort-on-Maii), shoutim* "Long t.live Freedom!" "Peace!" and singimj- ! tehe "Marseillaise," TURKISH CONVOY CAPTURED. r ' e (Aus. &N.Z. C"^ 1 " A ««" >"- R"'it ft r.) LONDON, Sunday. The War Office reports that the Arabs captured a Turkish convoy east of Medina. *