WAR NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 28 February 1918, Page 3

WAR NEWS

.JAPAN'S riOi:.K STRIKES. PARIS, Tuesday. The "Kcho do Paris'' says that Japan's hour strikes. She alone is able check Germany's Eastern penetration, and she is anxious to intervene. when the signal is given.

THE PEA Cl<l TERMS. (lienor's Telegrams.) .LONDON, Tuesday. Germany's terms of peace are interpreted to mean a desire to make the Baltic a German lake and establish a chain of buffer States between Russia and Germany, and to secure a looting in the illack Sea across Ukraine. The- last mentioned would have an important hearing on Eastern situation, making Germany • independent of Turkey and Bulgaria,-*because sho would then have a new line of communication from-BeflirrffrT Odessa and Trebizond, bringing Germany deep into Persia andt-lose 'to India. The "Manchester Guardian" savs that a strange thing about Ger-. many s terms is £that 110 is made for the Russian Fleet. Presumably the Russians would destroy it, atid 'ihey hope to get it later.

A CHARGE OF TREASON. 1 Australian—N.Z. Cabin Association.^' BERNE, Tuesday? German newspapers report thatTiihe. Bolsheviks ordered the ex-GeneralisC 1 si!iio Nicholas to be «ourt-martialled 1 ov! n. charge of treason against the Rejiublic. % asm**"* "*"iszd GERMAN COLONICS. Australian—N fV<j<> *<^fcei;»i,iofi.) SYDNEY, Wednesday;: The Japanese Consul-General, jfceturing here and referring to the \ijar. ' said: —"You irfay rest that, Japan during and after the war will bo found protecting the general peace in the Pacific with all her power, indefatigably and energetically, so that justice and the common interest of mankind shall prevail instead of brutal militarism. "There was a strong desire in Japan, as well as in Australia and New Zealand, that the German colonies in the Pacific should not be handed back to Germany. If tkey .were the peace:of the Pacific could not be regarded as secure from the operations of threatening and dangerous elements."

i A GERMAN RAIDER. ' (Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. and Reuter.) LONDON, Tuesday. The Admiralty states: "In reference to a German official report stating that the German auxiliary cruiser Wolf had returned after a fifteen months', cruise, it is presumed that she sunk in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean the following vessels, taking prisoner the crews Turritella, Junina, Wordsworth, Dee, Wairuna, Win slow. Beluga, Einl core, Matnnga, Hitaehimaru and P Igotzanendi. The Turritella, an unarmed merchantman, was captured in February, 1917, and equipped for mine-laying. Shortly afterwards she encountered a British warship. The prize crew scuttled the Turritella and surrendered.

THE GERMAN STORY. LONDON, Tuesday. According to telegrams from Amsterdam, Berlin officially announces that the auxiliary cruiser Wolf, commanded by Captain Nerger, returned Irom the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans with 100 members of crows of ship which were sun. including white and coloured British military forces. The Wolf also captured several jftms arid great quantities of valuable raw materials, rubber, copper, brass, zinc, cocoa.beans, and copra, worth many millions of marks. Af|.er capture the Turritella was equipped as an auxiliary cruiser, and operated in the .Gulf of Aden, being commanded by the Wolf's first officer;' uniil she encountered a British war- : who took prisoners the crew of 27.