GREECE’S ATTITUDE.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14774, 30 November 1915, Page 5

GREECE’S ATTITUDE.

READY TO SATISFY ALLIES’ DEMANDS. Received November 30, 10.5 a-m. , ... LONDON, November 29. Ihe exchange Company s Athens co rros|>ondent states that Greece is ready to discuss the Entente’s propositions an ,1 to satisfy all demands which do not compromise her neutrality.

THE CAVELL OUTRAGE. PARTICULARS OF THE CRIME. GERMANS NOW ADMIT IT WAS A BLUNDER. LONDON, November 29. The Times’ New York correspondent says that Frederick Stiuld, broker, has returned from Berlin with a circumstantial story of Nurse Cavell’s murder. German military and diplomatic officials concerned in the execution now retarder it as a blunder with an unfavourable psychological result to the German cause. Thirty soldiers were assigned for the execution, 20 rifles being loaded with blank cartridges. Nurse Cavell was led to the courtyard and seated in. a chair. She fainted and fell on the paving. The soldiers begged permission to shoot instantly, but the officers wished to re vive her. The men said it was beyond human endurance, and the officers permitted them to shoot. Only one bullet struck Miss Cavell, penetrating her hrain.—(Times and Sydney Sun Services. ) THE ENTENTE POWERS. GENERAL STAFF ORGANISATION. ALL POWERS IN UNISON. Received November 30, 8 a m. LONDON. November 29. The Daily Chronicle’s Paris correspondent states that the Entente Powers an beginning to realise the need of an international grand general staff orgauisn tion. The Entente is steadily tighten ing up, and it is felt that somethin;; more is required than irregular .meeting: to deal with pressing matters. It is believed that further conferences have been arranged and a scheme of permanent consultation is being considered- Tin councils will probably bo held in Paris It is considered that three representatives from each of the four Powers will l>e sufficient. The Foreign Offices of Britain and France were never on more in tiroate terms, and the munitions departments are in perfect understanding while the military staffs are working in perfect unison. IN THE CAUCASUS. A RUSSIAN SUCCESS. LONDON. November 29. A Petrograd communique says: In the Caucasus, near Tove village, north of Tortum Lake, our scouts descended the precipices by means of ropes, and rushed Turkish detachments, capturing arras. THE UNREST IN PERSIA RUSSIANS AT TEHERAN. LONDON, November 29. The Russians drove the Kurds a: Unimiah Lake from Persian to Turkish ♦■’rritorv. Matters have been quiet ir the Teheran region since the Russians arrived.

- - - - - T I FIGHTING IN THE CAMEEOONS. HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES. Prate Association—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received November 30, 9 am. LONDON, November 29. The British in the Cameroons have reached the Puge River. The French have occupied Makondo. There have been heavy losses by the Germans. ENEMY BEING GRADUALLY SURROUNDED. REMARKABLE FEAT BY FRENCH TROOPSReceived November 30, 9 a.m. LONDON, November 29. The Press Bureau states that Genera! Dobell’s Franco-British forces are gradually drawing a ring around the Germans in the Cameroons. The Allies have inflicted'heavy losses on the enemy, whose centre of resistance is the high ground around Jaunde, while the Germans in the north of the Cameroons are now broken up into small parties, which Brigadier Cunliffe is pursuing. The French, in approaching Jaunde, accomplished a remarkable feat in African warfare, by fighting their way across the German Cameroons from French equatorial Africa. SOUTH AFRICAN LOYALTY. SOME PATRIOTIC SPEECHES. Received November 30. 8 a.mCAPETOWN, November 29. General Smuts, in a speech, said there was a tremendous cloud overhanging civilisation. South Africans should bear their share of the struggle as a part of 'he white rajCP which was bleeding for the highest ideals of freedom. The Government would do its duly by South Africa and the Empire. Mr Burton, Minister for Railways, said 'hat the events made for the creation of i fuller realisation of what the bond of Einuire meant. South Africa was indissolubly bound to the interests of the Empire. She was not bound to servile idhesion. but to one which stood for the glorious principle of liberty. BRITISH MINISTRY OF MUNITIONS. Received November 30, 8 a.m. LONDON, November 29. The Government has transferred from he Army Council to the Ministry of Mulitinns the responsibility of testing arras 'nd examining munitions and invenions- The Munitions Board now conrols the research department at Wool wich and the experimental department it Shoeburyness of the War Office, inventions. Major-General Duncane has been transferred from the Ministry of Munitions to control this work.