SWISS MOBILISATION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15127, 23 January 1917, Page 5

SWISS MOBILISATION.

SIGNIFICANT GERMAN WARNING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received January. 23, 9.25 a.m. LONDON, January 22. Zurich and Baden newspapers publish an identical note warning the population against rumours of Swiss mobilisation, and threatening punishment of talkative persons creating uneasiness.

ENEMY ATROCITIES. CONDEMNED BY THE POPE. (Australian and N Z. Cable Services.) Received January 23, 9.45 a.m. HOME, January 22. Ecclesiastical circles affirm that the Pope has expressed strong disapprobation of the German-Auetrian atrocities. ' Stampa states that the Pope has instruced the bishops and priest in neutral countries to refrain from public discussion of Peace Notes.

GERMAN DECORATIONS HINDENBUEG AND JIOLLWEG _ HONOURED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) Received January 23, 9.45 a.m. AMSTERDAM, January 22. The Kaiser decorated Hindenhurg and Count Hollweg with a new Cross for national auxiliary service. HINDENBURG INTERVENES. ROMANCE NIPPED IN BUD. LONDON, January 18. The Daily Mail’s correspondent at the Hague states that Hindenhurg visited a hospital at Camhrai, and became angry when he heard a German nurse speaking English to English wounded. Hindenburn- ordered that the nurse he removed, declaring that no one speaking English should he employed nursing the English,

HIOENBURG’S CULTURE. ’ HINDENBUEG'S KELTUE, LONDON, January 19. With reference to the Vo'n Hindenburg incident in which the German Field-Marshal ordered a nurse to be removed from a hospital because she spoke in English to a British wounded soldier, it is pointed out that, in contradistinction to the German methods, the British War Office instate nurses who can speak German to attend on German officers in English hospitals.