DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13245, 29 July 1916, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

News transmitted through the wireless stations of the The German Government: Wittenberg The Norddeutsche AilHorror, semeine ZeitunK, basing its on oflieial statements, replies to the British allegations regarding the prisoners' eamps at Wittenberg. The British are, it says, sufficiently clad and alimented. If in the earlier days some prisoners lacked clothes it was due to their love of gambling: on many occasions they gambled for their clothes. Energetic measures were taken immediately spotted typhus broke out. The chief surgeon of the camp was also infected with the disease. .Medicines, tonics, wine and milk were provided for the prisoners in ample quantities.—Wireless Press. Evidently acting on instructions from Berlin, the German Press, says the Wireless Press Berne correspondent, is busily engaged in circulating what seems to be regarded as a plausible explanation of the English reports of the Wittenberg horrors. It is as follows: "An English offensive against our armies on the western front is approaching. The purely fictitious stories of sufferings indicted on English prisoners at Wittenberg are intended to prevent the English troops engaged in this forthcoming offensive from surrendering to us." A comparison between this excuse, says the Wireless Press, and the one published by the Xorddeutsche Allgemcine Zeitung, intercepted during transmission by wireless to America, shows that the German Press has more than one voice regarding the condition of affairs at Wittenberg. The lack of unity s;ic;iks for itself. "Fellow Citizens, —Once to every man and nation cone's tin' moLabour's men! to decide. Never in Call the history of the human to Arms, race has the time been so critical as now. Never have the ideals fur which British Democracy stands been so grievously i ndangered. In this supreme and vital hour the Motherland calls for the ungrudging service of her children. Let her not appeal in vain." That is but one impassioned paragraph in a manifesto issued by the British Workers' National League, which tells us all that we must regard ourselves as "essential units in the national defence." "It is a time for effort, sacrifice and regeneration. It is not the time to say I will go when A B and C go. It is not the time to haggle, but to serve. We demand service from all and sacrifice from all —from capitalist and from worker."