GRECIAN AFFAIRS GERMAN WOUNDED

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13308, 11 October 1916, Page 5

GRECIAN AFFAIRS

GERMAN WOUNDED

M. LAMBROSS FORMS A CABINET. TYROS IN POLITICS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received October 11, 11.10 a.m. ATHENS, October 10. j M. Lanibross has formed a Cabinet. The Daily Chronicle's Athens correspondent states that most of the members of M. Lanibross' Cabinet have not participated prominently in politics, and it is impossible to label them definitely. M. Thelos, Minister for the Interior, is strongly (iournarist and Germanophile. VENEZELOS AT SALONIKA. A GREAT RECEPTION. LONDON, October 10. Mr \\ ard Price, telegraphing from Salonika, states that a great crowd received M. Venezelos with flowers and shouts of welcome, while M. Venezelos also received the 1 blessing of the Greek bishops. After speeches from notables General Sarrail advanced and warmly shook his hands. The torpedo-boat Tiietis is escorting the Hesperia, on which are the members of the Provisional Government.

ARRIVE SECRETLY IN BERLIN. THE SMASHED PRI'SSfAN GUAR I REATEN BY -MERE SPORTSMEN' AN AMERICAN'S EXPERIENCE. (The Times.) Received October 11 £.OO a.m. I.ON DON, October 10. Mr ( urtin, the American journalist, < ontinuing iiis experiences on iiis visit to Germany, says the police cleared the streets when the wounded Prussian ('"aids arrived at Potsdam. Ry a subterfuge Mr Curtin witnessed successive train loads with nearly 700 wounded in each evacuated into long rows ot mammoth vans and other vehicles. I here were endless tiers of stretchers and a small army of doctors and nurses Many of the .sufferers ul,oml)l .v maimed and battered. these were the remnant of five reserve regiments which were blood-fly smashed up in endeavouring to retake tontalmaison from the British. During subsequent days more trainloads arrived with a large proportion of permanent invalids and cripples. Several vehicles were filled with the corpses of men who had expired on the journey He says the terrible sight will never memo £\and it gives the o the Geinian official assertion that • 0 per cent of the wounded return to the firing line. The most impressive feature was the K lastly hoplessness of the white faces tllo wounded, plainly revealing that the men knew that Germany's fighting naclnne had met a superior force and :' ( ad ~eon vanquished by an army of ' mere sportsmen." The Prussian Guards were flung at I ontalmaison because it was a vital |)oint m the defences of Bapanme and Peionne. The wounded say that the ■uards, although heavily reinforced vere twice driven back after the bloodist nana to hand encounters.