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THE
WAR.
ANOTHER GERMAN OFFENSIVE
IMMINENT.
ON LAND AND SEA.
ENEMY'S SACRIFICES AT VERDUN,
PILES OF DEAD.
MORE "MALOJA" DETAILS.
GERMANS TO SINK ARMED MERCHANTMEN.
ANOTHER ARMENIAN MASSACRE.
FRANCO-BELGIAN FRONT.
(THROUGH BLUTER'S AGENCY.) TERRIBLE CARNAGE ON
MEUSE SLOPES. PILES OF GERMAN DEAD IN RAVINES
LONDON, February 28th, The heights of the Meuse, along which the Germans are trying to alvares, are seamed with ravines which at present are water-courses. The French trenches and batteries enfilade these, and wounde poldiers who have arrived in Paris state that the carnage among the Germans is Lerrible,
At many points the dead form huge dame in the ravines, and sometimes the dam
brooks and the reddened, flood carries down hundreds of corpses.
The French have not been idle. Through out the batile troop, munitions and artil lery trains rushed along the eastern rail way night and day. The consumption of shells has exceeded all estimates, but if the Lattle ends through lack of munitions the French are confident that the deficiency will be on the German side.
It is now not doubted that the Verdun' thrust is "the real thing" at last. ALLIES AWARE OF GERMAN PLANS.
WILL THE ENEMY STRIKE IN CHAMPAGNE}
LONDON, February 28th... The Times' Military Correspondant anys the decision of the Germans to pay their fortunes to the test will be received with Serce delight by the Allies, He remarks
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STELOUCH RAUTER'S AGENCY.}
MALOJA " DISASTER, MAGNIFICENT BEHAVIOUR OF
LASCARS.
LONDON, February 28th.. Two more bodies from the faloja, havo heen washed ashore,
The Times Dover correspondent em- phasises the coolness of the Lascars, whose behaviour is stated to have been magnifi- cent. Out of the 203 Lascars aboard appar- ently only 86 have been saved,
FIFTY BODIES,
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GENERAL.
(THROUGE REDTER'S AGENCY.] THE DOUBLE INCOME-TAX. INFLUENTIAL CITY MEETING ASKS FOR RELIEF.
LONDON, February 28th. At a large and influential City meeting, at which the Dominions and India were re.
THE FOKKER, WHERE IT WINS AND LOSES.
Mr. W. Bunch Thomas, special corres pondent of the Daily Mail, writing from British Headquarters in France, anys
The Fokker has had some conspicuous successes against us, all due to its great speed and its capacity of firing forward through the propuler, a device now more commonly adopted. The Fokker may be called a super-specialist in a specialistic branch. I surrenders all else for one cardinal virtue-speed. It cannot go very far from home because it cannot carry sufficient petrol; but it can dart from its retreat and secure its prey with the rapidity of a snake's stroke.
It is especially suited to the farm of warfare that the German has recently. practised. It is no Chauvinistic beast. to Say that our airmon have driven the Ger- man from the home seas or aerial waters. We have shown more of the battle spirit and better airmanship, just as our gasmon did in the Spanish wars, Possibly, also, the German has deliberately put himself on the defensive, for economy's sake. However this may be, the German policy needed do fensive craft, and they have found a type that is as good as the best, for the moment. So much for the German, Now for our It is stated in Fetrograd that Conton virtues. Our successes in the air, like our successes under the sea, have been Kanitz, the German commandant at Ker-greater and more variou, than the tale of them. It has been the constant policy of manshab, committed suicide on the entry of the Army air service to claim nothing that
presented, a resolution was unanimously passed to the effect that, in the interests of Imperial trado and commerce, and the unity of the Empire, it was esential that stops be taken by the Government to enable immediate relief to be given from the double income tax; and that similar repre sentations be made to the Australian Premier and the Overseas Governments:
GERMAN COMMANDANT COMMITS SUICIDE.
LONDON, February 25th.
the Russians,
ANOTHER ARMENIAN
MASSACRE,
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PETROGRAD, February 28th. An escaped Armenian priest saw 13,000 Armenians massacred at blush, after the fall of Erzerum,
NEW MEMBER FOR SOUTH TYRONE.
L NDON, February 291b, Mr. Coste, the Unionist condidate, has been returned unopposed for South Tyron".
U-BOATS HUM. AMERICAN ENGINEER'S
DISCOVERY.
SUBMARINES HEAED 20 MILES AWAY.
The Literary Digest says:- A submarine cannot move under water without electric motors. Such motors give But a characteristic hum or whine," as
t
was not in the beg" gathered and c counted for by certain evidence. We have said nothing about the towered birds that may have falon somewhere. Our air men, as part of the daily routine, make long reconnaissances to Belgium and even to Germany. They supply to the enemy a contizaal target which gives plenty of practice to the German "Archies " anti-aircraft guns on the ground or from balloons.
But the distinction to note is that there are two kinds of craft, ono designed for long flight, the other for fighting; and our takk is to see to it that we have the best craft in each section. Already the prin ciple of conveying the long-flighted" air. planes, of giving them a guard of war- planes is recognised and is being adopted. Indeed, the pilot of one of these convoys, a famous airman who must be nameless, has just won perhaps the greatest in dividual feat of the war at the expense of three Fekkers and one Albatross
I am permitted to give from official source: some of the details of this dashing series of successful engagements, won in spite of the immense speed of the enemy. A British sirplane went forth on recon- naissance accompanied by what the Ger man, cal a battleplane. The two had just passed out of sight of their own shore when two of these rakish Vikings shot to pursue them, The British battle plane, which was flying high above the plane it was convoying, dived at once to the attack. The duel was over in a minute after the two engaged, and the Tokker "nose-dived" out of control some 6,000ft One enemy was accounted for,
VON PAPEN "HELD UP” BY BRITISH WARSHIP,
INCRIMINATING DOCUMENTS
SEIZED.
CHEQUES FROM GERMAN U.6. EMBASSY,
NAVAL SUCCESSES ON BELGIAN COAST.
* U BOATS AND 13. GUNS DESTROYED.
A welcome record of success is contained in e naval despatch from Vice-Admiral The "incredible stupidity" of Captain Sir Reginald Bacon, reporting the opera- von Papen, the expelled German military of the British Navy off the Belgian coast between August 22nd and November attaché at Washington, in supposing thut 18th last, in which at one time or another the British safe-conduct also applied to no fewer than 80 vessels, including auxil- his criminal correspondence, has excited iaries, were engaged. great bilarity in America.
While on his way back to Germany in a Dutch liner Papen was "held up" Falmouth in the British Navy's best and politest manner.
There is not the slightest doubt that when he was accosted at Falmouth he was under the fond illusion that a safe-conduct" covered fully not only himself but also all his belongings. The correspondence he carried with him was not hidden away, and some of the letters were in his pockets. When "detained" he flourished big safe conduct and demanded to he allowed to proceed unmolested on his way.
He was politely informed that in the present distressful circumstances of war a safe-conduct applied only to his body corporaj and abolutely nothing else. The fact that he would be allowed to proceed on his journey wearing his clothes was entirely due to the grace of the British Navy! Whereupon he used-in the very best English-some extremely uncompli
In a word, he wou mentary language. extremely angry, and it was with very bad grace indeed that he finally bonded over the documents
The papers, according to the Associated Press cable, show that Papen made fre quent payments to persons charged with being responsible for explosions at muni- tion works and bridges in America, and for at least one spy, the man Küpferle, who committed suicido in Brixton Prison,
Several large payments were made to Papen by Court Bernstorff, the German Ambassador, but most were for salaries or In January 1915 an entry allowances.
shows that Papen gave £140 to Horn, the man convicted of blowing up the Marine bridge. On the day before this cheque was issued the German Embassy paid £400 into Papens' account. At the same time. Papen gave a cheque payable to Amsick and Co.. New York, with the name "E, Küpferle" in brackets on the counterfoil.
Another counterfoit shows that about two weeks before the Soattle explosion Papen sent £100 to the German Consulate at Seattle.. In January he received ap proximately £1,280 and paid out £1,000
Six attacks of considerable magnitude and eight minor ones were delivered. The most important was a great, atinck on Zeebrugge carried out on August Bad, which was markedly successfully, as all the objectives were hit. On September 6th Ostend was heavily attacked by five moni tors (turret ships which lie low in the water and are of shallow draft). In this he enemy's submarine workshops wore damaged, though his fire was very accurate and his gung heavier than those in the British squadron.
On the eve of Loos (September 24th) the German positions near the sea were shelled On and considerable damage was done. October 8th four monitors attacked the Zeebruge batteries. The whole coast was alarmed and German submarines arrived and attacked the ships, but failed to torpelo them.
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The damage inflicted on the crony in this series of bombardments was:
BUNK.
1 torpedin-bont.
2 submarines.
1 large dredger. DESTROYED.
2 military factories,
13 guns.
9. asimunition depots:
BADLY DAMAGEN, Zeebrugge locks."
Numeroits aninor injuries were blag in- feted on the enemy.
The British loss wast
34 officers and, men killed; 24 officers and men wounded. 1 armed yacht, 1 drifter, and 1 mine- sweeper sunk,
Admiral Bacon pays
a well-deserved
tribute to the unsurpassed zeal and magni
He praises ficent gunnery of the ships. the admirable efficiency with which the destroyers screened the ships from sub- marine attack. He recognises the splendid behaviour of the men in the traylers and drifters, who have borne so heavy burden in this war, and also of the Freh patrol flotilla which took part in the operations and lost three vessels.
Throughout the operations attacks were made by enemy aircraft, but latterly tho vigilance of our Dunkirk airmen consider A letter from Mr. R. von Moysenbug.ably curtailed their activity. the German Consul at New Orleans to Papen runs
SAYINGS OF A WEEK.
LONDON, February 29th. Fifty bodies are now in the mortuary, and several have been identified.
Two of the liner's boats have been washed ashore.
every visitor to a power-house knows. The Mrs. McLeod, wife of Brigadier General recent invention of an American electrical engineer enables this sound to be heard McLood, is among the dend.
twenty miles away, so that no German sub- marine can now enter a French og Eng
The other had used the interval to lish barbour undetected. This engineerscuss the upper position. It was above William Dubilier, who went Euroda benindus fighters. But our airinan rose like a hawk after a second horen, the invitation of the Allies to devise a
ystem of harbour defence against sub-aged to boot be the federal a range of about a hundred feet sent him, marinos, describes in the December number
as it were, to the bottom. This second of the Popular Science Monthly and the victim also nose-dived, and the hawk ACTIVI-Iorld's advance, the steps that led to the pursaing saw his opponent land with a
invention of his microphonic submarine bump in a ploughed field. The airman's matter for general quiet enjoyment, and midable and the most carefully planned
DUE TO GERMAN MINES.
LATER.
The evening papers generally opine that the sinking of the Maloja was due to the dropping of German mines. GERMAN CORSAIR'S
TIES.
HARSH TREATMENT OF PRISONERS.
TENERIFE February 28th. The Wearburn left the Motive on the 9th inst., and, when near Cape Verde on the 15th inst., taking a southerly course, the various British captains on board protest ed, whereupon they were offered the choice of making for the Canaries or for an un- known island. They chose the Canaries
The treatment of the prisoners was harsh,
detector. He says:
"What way noedal was some form of apparatus which would pick up the sounda sent forth by a submarine, not deliberate ly, but involuntarily.
I found what I sought in the weird, shrill hum of a submarine. Others had heard that hum long before I began my It was taken for engine experiments. vibration. But it is much too high in pitch for that, as I found by actual tests. I soon convinced myself that the fine, shrill, almost singing note that can be heard when the Died eukines trecut off and the submarine is travelling under
motte might be Wither's famous line The more he makes wing he gets power": and soon this fighting airman, in accord- ance with the principle, had climbed back to 10,000Ft. up more. Then another sail wag sighbed, and as soin pursued as seen. It was an Albatross in pursuit of one of our scouts. The enemy fed, but was caught and engaged and hit, and last seen sin ing in an apparently crippled state behind the fringe of a wood.
"I do not suppose that you are very unhappy at being able to shake the dust of this unfriendly country from off your feet. What chiefly offends me is that in always giving way to the Government here we have never found that they are kindly disposed towards us. May the day of reckoning also come herr, and our Govern. ment, find again that iron determination with which alone one can make an impres sion in this country!
ENEER AT THE PRESIDENT, TE A letter from Dr. F. W. Meyer to Paper saya: The Austrian Note is, of course, the whole business can scarcely be taken tragically. The President this time has talked a bit too big even for those who blindly support him.
The hours through which we are going to pass in the New Year will probably be no parallel in importance since the Cruci ranght with issues for mankind which have
ford). fixion-Bishop of Guildford (at Guild-
The attempts from without and from within to bring Russia to a separate peace with Germany have been stronger than the world dreams.-M. Bazonoff.
The German menace was the most for-
attack upon the liberty of intelligence with which the world had been threatened sines the days of Mohammed.--Mr. Edmund
Gosse.
The country must give up so much liberty in order to save the rest,-Mr. Herbert Samuel.
"I think I am speaking in the name of all when I express to you the thanks of
The desperate worship of matemal good, us all for your faithful vigilance and
the soulless ad hoc preparation for business, unremitting labours under most difficult circumstances, and to this I add my own special thanks for your attention to my the concentration on a purely materin Not even yet was the day's fighting little proposals. I gladly comply with ideal, and its elevation into the region of
Lodge. time, and it will be very pleasant to ring signal issued by Germany-Sir Oliver battleplane found a Fokker, doubtless ceive one from you occasionally, especially over. On roburning to our lines the your proposal to send a line from time to worship and of sentiment-that is the warn- trusting in its superior speed, hawking if by proposals you mean such as could
It is not conceivable that any nation can another nation to Coventry-The Rov, H. J. Chaytor,
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power derived from her storage batteries among a group of several of our airplanes, bo discussed with some gentleman of the send .00 or 70 millions of the people of
that we know much more of the German and they were constantly threatened with characteristic hum, the microphone was below." So felt three Fakkers to one gun to Papen, written in April, dosis mainly places itself deliberately in opposition to
The ap
is due entirely to her electric motors. But soon hawk met hawk. Battle was
"The microphone at once suggested it engaged at some 70ft. Two shots were ob- German house of Columbia University. 1 self as a suitable instrument. In my first served to take effect on the Fokker, who am keeping an eye on the matter especially attempts to detect submarines by their
was last seen nose diving steeply 3.0001. mentioned."
A letter from the well-known Bernhardi sealed within a water-tight container and
in one day; and others have gone the same tead The prayer of such fighters is that with the publication of Bernhardi's ar
ticles in America, og "wasted" by the the whole placed in the water, paratus was a failure. It could not with-
more of the German reconnaissanèc machines would venture within range of German Foreign Office. One was to appear stand the pressure of water even at five fathome. The container was crushed...
our lighter and faster craft.
in the Chicago Tribune. He adds: Eng. But they prefer the neighbourhood of their own land's interference in American trade will also not fail to have a certain effect. I line.
think, however, that, especially in the wost, where I expect there will soon be a big attempt to break through, we have serious, difficult times to look forward successfully overcome them
SECRET EXPENSES.
After a life spent in the study of history, venture to say that if any one party now the appeals of the King, of Lord Kitchenor and of Parliament, that party will be swept away at the next General Election-Dr. J. Holland Rose.
plans than the Germans thought, including
hombs. The food was as good as possible. the appointment of Prince Henry of
There is a difference of opinion as to the Prussia to the High Command on sen, thus heralding a naval besides a land offensive. Moewe's gura, but it is now thought that Hence the Allies have not been caughį nap-bone is a large as 7-inch, ping. General Joffre never before possessed The Captain and two gunners of the larger reserves, and never before have they Clan MacTarish were detained on the been better placed. Probably the German Hoewe because they worked the gun; also plan has not yet fully developed. The the lasçar crew, as well as the Captain and could be heard beneath the water at THE SEA THE PRESS BUREAU OF to, but I confidently believe that we shall We do not bate our enemies When wo
general idea of the Verdun blow is to Second Offer of the Westhurn, on the
ttract French reserves eastward, and thea the Germans may strike in Champagne or ground that they made false nationality elsewhere with grester "force. But it is signals. doubtful whether the main French reserves During the night that the Westburn was have been moved, the local reserves on the at Teneriffe the boate belonging to Ger- man steamers were busy all night. It is Meuse sustaining the contest. When the Germans are exhausted, and their hands rumoured that they were removing some completely exposed, the time for the Allies offensive will come.
··Ħ ̃·V·A·L—A-O·TIVITIES.
[THROUGH RETTEN'S AGENCY)........
GERMANY AND ARMED MERCHANTMEN,
NO WARNING TO BE GIVEN
WASHINGTON, February 28th. Germany has instructed Count Bernstorff to inform the United States that the Lusitania assurances apply only te unarmed merchantmen.
It is understood that Germany contends. that armed merchantmen are subject to destruction without warning. Submarine Lommanders have been instructed to begin- their nefarious work at midnight on Tuesday.
In order that the diaphragm might successfully resist the external pressure. air was forced into the container until ite pressure equalled that of the water. The now form of apparatus was much more LAND AND SEA POWER. successful than that first used. Submarines
NAVAL HISTORY, USA!
distance of five miles and the apparatus stood up well, even at great depths. But
Mr. Julien S. Corbett, addressing a it had the great defect of hearing boo much. Clearly, some kind of sound sieve mbeting of the Historical Association at Was wanted-something that would rift out University College on The Teaching of everything but the singing sabmarine Naval and Military History," said that Such sieve" was found in a reson- naval and military history should never be ator, like a tiny organ-pipe, tuned to the taught apart, for neither could be under exact pitch of the submarine's electric stood without the other. For the Army the hum. It picks out just the sound that is question in many cases was What can of the Appam's gold, as well as hand-sought; and the microphone, which is built the Navy enable us to do" and for the on the plan of a telephone transmitter, Navy, What does the Army want to do? " grenades and stores,
them magnifies it so that the ear can hear So persistent was the recurrence of this it. In this way a submarine can be heard combined work of the Army and Navy that under water twenty miles away. A modiit seemed a presumption almost that there fication enables the position of the U-boat was underlying it some special feature of
our genious for war. to be detected with some accuracy,
PRIZE CREW ARRESTED.
LAS PALMAS, February 28th. The German prize grew of the Westburn were arrested after scuttling the ship, the Commander and a Lieutenant being subs- quently released on parole,
"ALLIED STEAMERS SUNK.
A HERTSFORDSHIRE LEGEND. Recent storms have enused much havoc to the famous tomb of Lady Anne Grimston, au Tewin, Herts, The legend runs that her LONDON, February 28th. The Freach steamer Trignac was sunk in Ladyship denied the story of the Resurrec tion and declared that if it were true troos the North Sea on Friday Five of the crew might grow out of her grave. That actual were rescued but twenty-six passengers ly occurred, and for many years five ne and crow are missing. The Russian steametrees were to be seen growing cut of the grave Owing to the storm, only two now
· Petshenge was also sunk. Fifteen lives remain. ..... were saved.
LONDON, February 29th. Fifteen of the crew of the Denaby have. been landed at Marseilles by die stoamor Treverbyn, from Pondicherry,
Serbian soldiers have been landed at Salonika and have been quartered in the French camp, where the
equip ped.
A letter from Dr. Albert (the man who lost his papers on the New York Elevated; the papers showed that he was one of the disbursing agents of the German con spiracy), written from San Francisco, bears no date;
We talk of the glorious Revolution, the Reform Bill of 1832, and the rest of it; but We never change:Mr. Balfour.
Germany's divine mission is to crucify
Bev.
Fritz Philippi humanity. The (Berlin), p
till them, when we burn their homes and over-run their territories, we are perform- ing a labour of love,-Professor Rheinhold Beeberg (Berlin).
The devil in the scholastic world -has assumed the form of a general education. consisting of scraps of a large number of disconnected subjects. Professor A. ·2. Whitehead.
How I wish I were in New York, and
At present the foreigner who learns Eng- could discuss the situation with you and B. E. (probably the naval attaché, Caplish has very nearly to learn two languages. tain Boy-Ed). Many thanks for tele--the language as it is written and the Patron also telegraphed language as it is spoken.-Professor Gil- gram, The that I was to continue the journey. Sobert Murray. we shall not see each other for the present This time I suppose matters will move more quickly than in Dumba's ease (the expelled Austrian Ambassador), I won- der whether our Government will respond in a suitable manner, b
LONDON AMERICAN VIEW.
Mr Callender (Royal Naval College,
"Mr. I, Newton Crane, barrister, a long- Osborne) said that when this war broke
time American resident of London, says: out there were two great ongines of war
"The contents of Papen's despatch-box- the German Army and the British Navy. "If you should leave New York before
are even more important than those of The German Army failed, but the British my return we must try to come to some Archibald's, which led to Dumba'a recall. Navy succeeded. What was an island agreement about pending questions by The former showed criminal intent. the The old books said an island was "a picce writing. Please instruct Mr. Amanaensis latter prove criminal execution. When of land entirely surrounded by water." It Igel a precisely as possible. You will Dr. Goricar, the ex-Austrian Consul, was different now. An island was a "piece receive then in Germany the long-intended offered to furnish evidence of Germany's of land entirely surrounded by the British report of expenses paid through my no instigation of plots to foment labour Fleet Everybody knew what a Press count on your behalf. I shall be very strikes, to blow up bridges and railways, Bureau was. It had taken away from thankful to you if you will then support to destroy munition factories, and to sink warfare a great deal that was necessary for the question of the monetary advance ships laden with way materials for the an intelligent understanding of the work which you know of, although I know that Allies, the Americans were incredulous. of the Fat as well as a great deal I was mistaken in my opinion that I seed Even the German Lieutenant Fay's con- that was picturesque and went to make us your representative and according to fession when arrested, that he was a prin warfare a glorious thing From the days your wishes,
cipal actor in these criminal designs, was questioned. The public wanted to know of Henry VIII, the Navy had always been subjected to a Press Bureau the secrecy
where he had obtained the large sums of of the sea and that was why so little was
money with which he was supplied. Pa
cheque book now toll knoar of usvaj: history.
It is understood that photographic copies of the letters and of Papen's pass book, and counterfoils will be forwarded to the United State Government.