WAR OF MOLES.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3997, 2 August 1915, Page 5

WAR OF MOLES.

THE GALLIPOLI CAMPAIGN. ENGINEER’S INTERESTING STORY. EXCITEMENT OF THE SAIVH EADS (Received Aug. 1, ■ 5. 45 p.m.) LONDON, July 31. An engineer officer gives a vivid picture of the Dardanelles campaign. He says: It is warfare in which the engineer is supreme. IS very man is an engineer. YVe sally forth every day, going from our dug-out to view the same old enemy trenches sixty yards away through a periscope, ot 'which we have ■ thousands. There is never a sign of a man. hut many shovelfuls of earth going over a parapet and a saphead day after day steadily advancing towards ns. “There is groat excitement when/ now approaches arc broken out. . “This is a battle all along the lino and, at points, at very close grips. All wo can do is to throw stones like schoolboys, hut the stones are bombs.” Mitylene reports that two German submarines have been brought overland ready for service in the Gulf of Smyrna. The Anglo-French fleet is blockading the Coast of Asia-Minor. Athens reports that Vussuf-iz-Zed-din inspected troops at Aribiirmi, and had an enthusiastic _ reception. He declared that it was impossible lor the Allies to succeed, and predicted the Turkish Empire would be reestablished, more power! ul Ilian over. SN THE BLACK SEA. RUSSIAN TORPEROERS ACTIVK. (Received Ang. I, *1 p.UU) PETROGRAD, Aug. 1.. Our torpodoers shelled the Slide batteries, near the Bosphorus, and sank a collier and 17 sailing vessels. CONSCIENCELESS GERMANS. THE CAMEROON'S CAMPAIGN. ENEMY CONDONE CAXNI RACISM (Received Aug. 1, 3.30 p.m.) PARIS, duly 31. A military correspondent- with the French troops in the Oameroous declares that the German officers openly connive at cannibalism. Many of the inhabitants in tin' tort Carnot, region were eaten in the presence ol Germans. The latter forced prisoners cnpiurcd at Bat our to walk 25 miles m ia. blazing sun, tied together with fhm'g* through the flesh above the hips, they suffered indescribable agony.

SURRENDER OF DAMARALAND. GERMANS ALL ACCOUNTED FOR. (Received Aug. I. AMU p.m..) PRETORIA, July BE Official: The surrender of the Germans in Damaralaml is completed and the entire force is accounted for except a handful of rebels from the Union. GENERAL BOTHA’S CONQUEST. PLANS FOR SETTLEMENT AFOOT GREAT MEETING AT PRETORIA. (Received Aug. 1, 3.30 p.m.') PRETORIA, July 31. Crowds lined the streets, and 10.000 accord'’d an ovation to General .Botha at a meeting at the Amphitheatre in the Union building. _ . . Forty municipalities and public bodies bind several native tribes preson led addresses. General Botha, replying, reterred to the fertility of the conquered ternlory, nmi sitid lie intuiulocl woii tons of thousands ol the Union .< young people should be settled on the. land there. Railways already existed, and they could proceed with settling immediately. PAYING THE PRICE. GERM AN TERRORISM IN LUXEMBURG. (Received Ang. L 3.30 p.m A PARIS, July 31. Despite German boasts, Luxemburg j is reaping the reward ol not- resisting tin' German advance. Several railwayman have been shoton a charge of supplying the French with information as to troop tram movements/ and hfty anti-German rioters have been imprisoned. THE ECONOMIC STRAIN. BRITAIN STANDING IT WELL. (Received August 1. 3.3(1 p.m..) LONDON July 31. Hr Herbert- Samuel, sneaking at Oxford, said the shock of war had subjected the nation’s economic system to the severest- test, but tinstructure 1 had stood firm and hardly showed a crack or fissure. GENERAL STEMS. OPTICIANS IN TROUBLE. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (lu'criVfwl .Julv .*ll, 7.**10 p.tn.) LONDON, July 31. The press Bureau publishes a facsimile of an intercepted German message in South-\\ est Alrica- oidoling the contamination of waters. Ida Mine and Co., a firm ol opticians. were fined CuO for exporting eonipjissi's, which is prohihil-oil. Iho pleaded that- they had a branch at Cairo, and were informed, that the Australasians needed compasses. Colonel J. G. Eeggc has been gazetted temporary Maior-GeueraL The Russian 'headquarters in the Caucasus reports that- in the direction of Mush the Turks have eom-eutvatecl strong forces with the result that w 1 havd suspended our movement 10wards the west and eoiu-entrat-et. m prepared positions. , , . Lord Dalmeny has been "wounded m the North of Franco. Advices from Sofia state that the Germans are getting . readv tlrn o army corps for use against- m-i ■ • Lord Northbourne, aged <0 years, speaking on Prize Day at Dover Co - lege, said: “It would give me g.e.t pleasure in meet the Kaiser m smgU combat, with pistols tor two and e<)flee for one. I do not doubt 1 should have too eoll'ee.” , The Wormwood Scrubs deaths wote due to the aceidental ign'vma ot Press Bureau states that a hre in the Ardcor factory Glasgow, on July 30 was followed by several explosions. A man was killed and several were injured. -, Li. Afellowes, who was recently outercti to he expatriated from Ireland, ],„ H boon sentenced to three months for not quitting Ireland. Alders has been interned. Schuster has been granted an i - junction against “Pearson s Meekly, wno apologised for a paragraph insinuating that Schuster was disloyal. ReutoUs Copenhagen correspondent says it- is -reported that Maxinidi’ Harden is taking an enforced .holiday ' in Scandinavia, presumably m connection with an article ni j* f kuntt,” commending Itnlv fot atmei ing Austria. _