GERMAN SLIMNESS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 3998, 3 August 1915, Page 5

GERMAN SLIMNESS.

ATTEMPT AT CORRUPTION IN ITALY. BRIBE OFFERER TO SOCIALIST PARTY. SENSATIONAL STORY CONFIRMED. (Received August 2, 8.40 p.m.) ROME, August 2. Socialists admit the truth of a sensational announcement in a Paris newspaper that Germany has offered a bribe of several million francs with a view to securing the. neutrality of the Italian Socialist Party. The intrigue was conducted by Cer-manophile-Americans. THE Fi.AMBERS CAMPAIGN A WAR OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES. TG64 OF METAL TO HIT ONE MAN. AMERICAN CORESPONDENT’S STORY. FORM IDA RLE AH IT LLKRY K.MRLOY ED. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Itwoivcxl August, 2, o.*) p.m.) LONDON", Ang. 2. An A morion ll correspondent cables : “Tlio French hold ilm eminences lookin ir out upon tint plain <j! If landers and Lille, Douai and Cumbria. Kadi employing formidable artillery. The small, heavy-calibre French gums are somewhat numerously served with unlimited cjimntitios of high explosive shells. Howards of 100,000 Germans have fallen or have been captured in J those trenches since .March, and the line was finally taken hv tossing grenades in basketfuls upon the trenches until the defenders :, i them concave shelters were too weak' to resist. Extreme walchlillness is exorcised j on both sides. ’I he Germans shell , even one man sighted walking within I four miles of the front. It is esti- j mated that if one man is let lor every ton of metal thrown, the average is j good. _ Buildings are daily crumbling in A r- | ras. u here the streets arc overgrown with, grass and the shops arc carrying on their business underground. Air .Tollu French reports that lurther fighting on July JO at Uooge resulted in our recapturing porthm oi the lost trenches. < Wo repulsed two iuiantry attacks on Sat urd>-.&’ night. THE FLAME ATTACK. \ CORRESI’tt.NDK.VrS NARRATIVE. i — < ; Received August 2. 8.10 p.m.) < LONDON. Aug. 2. Reuter’s correspondent in the North. < <,f Franco describes Friday’s flame i woi kat Hooge as follows: — .fast before dawn there was a heavy 1 bombardment of our trenches with < guns of all calibres and art unusually < large mine-thrower. ' Then the German engineers turned J cm tin. l taps of cvliuders and launched ' a sheet of Haute against our parapet. An. infantry attack followed. Under cover of the (lame they forced ! an entrv into our trendies and subsequently extended their operations 500 yards by bombing. _ It was a surprise attack and a grim struggle in the semi-darkness, aided hv dastard»y methods, compelled our men to give ground. Wo took up a firm position south of Hooge and held it firmly against all subsequent attacks. We reserved our counter-attack until Saturday afternoon, when we regained part of the lost trenches.

AUSTRIAN BARBARIANS. RUSSIAN WOUNDED BURNED. .(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received Aug. 2. 5.5 p.m..) I. ON DON, Aug. 2. A Russian soldier testifies that during the Galician retreat he saw Austrians cover abandoned Russian woundod with sheafs of grain and ignite n ami Imni them to death. HORRORS IN ARMENIA. GHASTLY DETAILS COMING TO HAND. M ANY MASSACRES AND TORTURINGS. (Received August 2. S.lO p.m.) ATHENS, August 2. Ghastly details of the Armenian massacres are coming to hand. Six hundred Armenians at ilarsovan were accused of concealing arms. They were marched ouside the town and 0,foved to give up the arms which they had retained for sell -defence. A small party were allowed to return to show where the arms were concealed and the. rest were massacred. Several Greeks at Marsovna were compelled to dig a trench as a grave before Fling shot. Greek women given the alternative of embracing Islam or death refused to change their religion. I heir lives were spared, but they were left to Die mercy of tile soldiers and were compelled to accompany the troops on a Iona; march. Some wore exhausted and were abandoned wit h their babies. A German orphanage sent an ambulance to rescue the survivors lying on the roadside. Owing to the discovery of bombs at Marsovan thousands of innocents have boon tortured throughout Armenia with a view C> their giving up explosives. 141 Twenty men were beaten to death at Bardesagh and there were nameless torturiugs at Baghtescodjik.

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES.. TESTERDAY'S LlSTS(Received Aug. 3, 12.10 a.m.) SYDNEY, Aug. 2.The 59th casualty list shows:— Killed in Action.—Two officers aml 30 men. Including-Private AV. J. Daytaler, a New Zealander. Died of Wounds and Illness. —One officer and 10 men. Wounded. —Two officers a-ndi ob men. 111.—'Thirty-five men, including 1 nvatos Havwood (in hospital., Alexandria) and F. A. Whittaker (m hospital, Manchester), New Zealanders. the blocked road. GERMAN OVERTURES TO R OPMANIA. (Received Aug. 3, 12.45 a.m.) BUCH AREST, Aug. 2. • Roumanin has insufficient waggons to convey cereals, and has applied to Germany to supply the deficiency. Germany is creating difficulties, ami is seeking to press Rouman in . hoping to obtain the transit of munitions to Turkey. . J ~, Roum an la rof uses to y lout. THE SEA WOLVES. ANOTHER TRAWLER SUNK. (Received Hie trawler Tors was blown rip and 'eight out of the ten aboard were drowned 1 .