ATTACK ON DURAZZO

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 7

ATTACK ON DURAZZO

BRITISH OFFICER KILLED

PRINCE WILLIAM TAKES COMMAND

By A6scioidtio'ii--Copi'i : vßiit

. London, June 15. J lip liisaiMfiats arc> atfcaeliin.g Durazzo. Cotoiiel ijjomsDil (who recently sbceccuEd Major Sluj-s «s Commander at u'LiraffiM)) Mas liomi killed.. In their attack cm Duirflzgo the insiivgontS'kcpt im «ii iuecssaut artilterj' slid nfle firo. tire position fit the outset \vas..a&rio)!§, l>ui tli-c insttrg&nts were lifter sovwral hoars,' fighting, Avhon ColMtel *ThomS(Mi ivjis killed, I fi.nce \\ iiliajn of ltd assurried command. • .

HOW COLONEL THOMPSON DIED

(Kec. Juno IS, 10.30 p m.) . . DUraizo, Juno 1.6. Details of vie fighting iho\r that t'hfi giliird at the* head of t.ho bridge. ovef the c.ana.l near the town was surprised by the liiswgfints and driven in. Ueinfttrconx'Uis, coiisistinj.', of ilalisrori, -were gejlt out, and litrld die trenches oil either sido of the road- ,A furious ftro was nnd miich. amiiivsJutioii was wasted,

Colonel Th jnipson urged thn defendon- to leave IUo tronches and advance. Ho showed tin? way. and several of them followed, but. promptly returned to t.hb trenches. The. Colonel was hit. in the neck and fell iii tho open. No Albanian wait .to his assistance;, but two Euro* feints, carried liim irfo a house, where e died in a few initiates. Thft defence of Prince; William of Wied's residence. and of tho foreign Legations bus been assigned to Italian snilo'fs.