AN IGNOBLE EXIT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2301, 7 November 1914, Page 8

AN IGNOBLE EXIT

TURKISH DIPLOMAT AND HIS SERVANTS (■'Timee* and Sydney "Sun" Serylcee.) ' ■ Petrograd, November 5. • The Turkish Ambassador, Tnrkhan Pasha, departed without paying four ■months' wages due to his stall'. He told his employees that they.might receive what was due to them" when the Turks" came* to Odessa. A. servant retorted: ''We will take it when the Russians reach Constantinople.,.' "■'.-■ The'diplomat became angry and. mado disparaging remarks about the Russian troops, when the servant struck him. The diplomat summoned the police, who hesitated to enter the embassy.

REBEL ROUND-UP IN SOUTH AFRICA

NUMEROUS , SURRENDERS Cape Town, November 5. Official.—One hundred and six rebels, including four lieutenants, also seven German soldiers, surrendered at Car.uarvqn, Cape Colony.

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

A PITIFUL PICTURE ; ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. November. 6, 5.15 p.m.) . s ■'.'■. London, November-5. A correspondent, describing the spectacle of,a handful of Cossacks driving threo hundred. Austrian prisoners before them, says; -''The Cossacks rode hither and thither like cow-punchers ■herding cattle. Crowds of people ran alongside, handing food to the hagqard prisoners j women throw bread from their windows, and. the Austriane struggled for it liko hens scrambling for crumbs."- ' ;' ' : THE BOMB-DROPPERS: ' (Rec. November 6, 8.5 p.m.) ,■■'/,' London, November 5. '.A British aeroplane dropped bombs on the Glient-Bruges railway, destroying the , line at two-places, i. A French aviator on Tuesday attempted_ to shell the petroleum tanks at Bruges, and killed two Germans and wounded a woman and child. •

BRITAIN'S; CREDIT GOOD

MAGNIFICENT RESPONSE TO WAR • ■■■■-. •■, ;LOAN. ' ■ ■ -. (Rec. November 6, 8.10 p.m.) London, November 5. Official.—For the £15,000,000 ■ six months' Treasury 'bills, a- , total of £26,633,000 was' tendered, and the average rate of interest is £3 13s. 7d. por cent, per annum..'' . REFRIGERATED CARGOES • EXTRA FREIGHT RATES. (Rec. November 6, 10.30 p.m.)

London, November 5.» The Admiralty is commandeering increasing numbers of refrigerated vessels for war purposes. Inquiries elicit the: fact that shipowners dp not object to the Government taking refrigerated vessels, as others, they say, serve equally welLas New Zealand firms and some Australian firms refuse to pay the extra freight. The Admiralty recognises that .the increased qost of coal, insurance, war risks, and other factors . justify ; the extra freight rates. British merchants hare also agreed to'pay higher outward freights. .. ; . .-. ■

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

"COWARDS, RUFFIANS, AND BRIGANDS. . ("Times". and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, November 5. Lord Charles Beresford, speaking at Crpyden, said:. "Wβ are fighting like sportsmen and gentlemen against cowards, /ruffians, and brigands. He' believed t'hat Great Britain would need another million men. • RELIGIOUS WAR IN STREETS OF ! ' . . .SCUTARI. . ("Times" and Sydney Services.) • London, November 5. A religious' war , has broken x out in the Scutari (Albania) streets. Catholics and Mussulmans are ■ encamped, on opposite sides of the town. There has been fighting, and several people were killed. ; . . - •■ -.'■■• . : A SPLENDID GIFT, ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) v London, November 5 Mr. A. P. Du Cros, managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Company, , and Unionist member' for Hastings, and his friends have presented the War Office with a motor, ambulance column of fifty vehicles for. service overseas with the Expeditionary Forces. RECORD WHEAT ACREAGE IN . CANADA.'-

Winnipeg, November 5. Western Canada farmers are aseisting the Government by sowing huge areas in wheat, intending to place the largest area in Canada's history in cultiyation in 1915, with the object of supplying Britain's needs. CAPTURING .GERMAN TRADE. ■ Vancouver, November 5. A determined attempt to s«cure Germany's trade is being made throughout the Dominion of Canada.' ■ A NEW YEAR PRAYER. •■ ■ (Rec. Noyember 6, 8.5 p.m.) London, Novomber 5. ' The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have fixed t'he first Sunday of the New Year as a day. of prayer and intercession on behaif of tho King, fcho Empire, the Allies, and tho soldiers and fio.ilors, and also as a day of remembrance for those who nave fallen in battle. ' The King has approved of the observance, and considered that the beginning of the year will be a fitting occasion. ■ <' '| ' ' "The Archbishops also announce that tho Roman Catholic and Nonconformist Churches have agreed upon a similar observance. , KILLED INACTION. (Rec. November 6, 9.45 p.m;) .'■ Melbourne, November 6. Captain Ronald Stewart Gordon, who was killed in action in France, left Melbourne three months ago an hour after, marrying a daughter of Mr. H. Byron Moore, secretary of the Victoria Racing Club. OVER-ZEALOUS SHIP'S OFFICER. (Rec. November 6, 10.30 p.m.) Melbourne, November 6. Herbert Batesony fifth officer of the Osterley, who has jqined the Australian Expeditionary Force, was fined £1 for desertion. Tho prosecution stated tho Orient Company did not object to officers fighting for the King provided the mail service was riot dislocated. Biitoson said that he asked the captain's permission to enlist, offering to provide a (Substitute, b.ut tho offer was declined.