CMIPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2337, 19 December 1914, Page 6

CMIPAIGN INCIDENTS

% FRENCH FOOTBALLER Deceives a medal for bravery London, December 1?. ~ 'Joair Ganjolles, the French International full-back, has boon awarded a medal for conspicuous bravery. Both legs were shattered by a- shell and had ' | to be amputated. Canjolles requested to bo .allowed to return to the front as S.typist. NEUTRAL STATES., ■LOSSES THROUGH MINES. ' Stockholm, December 17. Through mines, Sweden has lost eight [vessels and nearly; sixty lives, Denmark tsix vessels and six lives, Norway iivo !vessels and six lives, Holland three vessels and fifteen lives. Sweden's loss ijs estimated at half a million sterling. NORWEGIAN STEAMER. • 'MINED IN THE NORTH SEA'. (Reo. Decembor 18, 8.45 p.m.) London, December 18. The Norwegian steamer Vaaron was !%ined in the North Sea; Four of the crew were landed at Grimsby.. Thirteen •were -: drowned, including an English »pilot. I The Vaaren is a vessel of 1090 tons, *nd was completed this year. SUPPLY OF CARTRIDGES. BTJNNING SHORT IN GERMANY. (Reo. December 18, 8.45 p.m.) Copenhagen, December 18. . Itfis'etated on high authority that 1 /Germans have only a fortnight's supply , , Ssf cartridges. • '< THREE STEAMERS. DESTROYED BY MINES. J London, Decembor 17: Three" steamers were' by faines at Flamborough Head last night. 'Several of the crews were drowned, i It is believed that .one of the steamers Ws a passenger ship. ' i Flamborough. Head is a Yorkshire , ' (promontory, forming tho northern horn jof Bridlington Bay, eighteen miles pouth-east of Scarborough. ' ' ' GERMAN CRUISER. : ~" SUNK IN THE BALTIC. ' '(Reo. December 18, 9.40 p.m.) 1 Petrograd,. December 18. { The German cruiser Friedrioh Karl (ivaa 'sunk during a sortie in the Baltic, and two-thirds of tho crew perished. ' Two -hundred were, rescued.

1 The Friedrich Karl was an armoured lorniser of 8858 -tons, and was built at (Hamburg in 1904. She carried four 8.2jinch'guns, ten 5.9-inch, twelve 8.4-inch, Jl4 l.Jinch, and had four torpedo tubes. ■ 'Her speed was 20 J knots and her complement 504. i y RAVAGES OF FROST-BITE. \ Unfortunate Austrian soldiers. . . (Rec. December 18, 8.45 p.m.) { , Rome, December 18. I Of' eight, hundred ■■'severely wounded ['from Galicia who have arrived at Triesto 'two.hundred are doomed to amputation Of Hands and feet owing to frost-bite. j THE ECONOMIC PRESSURE. pOVER-ISSUE OF PAPER MONEY. | (Rec. December 18, 8.45 p.m.) I ' London,-/ December 18. ' Havrs reports having ascertained from.a sure source that Germany, to Scptembor 1, had issued double the legally-issued amount of banknotes. TRAINING SHIP MINED. XJiCDETS 'AND SAILORS DROWNED. (Rec. December 18, 10.5 p.m.) , Paris, December 18. Ha official message from Trieste "states.that the Austrian cadet, ship Beethoven wae mined and sunk, and all J&e cadets and sailors were drowned.