CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2338, 21 December 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

TKENCH BULLETINS .("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, December 18. Tha Press Bureau reports: "An eye:fwitnes3 says that news of the destruction of the German > cruisers iu the ;lAtlantio' was "communicated to the [ trenches by means of a brickhat round Which a message had been wrapped, the best thrower hurling the >inispile towards the enemy. Tho following day news of the sinking of the (Nurnherg was transmitted to the Germans by means of signboard. . "Both bulletins were received in silence." ." •' TURKS PANIC-STRICKEN. BARRACKS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. ----- Athens, December 18. 'Details of tho bombardment on tho VJulf ~of, Saros show ..that the barracks was completely destroyed and the fortifications seriously damaged. The Turks, panic-stricken, fled far inland. [A British squadron bombarded Turkish. troops on the Gulf of Saros, on Sunday last. Tho Gulf of Saros, in the 'Aegean 'Sea, Turkey in Europe, lies between Thrace and the peninsula of f«allipoli.] '• MORTALITY RATE. . IARMY' MEDICAL STATISTICS. " Paris, December 18. !A'rmy medical "statistics reve.al the mortality rate of the French wounded to be 3.40 per cent. It has been possible to : return -541 per cent, to the front,-- : : +

STEAMER SEIZED. [VIOLATING NEUTRALITY. Buenos Aires, December 17. .. The cruiser Pueyrredon seized the German- steamer Patagonia for violating' Argentine neutrality by provisioning a German cruisor. [The Pueyrredon is a cruiser of 6773 tons belonging to the Argentine Republic. She is armoured, and carries two 10-inch, ten 6-inch, six 4-inch, and twenty-two smaller p,uns. The Patagonia is owned by the Hamburg-Amer-lka Line, and is of 3016 tons.] CARIBALDI LEGION. TWENTY THOUSAND TRAINING. London, December 18. A thousand men in London have enlisted in the Garibaldi Legion. Twenty thousand are in training in the Garibaldi camp in France. CREW OF MESSOUDIEH. NEARLY ALL WERE DROWNED. (Reo. December. 20, 3.60 p.m.) Athens, December 19. 'Advices from Constantinople state that the majority of the Messoudieh's crew were drowned. [The t Messoudieh was torpedoed by a British submarine which dived below five layers of mines and hit the Turkish cruiser which was on guard.] SUPPLY COLUMN. DESTROYED BY AN AVIATOR. (Reo. December 20, 3.50 p.m.) ' Paris, December 19. A Belgian aviator bombed a German supply convoy near Ostend and destroyed three motor-lorries. EMDEN'S FUGITIVES. OAPTURED~BF"A/ BRITISH : CRUISER. (Rec. December 20, 4.50 p.m.) London, December 19. A message from Tokio states that a British oruiser captured the Emden's fugitives aboard the Ayesha. [The Emden, when she appeared off the Cocos' Island, sent an armed launch cwj two' boats containing a landing party of forty men and three officers, with four machine guns. When H.M.A.S.. Sydney hove in sight and shelled the Emden, the landing party commandeered two months', supplies and left on the schooner Ayesha, belonging to Mr. Ross, the owner of Cocos Island.] <' \ ANOTHER STORY. (Reo.December 21, 0.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, December 20. A Berlin - wireless message states that the harbourmaster at Rangoon, in Burma, has .telegraphed that an officer and forty-three of the crew of the Emden's landing party, which escaped in a cutter 'before the fight with the Sydney at .the Cocos Islands, were 'taken aboard.the collier. CERMAN CAVALRY. PUNISHED BY THE RUSSIANS. (R-ec. Recember 20, 5.5 p.m.) Petrograd, December 19. During the recent fighting three thousand German Hussars and Prussian Guards were ambuscaded. Only fifty escaped..