CAMPAIGN MODEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2351, 6 January 1915, Page 6

CAMPAIGN MODEMS

EAST COAST RAID ■ ATTEMPT AT JUSTIFICATION Amsterdam, January 4. The North German "Gazetto" justifies the shelling of Scarborough by the Germans because it possesses a redoubt with six 6-inch guns. The German vessels, it asserts, shelled only v the coastguard signal station at Whitby. NEW DIRIGIBLE SHEDS.

BOMBED BY AVIATORS. _ Amsterdam, January,4. French aviators dropped bombs and partially destroyed new dirigible sheds at Brussels on Saturday last. Several German soldiers were killed. SUBMARINES CHASED. BY BRITISH CRUISER. i Amsterdam, January 4. , The Bremen paper "Weser Zeitung" publishes a submarine sailor's lettor which relates that submarines were cruising near the Dogger • Bank on Christmas Day but were scared off by a British cruiser which attempted to ram them., COMFORT AND KINDNESS. IN BRITISH CONCENTRATION CAMP. Amsterdam, | January i. The "Berliner -Tageblatt" publishes a German seaman's letter, which mentions tho absolute comfort and great kindness he and his comrades are experiencing in a'concentration camp at Eastcoto, Hampshire. The writer hopes that the prisoners in Germany are being equally well treated.

DEATH OF A NEW ZEALANDER. Sydney, January 5. It is officially reported that Private Sydney Foster Chamberlain, of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, died from pneumonia in Egypt. PROMINENT CRICKETER WOUNDED. (Reo. January 5, 7 p.m.) • . London, January 5. Captain Schwartz, the well-known cricketer, was severely wounded in South Africa.

A PROPOSED GIFT. i FAILED TO MATERIALISE. (Rec. January 5, 5.20 p.m.) _ London, January 4. The Paris "Temps" says, on Boxing Day General von Bissing, the military •Governor of Belgium, made a long harangue to the Germans 'urging the capture of Ypros at all cost in order to offer the Kaiser a New Year's gift.—("Timeß" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) CERMAN STEAMER. CAPTURED -BY A. CRUISER; (Rec. January 5, 11.30 p.m.) Copenhagen, January 5. _ A Norwegian shipmaster who has arrived from Gibraltar reports that some German steamers have attempted 'to sail under Norwegian names to avoid seizure. The Hamburg-Amerika's Graecia (2/53 'tons), under an assumed name, and carrying three months' provisions for two German warships, tried to cross the Atlantic, hut an English cruiser captured and took her to Gibraltar.

DESMAN RAIDER. SINKS BRITISH AND FRENCH' .'•{'; , ;V::^-:..-.;:-.SHlP;";....-i (Rec. January 6, 0.55 a.m:) ' . Las Palmas, January 5. . The -, German : steamer Otavi (5173 tons),! from Pernambuco, has landed 38 'sailors, of French ships sunk by the merchant oruiser. Kron-Prinz Wilhelm, and fifty-five from the British steamer Bellevue (3814 tons),' sunk on December .4. ■■•'.-. ; ■■■.■;■ OF PRISONERS. '■..-. (Rec. January 6, 0.55 a.m.) ' ~•; Amsterdam,' January 6. -\ ;'A Berlin telegram states that the first. : _exchango<- of .■permanently incapacitated' prisoners , was made at Geneva this month. IN SOUTH AFRICA. ; BURGHERS/RESPONDING TO THE ■ .-:,---v.:y -CALL;', - : .:■' :.;■:■■ • (RebV January 6, 0.55 a.m.) "Johannesburg, January 5. The Commandeering Order is being well received, the burghers readily responding "to the call to join their commandoes.. ...'.___ .. : .'■' ■ ' '■'/"". '