AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2483, 9 June 1915, Page 6

AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES

34TH LIST. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Rec. June 9, 1 a.m.) Sydney, June 8. The thirty-fourth Dardanelles Casualty List includes the following:— Killed in action—Lieutenants Cunningham and. G. H. Smith. Died of wounds—Major J. Miller. Wounded— Captain Hindmarsh, Lieutenants Tiddy, Steele, and Napier (last-named was previously reported to have died of wounds). Other ranks—Killed in action, 19; died of wounds, 30; died of illness, 7; wounded, 220; missing, 20. Now Zealanders wounded are: Privates J. M. Hawke, W. M'Cracken, P. Cotton, R. D. Chalmers, and J. Bracey. AMONGST THE MIS-SING. .Sydney, June 8. Corporal Vincent is missing at the Dardanelles. He was educated in New Zealand. An Auckland pressman who "flew" .with, Aviator Walsh the other day says of his 1 experience"Presently there comes a new sensation. The speed is iiow nearly 50 miles an hour. Tiie hull, of which only a few inches still rest on the water, rises to tho surface of the ripples; striking each one with a bump as a fast motor-car spurns stones upoii a smooth road. There is no longer any spray; the water runs below undisturbed. With a farewell bump the seaplane is flying. Without the least discomfort to his passenger the pilot lifts his macbino higher and higher on a long slope, and then by a. slight movement of the control brings.it on to "a level keel" a hundred-feet above the water. The surface speed has becomo 60 miles an hour. The air rushes past one's ears with a deafening roar; one's hands become chilled; the sensation is one of exhilaration and entirely pleasurable. The sense of security, in a large measure inspired by confidence in the pilot, is supremo above thoughts-.of personal risk. The machine flies so steadily that one feels inclined to stand, and walk about. Tlicro is no overpowering sensation oi speed. There is none of the. continuous fiddling with the steering wheel that onewatches in a' hiotor-car, for in the air there aro no obstructions. To measure tho rapidity .of tlie flight the passenger must look 'over the side, directly below the machine. ."There the water races just.like-the-liD.pf Niagara."