TO BE BURIED AT BANBERRA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2547, 23 August 1915, Page 6

TO BE BURIED AT BANBERRA

THE LATE GENERAL BRIDGES. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Melboumo, August 21. The body of Maior-Goneral Bridges, killed in the Dardanelles, will bo interred with full military honours at Canberra. BRIGADIER-GENERAL M'CAY. WOUNDED AUSTRALIAN IN LONDON. London, August 20. Brigadier-General M'Cay, of the 2nd Australian Infantry Brigade, has been accommodated at Viscount Ridley's house, Carltonlionse Terrace, which ho has lent as a private hospital for officers. 1 General M'Cay's broken leg ie in plaster of paris, and will probably take several weeks to heal. He is determined to return to the Dardanelles.

AUSTRALIAN AIRMAN KILLED BY . THE ARABS. DEATH OF LIEUTENANT MERZ. Melbourne, .August 21. Messages from India atato that Lieutenant Jlerz was killed by Mareli Arabs near tlio spot . where his aeroplane was discoverod. A punitive party has been dispatchbd, There is no news of Lieutenant Burn, a New Zealander, who is also missing. [The Viceroy of India recently cabled tin* Australian Government that ion July 13 Lieutenant Morz, of the Australian Flying Corps, was flying towards Basra, ,at tlio mouth of the Euphrates, when his engino failed. Arabs found his damaged «.erot>lanc, but Merz (to* mi'i.sipir.\