MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2653, 27 December 1915, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS

VON HINDENBURG'S HATE ByTeleerasl—Press Assooiatlon-Oopyrfeht (''Times" and Sydney '"Sun" Services.') (Rec.. December 26, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 25. General von Hindenburg, in an interview, published in the German Press, proclaiming passionate_ Anglophobism, says he had been warning his countrymen against England for years. England, ho said, was the real promoter of the war, and the whole Entente was still governed by the spirit.of Edward the Seventh. He was sceptical about revolutions in Russia or India, and he advised that all attention, should be fixed on England. OFF THE YEMEN COAST CONVOY OF ARAB SHIPS SUNE Rom||jJ)ecember 23. The "Messagero" stj¥es that two Allied submarines captured an. Austrian submarine, and that Allied' warships sank a convoy of Arab ships full of troops on the Yemen coast. ? MUNSTER EXPLOSION FOUR HUNDRED KILLED Amsterdam, December 23. The "Tolegraaf" states that 400 persons, mostly soldiers' wives and children, wore killed at Munster,. Westphalia, by the recent explosion. PERCENTAGE OF DEATHS A VERY BIG DECREASE.. Paris, December 23. The proportion of deaths among tlie sick and wounded soldiers was 53 per 1000 in October, 1914, and lias regularly faileu since, till it is now only 18. SCUTARI BOMBED BY ENEMY AVIATORS (Rec. December 26, 11.50 p.m.) Gettlnje, December 2G. Two aeroplanes, one a German, bombed Scutari in Thursday, killing five civilians and injuring sixteen women and children. DEFENCE OF SALONIKA • CONSIDERED SATISFACTORY (Rec. December 26, 11.60 p.m.) Paris, December 26. General Castlenau has concluded his inspections of Salonika, and expressed satisfaction with the defence measures.