EURASTA REFLOATED.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 February 1915, Page 3

EURASTA REFLOATED.

Auckland, Tin's Day. TJip Ttalian sliip. T?urasin. roportorl ashorp on tlip Thames 7nn<] flats vpstorda.y. was floats off last nijrlil. %f \va «tovr«vl to AnckTaticT li arbour t.1i!«; morning ami is apparently nncTamagp 1 ~ About tpn nVlock on friclay nigbfc :

disastrous fire broke nuf, at the Opunako Hotel resulting in flie total de.strnr. tiw of fhe hofel. engage, stables. •TiuTson's coachbiiildincr factory and Atkins. Forbma+Mv onlv n lieht breeze was; hfnwfntr or the da inn (r> , ivoijid , have boon rrreater. Tnsurnnro* nvn liable: Opnnake Tfoti"! glßOfl in +bo fJiiardian office: staFiles .£3OO in Hir* \ t piv Zonimul nffW : .Tm'knn'.K £100 nnd AiH-iii's CIO. 1 villi in fb f > T?oval Companv.

A correspondent eays he has in hi possession a drawing made in the vil lage of Serniaiae by an officer in charg of ja iFrenoh cavalry (patrol, wfhjlol: entered the village a Tew days aite the Germans "fire-engines" had don their work. It is crude but horribl; sincere sketch of eiglit bodies whicl were found lying in one of the cellar of the hurnt village. There were tin corpses of a man and women of abou sixty years of age, two women of abou I thirty, and four children, one of whon was about three years of age. Thej had been killed, and the arms and th< head of the child of three were depicted with crude realism lying severed from the trunk on the floor or the cellar. The officers and all tho men of the patrol signed that drawing, which is tho most convincing proof that, at any rate, some of these atrocities have been committed that has yet been forthcoming.