CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 June 1915, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

1 bJLKIJTKIG ThfiKliUAl'll l.Of VUlCiiit . J |_I"KK I'KUKB) ASSOCIATION.] (Received Way S.-Vj a.m.) TiUAL OE SMITH. Lomion, June 2b. At tlie U-ial oJ George .Smith (lor wife murder) at the Old Bailey. Air 11. -Bodkin, K.C., LToivn L'roseeutor, said there Mil* a simple and terribly effective way of drowning a person in a vaili. If someone lilted the legs and let the ii-iiiik oJ' ihe body slide down the .sloping pan tiiero was almost immediate utß'ousuioiisiii'i'ss. and a rapid and silent deat-li. Tin. , woman Munday's legs were against the lop oi the bath. Siie was MXty-eight mclies tall, while tin. , bath was lorty-loiir inches Jong on tiio bottom ami sixty on tlie top. ' (.Received. This Day \).'M a.m.) AI STUaLIA LilvKLi TO «L\i> MOKE Mi'jS. Aleluniinu'. Til's Oay. It i-. siaud liiai ill viou' ol fieuator i'eiuce'.s .siateineiit that I'Vtrj mall « ivaiiled. tin , Luiiiiiitinw eiiHli m ill short-' ly rai.se an additional contingent cunsitjiiug (it lliree iiuauti'v bngade.3, one in Now South Wales, another in Victoria and a third amongst the remaining Suites. ALSTKALIA'.S CASUALTIES. in the House-the Hon. Mr Jensen .stated that including the Ji.sts issuing to-morrow thu casualties total cloio on 7oT/", including J.721J kille<l or died (rl wounds and disease; 73ri wounded or missing; l : > 7 ill; and o'.Ki missing, including two reported prisoners of war at Constantino-pie. Ol those returned 100 were disciplinary. LKW physically unlit (.including '.iol venereal casos) and 'i'J. returned i'or other reasons. The total i'orce di.spawiied w<us ii'6,oo'2. EARTHQUAKE L\ CAJ.IEOKMA. New lork, Juno,2iJ. An earthquake occurred in the' imperial X'alley iu California. Eifteen were killed. Caleeieo was destroyed partially by lire. LETTER FROM GEXtiKAL (lODLEV. .Senator i'earee (piotes extracts from a personal letter from Uenera-1 God ley, dated 7th May. which 'pays a tribute to the gallantry of the Fourth Brigade and the Otngo Jiii-tlalion. It adds : "J am a-iraul it is impossNjle to send an accurate casualty list lor some time, so sanguinary 'wa« the ■fighting. Companies and even battal ioiiss had to lie pitched into the fight m mediately wherever they ■wvrv wanted. The result was that the men got very intei mingled and at present it is impossible to tell what proportion of orave men reported nii-ssiiig have been killed." The letter concludes in praising the splendid spirit uf the men. ilicy , come out of the trenches exhausted, biingry and harassed, ami twelve hours lji'-ier go back as I resh as ever. f 'l can' never say Ih.av proiul I am to have such Jiii excellent, splendid,, mul gallant body t>l "'en under inc. m> I have Ihe lionoMif to command. ,: