NATIONAL REGISTER RESULT.
The Daily, Chronicle Bays that tno National Register shows 1,900,000 men of military age in Britain not engaged in the manufacture of munitions, productive industries or on the railways. Allowing for. the physically unfit, the number available for the army is one million and a quarter. ENOS RAILWAY SEIZED. The Allies have seized the railroad at Enos. in Turkey, near the Bulgarian border. LOSS OF THE ADMIRAL HAMMELIN. Paris, October !8. The Admiral Hanunelin was not warned. The submarine fired lorty shells while the crew and passengers ■were embarking in the boats. A French torpedo boat and a British hospital ship came to the rescue and the submarine disappeared. SERBS COUNTER "STROKE. Bucharest, October 18. The Serbians are attempting to oc cupy the fortress of Widin to prevent the Bulgarians receiving munitions from Austria. (Received This Day y.15 a.m.) THE ZEPPELIN RAID. , London October 1 8. An inquest "was held on the additional twenty-three Zeppelin victims, all iu one London area. Evidence was given that a railway goodsman was killed while entering a restaurant; both his thighs were broken. His wife who was beside liim at the time was unhurt. Another man outside the same house was cut through"" the neck by broken glass and killed. A woman nearby liad the lower part of her spine smashed. Another bomb struck a motor-bus. killing the driver, conductor and a spec ial constable. A house decorator, who was badly injured and taken to the hospital, .n----sisted ou the doctor first attending the man next to "him; both succumbed in a few hours. The coroner, in summing up, suggested that the jury retrain from expressing any indignant feelings in their verdict. The father of one victim protested that his 'son was killed by the Kaiser s order. "I summon the Kaiser. ' said he, "to meet me before the judgment seat of God and answer for the death of my son, and for those of the other twenty-two poor people." A verdict was returned that death was the result of an air raid. ITALY TO HELP. Athenß, October 18. Italy is sending warships and trans- ( polls in connection with the blockade of the Bulgarian and Turkish coasts.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 19 October 1915, Page 3
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