STOP PRESS NEWS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 October 1915, Page 3

STOP PRESS NEWS

Cinoniclo Uihce ..J -jau liltlTJfcjll TROOPSHiP TUBPEDOJiD. JJaunuviriio, luia i/aj. -Legaiuuig ine luipeuoiiig 01 <i> aanspOll 11 JjaUilOMl'KC ICSUiellt llltfe ICeeiV-i-d a lotted' sDa Ling thai the troopskip was tko oouuiiiaud, winch kit Alexandria on August Jink, auu was torpedoed thirty nulus iroin Aiuuro.s, one night, iivu torpedoes were iiruu. Jiio i'Mst missed but the iccoiul .struck uie | vessel below ike wator-unc aim near I Liio bow. Brigadier-General Lytton I died irom exposure and shuck. About * iilty men were drowned or killed. The I hospital skip -S'our.iiia piclied up many | men. The troopship was carrying I the second Australian .Division; also General Legge and the Headquarters .Stall. Eventually she was beached at Xi udros. HIGH COiUMkSSUJAii.iI S BEPOBT. * London, October IU. In thu course oi tlio night ihrco German grenade attacks at Bois en liaolio, north-east ol Souchcz, were .Oiiipletely repulsed by our inlaiilry who are solidly installed there. A hurricane oi artillery on the enemy's batteries stopped tko intense boinbaidment on our position at Eparges. A group of aviators on the nigh us oi die 17tk and 18th bombarded tuc German aviators' ground at Burlincourt, nortk-oast oi Uhateau Seline; ike hangars and skelters were di-mol-isked. CASUALTY LIST. Admitted Lo .'3rd Western (Jeiierai Hospital, Oardih'. .Divisional Headquarters.—Sergt. B. Wheeler. Auckland Mounted.--Trooper G. Speer. Eield Ambulance.---Private 1'• Stone. Admitted to tith General Hospital, Plymouth.— Wellington Mounted.—Trooper -J. Sl>ree. Wellington .Battalion.-- l'rnatr L. Wattson. Canterbury Battalion. --fteigi \\ . L. Leedlo. Admitted to Military Hospital, En-dell-street, London. - Canterbury Battalion. I'nvaU' lv. .McG. Stewart. Admitted Clear Hospital. Jlia.dieign England.— Field Ambulance. - Private I'. K. Walker. Jim barked ior England on Hospital Ship. Asturias, August 18th. - Oiago Battalion.-Private J. .\lc i J hi rson. Embarked ior England on iio.spila, Ship Carisbrook Castk-. September 17th.— A'lekland Battalion. Corporal M. o'. By an. Reported lor England, Hospital Ship, Ditalia, September 10th.---Held Engineers.— Sapper J. Hos•tot--. Field Artillery.—Gminei' G. Parkinsou. Admitted to hospital. - 0 ago Mounted.- Trooper A. W. Algnr. Disembarked at .Malta, slejuly sick. — Ctago Mounted.—Lieut. -S- r>. Bre ;iuer. Field Artillery.--Gunner 0. L. Gnmoni'. I) : visional Engineers.—Sapper G J. Robinson. A ickland Battalion. —Private .M. J. Ward. 'Canterbury Battalion.-Private E. T. Small. Medical Corps.-Private G. Manner. «B»enßtw »«araw»»7. J""*'. : fr. l Wellington. This Day. Indications are for southerly winds ~t i.mii«s. The woathor will probalily pn.ve squallv with 'heavy diovveiK The m ght probably will be very cold. The barometer is rising.