General Items

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 94, 11 August 1914, Page 5

General Items

CAPTURE OF MONEY. ON THE RUSSIAN FRONTIER. THREE MOTOR CARS FULL TO THE CERMANS. (Received 9.10 a.m.) Amsterdam, August 10. Germans captured three motor cars carrying large sums of money while trying to cross the Russian frontier THE AYRSHIRE AFIRE. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Capetown, August 10. The Ayrshire, which was afire, is returning at the first opportunity. . Twelve hundreds packages of cotton were damaged. ENGLISH CRUISER'S PRIZE OF WAR. New York, August 10. The liner Narragansett has reported overhearing a wireless; conversation from the cruiser Essex to the effect that she had just captured the Kronprinz Wilholm, and was taking her ■ to Burmada as a prize of war. MERCHANTMAN STRUCK BY FLOATING MINE. London, August 10. The Norwegian-Australasian liner Masla struck a mine off the Dutch coast and sank. Three passengers and three stokers were drowned, but the rest were saved. GERMANY CLOSES THE BALTIC. Copenhagen, August 10. This morning fourteen German warships passed through the Great Belt, sailing northwards of Sveaborg for the Gulf of Finland. German warships laid a line of mines in the Kattegat, the neck of sea between Denmark and Sweden. THE CHIEF DESTROYER. Times and Sydney Sun Services. New York, August 9. Mr Andrew Carnegie, an ardent peace advocate, describes the Kaiser as the chief destroyer in Europe. BRITISH CRUISERS AND GERMAN SUBMARINES. SUBMARINE Uls LOST. London, August 10 (morning). The Admiralty states that German submarines yesterday attacked on© of the cruiser squadrons of the main fleet. No British ships were damaged. _;. The German : >.&L»L* r JB§B sunk. ANOTHER BRITISH PRIZE. Colombo, August 9. A British man-o'-war captured at German merchantman. ABLAZE IN THE ADRIATIC SEA. London, August 9. A message from Ancona (on the east coast of Italy) states that a battleship ' on fire was sighted drifting towards Pola, on the Austrian Adriatic coast. The nationality of the ship is unknown. GERMAN MERCHANTMEN REFUGING IN THE TACUS. (Received 9.50 a.m.) Lisbon, August 10. Thirty Gorman merchantmen have taken refuge in the Tagus.