Australia

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 22, 14 September 1914, Page 5

Australia

GERMAN COLONY CAPTIfRED. FIGHTING IN THE BISMARCK ARCHIPELAGO. [ Bv Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.} Melbourne, September 13. Mr Millen, Minister for Defence, has, issued the following:—

"Telegram from Admiral Paloy, on the flagship Australia, dated September 12th.

"Herbertshohe was occtiiped, an.J; the British flag boisted, ;it 7.30 on the'> morning of Septemher 11, without op position. Supsonhagen (Si'mpsoDh4fcrj'> ha,s been swept ready to >j<» entered ''Septemher 72. - A ua'val fprpe lm ed by 'Commander Beresfprd to de'siri ' the wireless plant rriH vigorous option - tion. The advance party at dawit': ; .>:- - tablished a lauding before the enfcpi were aware of our intentions With',.' a few hundred-yard:- ot Fiic-' "landi'i*; bush-figbting occurred and eontinuc--' over almost four miles. Tin? rcwui and forests had been mined in pia/v. The wireless station had been outre; chei'v The German commander, \\\- was entrenched on the seaw.nni side < ' the wireless station, sorrendered u;« conditionally. The forces now reeo.s. noitred the strength'of the'enew y , the wireless station. The 12-poi.md--, guns have been landed, and unless testation surrenders I shall shell to-mcn row. "Our force sustained the roJlowiu>; casualties: Two officers and two see men killed; an officer and two seawu" wounded. The German casualties a. unknown. Two officers, five non-com missioned and 30 native police wrtaken prisoners." (Hertbertshohe, a settlement o Blanche Bay, north-east coast of Britain (New Pomerania), in the Bit. marck Archipelago. It was the so'. of Government for German New Gr.; nea, the Archipelago,and other isles in the Pacific, until 1909. Pop:! lation, 1000. The Bismarck ArehipE:: ago is the general name for the i; lands lying immediately east of Nc Guinea, which for the most part we. acquired by Germany in 1884-5. T entire area is estimated at, 2Q,C square miles, and the total populate. * at approximately 190,000. The I; habitants are mostly of a low type, n yet free from cannibalism. Trade i valued at £200,000 per annum). Syduey, September 13. -

Mr Millen has received an additic al wireless that the Australian Na\ Reserves captured the wireless si

tion at Hertbertshohe on Saturda after 18 hours' bush fighting over ; miles. Herbertshohe and Ra'l)a have been garrisoned and a base est a lished at Simpsonhafen. They ma prisoners of two German officers, v eluding the commandant, togc! with 15 non-commissioned officers ; - 56 native police. The German castties were between 20 and 30 kill. Two of the naval reserve seamen w killed and one wounded, in addition previous casualties.