Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 35, 11 October 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

D.C.M. TO AUSTRAkIAN AIRMEN. »'< l' ' ' ) • 'li ({'! ' "United Press Asb<>pi**i©K,; ', : ! | ~.....*.>..< London, October 9. The Gazette announces that a Distinguished Conduct Medal has beeit awarded to Staff-Sergeaqt Heath, of the Australian Flying Corps, for conspicuous pluck and determination in Mesopotamia on August 1. Stan-Ser-geant Heath, without oars, and assisted only, by a pole in a flat-bottomed boat, travelled twenty-eight miles in tweive hours under most .intense heat in, order to, rescue aviators who. had been forced : to descend in the enemy's country, ,

BAD CENSORSHIP. W • \ IT'S EVIL EFFECT UPON THE NATION. I' SUPREME EFFORT REQUIRED TO MEET CRISIS. (Received 10.10 a.m.) London, October !). The Karl of Selbourne, speaking at York, said: We are confronted with a crisis, but must not be dismayed. 11 would require a supreme effort or. the part of the Empire to meet it. When the censor excised the '.passage from a newspaper'eorresponde-ntls report at Loos describing how tenaciously and bravely the Germans fought, it would only be mischievous stupidity.j If some people did not yet realise,.the greatness of the crisis and o-il\e dei mand of self-sacrifice, this was largely due to those who committed the crime of slurring over bad news. > j BRITISH OFFICERS. CASUALTIES 576 IN SIX DAYS. (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, October !'. For sis days the British casualty lists shew !!>() officers killed, 33") wounded, and 51 missing, as a result of the offensive in the West.