LATEST WAR NEWS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 67, 18 November 1914, Page 5

LATEST WAR NEWS

A SPY ARRESTED. ALLEGED SECRET WIRELESS APPARATUS. (Received 1.40 p.xn.) LONDON, November 17. A court martial has opened at Woolwich on Harold Fcchtenberger, charged with possessing a wireless' apparatus. Prisoner admitted owning an apparatus tound in, his residence at Thorpe Bay. The police found a powerful electric morse lamp at a house overlooking the sea at Southend which prisoner’s aunt occupied.. A ZEPPELIN WRECKED. PARIS, November 17. A Rotterdam message states that at Maastricht a Zeppelin fell and was wrecked. DEPARTURE OF AUSTRALIAN FORCES. CENSORSHIP PARTIALLY REMOVED. SYDNEY, Nov. IS. The papers have been permitted to publish references and photographs of the departure of the expeditionary forces. The Herald says it was not until the ships carrying the New Zealand contingent arrived that the long line of transports finally sailed on their historic coyage. LORD ROBERT’S DEATH. THE LAST SAD OBSEQUIES, BRITISH VALOUR AT COLENSO RECALLED. (Received 1.40 pun.) LONDON, November I.’. The coffin has arrived at Folkestone, and will be forwarded to Ascot immediately. The burial service takos place in Saint Paul’s at noon on Thursday. The public will later be allowed to pass the coffin which will be on the chancel steps. The gun carriage used belongs to the gun Lieutenant Roberts sought to save at Oolenso. THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION. LOYAL COMMANDANT’S ESCAPE. CAPETOWN, November 17. Commandant Puche whom the rebels treacherously captured was ordered to be shot. He attacked his guards, felled two, shot the other two and escaped. PEACE PROPOSALS. UNITED STATES’ ATTITUDE MADE CLEAR. BELGIAN REFUGEES AS AMERICAN SETTLERS. (Received 12.50 p.rn.) WASHINGTON, November 17. President Wilson has made the United States’ attitude clear in regard to peace proposals. The President declared that the American Government cannot press for peace until one of the belligerent' parties formally asks threfore. The United States is willing to join hands in concerted action by the other neutrals, but intends to refrain from taking any initiative itself. The United States is likely to attempt to secure large inumbers of Belgian refugees as settlers. President Wilson favours the project. DEATHS AT SEA. FOUR MEMBERS OP AUSTRALIAN CONTINGENT. MELBOURNE, November 17. Senator Pearce has announced that four members of the Austialian Imperial force have died at sea. Privates Kendall, Low, Courtenay and Power. DESTRUCTION OF THE EMDEN. THE CAPTAIN’S ACCOUNT. MELBOURNE, November 18. Captain Glossop, commander of the Sydney has communicated the following details of the ' Emden fight:—- “ The enemy hove in sight at 9.25 and the first shot; was fired at 9.40. The Emden fired a shot at 10,000 yards, shooting excellently considering the distance was outside her range. Firing failed when the Sydney began hitting her. The Emden’s rudder was quickly disabled and she suffered great less of speed owing to her funnel and foremast being destroyed. Then her second arid third funnels were shot away. She was beached at 11.20, when I left her.”