MOUTH-ORGANS FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 113, 15 January 1915, Page 5

MOUTH-ORGANS FOR SOLDIERS AND SAILORS.

(Times and Sydney Sun Special Cables). (Reed. 5,23 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. U. A London firm has completed an order for 10,001 mouth-organs for the fleet, and 8,000 for soldiers, “GOOD AFTERNOON, POINCARE." GERMAN AVIATOR S LITTLE JOKE (Reid. 9.35 p.m.) r. AEIS, Jen. - A German aviator at Dunkirk, evidently misinformed as to the time of President Poincare’s arrival, threw a weighted streamer with the inscription, “Good afternoon, Poincare.’’ GERMAN PORTS IN STATE OF SIEGE. FEARS OF BRITISH ATTACK. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 14. Hamburg, Lubeck and Cuxhaven have been declared in a stale of siege. No reason is assigned, but it is supposed to be a precautionary measure against the possibility of a British attack. FALKLAND ISLAND NAVAL BATTLE. RECORD OF GERMAN SAVED. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 14. A Berlin telegram states that none of the Scharnhorst’s crew were saved, but seven officers and 171 men of the Gneisenau, no officers and seven men of Nurnberg, and four officers and KV ■uen of the Leipzig were rescued. The conv'cy vessels’ crews were all saved. SLAVS' UNHAPPY POSITION. OPPRESSED-BY AUSTRIANS. LONDON, Jan. 14. The Austrian authorities are becoming more oppressive towards the Slav population. Ten Czechs were hanged in Prague ter possessing a Russian proclamation to Czechs. Many SerboCrotian leaders in Dalmatia have been imprisoned. AUSTRIA AND PEACE. LONDON, Jan.' 14. A Copenhagen message quotes the Vienna Nieu Freie Presse statement hat the Queen of Holland, the Duke f Luxemburg and the President of •Switzerland under President Wilson re working for peace, and that the mcnarehs of the other neutral countries have,,been invited to join the oic cement. USING THE ENEMY’S SHIPS. LONDON, Jan. 14. The Admiralty has requisitioned a number of the enemy’s steamships interned in the United Kingdom for employment in the coastal trade. KHAKI FOR CLOTH. LONDON, Jan. 14. Ihe Rev. Huxeu Samson (“the fighting parson”), of the Queensland Bush Brotherhood, failing to get a chaplaincy, obtained a commission in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry. THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA. INVASION OF GERMAN TERRITORY. PRETORIA, Jan. 14. Van Zyl has occupied Rames Drift, l he principal crossing cn the Orange River into Gennaan territory. He drove out a German patrol entrenched in the hills. WHY BERCHTOLD RESIGNED. COPENHAGEN, Jan. 14. A neutral diplomatist, interviewed, states 'that the differences between the Emperor and Count Berchtold were such that the latter declined longer to be responsible for the Austrians’ war policy. He advised that peace be obtained on the best possible conditions before Austria was absolutely ruined. # , OLD STORY RETOLD. GERMAN STRONG COUNTERATTACK. (Rec. Noon). PARIS, Jaan. 14. The attack north-east of Soisscns, of considerable magnitude, apparently is the recent. French attack which menaced the railway junction affiAnizy and Lr> Gateau? Yen Kluck successfully appealed for strong reinforcements and was enabled to press a counter-attack vehemently. A GERMAN ACCOUNT. SOME BRILLIANT CAPTURES. WITNESSED BY THE KAISER. (Rec. Noon.) LONDON, Jan. 14. A German wireless states: Our tre'e/ps north-east of Soissons attacked the heights at Vresny and cleared the elevated pi in o p trench after trench, despite pouring r in ph/t deeply sodden clov. The Kais«r witnessed a brilliant capture of fourteen French officers, 1300 men, four cannon, four machine-guns, an* one searchlight.