STEAMER SHELLED
ATTACKED BY GERMAN SUBMARINE. AMSTERDAM; Feb 12. Submarine U2 on Wednesday shelled the steamer Laerotes off the Maas lightship. The captain raised the Dutch flag to protect many neutral passengers on board. He then went full speed ahead and escaped. The submarine fired a torpedo fruitlessly. MILITARY APPOINTMENT CRITICISED. COLONEL SEELY PLACED IN COMMAND. (.Reed 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, Feb 12. The "Morning Post," referring to the appointment of Colonel Seely as Brigadier General with the command of an important cavalry unit declares that the appointment savours of political preference. It was hard lines that a regular officer should have politicians, who got all the plums during peace, robbing him' of .opportunities on the Staff Service in war time. It added that Colonel Seely distinguished himself at the War Office by tactical manoeuvres in which he evacuated a position and re-took it without loss of life. It did not suppose this episode gave him any just claim to promotion in the regular army.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 138, 13 February 1915, Page 5
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164STEAMER SHELLED Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 138, 13 February 1915, Page 5
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