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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 168, 20 March 1915, Page 5

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LORD KITCHENER’S APPEAL. ; MEN TO NOBLY RESPOND. INFLUX OF WOUNDED ANTICIPATED. (Reed. 9.55 a.m.) Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, March 19. The Miners’ Federation ha s received an appeal from Lord Kitchener to limit their Easter holidays to one c|r two days a s curtailment of the output might lead to veritable disaster. Mr Thomas, addressing the railwaymen, declared that the censorship was responsible for workers not fully understanding- occurrences at the front. It was certain now that the workers were brought face to face with all that is involved will give their best work to ensure the lives of their sons who are flighting not being necessarily sacrificed. The War Office throughout the kingdom is fitting up schools, infirmaries, workhouses and asylums in anticipation of an influx of wounded. CALAIS BOMBED. PARIS, March 19. Official: A Zeppelin bombed Calais, killed seven employees at the railway station and caused a little damage to property. ONLY ONE BOMB EFFECTIVE. LONDON, March 19. The Daily Chronicle’s correspondent at Calais says that a Zeppelin arrived at midnight. The town was immediately darkened and quick-firers manned, but the searchlight was unable to penetrate the fog. Bombs fell for IS minutes. They were mostly incendiary. Only one was effective. It fell on a railway carriage where mechanics were sleeping. This was soon ablaze. Seven men were killed, their heads and limbs being blown off. Nine were extricated alive. Another bomb pierced the vault and transcept of Notre Dame Cathedral. A third bomb damaged Lamoreq Hospital. Tracks of blazing petroleum, where the bombs fell, were visible an hour after the Zeppelin left. HEAVY BRITISH CASUALTIES. CAMERONIANS WIPED OUT. LONDON, March 19. A thousand Indian wounded have arrived at Brighton. The 6th Gordons lost a colonel and* twelve officers killed and wounded at Nenve Ohapelle. Lord Claud Hamilton states that Inc Grenadiers lost a colonel and sixteen officers. Only throe hundred were unhurt out of eleven hundred men. The Cameronians seem to have been wiped out. GERMAN LOSSES. PETROGRAD, March 19. German losses in the Welitza region since the 3th total 25.000. THE KARLSRUHE. COPENHAGEN, March 19. Evidence is accumulating to show that the Karlsruhe sank as the result of an explosion on December Ist, off the Grenadines, Windward Islands. The crew were brought to Germany aboard the steamer Rio Negro, but this was kept secret in order that the British cruisers would continue chasing the Karlsruhe. LONDON, March 19. West Indian letters state much wreckage marked "Karlsruhe” has been washed up between St. Lucia and Granada, TRENCH SUCCESSES, PARIS, March 19. We had marked gains north-east of Mesnil, Hartmanns, and Willerkopf, where the enemy’s losses were very high, their trenches being full of dead. GERMANY’S FLEET. RUSTING IN KIEL CANAL. BASLE, March 19. A telegram from Kiel states that, the Dreadnoughts are being overhauled and remanned. Owing to their long rest the boilers are showing signs of rust. The Dreadnoughts will undergo sea trials and gun trials for a week. Since the outbreak of war the crews have been distributed. Many have been killed and wounded during land fighting. The biggest guns have been sent to Belgium. The Germans boast that they can meet an English naval attack. It is freely stated that the Kaiser intends to have a fair fight in the North Sea. THE THORDIS HONOURED, LONDON, March 19. Captain Bell, of the Thordis (which rammed and sank a German submarine) has been appointed a lieutenant of the Naval Reserve and has receiv’d the Distinguished Service Cross. The Admiralty has given the crew £2OO. Mr. J. .1. Jarrett, of Taihapo, has been appointed engineer to the Kiwitea County Council.