LATE WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 217, 31 May 1915, Page 7

LATE WAR NEWS.

is. .OU-BILAJION IN GERMANY.

/% i • SINKING t.OF THE TRIUMPH.

!3 Jfsogß Association —Copyright. y May 28. ’ . {Reed, 1.45 p.m.)

Tib&E.e is great Jubilation in. Germany at the .sinking jrf the Triumph. They ■win paign and assert tthat British losses at A;rthwmu were -jso heavy that they were compelled to.agk for time to bury their dead.

Captain JPersius, 'in ihe ‘ Tageblatt,” hints -that t&e submarine that torpedoed the Triumph traveled from the North Sea to ihe Dardanelles.

DANISH STEAMER MINED-

COPENHAGEN?, May 28,

The Danish steamer Ely, from England to Sunrswall, was mined and sunk off Stockholm. The crew were saved. EFFORT IN GALICIA. TURKISH TROOPS ASSISTING. COPENHAGEN?, (May 28. The Neuve Freie Presse states that Turkish troops reinforced the Austrians before Przemysl, the Turks wearing Austrian uniforms and Turkish fezes. ,

A TURKISH NOTIFICATION.

SUEZ CANAL INVOLVED.

LONDON, May 28,

T?ie Porte has notifie<i neutrals that owing to nnd French actions in Egypt, it is decided to extend hostilities to th e Canal.' 2'^ le responsibility damage to neutral ve&. se^s devolves upon Britain and Francs. interpreted to limply an oxtensioit P f sul> marine warfare to the Canal zone'. GERMAN INVASION. A REIGN OF TERROR. PARIS, May 28. The Provincial adminstration of Brabant has issued statistics showing that during the German occupation of the Brabant District 5,842 houses were burned, 16,000 damaged and pillaged, 834 civilians—men, women and children —were shot and 112 sent to Germany. -•? ; : AMERICA AND GERMANY. THE NEBRASKA OUTRAGE. NEW YORK, May 28. The newspapers rae reserving judgment as to whether the Nebraska was mined or torpedoed. They point out that if she was torpedoed it is little less than an act of war. American restraint means American indiffer- ; ence. ' ' ■ i - i: ■ SSSSSSS I = 5*