FINE WORK BY FLYING CORPS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 126, 29 May 1916, Page 3

FINE WORK BY FLYING CORPS.

TURKS AND GERMANS SEVERELY BOMBED. IMPORTANT DAMAGE DONE. ENEMY’S EGYPTIAN PLANS UPSET The High Commissioner reports. — LONDON, May 25. Since the enemy’s attack on Port Said cn Wednesday and Thursday, he •has been allowed little rest by the 'Royal Flying Corps. Thi s morning the enemy’s advanced posts were heavily bombed by four machines. Forty bombs were dropped, having considerable effect. Buildings and plant at El Hamma were seriously damaged, and water tanks at Rohsalern were smashed by direct bombs. This upsets the whole plan of the enemy, who, since the destruction of the drilling plant at Jifjaffa by a British patrol, have greatly valued the water works at Rodhsalera. According to reports, the column of troops who suffered heavily from the bomb attack at El Arish by the Royal Flying Corns on May 18th were Germans. This explains the hasty retaliation of dropping bombs on Port Said civilians.

i ASTOUNDING EVIDENCE. i POLICE RECOMMENDATIONS I IGNORED. LONDON, May 25. Lord Hardinge "s Commission, sit ting in Dublin, heard evidence as tc the origin of Sinn Feinism and the offi cial methods of dealing with sedition. Colonel Sir Melville Chamberlain, In-spector-General of Constabulary, gave evidence that ho made various recommendations, considered on the advice of experienced officers to be essential .o the maintenance of law and order. The Government in many cases had net seen fit to adopt them. He also represented the need of increased powers under tlic Defence of the Realm Act. Colonel Johnson, Commissioner of Police in Dublin, gave eviden.ee that 541 rifles and 765 bayonets were seized at various times at the Port of Dublin. Disloyal volunteers in 1915 stole 100 rifles addressed to Mr John Redmond for the National volunteers.

AUSTRALASIAN MEAT AT HOME. LONDON, May 25. Meat importers complain, that Australian and New Zealand mutton and lamb ar e being sold at an average of lid per Kb cheaper than Argentine, ostensibly in order to keep the prices devni. It is alleged that the Government is thereby realising £20,000 weekly loss than might Do obtained. This sum is apparently going into the pockets of intermediaries and not benefiting consumers, as the retail prices ar P the same as the Argentine. Forced sales of colonial meat at lower prices than Argentine tend to pricy dice the repot* tiou of colonial produce to the advantage of its, strongest competitor.

A piece of ambergris, estimated to be worth £50,000, is floating somewhere on the Pacific Ocean, near th e Queensland coast says the Waihi Daily Telegraph). The schooner A. F. Coates was making for Puget Bound, when Captain Morris sighted a low-floating object a short dbs tance from his vessel. Suspecting iliat it was ambergris, he sent the second mate with a boat and crew to investigate. A heavy swell was running at the time, and darkness was fast app,o,idling. The second mete overhauled the object just at dark, and he said it closely resembled ambergris. Unable to signal the captain to work the ship near, he managed to get two handfuls of the drift, and returned to the sthuMior. Xoxt morning it was not to be scon. Captain Morris turned the sample over to chemists, arid it proved to be pure ambergris of a very irg'h grade. The small amount the mate had grabbed was disposed of for £IOO. lie estimated the size of vhs dr ; ft to bo 14 feet long, 15 inches wide and S inclus thick. At the price obtained for tin small lot. this drift is easily worth £SO ( CO, Ambergris, which, is a morbid pecuticn of the whale and. is used in ;• turnery, commands from £3 :o £l2 an ounce, and there is a steady demand for ,t.