IN THE AIR.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 July 1917, Page 5

IN THE AIR.

AIR RAID IN FLANDERS. BRITISH CAUSE GREAT DAMAGE, i | ! LONDON, July 12. ! The Admiralty reports: Naval aeroplanes last nigtrt carried out raids, with military objectives on Ghistelles and Varssanaere railway dump, causing a heavy explosion ana an intense conflagration. They attacked with gunfire a railway siding at Zarren and bombed a train at St. Denis, Westrem. They also bombed the Ostend railway lines and electric power station and caused a fire near the latter. Several tons of bombs were dropped. All the aeroplanes returned safely. . AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. AUSTRIA URGING PEACE. LONDON, July 13. Reuter states that the latest authentic news from Berlin is that the Kaiser received the Austro-Hungarian Ambassaador also the Crown Prince. There is the stronge»t reason for believing that Vienna is strenuously urging the necessity for peace,

BRITISH POLITICS CABINET CHANGES. Received 8.45 a.m. LONDON, July 13. The Daily Telegraph says it is expected Sir EdAvard Carson will succeed Mr. Bonar Law in the War Council, relinquishing the Admiralty. ON THE SEA. BRITISH DREADNOUGHT .BLOWN UP. NEARLY ALL HANDS LOST. LONDON, July 13. The High Commissioner cables: The Admiralty reports that H.M.S. Vanguard was blown up on Monday as the result of an internal explosion. Nearly all perished. (The Vanguard was one of the St. Vincent class of Dreadnoughts, completed in 1911, with a displacement of 19,250 tons. She was 500 feet long, of 24,000 h.p., and a speed of 21 knots. Her main battery comprised ten 12 inch guns, mounted in five turrets; also eighteen four-inch guns. She had three submerged torpedo tubes. Her fuel was coal and oil. She had a complement of 800 men, and cost £1,700,000.) STEAMER ON FIRE. LONDON, July 12. The British India Company's steamer Chilka, en route from Madras to Rangoon, was abandoned afire. There were 1700 aboard, and it is feared that many fatalities \ive occurred. A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. SURVIVORS OF THE NYORA. MELBOURNE, July 113.

The survivors of the Huddart Parker tug Nyora had a terrible experience after the tug foundered while towing a schooner from Port Pirie toSydney, 24 hours before being picked up. They, with the fireman and the engineer Ching were on an upturned lifeboat. TKey managed to right it, but it , continually capsized. They were unable to row or steer. The fireman and engineer died of exposure. In the evening they sighted the lighthouse, but had to battle with the elements another twelve hours before being seen. The survivors assert that the schooner which they towed out set sail and moved off without rendering assistance.