N.C.3'S MISHAP.

Taihape Daily Times, 2 June 1919, Page 5

N.C.3'S MISHAP.

SKIMMING THE WATER FOR 52 HOURS.

Received June 2. '8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, May 20. The New York Times' Washington correspondent states Towers, commander of N.C.3 seaplane, cabled a report to the Niavy Department from Ponta Delgada. The report shows (.he seaplane was compelled to descend in the sea on the morning of the 17th May for the purpose of making observations. The sea being rough, the machinery was damaged in alighting, and was unable to rise. The mishap occurred 85 miles south of the proper course, 205 miles from iPonta Delgada. N.C.3 taxied on the surface of the sea for 52 hours, and in spite of a heavy gale, reached Ponta Delgada on the 19th May. She lost both wing pontoons on the way.

A BIG SHIPPING DEAL POSSIBLE PURCHASE OF BRITISH SHIPS OWNED BY AMERICANS. Received 0.10 a.m. NEW YORK. May 30. The president of the Intern a tioivfi Mercantile Marine Company has announced that a British syndicate has offered to buy British boats owned by the Mercantile Company. The syndicate made a similar offer in If)IS. The price offered is believed to be about 230,000,000 dollars. The deal is under consideration.

ANOTHER CAMP RiOT.

SEVERAL MEN WOUNDED

LONDON. April 29. The War Office reports that a disturbance occurred in the. camp at Winchester among troop-- awaiting transport overseas. Stones were thrown and sticks were used. About a dozen men were wounded. The report that three were killed is untrue. All is now quiet.

BATTLE OF THE MARNE

LORD FRENCH'S STORY

GERMAN STRATEGY CRUSHED. LONDON, May 9. A further instalment of Lord French's book on the war is published in theDaily Telegraph. The Field-Marshal describes the Battle of the Manic, and claims that the fulfilment of the German strategic scheme was crushed forever in this battle: but, splendidly as the Allies fought, it was the Germans themselves who deliberately threw away any chance of a decisive victory. He expresse the opinion that the sudden change of von Kluck's advance into a retreat was due to the fact that von 'Kluck and his staff never liked the rule forced on them by the General Staff, and undertook the battle with wavering minds and heads half turned round.

The Allies badly defeated an army not merely flushed with the knowledge of its tremendous inroad the incaleulahle advantage of a. oomma.«der who wa.s absolute sovereign. A» regards the tactical aspect of the battle. Lord. French believes that the name of Joffre. -will decend to posterity as one of the greatest commanders in history. 'He claims that the British Army carried out. the role assigned to it. and that it s rapid passage of the river lines and unexpected appearances on tho linos of retreat of the forces opposing- the French. Fifth and Sixth Armies was practically decisive in the great • ?9Ult.