AUSTRALIA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 99, 22 September 1914, Page 5

AUSTRALIA

THB AUSTRALIAN FLEET'S OPERA* TIONS. j

NATIVES FIGHT LIKE MANIAC*, * J -

ALL GERMAN WIRELESS STATIONS DESTROYED. A ENEMY'S FLEET RUNNING SHORT OF COAL. ' j Sydney, September 21. Further news of the operations of the Australian fleet which reached Sydney to-day states that tho wireless station on the island of Nauru was destroyed, and the two Gorman civilian operators taken prisoners and will be brought to Sjdney. At Apia a week ago shots were exchanged between a portion of the German Pacific ileet and Erituh troops, but very little damage was done. At Rabaul the natives are reported' to be troublesome, and there have been several conflicts with the expeditionary force stationed there. Mines were lai4:■ round Rabaul.

During the lighting on tho 13th the natives of New Britain, under German officers, fought like maniacs, rushing right up to the Australians' firing line, and showed no signs of fear when thd Australian ships took possession of Heh bertshohe. The enemy used jagged bayonets. It is also alleged that they, used dumdums, Jllwell's body bore £ hole large enough to admit a cocoanut, caused by a jagged bayonet.

The wireless station at the Carolina Islands was destroyed. It is stated that the Germans now have no installations in the Pacific, >;

The whereabouts of tho enemy's cruisers Gneiseman, Scharnhorst, Nuremberg and Leipsic, and the gunboat Geir is known to the fleet. Their messages have been continually interrupted, and it is expected that they will shortly b« in dire straits owing to lack of coal. Suva is thoroughly entrenched in tli# expectation of a siege. Every effort will be made to save tho wireless station. ■/}

SACRIFICED HIS LIFE FOR A WOUNDED SAILOR.

Received 21, 0.50 p.m. Sydney, Septembe? 21,

Details of Dr. Pocklcy's death at Hepbertshohc disclose that he sacrificed nir life for a wounded companion. As a m-ember of the medical corps he accompanied the landing party. When th« first encounter occurred ho was attending a -wounded sailor. Finding it necessary to send him to the rear he called a sailor and ordered him to carry his mate to a safer position. To protect this man he took off his Red Cross coat and wrapped it around him. doctor, when attending another .. jiinded man, sustained a fatal revolver shot in the chest, allegedly fired by a German officer. ADELAIDE STOCK EXCHANGE. Received 21, 0.50 p.m. Sydney, September 21. The Adelaide Stock Exchange has re«. opened. Business to-day was light.

THE LOST SUBMARINE.

Melbourne, September 21,

The latest submarine list confirms that Lieut. Scarletto replaced Lieut,

It is supposed thai the BUbmariiJ struck a sunken reef.

RECOVERY OF SHAREMARKET. Received 21, 11.40 p.m.

Sydney, September tl.

Though prices of investment atocke are about 10 per cent, and mining about 15 per cent, below the rates ruling when the exchange closed on August 1, they arc decidedly firmer than waa anticipated, and have showed a marked recovery from tie lowest unofficial figures reached during the suspension.