GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 126, 21 October 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

NEW REWARD FOB GALASTRY. ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS R3NBWED. CANADIANS LAND 'AT BRISTOL. Londoi, October 19. The German Truth Association has circulated in South America an announcement that a fleet of Zeppelins is in London, and that King George was taken prisoner and ransomed for five millions in gold.

Mr Ramsay Maedonald, addressing a meeting at Leicester, reoeired a hostile reception, and there wer# shouts ©I "Traitor 1"

A Distinguished Service medal has been established for naval non-commis-aioned men to meet cases of gallantry where the Conspicuous Gallantry medal is inapplicable. A mob again atacked Germaa shops at Deptford on Sunday. Tlief raided ami ignited a corn dealer's shop. Several the mob were injured in the coafiict wl'.'i the police. The crowd smashed a town councillor's windows at Saffron WaMai. He was alleged to be harboriag two Germans. The latter escaped. Many Canadian troops landed at Avonmouth on Sunday. Their arrival was only known when the/ sarche4 in the streets. The Manchester Guardian states it i« an amazing fact that our cruisers are not arresting German' reservists an neutral vessels. This is apparently d«e to our acceptance of a certain interpretation of a phrase in -the Declaration of London, vit, "individuals embodied in an armed force of an enemy."

UNAUTHORISED ANT) EXPENSIVE MAIL MATTER. Received 20,10.24 p.m. London, October 19. An American citizen was fined st Bow Street for carrying 27 business letters to and from Berlin and London on behalf of merchants. Tke penalty was £3 for each letter. HELP FOR THE BELGBAX6. Received 20, 1.25 pjn. London, October 10. The Belgian Minister U sending a shipload of food and clothing to the refugees in Holland. BRITISH GENERAL KILLED. STRUCK BY A STEAK SHE APIs" EL BULLED, BIS COMPANIONS ESCAPE UNSCATHEB. Received 21, 12.5 ajn. London, October 20.

Major-General Hubert Hamilton was standing with a group of fellow-officers under eover, when a shell burst a hundred yards away. A bullet struck General Hamilton on the temple and killed lim. No one else was touched.

The shellfirc throughout the day pr - rented the removal of the body, but it dusk it was carried to a little church and buried. As the party reached the clurch the attack recommenced violently, and the chaplain's voice became inaudible. The flashes guns lit up the building, which was in darkness gave for a tiny torch, by which the parion read the service.

(Major General Hubert Ic* Wetherall Hamilton, C.8., D.5.0., a veteran of the Burmese, Egyptian, and South African campaigns, its was military secretary to Lord Kitchener in South Africa and Iftdia.