WAR FLASHES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1915, Page 8

WAR FLASHES.

MKXTIOXKiI !X DKSPATI lIKS. ]'.':!\'An-: ;lAVW:X',S UKUOIC I;X». Mi'. -I. llayden, of Xi'U Plymouth, hns just received details collected with the death <■■(' his brother. 'l'rivate H. K. (lien) 11 ayv.!iiill occurred at the Dardanelles miller circumstances which justly entitle him to be honored as a distinguished hero, l.ieut. Cargo. in a letter to Mr. A. R. Ktandisb. describing tile incident. says: "1 should like, it if von would tell Mr. 'ftayden from the 'hoys' that his ■brother, 11. Iv llayden, was mentioned in onr de "latches for distinguished cmidiut. llullets, hits or' shell, etc., weiv ih'injr like, hailstones, when a box of ammunition was hit and commenced to fuse, and our line was in danger of bi'iii"" blown to , when N.iyden jumped u|> and threw out the ftlMlift cartridges. 'Shortly after he was si'ot through the head.''

In another account sent to Mr. Hayd/n the writer says: "Little Hen was lu-iir a box of aimiHiiiitioii. -whU-li somehrw or another caught fire, and some of tin! clips were fusing. Ben loft his trench, under heavy lire, and put llio fire out. He had just got back to his l*e:ich aaaiu when 'lie was shot f!i the 'head anlppine. He died at onve. IVii was- recommended to lie 'mentioned in despatches. -My word, lie was a little hero." THE IvMDI'.X'. THE SALVAGE VOIUv. The .famous —or' notorious —German eiuiner Eimlen will not. alter all, lie left to l'li-t .away on the toral reef at Keeling ts'.-and, where 11.M.A.5. Sydney battered her into submission. if ail goes well wit!i a salvage scheme now under way, she will be in Sydney harbor by Christinas. This is the prediction of a. Xew .South Wales syndicate, Mime of whose members are experts in diving and maritime contract work, land who have an oiler from the Comn/omvealth Ooverhi'.ient to purchase the vifssel .when salved. The corporation's hopes are based largielv on the peculiar construction of .tile Enulen's bull. The ship's bottom is Hat, having been specially designed so for service in shallow waters, ami .perhaps also in view of tlie likelihood of cruising work in -waters distant from dry docks. The German commandor, Oaptain von Muller, it is said, frequently put his ship on the bea.ch, just as the ol<l-timc sea-rovers used to do, and with the falling tide turned the. omw to iwork to clean and ipaint her. ''There is every reason to believe," says Mr. Darnley, the head of the salvage syndicate, '-'that, given, reasonable opportunity, Captain von Muller would have backed away from the reef. What settled him were the .final broadsides of the Sydney, four of which pierced his stern. This is all the damage done to the hull below the watcrline; the plates elsewhere are .i« sound <is a -bell. AVlnif we propose to <lo, therefore, is to 'ilea: these holes with concrete, remove the smashed top hamper, set the salvage pump at work, find, with the assistance of a , powerful tit sr. there is no reason to doubt that she will float oil'." After repairs at the nearest convenient port the Eanden will,, if possible, be brought to Australia under her own ; and it will be a .ltroud day for the Coiiunomvefilth wlien her first prize warship won in tattle drops a,ncbor in Poit Jackson.