IN THE WATER.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1915, Page 5

IN THE WATER.

A TRAIN CAR SMASH. Received Oct. 4, 12.40 a.m. Amsterdam, Oct. 3. ' The Germans recently shut off Zeebrugge, not only to hide the results of the bombardment, but to conceal a calamity that occurred on Saturday. While the coast was plunged in total darkness as a protection from aviators, the trains between Heyst and Zeebrugge were running without lights. The authorities opened a bridge to passing ships, and a tramcar, unaware of this, ran into the canal. .Forty German officers and 188 soldiers were on board, and the majority were drowned.

KEEP CALM. A SIGNIFICANT ORDER. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received Oct." 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 1. _ Swiss newspapers announce that Berlin is alarmed at the recent defeats. The General Staff has invited the populace to remain calm. FRENCH REPORT. Received Oct. 4, 12.15 a.m. Paris, Oct. 3. A communique says:— Our positions were violently bombarded eastward of Soucheb. We appreciably progressed, trench to trench, on the heights of La Folic, and won in the Champagne a considerable portion of the enemy's positions, forming a salient on our present lines. Northward of Mesnil air squadrons threw many projectiles on stations and railways in the enemy's rear, notably on tlie Guignieourt and Amsfontaine junction. :.ATEST GERMAN REPORT. Received Oct. 4, 12.5 a.m. Amsterdam, Oet. 3. A German communique reports:—The British on Friday night tried to recapi.ure the ground we'had taken, but failed, with heavy and Woody losses French attacks southwest of Ypres, eastward of I SomJiPz, and northward of Xeuville were repulsed. Our prisoners have increased to lOC officers and 3042 men, and. we have taken 26 machine guns. The French attacking eastward of Auberive penetrated at one single point, but we counter-attacked and captured seventy, the remainder falling. We downed one aeroplane, and another fell in flames at Soisson3.