GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1915, Page 3

GENERAL ITEMS.

London, December 28. I A Turkish communique says:—.Our ar-1 tillery on the Anatolian coast of the: Straits successfully bombarded the landing places Burnu (Cape Helles) and sunk, near Tekke Burnu, a small ammunition vessel. We found in one sector eJ/Ktfed of the enemy provisions sufficient far jj.fi entire amy corps for a long time, a milfon sandbags, a thousand tents, five hundred ftl#Bftets, four thousand stretchers and one Near Oghine Dere many mortar bombs w,er? hidden in the ground. ATurkish communique says:—Our artillery Kutplamara sank two monitors and caused an explosion on a third. Amsterdam, December "23. The Telegraaf states that a British aeroplane bombed the ammunition depot at Lichtervelde, southward of Bruges, causing a heavy explosion. London, December 23. Copenhagen reports that Ford states that he fcas invented a six horse-power motor-plough for the price of a horse. He will present tfas designs to munition if&eiories on condition that munition mflWpg ceases, and thus he wiU secure peace, Paris, December 23. The^deaths among sick and wounded soldiers urere 53 per tiiotuand in October 1911, and the rate his regularly fallen since. It is now 18 per 1666. Amsterdam, December 28. The says 400 persons, mostly soldiers' and children, were kill*