THE DARDANELLES.

Press, Volume LII, Issue 15488, 15 January 1916, Page 9

THE DARDANELLES.

IN THE BLACK SEA. TURKISH SUBMARINE DESTROYED, (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received January 14th, 9 p.m.) PETROGRAD, January 13. Russian torpedo-boat destroyers destroyed' a Turkish submarine which had run ashore in the Black Sea. THE SUEZ CANAL.

THE TURCO-GERMAH" MENACE. MR HILAIRE BELLOC'S VIEWS. ("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Servioes.) (Received January 14th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 13. Writing in "Land and Water," Mr Hilaire Belloc declares that the German menace to Egypt and the Suez Canal is aimed entirely at Britain, and is intended to cut off the Canaj route to the East, and so compel the diversion of a considerable proportion of the Empire's sea-borne traffic to the Cape route. Tho Germans will possibly use 500,000 troops, as there are ample men available in the Turkish Empire. Most of the units are already in existence, but cannot bo equipped before tho summer. They Trill be entirely dependent upon Austro-Gcrman munitions transported by rail and tho river Danube to Bulgaria, thence to the Bosphorus, and mainly by tho Bagdad railway route to Syria. A new line is being constructed through tho Holy Land to Beersheba, a distance of 175 miles from the Suez Canal, Beersheba serving as tho base, for the forcc attacking Egypt. Large stores of munitions have already been accumulated. From Beersheba to the Egyptian frontier the Elandja lino has been surveyed and tho road bed made.

THE HONOURS LIST. SOME PERSONAL NOTES. Colonel John Gethin Hughes, D.5.0., C.M.0., commanding the Canterbury Battalion, left with the Main Body, as Assistant Military Secretary to General Godiey. He is on the Headquarters' Staff, Wellington. Captain Leopold D. Acland, M.C., left with the rank of lieutenant in the Army Service Corps, with tho Main Body. Captain Duncan B. Blair, M.C., left with the Main Body, acting in the capacity of adjutant to the Canterbury Mounted Regiment. Captain R. Neil Guthrie, N.Z.M.S., M.C., is a son of Dr. Guthrie, of this city. He left with the Main Body. Captain P. B. Henderson. X.Z.S.C., M.C., was for some time prior to the outbreak of war acting a« musketry instructor to the Canterbury Military District. He left with the Main Body, and was officer in charge of the machine-gun sections. Corporal Hugh Stewart, M.C., who left as lieutenant in the.Canterbury Infantry Regiment (A Company), occupied the position of professor of classics at Canterbury College beforo he joined the Main Body.

Captain N. W. B. B. Thoms, M.C. left with the Main Body as D.A.A.G.' on tho Headquarters' Staff. Beforo the outbreak of war he was acting as adjutant to the 12th Nelson Regiment. Sergeant B. N. Tavondcr, D.C.M., left as a private in the Canterbury Regiment, A Company, and was another Main Body man. Miss G. B. Nurse, who has received the Royal Red Cross, First Class, was trained in Wellington Hospital, with Miss Thurston, matron of the Christchurch Hospital. She obtained her

-State examination certificate in 1904. She was sister in tho Wellington Hospital tiH IW>S. when she became matron. Sho went to England in IPOP, whore sho took her certificate in midwifery, and about the saiuo time received her certificate in the Incorporated Society of Trained Masseurs. She went to Cairo before the war, and after a stay there she returned to New Zealand, where she did private nursing, and was also actingmatron at the Waikato Sanatorium. In <Tn!y, 1913. she was back in Wellington. and in 101-1. when war broke out, she was the matron of the first Samoan Expedition. Recalled., she returned to England, and thence went, out to Cairo once more, where she ilid good work in the hosoitals.

Lien tenant F. M. 'Twistleton, M.C., left Gisborne with the Gisborne contingent of Frontiersmen attached to the Otneo Moitnteds. He served in South Africa with the second New Zealand Ninth Contingent. On returning to *. inland 'if took an active part in establishing the Legion of Frontiersmen, and when he left- Gisborno to join tne kxnemtionary Force ho held the rank of caniain. and was in command not only of the Poverty Bay Squadron, hut also held temporary command for New Zealand. Lieutenant Twistleton, who is a lorkshireman, 44 yen it 0 f tho hi? engagements°at , is row in a convalescent hospital m Egypt, having been a victim of enteric.

Ihe Rev Patrick Dore. chaplain to tho forces. who has been awarded tho -Military Cross, was one Cat-holm chaplains who left ii r '" • la £ l ' >n October. 1914, with tho Mam Expeditionary Forces He was attached to the Auckland -Mounted Rifles, and landed with them when they arrived at Gn'lipoli. Father Dore was an indefatigable worker in ins own sphere, and ever at hand to assist in any branch of the work His name was a household word among tne Jads at Anzac, bv cmrvono of whom Ji e jvns Father Dore was hit while aiding a wounded man under fire on August 21st. and was taken to the Military Hospital at Devonport, England, where ho was lying at last advices. Father I>oro is a native of South of Ireland is about thirty years of age. and came to New Zealand five years ago. being stationed at PaJmerston and Foxton. He is an enthusiastic snortsmnn. and excels in several branches of athletics.

IN MESOPOTAMIA. BRITISH COLONY AT BAGDAD. ANXIETY FOR ITS SAFETY. ("Times" and "Sydney Sun" Scrvicce.) (Received January 14th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, January 13. Anxiety is folt concerning the British colony at Bagdad, consisting of two men, nine women, and numerous children, whom the Turks cast out of the city. When last seen they were travelling by primitive methods towards Mosul, three hundred miles away. The American Consuls are everywhere making enquiries concerning them.