THE WAR

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 92, 15 October 1914, Page 8

THE WAR

OFFICIAL NEWS MESSAGES TO THE PRIME MINISTER The following messages were received this afternoon by the Prime Minister: — LONDON, 14th Oct., 8.40 p.m. Official.— Paris reports that engagements took place m the Ghent district on the nights of the 12th and 13th, and on the day of the 13th. Operations are proceeding normally on the left wing to the Oise. Progress in the Berryaubae region \b confirmed. The right wing is unaltered. The German advance seawards continues. Two German submarines have been sunk in the Batlic. q * Austria is massing on the Servian frontier the largest army yet empjoyed against Servia. Later. Official.— The Anglo-French force occupies Yprefi.

A fireman on the Ulimaroa named Martin Belharrie was admitted to the Wellington Hospital yesterday with a shot wound in his left hip, said to have been sustained during a scuffle with another man on board that vessel. The bullet has not yet been extracted. Mr. George Joachim, of the WestpOrt Coal Company, left Wellington last mght on return to his headquarters in Dune* din. Mr. J. W. Harding, of Hawkes Bay, who went to Europe some months ago, returned by the Maitai, which arrived in Wellington last night. ' Mr. H. A. Gordon, of Auckland", for merly Inspecting Engineer of the Mines Department, and Mr. W. J. Napier, also of Auckland, arrived in Wellington from the Nortli yesterday. Dr. George M. Chapman, a son of hi* Honour Mr. Justice Chapman, who was recently appointed a house surgeon at tho London Hospital, has joined the R.A.M.C. and left for the front. The death is announced of Mr. Edward Richardson (second son of Mr Rev .beat Richardseln, of South Dunedin), who fell a victim to fever while engaged in mission work in British East Africa. The Hon. J. A. Millar, M.P., has been granted seven days' leave of ab« sence from the- House of ltepreeentativcs on account of illness. For tho (same reason, Mr. L. M. Isitt was granted four day« leave of absence. News has been received m Wellington which leads to the belief that Mr. Horace Huht, formerly organist and choirmaster at the Terrace Congreg&t.kmftl Church, who went to Germany to com» plete his musical studies, is being detained in Berlin by the military authorities there. Tho pasß6iigerK by the Mamma from Sydney yesterday included Mr. W. R. Morris, Secretary of the Now Zealand Post and Telegraph Department, who has been to America and Canada, the Rev R. B. S. Hammond, who has returned to take part in the No-lieens& campaign, a«d Mr. VV. G. 'Stead, o| Ohnstchurch.