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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2857, 31 January 1916, Page 2

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THE GOEBEN FIGHT

BRITAIN'S STRANG LEHQLD.. Petrograd, January 28. Ill' the Gobben engagement on the 10th inst., 33 men wore killed and'SO wounded. London, January 29. There are most serious fears regarding tho West African liiior Appam, which was homeward bound. Eighty per cent, is being paid for reinsurance. Tho steamer is six days overdue, and has been posted missing at Liverpool. It is reported that there are 200 passengers and 132 crew aboard, including Mr Mereweathcr, Governor of Sierra Loonc, his wife, and suite, also many other \Ve-yt African civil servant's, ' » The West African liner Appam, which is believed to- have been lost, whs o-uo of the Elder Dempster's show boats. She was splendidly fitted, including wireless, and Captain Baorrion was one of the best known "West African navigator:--. Tho vessel left Bakir (in the 11th, and was last seen on tho' Htli. The boat which was picked up off Madeira Island was gui to now and capable of carrying 40 passengers. It had probably been dannaged by a pasting steamer hitling it in tho darkness, A search revealed no wreckage in the vicinity of the boat. The Company suggest that onn boat got afloat and others may have been picked up by a passing vessel. Zurich.- January 2.9. Count Tisza, in- an article in a Buda Pest newspaper, says that England, by remaining mistress of the sea, stopped the Central Powers 1 overseas commerce, even the passage of foodstuffs through neutrals. He adds ; Mainly through England's cold, calculating, cruel uolie.y, .&--condition of things .fG' : ViVcfly' applied to beleaguered towns is now applied to IfiO million people. (Received January 31, 8.20 a.m.) Madrid, January 30. Two Spanish vessels were isnnlt _by mines which were moored far outside the territorial waters of the Bay of Biscay, probably by German submarines. . Copenhagen, January 30. A German submarine captured the Danish steamer Vidar carrying provisions towards England, and conveyed her to Swinemurde.