EUROPEAN WAR

Grey River Argus, 28 October 1915, Page 5

EUROPEAN WAR

- '» BRITISH TRANSPORT SUNK / / NINETY-NINE MISSING SERBIANS RE-TAKE VELES DEBATE IN THE LORDS ON BALKAN QUESTION JUNCTION OF AUSTRO-GERMANS AND BULGARIANS IMMINENT TURKISH TRANSPORT SUBMARINED (Per Press Association —Copyright.)

THE, KARACHALI LANDING

.FEINT BY SMALL BODY OF CRETANS LONDON, October 27. The landing at Karaehali early in August was merely a feint. It was carried out by 380 Cretan volunteers who had volunteered for service in the French Army. They had previously seen hard service with the French. They advanced inland, cutting telegraph and telephone wires, and penetrated a considerable distance. Tile Turks sent a large force in pursuit, unaware- cf the number of the invaders. The Turks suvrounde the Cretans in a wood, but the latter set the wood on fire, and escaped under cover of the smoke. They fought a retreat towards the beach, and a small force halted on the cliffs and kept me Turks at bay while the rest embanted on warships. Twenty of the men who re. mained ashore were either killed, or taken prisoners. . ARMENIAN ATBOCITIES GERMAN COMPLICITY LONDON, October 27.. Eeuter's Dardanelles correspondent says the Armenian horrors are fully conrmed by an eyewitness. In one. instance he saw a hundred human wolves plunge among a thousand defenceless beings and tear them to pieces with their bayonets. There is reason to believe Turkey's German advisers urge the undesirability of allowing a large alien population to inhabit parts of the Empire exposed to Russian attack. ON THE SEAS GERMIAN CRUISER SUNK PRINZ ADALBERT TORPEDOED BRITISH SUBMARINE SCORES LONDON, October 27. A Russian official communique says: "A British submarine, near Libau, sank a German cruiser of the Prinz Adalbert type, 8858 tons."

HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON", October 26, (4 a.m.). Petrograd report sthat in the Komarovo region and around the village of Kelly, the Russians captured a further 22 officers and 500 men. - The Germans defending Dome Ness, near Riga, were defeated.

THE COURLAND COUNTERSTROKE. GERMANS FALLING BACK COPENHAGEN, October 26.. Russia' expedition to Courland is stronger than the Germans imagined, and it has pressed forward. Since Saturday morning the Germans have been falling back. It is believed that the British submarines have scared off the German warships. ,

THE KAISER AGAIN ADDKESS TO THE GUARD AMSTERDAM) October 27. The Kaiser made a rhapsodical speech to the Prussian. Guards. Hd said they had had seventy days' fighting, during which they had stormed twenty.nine enemy positions and assist ed in. bringing to the end a campaign, costing the enemy all his frontier.

TURKISH ATTACK REPULSED AiN UNOFFICIAL REPORT LONDON, October 27. Mitylene report sthat the Allies at. Suvla Bay ,and in. the Krithia region, repulsed with heavy losses a number of Turkish attacks. Fighting continues. ■ Two destroyers entered the Strait and bombarded the enemy's position.

THE AUSTRALIAN CASUALTIES OVER 27,000 SYDNEY, October 27. The Australian casualties to date are %7,460. 3 PREPARATIONS FOR THE WINTER 3 ■ ; GIFTS OF WAISTCOATS ACCEPTABLE MELBOURNE, October 27. Mr Bonar Lawhas cabled to Senator ; Pearce stating that all winter clothing r for troops will be supplied by the War • Office, but further voluntary supplies • of sheepskin waistcoats will be most acs ceptable, and should be seat uireet to • Alexandria. i THE CONSTANTINOPLE VIEW i ALLIES POSITION r^RE UNFAVOURABLE THAN EVER LONDON, October 27. 'ihe Asosciated Press correspondent at Constantinople states that the TurKs have retaken Kiritch Tepe, under a Ger man officer, Lieutenant-Colonel \vilmer. Turkish forces under German commanders also cleared the Allies from an important crest west of the Biyuk-^^nafarta cemetery, and in conse quence of losing these positions, the Allies to-day retain themselves in the Anafarta region only because of their immense artillery superiority. From the strictly military point of view the Allies' position on the Peninsula is now more unfavourable than it was on April 2Gth., BRITISH AND GERMAN METHODS STATEMENT BY THE HOME . SECRETARY LONDON, October 27. Sir John Simon, Home Secretary, in an ' interview, said Miss Cavell's trial had no parallel in Britain's treatment of persons accused of military offences. No woman spy had been shot in England. What struck Englishmen as incredible was the calculated indifference with which the American and Spanish Ministers' enquiries had been treated. As an excuse it had been suggested: that war time calls for severe measures. Our own experience showed that it was possible to combine the necessary policy with regard for the rights of accused persons, and with, respect for humane considerations.

THE CAVELL CASE EFFECT IN ENGLAND CRY FOR VENGEANCE

MEN BESPOND TO THE APPEAL LONDON, October 27. * There were many references to Miss Cavell's heroism in the pulpits on dayA great recruiting meeting in Trafalgar square reserved that the country would not return the sword to its scabbard until Mjiss Cavell's mur_ der had been avenged. Streams of recruits flowed forward to the platform in response to appeals.

RUBBER FOR GERMANY. A TRICK THAT FAILED. COPENHAGEN, October 24. The Swedish steamer Hugo left Trondhjeim with 800 bales of rubber, ostensibly for Archangel. - The Norwegian authorities, suspect? ing that she was going to Germany, sent a torpedo-boat to follow her. The torpedo boat found the Hugo changing her course to the southward and arrested her and brought her to Christiansand. The pretext was given that she intended to~ complete her cargo at Bergen. The Hugo is a small cargo steamer of ic# tons gross register, owned by C: L. Larsen, of Gothenburg.