BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 19 October 1914, Page 7

BRITISH AND CONTINENTAL NEWS.

DUTCH CARGO STEAMER CAP-

TURED

ALGERIAN SHARPSHOOTERS AT

WORK

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSt>':X ATI ON—COP SUiGHI (Received Oct. 19, 1.30 p.m.) PARIS, Oct. 18. & French destroyer off Marseilles capitured the Dutch cargo steamer KoeninEmma, found from Batavia to -.Hamburg. . The French for several days were unsuccessful :in an attempt to dislodge 800 -Germans hidden in-a cave at Soissons. -Eventually, 1500 Algerian sharpshooters, with bayonets between. their teeth, -crawled to the trenches at night and hurled themselves on the Germans. Only -eight Germans escaped alive. " BERLIN, Oct. 18. The police arrested the British Relief j Committee working at the British Con-* ■* siilate undei- the surveillance of the -American Embassy.