GENERAL WAR NEWS

Inangahua Times, 2 October 1915, Page 3

GENERAL WAR NEWS

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GERMAN SUBMAHINES. FIFTYkFOUK LuST

Copenhagen IQctober x.

The Gem an ' Admiralty have "not eccived news of fortysseven subsmar:r y, and it is supposed that they are ost The real "number lost is believed to e fif y four. "'.*':

Our heroes. -

Victoria Crosses Awarded.

I Reed thisd-y at 12.25 P-ni LONDON. Oct I. Victoria Cross , have been a warded as follows: Captain Hansen of the Sixth Lincolnshire new arm r . On the 9th August at Yilghin Burnu, Gallipoli, the Lincolnshires were forced to retire, leaving their wounded, owing to the intense heat of the burning scrub. Captain. Hansen, with three or four volunteers, dashed several times over four hundred yards of open ground in face of terrific fire and rescued six wounded from an inevitable death by burning. Private Potts, of the Berkshire, Yeomanry. Although severely .wounded at Hill 70, he remained '4B hours under the Turkish trenches with a wounded private who was unable to move. Finally by using his shovel as a sledge, he dragged a comrade six hundred yards to the British lines, though the Turks were firing on him;

Herr von Papen

WASHINGTON, Oct I

Unless Germany recalls Herr ,von Papen, Military Attache, who has given great offense by describing the Amerian's as "Miotic Yankees," ' : th& United States wUtteqnest his recall.

MESOPOTAMIA,

(Official.) LONDON, Oct I' In recent operations on the Tigris, the positions of the enemy on the south banks of the river below Kutelamara, were caplured by a British-Indian force after a desperate resistance by the Turks,.

The total prisoners are 1100 and 650 killed and wounded., The total enemy force was estimated at BQOO Regulars assisted b> many tribesmen: Our casualties were under 50d, including 20 officers.

A Modern Joan of Arc,

Killed by a Shell.

• Reed this day at 10.35 a.m " PETROGRAD, October I Unheeding the appeals of officers to take shelter from the hail of bullets, Mir a' Ivanaya, a nurse, tended the wounded in the thick of battle on the 21st September until all the officers, including her brother, had fallen, and the men were wavering. Mira realised the moment was critical and rally in* the remnant, charged at their head and captured a trench. She was then struck in the head by a, bullet and soon died.