Twenty-Five Years Ago

Northern Advocate, 28 November 1939, Page 4

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Reuter's Constantinople cor- i respondent reported that Djemal | Pasha had telegraphed to the . United States Ambassador threat- | ening that for every Turk killed I or injured us a result of bombardment of undefended Syrian ' forts, [time French a.nd British subjects would be shot. British and French squadrons continued to blockade the Dardanelles and to patrol the Egyptian coast. “Le Matin" published an unconfirmed report that the German cruiser Hertha (5650 tons) was sunk off Libau, and that the predreadnought, Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (11,180 tons) ivas mined and sunk in the Baltic. A French, captain, in hospital at Metz, writing to ‘‘Le Patrie told how the Kaiser visited the French wounded and said: “I give my Imperial homage to your valour. Notwithstanding the cruel circumstances of the present time, ! I do not despair of one day seeing Germany and France united by ties of sincere friendship ” i The Mayor of Whangafrei re- ' ceived a message of appreciation ’ from Mr Robert Burns, Acting- > Consul for Belgium in Auckland. ! Acknowledging receipt of collec- [ tions from Whangarei in aid of I the Belgian Fund, he stated that > it was the largest subscription so [ far received from any single coun- \ try town.