LATEST WAR NEWS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLVIII, 18 December 1914, Page 5

LATEST WAR NEWS

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EIGHTY-ONE PERSONS KILLED IN BOMBARDMENT. GERMAN STEAMER. SUNK BY RUSSIAN WARSHIP. (Rec. Dec. 18. 2.55 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 17. The casualties on the East Coast are 8i killed and 231 wounded. A shell killed 15 schoolboys at Hartlepool. A coastguardsman at Scarborough stuck to his post through a rain of shells until the signals reached the authorities. .The station was blown to atoms after ho quitted. The annual meeting of the Australasian Chambers of Commerce paid a tribute to Australia's naval and military aid, and also for provision made for "dependents of those killed in the war. Sir George Beid. High Commissioner for Australia, was re-elected president. (Official.). PETROGRAD, Dec. 17. A Russian warship ordered the crew to leave the German steamer Derihtic Jiear Kerason. Only two Turkish officers uhd twelve soldiers obeyed. They V?ere,pjcked up and the Derintic was bombarded and she blew up. (Rec. Dec. 18. 3.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. " Admiral Fiske, before the Naval Investigating Committee,, said that an adequate number of submarines alofig the English coast might have prevented German raids. Germany evidently thought the string of British Navy along the English coast was in order, to prevent Taids, and then endeavour to destroy vessels in detail. If German cruisers were speedy and kept moving, however, submarines were hardly likely to effect much. BRITISH BOMBARDMENT OF WESTENDE. • MOST TERRIBLE OF THE WARGERMAN BATTERIES BLOWN UP. (Rec. Dee. 18, 3.30. p-mi. ) LONDON, Deo. 17. News from Dunkirk states that tho British bombardment at Westende greatly, damaged tho German positions and blew-up several magazines and destroyed', -a number of batteries." It is described, as the most dreadful of tho war. The Germans fled from the place as shelter after shelter tumbled about their, ears. The trenches are heaped with: dead.; When the bombardment ceased. _- tho Franco-Belgian infantry "bayoneted tho enemy from the trenches.. . . • . * V BERLIN, Dec. 17. The commuique claims that tho v Germans repulsed the French at Zollebeko and La Basse with severe; losses', arid that they are pursuing the Russians' throughout the whole of Poland. - , . BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 17., The cruiser Pueyrredom , seized tho German steamer Patagonia, which; was violating Argentine neutrality by provisioning a German \ "....', . .