AUCKLAND WEEKLY SMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15715, 16 September 1914, Page 6

AUCKLAND WEEKLY SMS.

SEVENTH WAR NUMBER..

OCCUPATION OF SAMOA.!

HI'XTIY MINE DISASTER/

A.v historc number of the ArcKLiSD Weekly News makes :ts appearance this morning. The illustrations include 3/ remarkable fine series of the occupation; of Samoa by the advance guard of the' New Zealand expeditionary force. Every' : event of importance in connection with ' th'.s historic occasion is fully covered from the arrival of the troops at Noumea until,; the return of a number of them to Auck-' land on Saturday last. These pictures include views of the fleet of warships' and the two troopships in Suva and Apia Harbours, the landing of officers from the Psyche with the summons to the German Governor, the troops disem-F barkrng, Colonel Logan reading the pro-' clama.tion hoisting of the Union Jack, : troops guarding points of vantage, and' the arrivd in Suva of members of the" Wellingtoa Field Artillery with the it--'. Governor as a prisoner of war. Numerals i other pictures in connection with the, annexation of the islands also appear.;?? A large number of views of an entirely i different nature illustrate the terrible;disaster vh : ch occurred in Ralph's inhfc ,at Hunt!;,- last Saturday. Two full pages I depict the scene of the explosion, the ! work of rescue, some of the injured 6& ; arrival at the surface, crowds at the pitI heads wj iting for news of relatives and j comrades below, and other scenes in the i sorely-trcubled township.

An impression of the shocking outrage perpetrated by the German soldiers hi the Belgian town or' Lou vain is graphically presentee in an able drawing by a New Zealand artist.

j An "clde tynae " cricket, match played lin Wellington between politicians and representatives of civic government is the > subject (if a humorous collection of snapshots,, in which the Leader of the Oppo-. sition and other well-known public me" figure prominently. Amongst the great many other illustrations appear views o. | various mental towns affected by the I war, an official inspection of the troop j ships in Wellington Harbour. Fanning | Island, where the Pacific cable was sucj cessfully interfered with by a German , cruiser: New Britain, which has been-'-' seized by the Au.-traiian Nhvv; ljs*S. lancers repiew?ntative of the 70.000 soldiers who are proceeding to Europe, asuggestion for mining the air against aerial attack at nicht, and various pictures d-aling with the N'ew Zealard volunteer mobilisation. Several portraits also appear. | This edition rf ti.o Arr EL .v\D WEEKIt News is not only tiipiral. but also historical, since it 'illiterate? tie tirst veal - service i> the Empire by an Overseas Dominion since the commencement of ''•'* present vac. A.- a, souvenir it. is P 2l " ticularlv interesting to .ri who hav: friends "aid relatives amende! the members of the advance guard now \r. <.:•:• I*l*2"* and those who have returned