NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15930, 29 May 1915, Page 6

NEWS SUMMARY.

J Auckland; Tho writ for tho Tartmaranm by-election will. be issued to-day. The Hkbam) fund for the relief of distress in Servia cow totals £388 4s Bd. The Herald fund for equipping the hospital ship and providing for the future needs of wounded soldiers now totals £5352. For the four weeks ended May 22, the Waihi-Paeroa Gold Extraction Co., Ltd., crushed and treated 13,400 tons of tailings for a yield of £3200. A deputation of Eden Terrace ratepayers yesterday asked the Minister for Internal Affairs to proclaim Eden Terrace part of the City of Auckland. The trial of Norman Edwin Reals on the charges of murder in connection with the Onewhero tragedy was commenced at the Supreme Court yesterday. A conference between the Hon. H. D. Bell and the members of the University College Council in regard to the university site question was held yesterday. Contributions to the Marrow* Children's Home have been maintained, despite many other calls upon the purses of citizens in connection with patriotic funds. Extraordinary enthusiasm marked the puWc send-off given yesterday afternoon to the Auckland quota of the extra reinforcement draft on its departure for the Trentham training camp. New Zealand: Two chaplains will be attached to the staff of the hospital ship. The fourth reinforcement draft, which left Wellington on April 18, have armed safely at their destination.

The special infantry battalion now being mobilised at Trentham will be known as" the Trentham Regiment (The Earl of Liverpool's Own).

The Minister for Defence expresses disapproval of the snggeetion for the establishment of auxiliary camps supplementary to that at Trentham.

. Cabinet has approved of an arrangement under which the dependent* of soldiers killed or posted missing will continue to receive the portion of pay allocated to them until pensions are awarded.

- The verdict in the case of the Wellington gas fatalities was that deceased died from coal-gas poisoning due. to accidental > escape of gas from service' mains caused by fabi»rmiii gas pressure being exerted , f from the Miramar manufacturing station - after 10 p.m. on April 29, , which the , ynt governor at Onepo, Road failed to regu- • late,'> r .... .-':'• ■> i. ".-.. ■ Tbe War: . . , i ' ' It was announced in the Senate that j -;■ 2940 enemy rabjecto had been interned in Australia. "• ~-\.; . .-..V- """ K -\ : Renter's Agency- reports that a French I ' ; , TObrharine.>rpedoed a Turkish, destroyer! j ■ not fai from Constantinople., \ %.}!';; ;,£j During the action on May 16 and 17 ' in the Pestubert district the 57th Prussian ' Infantey lost 2400. out of 3000.f . ■-:.; '■o ——— ■" ' ■:- : S 'v r^s The English racing ?calendar; announces , \ . that a race will \be >held;at ; Newmarket for Derby horses in Ascot week. 1 s -. -'x';; '& The French,authorities have , promulgated : throughout Chma drastic regula- ' tions against Frenchmen trading with the ' enemy..-,, :- .- '." ' ,- ''■ ''■ "' " ;fc T " '. A , naval officer engaged at the Dar- ? danelles"- writes 'to "the Titties that the ■. ''■■ - Australians v!i obtained -' almost -startling ■'\ -, success. '''";•/'' ''•'/;*':■ "f'"' " 't:-^-''-^'' .The, auxiliary ship Princess;- Irene was ' ■:■■: accidentallvhlown up in Sheerness Har- j boar. It is believed that 'over: 200 live* r, were lost *'..' ' '%• -. . i--« .- -"{-■ ' During the - suspension of hostilities to bury--the'-Turkish dead, killed by the . Australisiajiii;;'much larger Tosses than $000 came to light. : ://:-;'; : ; '■':,''■'. '<f& %, ■i^lf-'-:rJ\'±i' -S///I ■&'/. ~ "-,\:'■■■ ■ ;?h.'v"" t . .t'i'- '■,■-■• .. An'; enemy submarine ? torpedoed -the -' • British battleship Majestic while support- . ' ing the army on the Gallipoli Peninsula. :.o .Nearly air the officers and/ men were saved. ' ' " ' ' ' / £'.'/•/ - The Timer'. correspondent at Buenos :' Aires states that resentment is felt that American coal carried by 3 British ships :/ should be delivered to a German coal company which coaled German cruisers. s ' £■■-."'-' A detachment, of 18-- French aeroplanes H -vbombarded -the- Ludwigshafen chemical / works, the most important explosives fac--4 I tory in! Germany. Several buildings were V",: struck : and numerous fires broke out. ; V : : On Thursday 'the allies, operating from j/' Sedd-el-Bahr, advanced '10 kilometres ,(six ",■'-'! miles). They hold a' fortified line from ; '. ■ • Krithia .' to Achi v Baba. ? Their bayonet >/;charges -inflicted heavy • losses on the Turks : . "• ' // •-..■•■ "'/.''•■ '*'*' ><•;;., :' ■• ' -* ' " '•■ -a :'■/./■' 1 The, only result the Germans achieved in Mondav's attack with gas on Ypres ■■■i /; was inflict terrible suffering on a large // number, many of whom ,were caught by fumes while asleep. Nearly all the lost % ; ground: was .recovered.

The Admiralty reports that the British submarine Ell sank a vessel in the Sea of Marmora with a great quantity of heavy-gun' ammunition and the mountings of a bin gun aboard. She torpedoed a supply ship, and finally entered the harbour of Constantinople* and oxploded a torpedo alongside the main arsenal.

The Admiralty announces that a Zeppelin dropped bombs on Southend-on-Sea, at the mouth of the T/hames. The resulting casualties were two women killed and a child badly injured. There was little material damage. Aeroplanes and seaplanes chased; the Zeppelin, which succeeded- in escaping in an easterly direction:' 1 ';" -'*'•