IN THE DOMINIONS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16288, 22 January 1915, Page 5

IN THE DOMINIONS

THE CAPTURE OF KABAUL.

MINES FAIL TO EXPLODE.

SYDNEY, January 21.

Colonel Holmes states that when the Australian troops rushed the wireless station at Rabaul the mines previously laid by the Germans failed to explode. His men continually marched over them, and finally exploded them by his orders. Each mine was formed of a 6in iron pipe, 50ft long, filled with dynamite. Above the pipe were placed stones and iron bolts, the whole being buried a foot beneath the road. When the mines were blown up the whole road for a length of 70ft was ripped up, and the stones were driven 100 ft in the air. DEATH OF A MELBOURNIAN. LONDON, January 20. Captain Charles Paterson, of the 20th Lancashire Fusiliers, a Melbournian, died in Leeds Military Hospital. A FIRM'S RIFLE CLUB. SYDNEY, January 21. Farmers (Limited) are the first business firm to form a rifle club among their employees. GERMAN METHODS. A BUMPTIOUS MINISTER REPROVED. MELBOURNE, January 21. The president of the Chamber of Manufactures, replying to Mr Jensen's remarks anent the new clause in the Defence Departments contracts, said that " to choose a time of national crisis to insert this new clause, and to threaten the internment of anyone opposing it, is an incident more appropriate to the German Fatherland than to free Australia."