THE AIR SERVICE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3197, 23 June 1915, Page 22

THE AIR SERVICE.

LIEUITTNANT W 7 ARNEFORD KILLED. LONDON, June 18. Flight-lieutenant Warneford, when flying a Farman biplane in the Paris Aerodrome with a civilian passenger, met with an accident, and both were killed. [Lieutenant Warneford was the young Canadian who destroyed a Zeppelin by a daring flight, for which ho received the V.C.] PARTS, June 19. Lieutenant Warneford was killed while testing a machine. He was accompanied by Henry Needham, an American writer. They fell from a height of 800 ft, and their bodies were unrecognisable. LONDON, June 19. A Paris journal states that Lieutenant Warneford described several large circles and several rapid descents. When at an altitude of 200 metres he tried a sharp turn to the right, but the machine somersaulted and fell heavily. The occupants were unstrapped and fell out. PARIS, June 19. The remains of Lieutenant Warneford and Mr Needham were brought from the mortuary at the British Hospital at Versailles from Bue. The coffins were draped with the Union Jack and the Stars anij Stripes, and covered with floral gifts. The medical staff, British convalescent soldiers who were inmates, and officers and men of the garrison sent wreaths and baskets of flowers. BELGIAN COAST BOMBARDED. AMSTERDAM, June 18. The allied airmen's bombardment of the Belgian coast destroyed a German battery on the dunes. KARLSRUHE RAID. AMSTERDAM, June 18. The Kaiser has telegraphed to the Grand Duke of Baden expressing his deep indignation at the, wicked attack on his beloved Karlsruhe. The fact of poor, innocent victims among civilians greatly distressed him. GENEVA, June 19. Details of the Karlsruhe raid state that the first bomb fell near the Emperor’s monument on the Kaiser Platz. It tore up the tramway and killed two persons and wounded two. Other projectiles damaged the post office. One shell killed five persons outside the Margravine Palace. Bombs fell in the marketplace near the Hof Theatre and the synagogue, in the Grand Ducal garden, on the roof of Prince Max’s palace, where the Royal children narrowly escaped. TURKEY’S OFFER TO BULGARIA. PARIS, June 18. Le Matin states that Turkey is about to cede to Bulgaria the whole of the right bank of the Lower Magitza, including portion of Adrianople. The negotiation was carried out under the auspices of Austro-German diplomacy. [The Magitza flows past the town of Adrianople through Thrace into the Gulf of Enos, not far east of the .Aegean coastline of the territory acquired by Bulgaria from Turkey in the Balkan wars. The further cession now proposed would not increase Bulgaria’s coastline.] BULGARIA’S TERMS. LONDON, June 18. Reuter’s Sofia correspondent advises that the Ministers representing the Entente met and exchanged views regarding the Bulgarian Note. This course and the friendlyterms on which Ministers met will form the basis of further negotiations with a view to Bulgaria departing from her neutrality if she received assurances regarding the realisation of her aspirations. German diplomats are trying to persuade the Turks to cede the port of Dedeagatch to Bulgaria in hope of avoiding a rupture. [Dedeagatch is now Bulgarian territory, so that Germany’s offer means nothing.] ALBANIAN INSURGENTS. LONDON, June 18. ’ In consequence of the Anglo-Italian naval action on the Albanian coast, the Albanian insurgents have surrendered numerous cannon, machine guns, and a large quantity of munitions. RUMANIA READY. LONDON, June 18. The Times correspondent at Bucharest says that since the outbreak Rumania has recognised that she must sooner or later participate in the struggle on pain of forfeiting, perhaps for ever, the realisation of her national programme. Rumania is ready for immediate action, and a satisfactory arrangement with Bulgaria would be a desirable preliminary. Bulgaria has already given a written assurance of her friendly neutrality. THE KING OF GREECE. PARIS, June 18. Reports from Rome state that though King Constantine’s condition has improved his case is considered hopeless. PRISONERS FOUND GUILTY. IMPRISONMENT AND A FINE. LONDON, June 18. In the Glasgow iron ore case a majority of the jury found the two prisoners guilty, with a recommendation to leniency owing

to the unprecedented circumstances and the violent derangement of business owing to the war. The accused were each sentenced to six months’ imprisonment, and fined £2OOO apiece. The correct name of one of the prisoners is Hetherington, not Irvingdale, as first stated. The name of the other is Wilson. They were partners in the firm of Jacks and Co., and sold large shipments of iron to Krupps. Lord Strathclyde, summing up in the Glasgow iron ore case, said nothing short of a Royal license would entitle a Britisher to attempt to supply goods to the people of Germany. The firm of Jacks and Co., until August 10, never intended that the ore should go to Germany; then they found that through their German house they could effect an arrangement with their consumers. Their action resulted in the Germans securing iron ore. COTTON TRADE DISPUTE. LONDON, June 18. The cotton operatives have accepted arbitration, without any stoppage of the mills. MR LLOYD GEORGE’S POWER. LONDON, June 19. Mr Lloyd George’s power has been officially defined as to organise the sources of supply and labour; the available supply of munitions, the supply of which will he wholly or partly undertaken by transfer to him as may be agreed upon with the department or authority concerned; the matter of general ordnance, or those connected with Woolwich and other Government arsenals or small-arms factories. MORE GERMAN CLAIMS. AMSTERDAM, June 19. A German official report states: We recaptured Embermenil, destroyed the French fortifications, and retired to our former positions. We attacked the Russian positon at Grodek; the Russians are still holding out. South of the Dniester, between the marshes and Stryj, we pushed the enemy northwards.