LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XX, Issue 5259, 19 October 1915, Page 5

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS.

BLOCKADE OF BULGARIA

ITALY SENDS WARSHIPS.

Athens, This Dav

Italy is sending warships and transports in connection with the blockade of the Bulgarian and Turkish coasts.

CONFLICT IN THE VEST

GERMAN EFFORTS REPELLED.

London, This Day

During the night three fresh enemy attempts to attack Bods De Hache, north-east of Souchez. were repulsed. An efficient fire was maintained against the enemy works south of Somme. In the north of Verdun a German attempt to occupy the craters of mines recently exploded was repelled. TRANSFORMATION OF NAVY. FOR DARDANELLES ASSAULT. NEW GUN-CRAFT DESIGNED. Loudon, This Day. Mr Ashmead Bartlett, in the Daily Telegraph, describes the navy’s efficient transformation of the Dardanelles fleet when the risk of losing valuable warships became too great. It was obvious that unless we"carried the Straits by a coup de main our fleet would be unable to remain indefinitely off the coast because hostile submarines were certain to come. For three weeks after the first landing the

fleet was left in peace. Then trouble began. Rumours rippled down the Mediterranean from Gibraltar, Malta, Matapau and Smyrna, and the mighty Queen Elizabeth left for the North Sea. Then after the Triumph and Alajestic were sunk the fleet retired to sheltered harbours protected by bombs and nets.

The Turks issued their famous manifesto to the Allied troops, declaring that the fleet had deserted them and offering a welcome to Constantinople. but they forgot the old maxim that the Anglo-Saxon race is always surprised but never beaten. We are never ready but have a marvellous talent for improvisation. The designers at Home worked out the scheme to recover command of the Mediterranean and designed exaft for carrying the guns of battleships without their vulnerability to submarine attack. More rumours rippled down the Mediterranean of strange craft sighted. and making for the Levant. The first arrived in July almost flush with the water carrying a 9.2 ii* the bows and a 6-ineher astern. AVAILABLE FOR THE ARMV. T .250.000 AT HOME. London. This Day. The “Daily Chronicle” says the national register shows 1,900.000 men of military age in Britain not engaged in munition works, productive industries or railways. Allowing for the physically unfit the number available for th<* army should be a million and a quarter. A RAILROAD SEIZED. NEAR BULGARIAN BORDER. lxmdon. Thi„s Day. The Allies have seized the railroad tit Enos in Ttirky. near the Bulgarian border. SERVIANS AIM AT FORTRESS. TO CUT OFF SUPPLIES. Bucharest, This Day. The Servians are attempting to ooeupv the fortress of Widni to prevent the Bulgarians receiving munitions from Austria. FRENCH LINER TORPEDOED. Paris. This Day. The French liner A infra 1 Hamelin was unaided. The enemy submarine fired forty shells. While the crew and passengers were embarking into the floats a French torpedoer and a British hospital ship came to the reyne. The submarine disappeared. THE RECRUITING POLICY. W 'nngamii. This Day. One hundred and thirty-five men left for Trentlinm this morning. They were given an enthusiastic send-off by a muster of the National Reserve amt the public. The contingent marched the streets yesterday and resulted in a. record enlisting in one day, thirty-two names lieing handed in. This result is looked upon as a strong argument in favour of local control and local demonstrations a* against the centralisation policy.