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Southland Times, Issue 17763, 23 September 1914, Page 5

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destruction op besims CATHEDRAL. ! ENGLISHMAIT’S TALES PEOM i HEREIN. 1 KING GEORGE AND MINT. THE TALK OF PEACE. i “MERE MISCHIEVOtrS NONSENSE.” (Times ami Sydney Sun Service - ). LONDON, September 21. Received September 22. 6.t0 t>. 1 1■. The Times in a leading article m The destruction of Rheims Cathedral says that the Kaiser lias outdone the ini nous crime of Louvain An Englishman who has returned from Germany says that the autli irit ios at Berlin persist that Germany is warring purely in self-defence against the wicked and amb’iious Triple Emc-ite, who arc anxious to crush their strongest rival. Educated Germans confinely expect a land victory, but are prepared for naval defeat. They ai-se? t the impossibility of famine in G :• le.-ny as the crops are extraordinary, Germany claims that her war bonds of fifty millionns sterling have been ive--Kiibscribed and that subscript ions to the unlimited loan hja v e reached sixty-: hreo millions. King George has ordered ex le i-! tree planting at Sandringham, one ..f the Royal residences, to diminish unemployment. Dr. Joivet. preaching at the Me. iopolltan Tabernacle, hoped that the m-w Germany would he emancipated fr.nn servitude to militarism, and the a -a Britain purified from moral and spi if.ia 1 indifference and frivolities. The Tiines’s Washington correspondent says: There is little doubt that President Wilson realises as clearly ac any European statesman that to talk of stopping' the war at this juncture is mere mischievous nonsense and the product of inept diplomatic intrigues developed hy purblind, spineless pacificists apd nervous financiers, -who have bet heavily on speedy German victory, kxao-cba.it bombarded. EY JAPANESE SEAPLANES. SOW TBE GARRISON LIVES. TOKJO. SeptermHwr 21.. The Japanese are employing seaplanes to drop bombs on Kiao-niau. the machines subsequently returning to the varshlps. Some of the forts are bomb

proof. The garrison is granted one day in three for liberty in town. The reservists are living In deserted private residences. The shops and restaurants have re-opened and there are music and moving pictures nightly. THE BURNING OF RHEIMS. A GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION. ANCIENT CATHEDRAL RUINED. FIRED BY GERMAN SHELLS. POPULACE HOWL WITH ANGER. LONDON, September 21. Received September 22. 12.5 a.m. The "Daily Mall’s" correspondent says:—• At Rheims the Ore started on Saturday afternoon. At least 500 shells fell between early morning and sunset in one part of the city several hundred yards square, and ignited the buildings. Street after street became lurid with blazing houses and shops. Meanwhile a battery on the hill at Noagent la Besse made the cathedral a deliberate mark and shell after shell smashed its way on the old masonry, an avalanche of stonework thundering down into the streets. Subsequently the scaffolding at the east end of the cathedral ignited and burning splinters fell on the roof, The whole of the old oak timbers caught fire, and sour the nave and transepts were a roaring furnace. The (lames leapt to the towers at the ' western end and b'azing pieces of carved woodwork crashed to the floor, where the Germans were accumulated hi great numbers, intending to use the cathedral as a hospital. These embers ignited vbe panelling and devoured line altars and confessional. The German wounded ivould have been incinerated but for the French doctors. As the Germans were carried out the crowd of French residents howled with uncontrollable passion, shouting: “A Mort. ’ Some French soldiers among Hip crowd levelled their rifles but the Abbe Andrietux sprang forward between the muzzles of the guns and the wounded and said; “Do not fire! You will make yourselves as guilty as they." When day dawned the famous monument was only an empty shell. OFFICIAL BUILDINGS DESTROYED. SEVERAL INHABITANTS KILLED. RED CROSS FLAG FIRED ON. PARIS, Sop l. 22. The bombard men I of Rheims wa-s continued on Monday. Only a few walls of the cathedral arc standing. The Hotel dc V'ille ('flown Ball), the museum, and other official buildings arc almost completely destroyed. The Germans intentionally directed thei rartillery upon the principal buildings . Several inhabitants were killed during the bombardment of the cathedral, and the Germans killed a number of their own wounded, who were being tended with French wounded in the hope that flying the Red Cross flag would save the. cathedral. ■WAR FUNDS IN AUSTRALIA. SYDXKY, September 22. Received September 22, 0 p.ni. The Lord Mayor’s Fund amounts to £IIB,OOO. The New Zealand and Australian Band Company has decided io distribute £15.000 in war relief finds in the several Australian States where it carries on business. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S BULLETINS. The following reports have been received by the Prime Minister at ’Wellington from the High Commissioner — ISOLATED ENGAGEMENTS. IN INDIAN OCEAN. GERMAN CRUISERS BUSY. Under date. London. September. 20 (10.35 p.m.) Official—Since the outbreak of the war the cruiser Pegasus lias been working from Zanzibar. She rendered useful service, including the destruction of the Dar-es-Salaam. the sinking of the German gunboat Mm 1 , and the floating dock. The Pegasus was attacked by the Konigsberg while at anchor in Zanzibar harbour cleaning her boilers and repairing her machinery. She was completely disabled and it is reported that twenty-live men were killed and eighty wounded out of a crew of 23 ! . The damage done to the Konigsberg is unknown. She was last seen steaming t outh wards . On September 10 the-German cruiser Kmden. after being completely lost for six weeks, appeared, suddenly from the Bay of Bengal. During the period from September 30 to M she captured six British ships, of which live were sunk, and the sixth sent into Calcutta with the crews. The Kmden is now reported at Rangoon. AIRMEN'S NEW WEiPON. ALLIES USE ARROWS. BALTIC SE/- ENGAGEMENT. ruder date. Lon.lon. Sept. 21 The .-Servians defend d 2".'DO Atmtrians near Novi bazar. The Montenegrins are adv.im-ing towards Sarajevo, a.nd have occupied Probet ka. from which the Austrians re--11 re I. A German armv t urgent! slates that arrows have been use.] et t eel i vel\ h> the aviators of the Allied forces. Two aviators flew over a German regiment near the frontier, a' a height ot .etuoti., and dropped arrows on the soldiers in ramp. it is estimated (hat these, two aviators shot fifty arrows, killing and injuring thirteen soldiers. Tne arrows are made of steel . Stockholm report.' mate that a number of Russian warships have arrived at Helsingfors in a damaged condition. Terrific cannonading was beard in the neighbourhood of Aland Islands a da> or two ago. II is heltevf.il that a Lu.-.-sian cruiser v.;:-. engaged with the German fleet near l:.-re hj. di n . THE FIGHTING IN FRANCE. FURTHER GERMAN REPULSES COCOA FOR THE ARMY. Dmler dale. London. September 21 IS. 1 a p. in . I Reports iveeived at , . !5 p.m. to-day (September 21) stales that since the last report received from Sir John French several further counter attacks have been made by the Germans and successfully repulsed. The colony of Trinidad has given cocoa valued at £30,M00 for the use of the British army. RHEIMS AGAIN BOMBARDED. MADRAS OFFERS HOSPITAL SHIP. Under date, London. September 2 1 <6.1 r* p.m.) Reliable.—The Germans again bombarded ’Rheims. A Berlin message says that Khehns Is within the area of battle and the Gt-r----tnans are compelled to tire. They regret that, the city has been damaged. Official. —Madras offers a fully equipped hospital snip with ROO beds for (lie use of the Indian Expeditionary Force. BRITISH AUXILIARY CRUISER. SINKS GERMAN ARMED MERCHANTMAN. ESCAPADE OF THE DWARF. ■'The British auxiliary cruiser Ca rmania. fought a German armed merchant cruiser, mounting eight 4in. guns. The action lasted 3 hour 45 minutes, when the German ship capsized and sank. "The warship Cumberland reports from tiie Cameroon River (German West Africa) that a German gunboat, on the night of September It. attempted to sink Urn gunboat Dwarf with an infernal machine, but the attempt failed. On September I‘l the ’Dwarf was purposely rammed by the German ship Nachtioll. and slightly damaged. Tim Nachtioll was wrecked. 5 further report from the Cumberland states that two German launches were destroyed.”

THE FIGHTING- ZiZHE. ELEUGHTS JOIN XH THE BAITLH/ TEYIHG TX3HE ros tbs Bsmss. “AIT AXKZ OS miSIABXS," GROUND CONVERTED ZETTO STAKES. EIFLZ FZBE ASS BAX OUST • CSABGEB. THE BATTLE 07 THE TBEVCBSS, FITS FILLED WITH GERMAN DEAD* COEPBXS TOSSED OUT T.rni EESA7ES. X/)NDON, Sept. 21. Received Sept. 23, 12-.30 a-m. Mr Philip Gibbs, cabling from Chalon* on Saturday, said — When the great storm was raging at Soissons on Thursday and Friday, flooding the trenches, the British had the most trying time of the war. The conditions tried their nerves and souls to the last point of human endurance. Several who left the trenches on special miggiong looked as if they had '•been through a torture chamber. They suffered nameless horrors and were chilled to the hone, shaking in every llmh. nevertheless there was no growling. It is an army of dirty mudlarks, unshaven and tattered, but still confident and even ready to joke. The strength of the German position made it very difficult for the British to cross a marshland intersected by rivers and canals. At present It is utterly impossible for infantry, cavalry or heavy guns to cross the swamps. The German eleven inch guns in surrounding hills are giving a lot of trouble to the British gunners. *n incessant artillery duel has taken place for days and both sides have been entrenching and rushing over open ground with Title fire and bayonet charges in order to obtain advantageous positions in the further entrenchments. The British showed their superiority in the battle of the trenches and they gained good ground, though at heavy cost, With the ex" perience of the Boer war the British are far better than the enemy, taking advantage of every scrap of cover and fighting in open formation. On several occasions they took trenches which by all roles of war were impregnable. The British were assisted by the Zouaves, who repeatedly charged under the deadliest fire and reached the enemy’s positions. The Germans fled, hut not until the trenches were filled with the corpses of those slain by the Frenchmen, who tossed them out of the pit “as though haymaking,” as one of them said. n r DEVASTATION OF BHEXUS. ITALY INDIGNANT. “AH ACT OF BAUBMUSM.” ROME. September 51. The bombardment of Rheims Cathedral has sent a thrill of indignation throughout Italy. The Giornale d’ltalia describes it its- a useless act of bar barism and the lunatic outburst of wounded vanity and crushed pride. GERMANS IK BRUSSELS. MALES E v Q'kt.t.RP FROM A TOWS ANTWHP.P, September 21. The Germans have expelled Wo 1 verthem. a town eight miles N.N.K. of Brussels, all males above ten years of age. A detachment of German cyclists burned the villages of Tremlvo and Rotselear. THE FEGASUS CASH AX TIES. OFFICIAX BE VISED LIST. 25 KILLED; 52 WOUNDED. CAPETOWN September 21. An official revised list of H.M.S. Pegasus casualties show twenty-five ki. led. fifty-two wounded, ten missing, OTTOMAN" TELEGRAPHS MAN AGES ASEESTEB US’ CONSTANTINOPLE. FOB PUBLISHING AUTHENTIC WA* NEWS. LONDON', September 21. Received September 22, 9.53 p.ni. Reuter’s correspondent reports that the manager of the Ottoman Telegraph Company at Constantinople, who is wellknown to have friendly feelings towards Britain and France, has been arrested as the result of German pressure because lie, published authentic war news. USE OF BUM BUMS PROVED. EXTRACTED FROM WOUNDED TROOPS. PARIS. September 21. Thirty ditm (turn bullets have been extracted from wounded troops. DEPREDATIONS OP THE BUSES SINKS FIVE STEAMERS, BRITISH CRUISER ON EER TRACK, BAY OF BENGAL SAILINGS CANI CELLED. j CALCUTTA. Sept. 22. | Received Sept. 23. 1.45 a.m. 1 The German cruiser Linden, assisted I by misty weather and intercepting wireless messages sunk between September 10th and 1-lth two colliers, two empty steamers, and the steamer Diplomat, with a cargo worth £350,000, including 4 0.000 packages of tea. All the captured crews were transferred to the Kabanga, which was sailing for America. The Kahanga arrived in Calcutta on September IC. A British warship is pursuing tile Krade.n, which has escaped to the southward . All sailings in the Bay of Bengal are temporarily cancelled. The Emdcn hits caused British owners and underwriters to lose three-quarters of a million sterling. The Germans treated the news well. GERMANS WITHBBAV FROM BRUSSELS. CITY OCCUPIED BY AUSTRIANS. IS H REPORT TRUE ? OSTEND, Sept. 22. It is reported that all Bavarian troop* have left Brussels. Some were courtmartialled and shot. It is stated that all the Germans hare been sent to France on the Last Prussian frontier. Forty thousand Austrians are occupying Brussels accompanied by seven heavy siege guns. TERRIBLE WEAPONS. THE GERMAN SIEGE GUNS. a t.t.tbr TEETOTAL WAR. j THE GERMAN TRAIL, j MARKED WITH EMPTY BOTTLES. 1 LONDON, Sept. 21. Received Sept. 23, 1.30 a-tn. i The German seventeen inch siege gun* | discharge a projectile weighing 21,0001b5. It describes a parabola covering 12 miles and rising in height to 1200 yards. It is discharged electrically from a considerable distance, the operator not daring to remain in the vicinity. The shell explodes with deadly gases. This is a teetotal war as far as the Allies are concerned, while the trail of Hie Germans is marked by myriads of empty bottles. • German newspapers announce that the Russian General Marios was taken on a chain to the hall to be courtmartialled for burning German villages and shooting the inhabitants. FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS, FOB UNKNOWN DESTINATION. TRAINS CRAMMED WITH WOUNDED PARIS, Sept. 21. M. Millerand, French Minister of War, is fetching heavy reinforcements from a large body of Turcos and Senegalese, who have entrained at Bordeaux for a destination unspecified. Kvery evening trains crammed with wounded crawl back from the front. 30 coaches compassing the train which is packed fuller than excursion trains. The worst cases are lucky if they can lie full length.

a near nr a sioan mnSB TTPT!P XHEIB BESTS. GERMANS RETIRE QUICJKX.Y. . POUSSES BY BBXTXSS GUM'S. LOXDOX, Sept. 21. Received Sept, 23, 12.35 a.m. Continuing Mr Gibbs says:— The German General von Kluck on Friday night ordered a general advance of the infantry from Chavinguy a . Natzye-Chateau upon the foremost Bn-ti-dt trenches round Soi-ssoos. while the artillery again searched the position, endeavouring to unnerve the British. The wind was howling and the rain was Whin,? down, and the British needed all their courage. Shrapnel killed many but the Germans were not the right stuff to turn out the entrenched British, and retired quicker than they came. The British guns pounded them and the rifle nre tniu them in heaps. DEMONSTRATION AT ROME. OtTTSIDS BRITISH EMBASSY. "BRITAIN, THE FRIEND OF ITADY. ’ REMARKABLE SCENES. I’.OMK, Sept. 21. A crowd of 100,000 made demonstrations outside the British Embassy on Sunday with deafening cheers and shouting, “Eoug live Britain, the friend guarded the German .•Ut,’. Austrian Embassf--FIGHTING in BELGIUM. GERMANS ATTACK A FORT. BUT ARE REPULSED. I.OS BON. Sept. 23The P:.ilv Gh-onicles Antwerp corresu pomi r.t says that too Germans made -! . lo- i.e-ite hut unsuccesstul at 7m Saturday and Sunday to ca P-h'.-.rt V\ allhem. between Malmeo , ;ri ;„ l .is on m- m-t night. o P eVu>' their heaviest artillery they n ‘intomry attack upon the ‘ , , ~ ~..1 For a short was' doubt rul. but when US. ,w.mdcrs of the fort realised the 7 i o v„«*" r ed tl'.e German lines danger I qua'.lv repulsed an'- 1 . I ;V' att.u '3 1 ViL* a ’.oss 01 I'''' 11 ArrECTSD BY THE 'WAR, TRADE WITH GERMANY. <Ptr United Press Association ) WKLT.IXOTOX September 22. IT„H„ W liar., and er.amelled ware, the Inrtvr more .specially are two lines tb-V have been seriously affected by the V.i ■ The reason is that Grmany does a export trade in hallow ware and ~..v vTU.-ticuU.' captured the whole of t . . nam'd led ware trade. Other German line.-, sue:: its carpenters’ tools and ou.'.u' gate fasteners, are also cut off. Tie' ttvmaS'T of one it. rvnongery estab-lishment"to-day informed a reporter that his firm Suul a two years contract with Go-re an and. Austrian manufacturers for t bV “uV.plv'of certain g<- ds. the arrangern r being that a shipment should be s, r, forward once every tluee months, —pv . b ip me’its had be* n sent, but the ■ -nets .-'l' course, would never be filial;, a ; p r-fir .T.tiret -■. The manager j.', a’ready some of the up-to-'i :> . , Pmgii-h mapu'aelu'Trs were seizing ■t v- „-.norT"n:tv of manufacturing lines xv- ■ ‘uad hitherto i- * n exclusively | , 0 .1 (U- (1: rmans. One of til esc XVp.- mean gnf- fasb-ners. The British ......,., r - ;.ftu r .'-s bad "tv. r been able to compete against th- Germans in thispararticle, and >b«- -fsuit was that i 1 ■ hut.-p had tb.e i-ad.* mark practicall y .mn hands. Sh'.ce the outbreak .I- I ] r however. Knglish manufacturers w. ; e quoting f..r gat- ms tenors. One 'ure which we. ald s en to indicate t : I ifermaa business : ■--pie knew that pea- was inevitable is that this year c ristmus stocks of Get .nan goods have i-i som ■ instances arrived earlier than . -... - t .w It ave previously. One nrm v. 1 i-s e'tr-ects to r—c—’.v— its Christmas sm Plies about Of tone.- and November this year received tr.em as early as