DYNAMITING A RAILWAY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 174, 28 August 1914, Page 5

DYNAMITING A RAILWAY.

A GERMAN OUTRAGE. PATROL CAPTURES THE CULPRITS (Received August 28, 11.00 a.m.) NAIROBI, August 27. A patrol captured two Germans, who had a quantity of dynamite, and who were attempting to blow up the railway near the Yei Station on the line from Mombassa to Nairobi. STRANDED AT NEW GUINEA. SYDNEY TRAVELLERS' EXPERIENCE. FUNDS IN AUSTRALIA: (Received August 28, 9.45 a.m.) SYDNEY, August 28. The, Lord Mayor's Fund has reached £50,000, and the Chamber of Commerce War. Food Fund has reached £IB,OOO. In a letter, Mr Mark Foy relates how lie left Sydney in the German steamer Coblenz on July 25, for Hong-Kong. They reached German New Guinea, where they heard war had been declared, and the Coblenz landed her passengers and left hurriedly for a neutral port. The passengers were stranded, and chartered a cutter in order to reach a port where they could get a steamer for China. The cutter was wrecked on the reefs, and the passengers were picked up and taken to Yap, one of Caroline Islands, wlfere they now are. MELBOURNE, August 28.

Mr Kidman, the "cattle king," lias offered to Senator Millen, Minister of Defence, 200 horses or £IOOO.