THE DESTROYER ACTION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 218, 19 October 1914, Page 10

THE DESTROYER ACTION.

BRITISH LOSSES SLIGHT. HIGH COMMISSIONER'S REPORT. The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, October 18. Official: The losses in the destroyer action to-day were one officer and four men wounded. The damage to the British destroyers was slight. Thirtyone German survivors were rescued and arc now prisoners of war. NEW AUSTRALIAN FORCE. FOR SERVICE IN TROPICS. A CHANCE FOR MIDDLE-AGED MEN. (Received October 19, 11.50 a.111.) MELBOURNE, October 19. The military authorities propose to establish a new force for the tropics. Volunteers under 50 are invited, 2>rovious military experience being unnecessary. The period of service extends until the end of the war. MEASLES AMONGST TROOPS. OTAGO MAN DIES. Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 15). Trooper Cecil Alexander, of Olago, died in the Wellington. Hospital on Saturday night from pneumonia, contracted while camped at Miramar. lie was aged 28. Fifteen men from Auckland, who joined the .Expeditionary Force, are being treated for measles at the fever hospital, Wellington. WANGANUI CONTINGENT. WANG A NTH, October 39. Twenty-live Maoris left Wanganui today, en route for Auckland, to join the Native Expeditionary Force.

SAMOAN CASUALTY LIST. A LIGHT CALENDAR. Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 19. The Governor has received the following communication from the Administrator of Samoa: — The general health of the troops is good. The following is the sick list: — Appendicitis: Major Beere, recovered. Dysentery: Corporals Tangey and Collier (Railway Engineers), Baddingtou (sth Regiment), Privates Small (Railway Engineers), Stanley (Railway Engineers), Harjisby (3rd Regiment), Sergt. Anderson (Army Service Corps). Fever: Privates Callingham (3rd Regiment), Allison, and Beer (Railway Engineers), Quayle (Army Service Corps), James (sth Regiment). Rheumatism: Braughton (Railway Engineers).