LATE NEWS

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 270, 18 December 1914, Page 10

LATE NEWS

LATEST WAR NEWS. LONDON, December 18." ;; ? The casualties on tho East Coast number ■. $1 killed' and SSI wounded. One shellfcHied \:< 15 schoolboys at; Hartlepool. :. . ,'■ " .:'..;: A coastguardsipaa at Scarborough stuck to r hip post through a rain of shells ijntil the .:.' signals reached the authorities. Tta station "• was blown to atoms after he had quitted, it. " ;: : The annual meeting of ths Austeal'aslaa Chambers of Commerce paid a tribute to Aus- % traiia's naval and military aid, also, to tha ?£: provision ma4e for dependents of thos& 'k&xst 7' in, the war,. .'■,. FETBOGBAD, Decssmbe: 1'?. :i; Official: A Russian warship orcUrad the ; crew to leave* the German sts&rasr S. near Kerascto. Only two Turkis!! cficors aad ■■*••'■" 12 soldiers obeyed. They were pici;o ; i ap The Derintio was bombarded anc bio ~-r. vav. ~ L|ONS IN THEATRE ;, NEW YOEX, December .17. • Five lions escaped from a treafcre during ;;~ a performance, and the audience was aVpnce -; seized with panic. The police opened a; revolvar fusilade amidst the crowd, Hon and wounding a policeman seriously. The f : lions then attacked the police, clawing several "badly. The lions fled to different parts of the building. One escaped to the street, knocked down a man who was running away from another lion inside the theatre. "'' AH tho animals were finally rounded up and shot. HAWKB'S BAY SEAT. The returning officer for Hawke's Bay advises to-day that the result of the Hawke's ;Bay poll is as follows: — McNab 1825 Campbell .. .. .... 4216 Informal .. .« *. .. 53 News from Dunkirk states that the British bombardment of Westende greatly damaged the German positions, blew up several magazines, destroyed a number of batteries, and was described as the most dreadful of • the war. The Germans fled the place as> shelter after shelter was tumbled about their ears, and the trenches were heaped witb tioad. Wheh the bombardment ceased the Franco-Belgian infantry bayoneted t&o eucny from tho trenches. A communicLue claims that the Germans repulsed the Fronch at Zollebeke and La Basaeo, with severe losses, and are also pursuing the Russians through the whole of Inland. y., Tho cruiser Fueyrredom has bsigod the <German steamer Patagonia for violating Argentine neutrality by provisioning a German cruiser. TEE GERMAN RAID. WASHINGTON, December- IT. Admiral Fiske, giving evidence before the JNayal Investigation Committee, said that an (adequate number of submarines along'the English coast might have prevented the GerV auan raid. Germany evidently thought ta trtrisg th* Brittsh Navy along the Bhgli*h" ctoaat in order to prevent raids, and then to endeavour to destroy the vesßele in detail. J$ the Germaa cruisers were speedy and kept " * jvingv however, the eufcmaflnas were hardly