LATEST WAR NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 288, 9 January 1915, Page 11

LATEST WAR NEWS.

WIPING OUT THE TURKS. RUSSIANS' ENORMOUS CAPTURES OFFICERS, MEN AND GUNS TAKEN Bij Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. (Received January 9, 12.35 p.m.) PETROGRAD, January 8. A communique states: — The"' Russians at Ardagan captured numerous guns, and have taken many prisoners, belonging to the army quartered on Constantinople. They buried 1500, and also seized at Sarykamish the entire artillery belonging to the Ninth Turkish Corps, with all its gene- - rals and three hundred officers. ARMY CONTRACT SCANDAL. A WELL-KNOWN FIRM CHARGED. SEARCHING ENQUIRY NECESSARY LONDON, January 8. The prohibition of the export of tea. been removed. The export of cocoa to certain European countries has been prohibited. The hearing of summonses, charging J. Lyons and Company with selling unsound meat as food for the troops quartered at the White City, for whom they were catering, have been adjourned for a fortnight, after preliminary evidence had been heard. Counsel for the prosecution stated that the charges involved a searching enquiry into the conditions under which the defendants carried out their contract. IRISHMEN AND THE WAR. FLOCKING TO THE COLOURS. GOVERNMENT SATISFIED WITH RESPONSE. , (Received January 9, 2.30 p.m.) LONDON, January 8. The House of Lords has adjourned until February 2. Lord MacDonnell said that 115,000 Irishmen had enlisted during the past few months in the Kingdom. Lord Crewe declared that recruiting was proceeding in Ireland to the War Office's satisfaction. Lord Haldane said he believed that voluntary recruitment would meet all ■-' requirements. Yet, if compulsory service became a national necessity, they would adopt it. .% — A DEFERENTIAL REQUEST. CARDINAL MERCIER'S "ARREST." GERMANS SPECIOUS- EXPLANATIONS.

ROME, January 8. The Vatican has been informed that the German authorities merely addressed to Cardinal Mercier, in the most deferential manner, a request to abstain from an attitude calculated to interfere with the difficult and delicate task of maintaining order, and convincing a hostile* population of their sincere desire for their good. They also intended to fulfil the Christian principle and svoid bloodshed if possible in the suppression of tumults. AMSTERDAM, January 8. Advices from Berlin state that the Cardinal Mercier ineiuent has been peacefully settled. LORD LONSDALE'S SENTENCE. FINDING A WAY OUT. APPLICATION FOR APPEAL GRANTED. COPENHAGEN, January 8. Lord Lonsdale's application for an appeal to the Military High Court has been granted.