NEWS FROM BRITAIN

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15447, 9 September 1914, Page 7

NEWS FROM BRITAIN

BRITISH PRISONERS. "WITHIN BARB-WIRE FENCE. "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Servics. 'Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 7. A correspondent at Copenhagen reports that ail article in the ''Vossischc. Zeitung," describing the British prisoners confined at Doebcritz. says that they live in enormous tents, surrounded by wire fences. It states that 680 arrived on Tuesday and two thousand on "Wednesday.

BRITISH PLTJCK. UNDER SURGEON'S KNIFE. German doctors speak in the highest terms of the men's pluck". One had a bullet extracted from his upper jaw witbout chloroform, and without making a sound. LORD KITCHENER'S "WORD. "WE WILL SEE IT THROUGH." Received 5.40 p.m., Sept. Bth. Lord Kitchener, visiting the wounded in a London hospital, congratulated the men on their splendid fighting. He said: "Do your "best to get well quickly. We are going to see this thing through, and we want every man." The soldiers responded with three cheers. A NOTABLE VISITOR. WHAT HE SAW AND HEARD. Received 5.40 p.m., Sept. Bth. LONDON, Sept. 7. Mr Poutsma, the South African Labour leader, who has returned from Berlin, states that there is a feeling there of oocksureness of victory. He met Socialists of international standing who actually hurried to enlist everywhere. Outside Germany Socialists were convinced that Germany is in the wrong. Mr Poutsma witnessed the entrance of the Kaiser, the Empress, and the Crown Prince. It was a scene of wildest enthusiasm. The Kaiser did not bow once in acknowledgment of the shouts of the crowd. The Grown Prince .nodded and smiled, hut the Kaiser sat with one hand on his golden helmet, stern and inscrutable. During the whole time there was not the faintest flicker of a. smile. CASUALTY LIST. GREAT MAJORITY OF "MISSING." Received 5.15 p.m., Sept. Bth. LONDON, Sept. 7. The latest total of casualties is 63 officers killed (including Colonel G. R. Ansell), 162 wounded, 230 missing; 212 men killed, 1061 wounded, 13,413 missing. The Gordon Highlanders lost a captain and a lieutenant killed, a major wounded, and. Colonels Neish and Gordon, two majors, three captains, and nine subalterns are missing. END OF THE PATHFINDER. BLOWN TO PIECES. Received 8.30 a.m., Sept. Bth. LONDON, Sept. 7 (p.m.) The Pathfinder was practically blown to pieces, and all trace of her was lost in four minutes, except the wreckage which strewed the seas for a mile and a. half. ANOTHER FISHER' VICTIM. The .trawler Imperialist was blown up by a mine in the North Sea, and two were drowned. LEES AND LIBELS. A CHECK APPLIED. Received 11.5 p.m., Sept. Bth. LONDON, Sept. 7. Britain has ordered the German and Austrian Consuls to leave Egypt immediately. England is determined to ■end the pro-German propaganda which these officers have been circulating the world over since hostilities commenced, j PRETENDED RUSSIAN.

A GERMAN SPY. Received 12.30 a.m., Sept.' 9th. LONDON, Sept. 7. Portsmouth, police arrested Petersen:., a German, who registered! as a, Russian. A search of his lodgings revealed- plans of Portsmouth harbour, and a camera with an undeveloped photograph. ADVICE TO SOCIALISTS. MR POUTSMA. 'FIGHT FOR .ENGLAND." Mr Poutenia., the South African Labour leader, urges English Socialists to fight for England, civilisation and democracy. He declares that" it was difficult for Dutch soldiers to refrain from assailing Germans whan, they heard of the outrages in Belgium. SOUTH AFRICAN GERMANS. RECKONED WITHOUT THEIR HOST Received 1 a.m., Sept. 9th. LONDON, Sept. 8 (a.m.) R«uter reports that the Germans of South-west Africa, imported large quantities of big guns, rifles, and ammunition with a view to arming Boer residents. The latter upset their calculations by affirming their loyalty as British subjects. KING AND QUEEN. VISIT THE WOUNDED. The King and Queen iiad a lengthy visit to St. Thomas Hospital, and spoke to each of 124 wounded. (High Commissioner's Cable.) LONDON, Sept. S (7.10 a.m.) A further casualty list of the Pathfinder shows 212 missing, 1 dead, 13 wounded. Another British trawler has been mined; the crew were saved.