MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

West Coast Times, 11 September 1914, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

THE PATHFINDER. HEROES OF THE SINKING SHIP. LONDON, Wednesday morning. The crew of llie Pathfinder were engaged in ordinary duties when the crash came. The vessel shuddered, and rose end on end. Those in the fore part, where the vessel struck the mine, had no chance of escape. The others were knocked down by the force iof the explosion. A member of the crow says: “ Then came the moment of honor. All round ns was the blackness of the night. Wreckage of all kinds came down upon us out, of the solid darkness. I ran aft where the survivors were bnsv' obeying the officers commands. The vessel was gradually sinking and we made most of the time by throwing overboard anything to give us a chance of saving life. The boats were smashed up so we pitched overboard booms, pieces of wood and gratings. We tried to wrench off doors but bad no time. Meantime the smoke cleared and we could see only the stern above water.

•• Tli.' son, which was heavy, was strewn with wreckage. There was no panic. the officers ami men behaving splendidly. The stern began to tilt up. We then awaited final orders. They came: ' Every man for himself.’ Officers and men jumped and clung to the wreckage. Some were injured and many dated hy the shock of the explosion. " A lieutenant and the chief petty officer, who are both strong swimmers, swam among their struggling iOomrades, earning pieces of timber to enable the helpless tn save themselves. In this way the petty officer, who was himself injured, formed a gijanp or eleven and kept encouraging them till help came. We tried to get them to join him singing a chorus, hut one after another sank out of sight when the tnrpedoers rescued the remainder. The petty officer was picked up exhausted.”

"THE SILVER BULLET." MONEY WILL WIN THE WAR. LONDON, Sept. 9. Mr. Lloyd George, addressing a Municipal deputation in regard to a loan for provisions to meet distress in France, said that money was going to play a great part in the war. • We must,'' he said, ‘‘husband our resources. The last hundred million might win the war. Our enemies could stand the first hundred millions as well as wc could, but tho last hundred millions they could not, therefore money is going to count. Wo have won with the silver bullet before.” Mr. Lloyd George, expressed, on behalf of the Government, gratitude to Sir John French for the work already accomplished. A GUARDSMAN'S STORY. LONDON, Sept. 9. “ The German horsemen got clear and fled. Some of those who had lost their horses wV'ie bayonetted where they stood. Then the Guards continued to advance. The Coldstream Guards wore mow leading, with the Scots Guards in support. Meanwhile, taking advantage of the fight between the cavalry and the infantry, the German artillery moved to a new position, and maintained a deadly fire from twelve guns. Our infantry and cavalry advanced simultaneously against the new position, carrying it in the face of a galling fire. We captured ten guns. The German infantry and cavalry supporting the artillery did . not await our onslaught, but bolted. Wo pursued and decimated them "by heavy infantry end artillery fire. When our men secured the gams hardly a German was left alive or who was not wounded.”

KAISER WATCHES BATTLE. GENEVA, September 9. Basle telegrams state that the. Kaiser attended by a small staff, watched the battle on Monday from a hill in the neighbourhood of Nancy. I SURRENDER. THEIR DEGREES. ] .AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9. I Thirty German professors have surrendered all the degrees and honors conferred by the English Universities. i

GERMANS NEAR HOLLAND. AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9. The Germans are steadily drawing near Holland. The inhabitants on the Belgian frontier villages, fearing the entry of the Germans, are abandoning their property and rofugeeing in Holland. Some 3,000 fugitive Belgians and Austrians, who arrived at OoStbur-v, were conveyed to Flushing. MINE LAYERS. LONDON, Wednesday evening. A British gunboat captured a trawler with 200 mines aboard, purporting to belong to Grimsby. The Navy list contains the names of 2" large liners commissioned, also 100 trawlers. RUSSIAN TROOPS. - THE REPORT DENIED. LONDON, Wednesday Morning. The Russian Embassy denies that there are any Russian troops in France. CANADIAN GIFTS. OTTAWA, Sept. 9. A meeting of the Patriotic Association raised 175,000 dollars, including the City Corporation’s gift of 50,000 dollar,s. Several wealthy residents contributed 300,000 dollars to equip a battery of ten machine guns, mounted on motor trucks.

IX BERLIN. > DRASTIC REGULATIONS. i LONDON'.. Sept. 9. Mr. IVoua. tin l Smith African 1,::!.., - leader. i..;J tin- "Daily Citizen " that when he left Berlin oil the ir;!i Aiign-i tin; autlmriiies were not alb,wlug anvihiug likely to dishearten til” pe-.ipb' to I)e ptlllli'lied. She eatlinritiio had notices potted forbidding relatives of the killed to wear it:-.mine. Tim in .th i-atioii pr. rlalilalious were i.riiit. .i in litii. tin' alteration in the • is;.- he: lie made in blue pencil. sllußT OK EOOD. I '■ 1 iI! MAX TRK.ACHERV. 1 j PARIS. Sept 0. i ! !"■ Ili itidier.- endured great Imrcl..i| , d line tin retirement from the It.-. .';,n freinier. They ran short of ; i ’ r fi'.e days and substituted it v.i'.h law .-arrets, unripe fruit and eh'i field .-11:11’ -. A: i.ne point, a Ouard.sman states, ihe Gt rvuau !‘"d C men drove -up ■aii.it .-eeiiied to l,e an ambulance van, hut it e..iitaiin .1 a machine gun, whei'ei;! J tile • n-'lllv 111. lived down tilil Hl'it- , h.-r. Hite era' s. I! ITU LESS SLAUGHTER. (I ER.MAN ft AH li Alf IS.M. j AMSTERDAM, Sept. 9. Th ■ German de.strm-lioii ;it Torm.ilule was as tut li L'., as at Louvain. Over ICO building- w.-tv destroyed by the artillerv. ..r burned, including the Town Hail, Mi!.-e lllll , and Palace of Justice. Only ..a ..ne ,i.-ea-iiiii did they behave in a eirilUed manner, and that was tvdi n tii ■ hic-pital was blazing they earned i.ui the patients and placed them in safety. Soldi, rs pillaged tile wine cellars and rii'beil about in .a drunken frenzy, idinei;ig 1,, women, children.and old men, and r.J beil those who they spared. IX THE, EAR. EAST. THE JAPANESE DELAYED. * PEKIN, Sept. I). Torrential rains and floods destroyed bridges near Tsingtao. dusk log the Japanese land operations A Herman land mine exploded, killing a number of Chines:- tilling the j lields imar the boundary.

AMKKH A Sl'iU Ll) J'iGUT. WITH IIIUT-UX AGAINST GKIIMAXV. \ K \\' VO UK. Sept. 9. IVT " ii- ii:il>‘. <.iu- ot the leading ♦•du - in America, advocates i!t- Inked State, declaring v.ai again--t »H'iinan\ -n areonni of tin* lalterV vi -'.iU. n ..f flie Hamie C e-nwntiAn, ;,a ;*L in regard t » floating mines .I*l I tin de>mje*.ion of Louvain. The Lnited Static should guarantee the ennimiTi* • ri' unit rah and the Allied nation... leaving the British Fleet To do its separate w-. ik. !V. si.ie.in in a pro laitUiUoii, .-all- np'Ui the jic-spin of the [ nitul Sta:!s- l<> pray fj*r ]>(aee in Knrupe. He In- I ixe.f ( let : her 4th a.-, a day of pray.-r. f.-IMVi: n\( K TUB EXKAiY. AXX'WKIMh Sej;t. 9. \ .• ev-i.inipr.- '■jujte.j General .loftr. ’.- • id*- informing the troops that tT • * : • )r» n«*v. «*>me t> alt.v-k and

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LIGHTS OUT. TWO WRECKS RESULT. JsVOXKV, . f). Tin- l-'n-Mi-li .siraimi from Nniiiif:i hmimlu i'ith a inimlimTi” If! iho Urilish iiai<jtirulsrir* Tltrmi;i. :iml Iho Uii'-Maii liar(|iir Alaml. ivrockoil on til.* Cmi'-t of Xow Cali'ilonia last momli. Tlio ut-jv tin* result of lh»- auilrni’iii«‘> extinguishing lh<* ligluht<u>.\s dm the rn:i>i owing to tin* war. The Titania. while at Surprise Island. her topmast yard, and. miming to Noumea for repairs was strand- <■>[ on ;i coral reef in tin* darkness. The Aland struck Neokumhi roof while trying to make the harbour at T.-hirt early in the morning. Both are total wrecks, hm all aboard escaped.

INDIAN CONTINGENT* SEVENTY THOUSAND ARRIVE. LONDON. Wednesday morning. The Indian contingent of 70,000 was the first arrival this week. OUR INDIAN SUBJECTS. BID FOR EQUAL TREATMENT. DELHI. Sent. 9. The Government proposes to negotiate with the British Colonies for a reoipioeal arrangement affecting emigiaie*!: el snndar to that between Japan and Canada, which allows temporary residence, but limited rights to settle permanently.

The Government has contributed j 1 £1,000,000 towards the cost of the con-ii tingent. j; GERMAN SAVAGERY. WILL PAY DEARLY FOR IT. LONDON. Sept, v. i Lord Charles Bercsford, addressing a recruiting meeting at Sheffield, said that Germany would have to pay dearly for her savagery in causing the dost ruction of innocents by indiscriminate mine laying. She was not possessed of the chivalry of the old-time buccaneers and fillibusters, who respected women ami children and did not lire on file Red Cross. THE DARDANELLES. UNEXPECTED ACTIVITY. .MALTA, Sept. 9. Great and unexpected activities are reported inside the Dardanelles. TURKISH ARMY REVOLT. THROUGH FAMINE AND LIES. BECrTAREST, Sept. 9. A revolt has broken out in the Turkish army at Adrianoplo owing to a I famine. The people of Constantinople, discovering the falseness of the Gorman news agencies’ war news, are besieging the Embassies of the Triple Entente to ascertain the latest intelligence.