Second Edition. GERMAN CRUISER SUNK.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14744, 25 October 1915, Page 7

Second Edition. GERMAN CRUISER SUNK.

AMERICAN TRADE.

BY BRITISH SUBMARINE. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received October 25, 2.55 p.m. PETROGRAD, October 24. Official. A British submarine near Libau sank a German cruiser of the Prlnz Adalbert [The Prim Adalbert tvpe of cruiser is 8885 tons, 21 knots speed, and carries four B.2in and 10 5.9 in guns. They belong to the 1901-2 class.J BULGARIANS ADVANCING. Received October 25, 2.55 p.m. AMSTERDAM, October 24. A Bulgarian communique states; We are advancing between Kniashevatz and Zaitchar, and have reached the left bank of the Timok. Fighting for the town of Kniashevatz continues. Our troops In Macedonia, a violent battle, captured the greater part of the town of Uskub (a little to the north of Veles, and on the line between Nish and Salonika). Fighting continues there. % We are continuing the offensive on other fronts. GREECE MOST REPLY. A NOTE FROM THE ENTENTE. Received October 25, 2.55 p.m. LONDON, October 24. It la reported at Rome that the Entente has presented an energetic Note to Greece, with a fixed period for reply. FOOD SHORTAGE IN BERLIN. EXTRAORDINARY SCENES. Received October 25, 2.55 p.m. LONDON, October 24. Extraordinary scenes at the meat markets of Berlin are described by the Vorwaerts. At one market near the central slaughter houses: “Inferior but still fit meat is sold. Although open at seven in the morning, 800 women assembled the previous afternoon and waited all night. Only six pounds of meat were sold to each customer. Sometimes the soldiers push the women aside and insist on being served first. Hundreds of women are daily supplied. Several are compelled to wait three nights to procure meat. At the Andreas Halle the crush was tremendous. The police were swept aside and flattened against the walls. Women’s hats and clothes were torn off. These scenes occur weekly. The prices of commodities are becoming higher and higher. A roast joint, steak, or cutlet seldom appears on the middle class table. Reef has doubled In price, eggs are very difficult to obtain, apd bread of inferior quality is insufficient.”

NOTE TO BRITAIN. Received October 23. 2.30 p.m. WASHINGTON. October 21. The American Note to Britain on the blockade of German ports and the seizure of American cargoes declares that British Orders-in-Council are illegal under international law, and arc void. Moreover, they are discriminatory, inasmuch as Scandinavia is able to ship to Germany, while America cannot. The blockade does not bind neutrals, unless actually accomplished. The Note denies that the increased American exports prove that the shipments go to Germany, and also denies that the burden of proof rests on the shippers, and insists that neutrals are entitled to ship non-contraband goods to the Germans. An emphatic demand is made for the freedom of the seas.

HOW PEGOUD DIED,

GREAT DUEL OK THE AIR. SOLDIERS IN TEARS. FREMANTLE, October 14. Tlie Daily Chronicle thus describes the death of Aviator Pegoud:— "The presence of an enemy aeroplane having been reported, Pegoud. with his customary cheerfulness, flew off to meet him. As usual, he was alone in his machine, for this king of the air mocked at the difficulties of flying his machine and workipg a machine gun at the same time. Soon he came into contact with German airmen, and began his last combat, regardless of the number of his enemies. "Prom their trenches the French troops could follow the fight. With growing anxiety they watched the manoeuvres of thhlr champion, and listened to the rapping of the machinp guns, while from time to time, when the respective positions of the aeroplanes allowed it, guns from both German and French lines joined in the duel, and sent shrapnel to burst round both ini the air. Suddenly there was a shout of rage and despair from the French soldiers. Pegoud's machine was seen to dip suddenly. It rocked and then fell downwards from a height of over 6000 feet. It fell within the French lines. Soldiers rushed forward, and from a mass of broken woodwork and shredded canvas they extricated pcor Pegoud’s body. He was already dead. He had been killed by a bullet through the heati. Many soldiers, as they raised tboir kepis, could not restrain their tears. “With the possible exception of Nilbert no other French aviator had so many 'successful war exploits to his credit. Only a few weeks ago he brought down his sixth Aviatik. One of his own machines, riddled with bullets, is at the Invalided. "Early in the war he as aerial guard to General Joffre. In the first month his machine was riddled with 97 bullets and shell fragments durirg a flight of 200 miles Into Germany. Last time he was in Paris he said to his friends: ‘The Bodies have sworn to get my akin, but it will coat them dear.’ "His daring was notorious. Often when on bombarding expeditions be would descend to within 100 feet of lb'* earth in order to be sure of his bomb doing Us work."

RELEASED FROM GERMANY

BRITISHERS RETURN. THEIR. IMPRESSIONS OF THE GERMANS. A party of British civilians landed at Tilbury recently after being interned in Germany since the beginning of the war. there were ten men, twenty-six women and children, the former being released mi ace-lint cf their ill-health. The homeeomors were chary of speaking of their experiences, because cf those left behind. They all dread German retaliatory methods. "They are •etaliation mad just now," tail one woman. The women, several of whom had been housekeeping in Berlin, knew something of the prices of common oomrardities there. Tub butter, they said, had reached 2s 2d per lb; a day's supply of inferior while bread for a family of two adults and a small child cost 8.1; bacon had reached 2s I'd per lb; milk is very scarce indeed, and meat increasingly dear. Women were working in new capacities nearly almost every dav in Beilin, the latest being road-mending, which was now done ty gangs of women. There was no mention new in the casualty lists were man had fallen. The refugees declared that, although the generally expressed German view was that after the Rus-ians have been done for there was to bo a massing cf men to finish with England, the old spirit of cocksure ness is waning. The evening newspapers frequently anticipated the Zeppelin raids by announcing: “Bombs will be dropped on England to-night.” One of the women was bringing over some "Gott strafe England” stamps as war curios, but they were taken from her by one of the examining officials.. One man, an Australian seedsman, who was in Hamburg when the war broke out and was interned there, described Hamburg as being, even before last February, as nuiet as a village. During tho periods when he had been able to see what was going on he had been struck by the absence from the streets of all but boys and old men, and he declares that the ordinary German civilian heartily wishes the war was over. Several of the men ocpfplained bitterly that for the ten British male civilians who had been released sixty had arrived in exchange in Germany—a six to one bargain, which struck the whole party as grossly unfair. The men who were at Rtihlebcu com-p’-.in of nothing bi-t the extreme irksomeness of their position there; the women have a good word for the officials under «to-o supervision they constantly were.