FAMOUS LINER MINED.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15191, 11 April 1917, Page 5

FAMOUS LINER MINED.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received April 11, 10.0 a.m. WASHINGTON, April 10. The liner New York struck a mine in the Irish Sea. There were no casualties. She is being clocked. [The New York is a vessel of 10,798 tons gross register, and was built in 1888.] FAMOUS AIRMAN MISSING. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, deceived April 11, 11 a.m. LONDON. April 10. Lieut. Robinson, the well-known airman, is missing. Lieut. Robinson was awarded the V.C. last September for bringing down a Zeppelin- Robinson had been in the *air two hours when he attacked an airship under circumstances of great difficulty and danger, and sent it to the ground'a flaming wreck.

PRINCE CARL'S DEATH ANNOUNCED.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Received April 11. 30 a-m. AMSTERDAM, April 10. Berlin announces Prince Friedrich Karl's death. THE SPORTING PRINCE. KARL WITH THE AUSTRALIANS. LONDON, April 7. Prince Karl Friedrich, the German aviator, was slightly wounded by Australian rifle lire during the descent of his machine. He dropped within the Australian lines. Jumping from his machine he ran smart.lv towards the German lines. First he headed straight for a strong Australian point, the firing from which turned him in another direction, when he was hit in the heel and stomach. When the ambulance men approached the wounded Prince he repeatedly shouted. "Where am I?" He seemed perturbed. On being informed that he was amongst Australians he asked what thev would do with him. The report that the Prince had died from his wounds was inaccurate. He is now out of danger. His breastpocket was stuffed with newspaper reports of all the tennis matches in which he has played, because he believed that the British sporting instinct would protect a sportsman. The German Flying Corps dropped a balloon requesting information as to Prince Karl's condition, whereupon an Australian machine flew over the German lines, despite the anti-aircraft uns, and dropped a message describing the Prince's wounds.

IN THE BIG PUNCH.

FRANK SLAVIN'S HOPE. FIGHTING TILL DAY OF *• VICTORY. Frank Slavin, the famous old boxing champion, who is now in the Canadian Army, has just returned to the trenches after a breakdown. He was offered two months leave to recuperate. in "Hlighty," but he persuaded his colonel to allow him to resume his duties at the front at once. A letter has just been received by a friend to say that he is quite ready for- the Huns again. "I do not think that Fritz will last much longer," he says. "He would not want peace if the shoe did not pinch somewhere. Just imagine me in my early days wanting to quit the arena under any circumstances before the contest was decided --especially if I was winning. Ridiculous! "Orf December 29 I broke down after seven -weeks under the worst kind of fire in a dug-out. With the Hhhs shelltiig us day and night it got a bit on my nerves, but I am now getting all right again. 1 hope this will be a more happy year for the greatest Empire the world ever saw, and that it will witness the consolidation of the British race and make us stronger than ever. We did not know our strength before this war." In another letter he says:

'il am only a shadow of myself of yore- Fifty-seven days of :,hell fire to • ;iy right, to my left, behind and ahead, is a bit too strong for a man of even my strength, but J hope I shall be baek in time to help to drive the last nail in the Kaiser's kultur, which will not now be long. "Had Major McKinuley or Roosevelt been President of the United States when this war broke out Germany Avould have been out a year ago, as the States would have acted as a nation with some respect for a signature to a treaty-"