FIRING IN THE NORTH SEA.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4007, 13 August 1915, Page 5

FIRING IN THE NORTH SEA.

A DUTCH REPORT. (Received Aug. 12, 11.10 p.m.) AMSTERDAM, Aug. 12. Advices from Delpijl report heavy gunfire in the North Sea this morning, in a northerly direction. THE TRUCE. WHY THE. ENEMY WON’T. ADVANCE. (Received Aug. 12„ 10.40 p.m.) ATHENS, Aug. 12. Prisoners and deserters state that the reason why .the Austrians have not renewed their attacks on Serbia is that the Austrian commander is not strong enough to undertake the assault without help and is not willing to avail himself of the Bavarians, who are- regarded as unfit for mountain warfare. .ACTIVITY IN ADRIATIC. AUSTRIAN DESTROY ERS’ R A ID. ITALIAN SUBMARINE’S WIN. (Received Aug. 12, 10.40 p.m.) ROME, Aug. 12. A naval official communique states that two Austrian destroyers bombarded Bari, Santo Spirito, and Alula, etta. One civilian was killed aiid seven wounded. Our submarine torpedoed and sank the Austrian submarine U. 12 in the Upper Adriatic, The crew perished. THE CHAMPION BOXER. GEORGES CAR PENT! Ell INJURED PARIS, Aug. 11. Georges Car pen tier, the champion boxer, has had his ankle broken and the bone under Ins eyebrow fractured. Carpentier was injured owing to the stoppage of an engine compelling an aeroplane to descend suddenly. GERMAN AMMUNITION SUPPLIES. SIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS. . AMSTERDAM, Aug. 11. Twice lately all tho ammunition lor the guards on Dutch and Belgian, frontiers has been requisitioned, for the fighting front-. Hides have been taken and older patterns substituted. Many of the Wounded men are now acting as guards. THE ZEPPELIN RAID. AVIATOR'S’ TRAGIC DEATH. DESTRUCTION OF THE ZEPPELIN.

LONDON, Aug. 12. Lord, the aviator who was killed by an. accident during the Zeppelin raid on the coast, was dancing with his fiancee, a daughter ol’ Lieut.-Colonel Beevor, when the Zeppelin alarm was raised. He hurried to.the aerodrome and the dance was stopped. Lord' was killed half an hour later. A British aviator commenced an attack on a Zeppelin at Dunkirk on Tuesday and seriously damaged her. French aviators completed the destruction. THE FRENCH ATTACK. (Received Aug. 12, 10.20 p.m.) PARIS, Aug. 12. A naval statement states that ten French hydroplanes from Dunkirk dropped twelve incendiary bombs on a Zeppelin returning disabled to Ostend, and also dropped forty-nine bombs at Ostend. GERMANY’S ENORMOUS LOSSES. AN APPALLING ESTIMATE. NEW YORK. Aug. 11. A Berne correspondent states that the German losses to date total 2,178,683. The latest casualty lists give the Prussian losses at 1,641,569, and Bavarians. Saxons, and Wurtembergcvs at 537,114. THE MACHINE GUN CAMPAIGN. AUSTRALIAN EM U RATION URGED. SYDNEY. Aug. 12. The “Herald,” in urging the pressing need of more men and weapons, notes the example of Now Zealand and Canada in raising subscriptions to present machine guns to the forces, and says the example is one that might well be followed. GENERAL ITEMS. WORKERS FOR MUNITIONS. LONDON, Aug. 11. The National War Output Committee is'arranging to bring to England for the production of _mur.it ons South African and Australian bodormnkers, millwrights, fitters, and engineers. Lis,sauer’s “Song of Hate’ is losing favor in Germany. The “Tageblatt' ’ approvingly quotes from the “Kooluischo Volks Zeitung” a clergyman’s letter deploring the song and urging its removal from the children’s books. Bucharest reports that a financial catastrophe threatens owing to the accumulation of wheat worth sixty millions sterling. Growers arc pressing for permission, to export this, which is impossible, as Germany is witlilioldi' g trucks, in punishment for Roimiaiua s refusal of the passage of munitions towards Turkey. The only remedy i» the forcing of the Dardanelles. YYhon tin’s is accomplished it is feared there will be a rising of the peasantry unless the prohibition of exportation is removed. , An Italian submarine sank an Austrian submarine with all hands m the Upper Adriatic. ■ A Berlin wireless message states .rood crops will soon permit an increase of bread distributions and a-decrease of prices. The potato prospects are excellent, and prices will soon be on a peace level. „ -Intellectuals and professors in Gcilriany have issued a “kultur maul IVsto, declaring that peace-loving Gciniany only rose up when the baibaiinns’ in the East- and powerful, envious enemies in the West threateucc to annihilate her. She does not want to dominate the world, but demands the possibility of extending enltuic and commercial power. She Ultist remove the French menace, exacting a large indemnity; must hold Belgium, and’ conquer the Channel coast, protecting herself against Britain “Le Matin” learns that an Italian aviator nightly, since Italy’s entry into, the war, has bombed Pola arsenal, petroleum depots, forts, and shipping, doing damage to the extent of several million francs. . A wireless message states that General Von Kocness captured the region south-east of Zeleyhow, where lie effected a junction with the Archduke Ferdinand’s troops, which crossed the Leowr Vein/-. King Albert has, been gazetted Colonel-in-Chiof of the Princess Charlotte of Wales’ Dragoon Guards. RearAdmiral Beatty has been? .promoted to Vice-Admiral. Colonel A. Hunter Weston has been made a Commander of the Bath. (Received Aug. 12, 10.40 p.m.) The Catholic Bishop of Limerick lias written to Mr Redniond (Nationalist Leader) urging him to use his efforts to support the Tope’s neace appeal. (Received Aug. 13, 12.10 a.m A Mr Lloyd-Ceorgo has > formed a strong Munitions Inventions Branch tfiph a panel of scientific experts.