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TURKISH LOSSES. j 11 DISASTROUS EFFORT TO CROSS SUEZ CAMAl. MARY GUNS CAPTURED CAIRO, Friday, There have been no turther engage- ments on the Suez Canal banks up to this morniiig. Forty-nine of the enemy's wouuded have been brought to the Kasr- cl-Aim Hosni'al. Mo?t of these are «efli- ous ('??Q?. There are about 450 prijMn?re in Cairo to-day. In the li?ht at S?r?w?m two Max -n?;i were captured and R German ofnivr v W among the slain. The Turkish com-II mander was wounded, but ho -.v4s able to escaj>e. Both the Lancashire Territorial lie id Artillery and machine guns have been in action on the Suez CanaL Captain CJarevr, of the bu.z; Canal pilot, service, ,Y< seriously wounded by a Turkish shell while piloting the Indian Government's irmed troopship Hardinge through the ['anal. A shell struck the bows of the L-hip. Captain Career's leg has l).h'U am- putated. Turkish Casualties. I Cairo, Friday.-lt is officially stated that the Turkish casualties in the several engagements of the past two days on the bankt- of the Suez Canal were: 4,00 killed. 600 prise-tiers. 2,000 wounded (about). The number of wounded is not known ?actly. Patrols took 2A prisoners on the east ?nk of th? ?an& b%,des cap- arii)g thrt?) machiD? guns and a oonvoy ii 90 camels laden with stores and am- am nit; on. The enemy has left on the field during the pasc two days rather mftre than 400 killed and 6(40 prisoners. They removed most of their wounded. Allowing five wounded to each man killed, their prob- ibie- total casualties was 2,400, exclusive )f prisoners. One German officer w-as among the dead at Tusum. There have been no further casualties 3n our side. I

I BOMBS FOR A liNER. I German's Attempt to Des- troy Vessel Frustrated. Paris, Saturclav.-The linei- Champagne,; )f the Compagnie General Trans-Allan-j bque. which has just arrived at Corunna. J Mports, according to the Madrid news-1 papery that on JKnuary 19th, dnrmg her voyage from Mexico, a wireless me.?age was reeiYed '(aning tac captain that Ollg the passengers was a German 'Who I bid bn comm?sioDCd to blow up the p. I Thanks to the prompt and discreet m?a?res taken by the captain the Ger- man was discovered and placed in irors.i Lu his trunk were found five dynamite I bombs.

GERMAN DESTROYER LOST. 1 Copenhagen, Thnrsday.-A. German tor- I pedo-boat has been wrecked near the Island of Moen, off Denmark, and absolutely lost. It is presumed that the vessel struck a German floating mine.

A FLOATING WRECK. Rotterdam. Thursday.—A Dutch steam- I be at which arrived at the Hook of Hol- land to-day reported having four- teen miles north-wetit of the Maa6 light- ship. what was apparently a dNelidl ?amg'up. The tops or two masts and j ?f a fUnnèl ware OQt of the water. Itj i" suggested that the dNelict is the! En?Ush steamboat Durward, which wan' stopped by a German submarine seteraii lays ago, and was believed to have sunk, iitCT' explosives had been placed on board by Germans.

NUBS D BY TSAPITSA. The happiest tvounuW soldier in Tsiir- ¡ skoe Selo Hospital, says the Ex- ballge corre?.por>dent in Petrograd, is a Siberian ehaaic-ur named Hletsky. He is nursed eiclusively by the Tearitja, Alex- andra. and is known to envious comrades as Kapitan Tsariteu "—the Captain of the Empress- Eletsky is a private and a reservist. He fought against the Austrian6 in North Gralcis, captured a Bag, vanquished a gigantic hussar in single combat, and wa3 jiven the St. George's Cross. After being twice wounded in a, later angagemect he stayed at his post until i 7-inoh- howitzer shell burst among his company. The explosion broke his leg, stripped off all his clothes and knocked him into insensibility. When Eleteky awake he was in hos- pital. His nurse address-ed him as cap- :ain." Over his bed was the inscription, v Captain Piotr Kaphin." He had been niataken for an officer. Eletsky Vim re- noved to Taarskoe Selo Hospital and put ja the ward for wounded soldiers and non- ioms- j The Tsar's eldest daughter, the Grand Duchess Olg-a, who workp in this hospital, las vowed to nurse only the rark and file. ¡I Li-earing Eletsky's story, she said that if He was not a captain he soon would be, and declined to attend him. The Empress Alexandra thereupon de- darqal that she would nurse Eletsky her- I

i MADDENED hilLITARISTS, i V American Explanation of Germany's Latest Threat. Von Bethman-Hollweg's Defence. f:1I: British Order Made the Excuse Germany's latest threat of piracy at sea has raised a storm of indignation in America and other neutral countries. The State Department at Washington, according to an Exchange telegram, be- lieves that the proclamation affords grounds for official protest to the German Government. The German Wireless Press has sent out a revised version of the blockade pro- clamation- It differs slightly from the: document published yesterday, and that I there is no intention in Berlin to mini-1 mise the meDace is apparent from a state- ment made to an interviewer by the Im- 1 perial Chancellor. Did Englishmen really believe, said j If err Bethmann-Hollweg, that Germany would hitate to choose the right i moment for the most energetic mea- I fcurcs ? These measures must soon come, j They would regret it if this naval war I' hurt neutrals, but they must act in their own defence. Newspaper Excuses. The German newspapers are finding I exxcuse for the threat against ooull:al shipping in an alleged secret order by the British Government that Englisii ships are henceforth to ucp neutr tl flags. This statement is absolutely untrue. Sir Edward Grey and other Ministers saw Mr. Churchill at the Admiralty yes- terday. Subsequently, a Council of Ministers was held at 10, Downing-street, those present including the Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Churchill, Earl Kitchener, the Marquis of Crewe, and Sir Edward Grey. The Ministers met at 12.30, and sat. for an hour. Blockade Order. i The text of the German Admiralty's blockade proclamation, as circulated by the Berlin Wireless Press, is as fol.,ows:- 1.—The waters around Great Britain and Ireland, including the whole of the English. Channel, are declared to be a war zone from and after February 18, 1915. Every enemy merchant ship found in this war zone will be de- stroyed, even if it is impossible to I avoid dangers- threatening crew and passeDgeLrF. 2.—Also neutral ships in the war zone are in danger, as in eonfsequence of the misuse of neutral flags ordered by the British Government on January 31, and in view of hazards of naval war- fare it can act always be avoided that attacks meant for enemy ships en- danger neutral ships. 3.—Shipping northward around the Shet- land Inlands, in the eastern basin of the North Sea, and in a strip of at least 30 nautical miles width along the Dutch coast is not endangered. AMERICA AWAKENS. Germany's Challenge to the Whole World. America ha? awakened to the f-aot that Germany challenges the whole world in her insane ambition to achieve uruv-ereuni domination. The answer is ao clear as Germany's defiance. It is thart behind the American flag and shipping stands the whole nation, determined to maintain the, rights of non-belligerente and protect its interests. Mr. Got;dorr, the late Government dole- ga.te at t>ha Universal Congress of Jurists, points out that inconvenience to neutral vessels is considerable as an aot oi hos- tility." He reminds America that when Napoleon declared British ports blockaded the T'nited States of America held no bldfcado effective that. could be disregarded. He add. To interdict commerce on such a great scale is either a mere empty threat or war agasnst humanity. There is no justification for this action, which seems like an attempt to cover acts of wanton vandalism." Maddened Militarists. The oonviotion is growing that German roi., maddened by the sense of ap- proaching dei'eot. desire to embroil America to the point of official protest, so as to be able to say We only made peaice when we faced the whole world." The Tribunedescribes Germa-ny's proposal as a perilous cou rse," and de- clares "There is no possibility of blink- ing the greaft danger inherent in Ger- m,a challenge to the worid. The de- claraiion is .som-pthing between a. hint and a threat. It constitutes an extraordinary. in,er^)ati(^rull claim and is a vicsotis itivi., tat. ion to internalaono.l eJnbroi-ln\en<t,. De.=i>eraf^on could go no further. We have no wish, -to urge precipvfca.te action in such a ciAsks. One thing is cUar, however. The time 00 protest; and the time to make the national resolve clear is now." The World," defending Brstadn'e claim to right to search and condemning Ger- to fo se h jnany'e threatened endangering of neu- trab, declares: The Social of the right of search is blata,nt aguor?Dce and sabre- rattling swagger characteristic of Prussi-an Ku ltux. The destruction of undetermined neutral ca,r,-c)es iz; a merciless exercise of power thaft must have a <1 iy of reckoning." Hollai-.d Alarmed. I Amsterdam, Friday.—The Handeds- blad learrfs that this morning an extra- crd.nary sitting of the Cabinot was held at The Hague, at which the statement of the German Admiralty reg-ardin-g enemy shipping wus discu. Ko decision was reached, and another Cabinet Council will shortly be convened on the matter.— Ruttó! I Shipping circles in Holland are seriously alarmed a.t Germany's threat. Leading concerns at Jvotierda.ni and AuMterdam j generally expect -that Germany's measures will considerably damage Dutch shipping,' with which the war has already played bavoc. It is asked how mail boats to ( England arr3 going to be run if the Dutch I flag does not protect them from German submarines.— Exchange. ATTACK NEUTRAL SHIPS. New Orders to German I Submarines. Berlin, Iriday.—The principal space in ail the papers is devoted to the alleged secret, oixler that English merchant ships a-re henceforth to use neutral flags. The Kreu 2 Zeitung says: "What is this command but an admission that we are unable to protect OUT flag any longer. I urtbermora, it is a gross violatidn of international law, and of most earnest interest to lleutrab. The consequence can only be that the neutral flag can no longer i project neutral ships, because no German naval officer can tell whether it is borne rightfully. Therefore German submarines win have to fliroot toroedoes also at J neutral ships if the neutral Powers do not ¡ see t,, it that the misuse oi their flags commanded by the Briti5h Admiralty does not take placa. is charar-teristic of those of the whoir. rrpes. The Vosfdche Zeitung" calls h.e order a eoafeosion of weakness, of which no Englishman would have thought a weeks earlier that his Admiralty was capable." The Tage- blaH makes the same comment. I Thnsubmarinc operations against Bri- tish transports are not to be regarded as the beginning of a. submarine blockade, but. a.3 directed .solely against transports. —German Oflkdal Wireless. Von Bethmann-Holiweg's Defence. Copenhagea, Friday.—'The Berlin cor-I respondent of the "National Tidende" I wires that he was received by the Im- perial Chancellor at his palace in the Wilhelmstrasso. Discussing the Ger- I man Admiralty's threat to blockade Eng- land von .Betlimanji-Hol 1 weg said; "You tell me the Allies are pinning I their faith to the prospect of Et.ar'dng out Germany. I suppose that England! hopes in this way to keep up the courage of her Allies, who are suffering more under the war than she is, and thus in- duce them to continue the terrible struggle. "I have read t'he utterance of Mr. Churchill, who said: You know the effect of throttling al nation. But this throttling will not stop till Germany ?urrender? iineon-I dihonally. Even if France and Russia retire from the fight, which i6 very unlikely, England will continue to I carry the war to a finish. Frugality Practised. I It appears to me, continued the Chancellor, "that Mr. Churchill is opening big month too wide. Viewed J without prejudice, the situation is this: We have food enough to nourish our people till next harvest, though we may, be forced to practise frugality. Germans would prefer that to submitting to the conditions which Mr. Churchill impose5, The whole question is one of organisation.' The Government has now taken control of the matter, and is distributing food, so that scarcity will not send the prices of commodities to a dangerous level. If we let things go their own way the result! pretty soon would be starvation. a England is treating us as a besieged fortification. Sho wants to starve out a people of 70 millions. Do you know any more barbaric method of waging war? Do you think we shall submit to the hypo- crisy of a weapon of starvation like this in the hands of a nation acting in the I Dame of civilisation ? Hijrt Neutral Interests. "Do En-lishmpri.spally believe that we shall hesitate to choose the right moment for the most energetic counter measures?! These measures must soon come. We shall regret it if this naval war hurts neutral interests, but we must act in our own defence."

i BRITISH CASUALTIES A summary of the, military casualty, lists issued on Friday gives the following, figures: OSi COM. Men. Killed 2 199 Died at woujids 1 30 Died 6 Wounded 5 745 Missing — 0, 150 The Admiralty also issued a list of naval caeualties reported a.s haviug oc- curred in the buex Canxl and the Persiaji GulfOfficers: Killed, one; wounded, two. Men: KiUed, one; wounded, seven. According to the Ivorddeutsche Alle- meine Zeitung," the growing of sugar 1 beet in Germany is to be reduced in order that more vauabie food stuffs may be cul- tivated.

v I r LESS BEER SOLD. In yesterdays Parliamentary Papers Vj-. Aclaiad states that the number of barrels of beer at the standard gravity! charged with duty in England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively in December,, 1913, and December, 1914, were as follows: 1913 1914 England 2,580,214 1,630,373 Scotland 171,288 9o,789 Ireland 275,013 198,072, U. Kingdom 3,129,015 1,922,2341 Mr. Acland adds: I may point out that these figures relate to the first, completed | month under the new conditions: no c-on-j clousion as to the ultimate effect 01 the I change can yet bg arrived at,

AVIATOR'S EXPL8)T. 'I AVIATOR'S. EXPLOIT. I Ii FRENCH AIRMAN WINS CROSS OF LEGION OF HONOUR. I "CHIVALROUS CONDUCT ¡ Paris, Friday.—A German aeroplane flew over Flanders to-day, and when over Cancel was fired upou by the Allies' guns, and a bvmÍJ fell, without bursting. Another German aeroplane dropped I bomos at lionuegiieni and alloncappei, but no damage Mas done, and there ivik no vicUiu. in a letter to his parents, tho aviator Gilbert rci&tue a recent exploit winch I' WGll him Uio Crosse of the Legion, of Honour. it was when returning from a recon- naissance to baint ^juentin, in company wnu a lieutenant ooserver that i per- ceived tho tierman. 1 immediately opened the wil ottie, and uvauly-uve minutes later above Amiens, 1 had reacned a good position to open tre. The enemy Hud n<.a heard us, ior alter rising nearly 2,000 teet abovo him, 1 cut oh the sparK, ready to swoop down on him. Tho lieutenant fired the first shot at a j distance oi only 30 or 40 feet, and shot the German through the neck and brotie his arm. The German turned round aghast, but before he could do anything my observer had fired again w Jlli 1, kept my machine almost motionless over the hostile aeroplane. On sugh, occasions it is useful to be something oi an acrobat. I The bullet pierced the steel plate, and passed clean through tho heart of the observer, who tell back in his seat. Ij scouted to my companion to cease tiring, wishing to spare the ^jilot, but he fired two more bullets, thinking perhaps the enemy was going to reply. For some moments I hovered round above the Ger- man biplane as it came to earth. Friendly Enemies. If the pilot had wished to escape I should have caught him at once, but he threw liimself out of the machine on to the ground, where he lay in great pain. I came down a few yards away, and the pilot got up. and we shook hands, mutu- j ally congratulating each other. I helped him to bandage himself, and when a car soon came up I gave him in charge of an ofifcer I wished him a speedy I recovery, again shaking hands. I then put in a place of safety the German machine, which was a Rumpler biplane of 120 h.p., with a Mercedes engine, Afterwards I was summoned to head- quarters, where General Castelnen con- gratulated me, as did the staff officers.- Press Association.

10,000 MORE AUSTRALIANS. I Melbourne, Friday.—Mr. Pearce, ] Commonwealth Minister of Defence,, r,tatec. that a further expeditionary force of 10.000 men has been offered by Aus- tralia to the Imperial Government and ha.s been accepted This is in addition j to 4,000 men who will go as reinforce- ments monthly.—Renter.

ZEPPELINS OVER HOLLAND. J Amsterdam, Friday..—Reports from Nor- thern Holland state that two Zeppelins flew over Eruden and then left in a north- easterly direction. Both took great pre- cautions to avoid Dutch territory. It is 'believed that they were making speed trials, but the possibility of their crossing the North Sea is not out of the question, —Exekansre. Amsterdam, Saturday. The Tele- gT&af's H correspondent at Kampen states that at 4.30 on Friday morning an airship of small dimensions flew over the town from the east., flying in a westerly direction towards Maasbade. It learns from Cadzand that the whole population of Ostend has to be fed by the Commune. The population has been aug- mented by a large number of fugitives, inel udingthe whole population oif Middel- kerke.

ADMIRAL STURDEE'S RETURN. I Vico-Admiral Sir Frederick Doveton I Sturdee was accorded a great public wel- come on his arrival at his home at Drox- ford, a villago in South Hampshire. Lady Sturdee and the Admiral were drawn from tiie station in a carriage to which a number of men were harnessed. The procession included the churchwar- dens, parish councillors, and Ikuy Scouts, I being headed by the Bishops Waltham Brass Band, playing, the Conquer, ing Hero Comes." Every cottage was gailv decorated, and a welcome was addressed to Sir Doveton by the Rector, Canon Stephenson. Admiral Sturdee, acknowledging the welcome, paid that it was quite unex- pected. Three months ago he left home a humble individual, and now he enjoyed a certain notoriety, thanks to having had the command of a fine body of men, not only of the Royal Navy, but of the Ro-ril Naval Reserve and the Colonial forces, as well as many pensioners.

GERMAN NAVAL LOSSES. I I learn that besides the published German naval losses there are eight destroyers and two submarines written off in the official lists (writes a Daily Chronicle" correspondent). Two of the destroyers were lost in the Channel on September 4, three on the Dogger Bank, and another, the S190, in Asiatic waters. One of the submarines sank off Westende and one near the Dogger Bank. Two others have been missing for over three weeks. The armed auxiliary cruiser Kronprinzessin Cecilie is also scratched off the official tables. A statement made by German blue- jackets captured after the Heligoland naral battle of January 24 that the light cruiser Kolberg sank is confirmed, though I. not publicly admitted in German naval circles. The reports published early in Decem- ber that the German battleship Kaiser WiLhelm der Grosse and the armoured I cruiser He-rtha. had been lost in the Baltic are incorrect. The armoured cruiser Friedrich Karl sank after striking a German mine in the Baltic on November 15. It was known that this vessel had gone to the bottom, but th- manner of its loss has never been definitely announced.

KING ALBERTS ESCAPE I DAST ARDl V PLOT. I BELGIAN MONARCH'S LIFE ENDANCERED BY í GERMANS. THE PENALTY PAID. P DT Th"  h ? P-?RIS, Thur?ay ?i?ht. Ho? King AJbert escaped a .?t.r?pter- i6tically despicable plot against bis life set in train by the Germans is told in a recent number of ftie Depeche de Tou- louse." When the Germane occupied; Brussels they oun d in the hospitals of I the town 300 Belgian wounded, whose undforme tihey seized. I Their idea was to dress 300 of their I own soldiers in these uniforms and 6end th&m to Antwerp, where, passing 10r Bel- gian soldiers who had made good ttir escape, they would mure er the King of the Belgians and his staff. The fact that the murderers were wearing Belgian uni- forms would enable to German, lioancncor- iug agencies to assert with a colourable pretence of veracity than; the Belgian King had been assassinated by his own subjects. Plot Suspected. I Fortunately, tne disappearance of the 300 uniforms did nut pass unnoticed by the Bruxellois, who jumped to at leaert a partial divination of the plot. So, when the ;300 assassins left Brussels en route for Antwerp a powerful motor-car preceded them, to give the alarm. Some six or seven miles from the de- fences of Antwerp the 300 were received I by an advance-post of the Belgian army, greeted with a semblance of enthusiasm, and directed on their way. They advanced unsuspectingly till at nightfall they found themselves among barbed wire Cl- tanglements and under a fierce fusillad". Not one of the would-be assassins returned to Brussels.

A CREAT ARMY I Britain's Wonderful Reply to German Threats. In the form of a White Paper the I Army Estimates of effective and non- effective services for the year 1915-16 were issued yesterday. The number of men on the Home and Colonial estab- lishments of the Army is given as 3,000,000. This is the net estimate. Under the 15 headings no actual esti- mates are given, only the nominal figure of £ 1,100 gross estimate being men- tioned in each case. Before the outbreak of war Parliament had, in the ordinary way, voted 186,0(? men for the Regular Army, exclusive of the Reserve, the special Reserve, and the Territorials. The men provided for by the Army Estimates of 1914-15 are given as follows: Regular Forces 168.500 Army Reserve 147.000 ] Special Re-serve 80;120 I Ø" Q- Territorials 315,485 Total 711,005 I In tracing the various developments of the national call to arms, it is necessary to revert to August 6 last, when the House of Commons voted 500,000 men. An additional 500,000 were voted on September 10. On November 16 the Prime Minister asked for another 1,000,000 men. Taking these figures together the total number of men voted by Parliament in the year 1914 comes out as follows:- Regulars and Territorials at the outbreak of the war 711,005 Increase on Allg. 6, 1914 500|000 Do. on Sept. 10, 1914 500,W Do. on Nov. ,16 1914 1,000,000 Y. Total 2,711,005 11 1 11 1 I- JLt. sucuici be noticed that these figures (it not include the Regular forces serv- ing in India, nor the Continental con- tingents.

SUPPLYING PETROL Copenh agen. Thursdav-The Danish Government has received an official mes*»- age from London stating that the British Government knows nothing of any steamer, flting the Danish colours, hav- ing supplied a German submarine with petrol.

SPY SYSTEM Iti POLAND. I Revelations as to the network of Ger- man espionage which stretches all over West and Central Poland were made bv a spy named Gehrten, who was shot last week at Jvangorod, says an Exchangel message trom Petrograd. si the spies, he says, are Austrian or Prussian Poles, and as pedlars and beggims they have the run of the country. The Russian officers seldom speak Polish, so any dia- lectical difference between the speech of the spies and of the native Poles goes unnoticed. Some of the spies are highly educated women. They have forged passports showing them to be Russian subjects. They disguise themselves as peasant women. During the recent Russian retreats they stayed behind and as the enemy ad- vanced got into his lines. An elaborate system of signalling protects the spies against being shot by sentries. Field-Marshal Hindenburg before his ¡ retreat from Central Poland in October, made arrangements for espionage pre- paratory to his new advance. His staff brought hundreds of carrier pigeons, which were lett behind with trusted agents when the Germans evacuated suc- cessively the different important centres.

FINES) FGR OWNING MUSIC. A Belgian, has 'been sentenced at Liege to pay a fine of E50 for having "insulted the Gerrr-an Emperor. Another, a music-eeiier, was ordered by a German officer to pay a fine of £ 20 for- possessing an old copy of the "Mareeilaise," Tho man said he had only £ iZ in the worli. "That will do for the present," said the officer, ae he pocketed the money- i

WIPID OUT, I German Reglmtnt Fall to Take Russ". Trenches. Petrograd. Saturday.—Russian recon- naissance detachm^n are succewrfuVIy. operating on the leit ban-i cf Uppw K-avka, and have captured etvetol patrols. During the great battle -which to rasing around Borjimoff tlve Germa«« tried to bring motors inic action, brt they were repulsed. Lu storming the German lreacleq, i ti-c- Eussi-rim, captured large number o saiado with which the Germ.au. w rftotry is provided, and adapted 'th€& (o their own USB. Between flriemi'tii and BlimM!! tlrt Germans havs- brought 16-5 inch cune into play. Near Gamine a force of German in- fantry five deep charged tho Buisian trenehes The first line was wiped out. Tuo second line reached the trenches. Those of the rman51 who had not fallen began to surrender, but they only shared the fa.te of the rest of their comrades, with the Russians vwe soon at close grips- r. Austrian aviator has been cav tured near Fyreinysi in man-bo-cir- cumstances. Seeing two thousand Aurt7i4ng marching ai,ng he flew down, ani only^iiscovered too late *hat they werib prisoners. The. Tear reewrifr aPF of 't$|i St. George's Cross being eoaferred ad a girl who had digrJised herself ap « volunteer, and had been three timee wounded whila carrying ajnmonitaop to the troops at OpatoS. She WM tO thO bvops ai, f-aken 1-Ut eubre  ueaviy Butter Market. CORK, Saturday. First, H7.; fieconds, 1.33s.; thirds, 0; fourth, 0; superfine, 0; fine, 0; mild, choicest boxes, 0; choice, 0; fresh but.tet from 136s. At the market at Onuskrrk, Lanc^fr lire, to-day, M ma( a a* tAs. per quarter was asked for whoot, being an increase of 6s. on the week. E.R. 1. John Redmond 3, Pky Pilot Also ran: rervent, Firchal-e. 15 lc S E.B. Spearman 1. BoyaJ Cpllar 2, Go}<? ■ in 3.-—13, Fatter Confessor 1, Dsnie Auburn 2, Break Out õ.-9 ran. btiitiJug: W 60 ó::)pearw!t.n. Dublin Bay 1. War bine 3, Peaildivor J>-—lQc FINAL SCORE: Newcastle—2 goals. 6waubea ±own—il.   

 TIGER'S CLAWS, j HuLhu uLR?O. ——— CARMARTHEN SAILOR'S STORY OF THE ACTION. I LATEST GERMAN ADMIRALTY LIE I EFFECTIVELY SCOTCHED. I. INCREDIBLE CLAIM. I 1, German ran11 authorities are still, re. bNlting to the world their pet fiction ihat a British battle cruiser wto, sunk in the recent North Sea battle. The enemy lost the Bluecher and had other cruisers badly smashed, and the German Ad- miralty officials art doing their best to iiiise the spirit* of their countrymen by j ■ Ktoutly professing their conviction that, in spite of Bri lih official denials, Our J, inavy 6aiiorod a los6 of at loat E'.(Jual j magnitude—the lose, in fact, of H.M.S.. Tiger. Yet we are able to publish, be- low a letter from a leading seaman :11 the Tiger, describing the battle, allli 1 adding that the Tiger was ready for action at a moment's notice. Y?te)'day'& G-ermau olinaal wileE& jj Bfwj, i?u?d from i??rUa, cont?in?d tUo i.Uowing?a?<'gc: The credit for the destruction of the. Hn??h b?ni-e-cru?cr Cr? ??n.. 24 i due 4 to the debUv:'N Vo (Commander Lieut. Von Uch&rti), who l?unchou t0rpad(x-6 < .frm a range ?f five mile6, tnus showing 11 the exceptional qualities of the Ger- man torpedoes in range and their good i explosive powers. j] The Admj raity officers regard the de- j ] fcii uctich of the cruiser as an estab- J < lished fact beyond all possbile doubt. because of the corroborative testimony < of a large number of officers and men j wh identified the cruiser with con- siderable certainty as the Tiger. 1 < Kolossal Lie." I I I I The German ile aoout rue ios-s ot a British battle-crciser grows in circum- fctantiality if not in credibility. A range of five mi its means 8,800 yards. A modem torpedo is gonerally aceepted as being efficient up to 7,OUO vards, so that V5 must haTe been excep-. tionallv fortunate to get torpedoes that j were effective at a mile beyond their < rdn. | Again, a tcrpodo woulù take about j eight minutes to travel 8,800 yards. The ] Tiger at 30 knots would have travelled i about four miles fvita her original 1losi- ti.on in the same time. The marksman- j eliip of the German destroyer must, therefore, have been more than phen- I o.nenal. It rnu:>{ have bwn kolossal. j THE LETTER. No Serious Damager Done to the Tiger J: The following interesting extract* are taken f rom a letter sent by Leading Seaman J. J. Williams, of H.M.S. Tiger, after the recent naval victory in the j Sorth Sea. Williams, who is a St. Peter's Boy." caysi I have only been aboard this ship about, six weeks?, but they have been very eventful ones, as we are generally in tiie j thickest part. of any scrummage that's lf>ing, but the ship's motto is: "Let 'em é-J I} come; the mote the merrier," and the Huns have found out that the, Tig-:r has very sharp claws; for further refer- ence as regards the clawp apply to the H Blueehev. 1 "I was on the TJn*>ous during the ] first part-of the. war, doing patrol rblty. 1 We were in company with the Hawke or. .vn a7i d wf ha(i i the day she went down, and we had a very narrow ehave ourselves. When she was paid off I had a few days' leave, aad returned t1)- and whilst there volunteered for the liger, and I haven't' been sorry ior it yet ci ther. i Something in the Wind. 1 When we went out of our base on Saturday night (prior 1 o the battle) '?e I bad an id?a that thNfJ was comething )u the wind," a; we were stMmm? rather fat (in fact about 20 knots) ail night. At 7 aan. on Sunday we went to act-ion stations," and liri soon as day- light broke it was "piped" that the enemy's hat tie cruisers had been (sighted from the top. They were a very long way off, and as boon a6 they caught i-ight of us they altered coun-e to get away. We at once inci,-easo-d st)eed, and the Admiral gave the signal to "ohase enemy." We got within range about. 9 a.m., and the Lion opened fire from her foremost, tUITet. We followed, about 10- seconds later, and then the action be- t?mo gnera1. Our ?In?' fh?'tiag ??? g:?and. -?nd we bad three of tha pmmy on fire' with the &T-?t eab-o?. After about half-an-hour the j Bluecher began to drop astern; was I j badly hit, a.nd tlhe was on fire fore and I nft. She was a splendid sight, but a terrible one; her sides- and decks were red hot, and *he had a big list to port.. We all gave hfr a par'ing salvo ae we passed her; and 6c"m f the light cruisers camp-up to tee her off. 1VG still ¡ engaged the otiiers until about 12 i o'clock, but. we got too close to their 1, mine-fields, to we had to stop. Tlieyi Vere all burning so badly when the dis- appeared that I don't think they will firgrt ihe 1st squad in a hurry; but II thafs only a tasto of what they have got 1 to cocie. Hit in a Few Places. 14 We were hit in a few places, and we J flad a few killed and wounded, but the damage is nothing serious, and we are fit to ntect them at a moment's notice. 4 After the action we steamed back, and were just In time to «.ee the Iiluecher < finking. Too crew were all drawn up forward, 2nd as she WE-TIt down thay juBiped into the sea. While the boats of light erulfBT5, aad destroyers we ] picking the survivors tip, ono of the t German aeroplane* kept dropping boijiljb on tbfUD. but fortunately without hitting J &in r of them. We buried five oi our 1 dead at w-a on Monday fDreuOOil, and ITe i landed the other five when returned < to harbour." Very Serious Damage. j Aweterdam. Friday.—It 16 stated that ] the object of too Zais--r-e, vis-it to tile] lIaval basw i6 to inspect the damage sustained in the recent naval battle, which is far greater than announced by c the Geim" OfxeW <

 POPE'S AP?OUC 8LESS!M. I Paris, Thur.day -Yhe Pope has be- stowed his apostolic blessing upon a F rendl regiment at thp front. There is a corporal in the regiment who. in peace- time, is a priest of the Church of Rome in France. He wrote from the trenches himself to the Pope, and has received from the Secretary of State at the Vati- can a long letter, in Latin, in answer to I his "epistolium"—little letter-which "snmimis pontifex perkuntaniter aceepih" The Pope prays God thaf" ho and his comrades may be preserved sjfe and sound, am), as rtn augury of Divine mercy and as a token of Iii., bftto,iic,e to the priest, and to the "Pope's lejrtoa" committed to his care, "apoatoiicam bene- dictionera iuiperititur." The letter was dated January Iff. Has ever a corporal in a trench received such a letter and from I such a source bpfcr?'