, 1914-12-02
Censored at Jamaica)

London, Dec. lSt.-Ihe death Is aunOunc-
ell of the Earl OF Courtown.
A despatch from Capetown announces the
death of Doctor r N. Hall, the explorer of
Rhodesia.
The death has occurred at Lemberg of
Count Bobrinsky, Govern. r-Genrral OF Cali
cia. from npopiexy, and u despatch from
Rome announces the death of the Marquis
Venosta, an ex- Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Advices from Rotterdam state that the
Queen of Belgium is sick IN bed from over
work in connection with the Red Cross work.
Eight Victoria Crosses have been awarded
for gallantry in France, making q total Of
eighteen during this war. The Chimes
correspondent at BouIogue says that Havil-
dur Gamma Sing, uf the Fifty Seventh II Ifes,
is the first Indian to win the Victoria Cross.
He has arrived at Boulogne on board the
hospital ship a bundle of splints and ban
dages, but very cheerful and fall of heart,
although he has FIVE bullet wounds. He
and fifteen Of his regiment were attacked
in u trench before dawn, but the Germans
were stopped for some seconds by batbed
wire entauglements aud lost heavily before
,hry broke through, and in the haud 10
hand struggle that ensued the ii tvildar
shot tie officer whose bullet 9razed his
head. then took the Germnn's sword aud
killed ten more before he was brought down
by a bullet in his loot, otherwise, he said,
I should have killed more. He is the sole
survivor of his party.
Among those recently killed Nre Mr. A. Il
j. Collins the we'll known cricketer, and
MI. q. r. L.. Anderson, the hurdler.
Among the wounded are Mr.. Robert
Lorraine, the actor, and Mr.. E. Fitz-
roy, NJ. Z. for South Northamptonshire.
~ ~. &C.. IN Sto,,.,4 D:oI,.l -. IL 49,
reported wounded on 5th ultimo, has since
died.
Tue Paris '"Temps" correspondent at Co
penhagen gives the total German dead,
wounded, missing, prisoners and sick as
Advices from Berne state that the French
casualties to November LIST were as follows:
killed 10000, wounded 10000 and miss
ing 1877 900.
An Austrian official statement gives the
casualties in the Servian campaign. until
November, as follows: 791 officers and
81, 647 meu killed, 2,219 officers and 3d. 1873
men wounded, 118 officers and 1907 mem
missing, and since then 25, 900 more.
The "Wiener kundschau" computes that
the Russian casualties number 100000 in
the campaign against the Austrians and
$40, 900 against the Germans, while $50, 900
more are due to sickness.
Exclusive of the losses of the "Bulwark",
the British Navy has lost 1927 officers and
men killed, 473 wounded, and 969 missing,
while 1875 are captive5 or iuternad. These
figures are contained in q statement issued
by the Admiralty and include marines. The
casualties and the captured or lnterned 9th
GERS are as follows: killed 220, wounded 81,
prisoners 5, iuterned 46. Men killed 4,107,
wounded 436, missing 96S, lnterned 1,524.
The majority of the killed were drowned,
and of these ], ITS we're on the "Path6nder",
"Aboukir," "CresSy," and "Hogue", while
tue laundering Of the "Moumouth" and
"Good Hope" was responsible for 1854 off
Gers and men. The operations ut Antwerp
we're accountable for nearly all the interned
or missing, and most CT the missing are pri-
soners III Germany.
Dispatches, from Rome state that the
proposition of'the South American republics
for The ~withdraw wal Of belligerent warships
from their waters, in ordsr to remove i'm
pediments to commerce, has been received
with sympathy by the European neutral
countries, especially the Scandinavian aud
Dutch Kingdoms, which suffer the most
from the present war. 1t is hoped that the
United States will head this movement and
that it may lead to the enactment Of a new
international law which will prevent bellige-
rents from csusing losses to neutrals by the
operations of their warsbirs. 1t is argued That
even if u belligerent reimburses generously
for sequestrated goods, such reimhursements
do not compensate for the general loss to