, 1914-10-31
Censored at jamaica


Lord Kitchener appeals for another
400, 600 ecruits.
The Admiralty announces the closing of
further channels of the Thames, making
access to London more difficult.
a casualty list dated Oct 23rd gives the
following: sixteen officers killed, thirty-hye
wounded,and twenty-three missing. Another
list gives fifteen killed, fifty two wounded,
and seventeen missing, In Nigeria and the
German k0mtrun since August 25th twelve
officers have been killed md seven wounded,
while 100 natives have been killed and
tweuty-nino wounded, The following have
been wounded: Lieutenant Sir Z. Brockle-
hurst OF The Drrbyshire Yeomuury, General
kaynnagh, Lieutenant- Colonel Ferguson,
Second Lite Guards Capt. J. J Aston, First
Life Guards and -Coiouel Ward,
VI ddleseX Regiment.
Prince Maurice Of Battenberg has died
from wounds. The King and Queen have
called on Princess Henry Of Baltenberg ut
keusington Palace TO express their sympathy.
Tie Government announces that It's regU-
lation Of the sugar market allows a reduction
III the gross wholesale price Of thirty pcuce
per hundred weight, making the maximum
retail price hree-aud-a-hnl pence per pound
fnr good graduated and four pence for
cubes.
1t is stated that the most powerful Zeppe-
lin arship yet constructed bns been com
pleted at Friedrichshafen, and that it flew
nortbward without IL preliminary trial,
amid shouts of 'to London" Work wns
instantly begun upon the thirty-secoud
Zeppelin, and the factory is working with
double staff day aud night. Others are
building elsewhere, under orders to com
plete one hundred as soon as possible, and
hangers are being built at Ostend, The
German press contains interviews with mill
tary men describing Germnry's plans for the
invasion Of England with ZeppeliDs and sub
mnrines from the Oh, mel ports, which are to
be taken OF any cost by the Kaiser express
aud specific orders.
The sixtieth Prussion casualty list includes
General Prince Frederick of Snxe Meiningen
among the killed, while naong the wounded
and a prisoner at Limoges. France. is Prince
Jean Charles Of Carolath Beuthen. General
Won Reinhardt, Commander of q brigade Of
Wurtemburgs is among the killed.
1t is reported that General Won Beseler
has committed suicide by shooting himself
at Bruges. He was the captor Of Antwerp
nj. Proust. a member of the French Cham.
Der of Deputies, is among the killed.
The total French casualties between Toul
and Verdun are estimated ut 10000. and
those of the Germans on the Nleuport-DiX-
nude line ut 10000 killed aud 10000
wounded. On Sunday 400 Wagon loods Of
wounded traversed Ostend. The Belgium
losses along the User Canal are estimated at
10000. Two hundred thousand wounded
have passed through Vienna altogether One
estimate gives the average German losses
daily us 10000, while another estimate gives
14,O 0 daily for the week, the engagements
in Flanders now resembling massacres.
The Insurance Companies estimate the dam
ages at Rheims at Gao, 600, 900 and report that
twelve hundred civilians were killed. About
one fourth of the buildings have been de-
stroyed, the worse damage having occurred
in the best quarters, and forty thousand
persons are living in cellars. Stones drop
daily from the Cathedral, and it is believed
the coming winters damage will complete
the ruin.
The French steamer"Admiral Ganteaume,"
reported to have sunk as the result OF an
explosion, has arrived at Folkestone.
Later advices from Lisbon state that all
classes of the naval reserves have been sum
moned, aud a brigade Of six hundred men
has been sent to Angola. England having
declined his services, King Manuel has vol
unteered to serve with Portugal's contingent
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