CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2230, 17 August 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

GERMAN TROOPS SAID TO BE BADLY FED DESERTIONS REPORTED - Paris/ 'August 14. t It is alleged, at Boulogne thiat'Germal L olßcots and men alio deserting on' account 3 of 'starvation." "In. some cases it ''has beep ) found necessary to order the troops feci to tho ( towns to quell the riotin j causei - by _ 'Socialistic. unti-war agifcati<m.-« ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" • Service.) GERMAN BRIBE TO BELGIUM. ; AMERICAN MINISTER REFUSES TO CONVEY MESSAGE. (Rec. August 17, 0.5 a.m.) mi. «rr ,„ t, F>aris ' August 15. j.» J,<Jm P s s Brussels, correspondent that before transmittinsf. the latest l bribe to Belgium, Germany '"attempted to l persuade the United States Minister to " t convey it, but he indignantly refused. •; The correspondent adds: that, wireless 3 stations linvo been discovered all over a Belgium, many being, ingeniously hidden. 1 "Many German servants are engaged itt 9 espionage. '* 5 — ■' ; " ' > ' • BOY'S daring feat. ! THROWS A BATTERY INTO CONF.USION. (Rec. August 17, 0.5 a.m.) „ Brussels,(August 15. While a force of Belgiiius. was being harassed by a perman battery'at Bai- . lfiire, near Jupille, on the lleuse, n«r. Vise, an corporal, nanied. ' Lupin, crept round to "the left behind a. wall, and enfiladed the battery, shooting 6 the principal officers and some of the menrand throwing the battery in. .confusion, 1 l'he battery before retreating fired a "list r ' shot, bringing down the ivall," and burying ■ Lupin. £ GERMAN CYCLISTS SURPRISED, ' , t , BELGIANS KILL FIFTY. (Rec, August 17;' 0.5 a.m.) ' ' * " 15. A-Belgian company surprised two ,com« pames of German cyclists at Vessehackeri.'near Louvain. The Germans retreated after fifty of their number had beenkilled. 1 * ■ SCOUTS AND CARRIER PIGEONS, - GERMAN ADVANCE RECONNOITRED. I ..... . .(ltoc.. August 17, 0.5 a.m:) Brussels,'. August' 16; morning. A Dutchman from Liege recounts how.' prior to the attack oii the forts twenty- . four Belgian lancers, 'with carrier pigeons, reconnoitred the German "position. They . hid themselves in the woods haif-way.be- , rare®? liege and .Aix. La Chapellc, and Htept the defenders of'the forts'aware'of , every change' in the disposition of : thf< • - German troops. I ' ENGLISH NURSES WELCOMED. , . (Rec. August 17, 0.5 a.m.) " , '- Brussels, August 16. _Eprty r one, English nurses,'including twA ■ New Zealanders, who were holidaying ir ' England, arrived on Saturday night, dni 1 received a great ovation. ■ • • ■ "AN OFFIGERS' WAR," • . - WHAT GERMAN I'RISONBRS SAY. Paris, August 14. An official pf the War Office interrogated some German prisoners : and found that they were ill-fed' and their morale mediocre'. N<me uroearal to "know: why ' ■ they'had been .'mobilised," 6 • Ctae' replied: "It is not a people's war; 1 it is ail, officers' war."' - ' . , A PLAGUE OF SPIES. ; HOW THEY ARE OAPTURED. (Rec. August 16, 5.5 p.m.) . 'Brussels, 15. Belgium is overrun with spies, and all captured are tried late-each nigit. and a certain numberlare'shpl at'.dawn.. Fifty Gel-mans were captured $t Antwerp in one day. Maiiy of those captured were '■ wearing Belgian uriifor'ni. Oho citizen tif Brussels, too ill to £0 to the front, volunteered as a spy-catcher."-'H.e'speaks German, perfectly, and has tC; German appgap. • anie. ' He gpe9 to' the cafes, ani if he sets a suspicious/ person'asks: "Are you a German?" If ;tho answer is "Yes!" he asks, "Where do wo meet to-morrow?" If sat- '■ isfied that the case requires investigation •- he-signals -for the police, and the-spy-is arrested, v V•' ' KING ALBERT AMONG HIS TROOPS, SEVERAL NIGHTS IN BIVOUAC, (Rec. August' 16, 515" prriil) - '}T'Brussels, August 15, morning. The King of the Belgians is constaritlr ' among the troops. Ho' .pMsetF • several nights in" He'•travels' in "a c motor-car attended by a single officer, • and. is sq simply' attired "as,'often, not to be recognised. . . London/August 14. Mr. Asquith and Sir Edward" Grey, in letters to the Belgian War Minister, ex- . pressed" admiration of the vigour and ■ courage of Albert, the Belgian Government,' and the army, Which' is the best proof that Britain-did right, in intervening. AMONG THE WOUNDED. '' * GERMANS SAY THEY WERE'OR;'' DERED TO EIRE LOW. (Rec. August 16, 5.5'-p.m.) Brussels, August 15, morning. A British doctor who visited too ho J, pitds found very many of the Belgian!, wounded in the legs, and many bad cbU lapsed from sheer exhaustion. The latter soon reoover, and show the keenest de* * sire to return to arms. German prison* ers explain'they were ordered- to We low, presumably because a man hit on is immediately: hors-de-combat. Nev'erj theless, the flesh wounds in the calf an<| „ thigh heal quickly, - 'and many Belgiai* wounded are already recovering. The ma jority of the Germans are wounded, in th( bod?. -'■ The Belgian doctors are working splen« didly, but the 6urgi«il work at Liege it hindered for lack of. chloroform. AN ENGLISHMAN AT LIEGE. WHAT HE SAW AND HEARD. (Rec. August 16, 5.5 p.m.) l ' London, Au?ust 15, morning. '•Mr. Menzies, an English stockbroker, who visited his bome'at Liege on Sunday,. states that forty thousand Germans 'are . occupying the town," the ; bulk"' "being - bivouacked at Mont' Saint Martin. The boulovards are lined with maxims. -H® ! learnt that the Sontisso Fort twenty tinier destroyed the. German bridge' across the. Mouse at Vise. Jt was", persistently rumoured at Liege, that the Crown l'rinco of Germany, was 1 wonndfed lyhila (leading' .•the:"Death's Head" Hussars, UHLANS RAID A BANK, I . BUT ARE ROUTED BY Brussels, -August 14." Hhlana. raided the National Bank ':£ , Hasselt, between Diest and the Mouse, • and seoured twenty-two thousand francs (about JE92O). Imm«liately afterwards Belgian cavalry with field guns overtook and utterly routed the Uhlans and Regained ' the money.—("Times" and Sydney, "Sun" Servitia.) ' ' "' ' - ■ DARING i BELGIAN OFFItEfI. SHOOTS' GERMAN COMMANDER AND 1 TAKES HIS HORSE. ' firussels, August 14. Lieutenant Vandooron . performed a thrilling episode, at ' . Qiandzelck, near Hapl?n. The Belgian oommdnder, being unable to spare" Eent Vandooren in : ' a motor cut at the head of a party of firemolV to defend Grandzolck. Vandooren hid in A dyke and crawled a few. yards to tho Gorman battery. Ho shot the oftmmandor, caught the officer's ■ liCirsot, aiid regained the Belgiai) linesj amid a Kail of bullets, '' "

'CVCLIST~CORPS CAPTURES FORTY GERMANS. EXCITEMENT AT NAMUR, (Reo, Aufjusfc IG, 05 p.m.) TVo lmndrod Cyclists' Carbineers <m Tlinrsday sunonndod! and surprised three Lundred Germane, and LUled seventy and captured forty. Tlio rest dispersed The amval of tho prisoners 'escorted i>y cyclists led to an extraordinary scene at Aaimir, whero tho ivholo population turned out <and decked tho victors with flow- , POPE.REBUKES KAISER. ' AGGRESSION IN BEtGn/M. f * ' ' \ i_. Brus!B 's. August 15. '_ A Tepresemtafavo of tho Vatican hns ! | Warnef the Kaiser of the moral conse- | Itpwaces of tho uggression committed in | neutral Belgium, whioh. Trill discredit tho Germans throughout tlio world.