CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

FOtfß ZEPPELINS DESTROYED FRENCH IN GOOD SPIRITS . -• . v : . v „ (Rec. August 10, 9.5 p.m.) ... , Paris,- August 19, morning.' 11. Paul Doumer, a former candidate for the Presidency of the. Republic,'has just returned from the fighting' line in Bekium and states that three Zeppelinairships which were Tecopnoitring were destroyed, and-that another fell in. t"he forest and was wrecked.\ v .11, Doumer asserts that- the spirits of the l-French 1 soldiers have been greatly strengthened by the confidence they repeso in their artillery, which'is suprfior. to, Germany's. -. -•' " 1 '• EXCELLENT RED CROSS SYSTEM. FRENCH > (I?oo. August 20, d.£o a.m.) , " < Paris, August. 19, morning. . An excellent Red Cross system has been established. ' The first hospitals are two miles from the fighting line, the ambulance , men ' collecting the wounded by means of carriages. . If slightly wounded the soldier .is kept in these hospitals until lie is ready to join his corps, but if \a*«Srious opera-' tion-is necessary he is sent to a hospital two miles further to the rear, where'there are eminent surgeons with the most up-to-date appliances. . ] . Special methods hare been devised for convoying the 'most serious cases to Paris, Angers, and ■ i Other large towns,' so relieving the field .hospitals. 1 • Many Germans are being treated in French hospitals. l .... ... X . ' AUSTRIAN SOLDIERS MUTINY. / v EXECUTIONS AT PRAGUE. . (Rec. August 19, 6.15"p.m.) . } _ London, August IS. r ~. . The British Press Bureau states that a foreign exchange leports that numbers' of Czech soldiers were executed ■ at Prague for mutiny. '• Prague- was rtho ancient: capital of the Bohemian kingdom. : It has at the present day a population of close-on-half a million. - Less than'a fifth are Germans; the rest belong" to the 80-' hemia'n (Czech) nationality."'"' COEBEN AT CONSTANTINOPLE. . OTTOMAN CREWS ON BOARD. (Rec. August .0:40 a.m.) - Constantinople, 'August 19. The Goeben'and Brcslau have arrived and havo received their Ottoman crews. Tho officers declare that the German advance 'is just beginning, and ; their opponents will realise that the German army is well maintained and equipped for the. advance. , 'UNDER FALSE COLOURS. BOMB-DROPPING AEROPLANE. , (Rec. August 19, 11.20 p.m.) ; Paris,. August 19: A German, monoplane flying French colours dropped three bombs at Luneville. The damage was insignificant. A COSSACK'S BRAVERY. • KILLS TEN GERMANS. St. Pqtarsburg, August 18. Further details of the; prowess of a Cossack named Kriutchkofr show that the man, with four other Cossacks, charged twenty-iwo German cavalfymen. Ho sabred an officer,' and then his sword slipped from his hand, but ho seized a Gorman's and killed ten more of tho enemy. ' A previous messago 6tated that. Kriutchkoff received sixteen wounds and his horse eleven. He has been decorated for his bravery,. GERMAN ROYALTY. CROWN PRINCE WOUNDED. ' V London, August IJS. Paris circulates a statement that, the German Crown Prince has l been bounded. and that Aix la 'Chapelle reports received at The Hague assert jthat : the Kaiser is visiting, him.. - V (Rec. August 19, 5.5 p.m.). London, August 18. Three sons, including the . Crown Prince, have accompanied the Kaiser to Mainz. —"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services.