CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2234, 21 August 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

LOOTING AND MASSACRE GERMAN BRUTALITY Paris, August 19. When tlie French troops entered Blamont tlioy found German posters notifying that the Mayor and other notabilities were to be shot next morning. M. Mi I'm.in, Prefect of Meurthe-Mo-selle, lias reported to the Minister of the Interior that many women, girls, and aged peoplo were butchered; also that houses were looted aiid burned, at Badonviller, Cirey and Blaniont, near the frontier south of Nancy. An old man was trussed and shot at ISremcuil. 'file Government is inquiring. CERMAN AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN. 13Y RUSSIANS IN FINLAND. St. Petersburg, August 19. Russians destroyed a German aeroplane at Sommo, on the Finnish fionst. •Three aviators waro killed.

FORBIDS HIS MEN TO FIRE,

BELGIAN COURT-3[ARTIALLED. (Rec. August 20, 5.50 p.m.) .. London, August 19. A Belgian officer has been courtmartialled at Louvain and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for forbidding tho troops to lire at a critical moment at Liege when au important position might have been savod.—-"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. COUNTRY LAID WASTE. ' GERMANS. AT VISE. (Rec. August 20, 5.50 p.m.) , London, August 19. After burning Vise, to tho north of Liege, tho Germans laid desolate the country for a radius of many miles, bayonetting cattJo and pigs, and razing i'm- ' 10mes °f villagers, who ,flod. — Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. STARVED CERMAN TROOPS. (Rec. August 20, 5-50 p.m.) . London, August 19. German prisoners liavo been found carrying beetroots and carrots in thuir knapsacks, and stated it was the only food tliey iiad for several- days.— "Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. GRAND DUKE GOES TO THE FRONT. _ London, August 19. -ir-i 6ar ' s brother, tho Grand Duke Michael, has left Knebworth House (Hertfordshire) to join tho Russian Army. BRITISH AIRMAN KILLED. (Rec. August 20, 8.40 p.m.) London, August 19. Tho Press Bureau states that the aviator Lieutenant E. Perry and a mechanic were killed in France by an accident. GERMAN AEROPLANE CAPTURED. (Reo. August 20, 9.25 .p.m.) London, August 19. . The French fired at a German aeroplane at Dinant. The pilot was killed and the scout was n ado a prisoner. Tha machine was secured intact.