CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2241, 29 August 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

■ . ■ .i '"WE WANT TO GO TO THE FRONT." IRISH GUARDS DISAPPOINTED {Bec.""August 28, G. 40 p.m.) London, August 27. I A remarkable scene was witnessed at' y Uielsea Barracks, where the Irish ' Guards have been'.quartered. Intinia- ' .tion was received that they were being' transferred to a. destination unearned, and when they learned they were onlrf Somg to another depot,,the men shouts cd. "We want to go to the front!" Th<! oiheers urged the men to have pa.j tience.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun , ' Services.) ■' . ". ADMIRAL' JELLICOE'S MESSAGE,] NAVY'S ADMIRATION Oi , TROOPS " WORK. (Rec. 'August 28, 6.S p.m.) • London, August 27. • Sir John Jellicoe, Commandor-in-Chief of the British Fleet in the North , Sea, sent a message to Field-Marshal Sir John French, Commander-in-Chief of tho British Forces iii France: ''The Navy expresses its admiration for their comrades magnificent stand against' great odds." WOUNDED IN BRITAIN/ ; ARRIVALS Af' SHORNCLIFFE.; (Rec. August 28, 8.45. p.m.) 'London, August 28,' morning. . The first batch of British wounded from Mons has arrived at Folkestone and has been conveyed to , the Shornolifte Hospital. • • • ~.,„. .Eighty Belgian, military, cyclists/the survivors of 240 J cut up'by., the Ger-' mans at JNamur, have ■ also,arrived at. •Snorncliffe to Tecuperate before returning. .. -.•■'..., EXCITING CAVALRY SKIRMiSH. GERMAN OUffiASSIERS SMASHED. _ . ■ Paris, August 27. ' . Descnbing a cavalry skirmish, a participator says:—"We came plumpmpon ' the Cuirassiers round a corner -in. a little village. It was an absolute surprise ■' for Troth, and before one could wink wei flew at each other. There was no firing; it was absolutely a cavalry charge like one sees in pictures; the horses going 'hell for leather' and every man sitting huiiched up, hoping he'i would not got his knees crushed by; : the j fellows alongside; Lighter though we; were, we went at a pace which more than . compensated . for. our inferior weight, and smashed and Sydney "Sun-V Services.) ;. •■ " ■; ]' "WILHELM 11, EMPEROR OF. ' EUROPE." / GERMAN DREAMS. v ' ; London, August 27. It is stated that German soldiers scratched all over the walls of Liege "Welhelm 11, Emperor of Europe." ; THOROUGH-COINC COMMANDANV. ——— " ' / 'LEAVES NOTHING FOR GER-J.SNS. ; ■ Paris, August" 27. MTien Fort Chaudfontaine at Liege / was reduced to a heap of ruins By the German bombardment, the command- ■ •ant, judging that further-resistance was impossible, blocked a. tunnel on the railroad from. Aix-la-Chapelle, which tho fort was designed to protec.t, by making several locomotives collide.' He sot fire to tho wreckage Not wishing to see the Gorman flag floating over iht

ruins of the tort, he , fired the powder JJIjJf azino, and blow up tho remnms — Times" and Sydney "Sun , * Services. BQURBON , PR-WOES JOIN ENGLISH * ', . . ARJIY.. , , _j% " "■ London,' August 27. Th«rßourbon~ Princes, Louis and; Antonio of Orleans and! Braganza, are leaving tbV Austrian Army, and joining tho British. Princes Louie and Antoine of Orleans and; Braganza aro sons of the Oomte d*Eu and'-the Princess Imperial of Brazil Prince Louis is tho pretender W'ih'o fKrone of Brazil, so far as there can bo 1 said to ho a pretender to that throne. Both ho and his brother aro lieutenants' m the Austrian Huasars. ~•" , SOLDIERS' FOOD. / ' London, August 27' Thenar Office denies that prisoners t>l war aro better fed than tho soldiers —"Times" and Sjdnoy 'Sun" Services)