CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2244, 2 September 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

FRENCH COOLNESS UNDERFIRB A ZOUAVE'S STORY (Reo. September 1, 5.40 p.m.) London, August 31. A Zouave officer tells of extraordinory instances of the coolness of his men. under shell fine.■ He says: "We. were entrenched in a sort of a spur, and amid a tornado of shot and shell I hnd repeatedly to order the men to be prudent, for they stood up and chaffed one another in the trenches. One man calmly slept through the racket, and when we- evacuated the position we bad to arouse him."—("Times"- and Sydney "Sun" Services.) TRAPPED GERMANS AT MONS. FIERCE HATRED OP BRITISH, London, August 31. An invalided officer says that hell's fury blazed from tho eyes of the trapped Germans at Mons, when, after a succession of cdvances in the face of a ■ withering fire, the British Hussara Emerged at a gallop on the flank. After a moment's hesitation the Ger-i mans, with a blood-curdling wail, turn* ed and fled, and were cut down 'like chaff, but many outpaced the ■■' tired horses. The- wounded expressed the fiercest . hatred of the British, because, but for their interference," the Germans reckoned they Would now have been in Paris dictating terms for peace.