CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2245, 3 September 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

" LET US GET ON, GENTLEMEN". A GENERAL AND HIS SON'S DEATH (Rec. September 2, 5.5 p.rai), Paris, September 1. General Castlenau'e son, whoso death was recorded on August '28, was killed wTiilo leading his company.' General Oastlenau was 'dictating orders to.tho staff when an officer bluntly broke the news. > . Tho General paused for a moment, and then, without emotion, said: "Let us get on, gentlemen."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) , ,■ A CAPTAIN'S ORIEF. LOSS OF THE MAGDEBURG. ■ (Rec. September 2, 5.50 p.m.) London, September 1. The captain of the German cruiser Magdeburg, which went ashore in the Gulf of Finland, has arrived at St. Petersburg. Ho is overcome with grief and declared himself unworthy to wear tho uniform of a. Gorman. Eaval officer for he had sinned against tho Fatherland. Hβ is now interned in a fortress.

, .i GERMAN MORALE POOR. ' .'.'ONLY GOING; TO BUTOHEBY." . , ' , • , London, September 1. \<, A, correspondent atOsfend meta Ger. ■•' ; : man officer .{between Ghent and Brus- ..■■■: The latter was perfectly candid regarding ,the . situation, and said the morale of some of the German troops was unsatisfactory,'the men feeling that they.were-only going to butchery. "Towards -Paris. , : , ' Hie said*: "we shall meet; Anglo-French troops' superior to jis in • ■ 'raiiiiug, and they will crush, us." , CERMAN EASTWARD MOVE. 'A' SUGGESTED EXPLANATION. ■ • - /London, September 1. . lelegrams from Antwerp confirm the 'statement- that -throughout Friday numerous trains were being used to transport Germans eastward, suggesting that ..the Germans are'feeling the Eus-Bian-pressure. . . ..' { .''■■' • Possibly, however, they! only ' carry ', wounded, as it .is unlikely that the .Germans are able, to' weaken their - fighting lines. in Northern France at ■present. . :■'-•... V BOMBARDED FROM THE AIR. GERMAN BATTERY TAKEN. ' • ■ ' _ ■■ . '■ ; Paris, September 1. 'It la reported , that French 1 cavalry Saptured' an-entire German battery .;«ter gunners had be.en killed by bombs ..' Jropped from aeroplanes, a ;.. : ; . v; ' ■■ ' Paris, September 1. Two German , aeroplanes dropped /iombs at Belfort,- the great French for- . itified position at the south end of the Franco-German frontier,, but did no damage. •■■/■:/ . ;./; A COUNT IN IRONS. , • _ London, September 1. ■.-, ■•:■ 'fhe Kaiser's nephew. Count von ./, Mecklenburg-Sohw,enri, who was cap:'lured by the French,; refused to give his ,\vord that he would not attempt to escape, and was placed in. irons.— - .("Tjmee" andi Sydney. "Sun" Services,)' ■ •;', The relationship of ttris Count to the -.' Kaiser is notr apparent' from the "Al- , manach'de Gotha; , ' The Kaiser has one brother.(whose two sons are Prince ; Waldeinar and Prince Sigismund of .':■•■ Prussia)? and four sisters, one of whom ; is tho Queen of Greece, while the others , are married to Princes Saxe-Meiningin, Schaumbourg-Lippe, and Hesae respec- ; tiyely. , ...;. .. . .- ; ■•■■". ' •,. -'.WOUNDED IN GOOD SPIRITS. $ l . , -London, September 1: '•■;■( founded officers and men who have . arrived at Waterloo. Station, whatever theiripauij were all smiling. An enormous crowd! gave them a; stirring wel-come..—("Times'-/and Sydney "Sue" Services.) ' . ;;: ' ~; ■'.. EELGIAN,;dOMMISSION., -■: ■ ;; ■■■■■-.'.■• '; London,: September 1The Belgian Commission sent to explain the German, atrocities in Belgium has: visited the King and Sir Edward Grey/ ..■ ■.-.'■-■.' ■.•.•'■■.■ .-' /."•