CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2252, 11 September 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

: BRITISH ENDURE GREAT '?■'■■ -HARDSHIPS •■■■'"".■■■■■ ( ■■ ■■ ■ ' ■. » ■ : THE LONG RETIREMENT : ! 'Paris, September 9. ..'■:■' The British' troops endured great '■■ ■ hardships during the retirement from •. the Belgian frontier. They ran short of food, and for five days subsisted on - raw carrots, unripe fruit, and other ; field stuff. ■ .': At one point, a Guardsman states, Germans with R«d Cross badges drove . up what seemed to he ail ambulance van, which contained a • machine-gun, wherewith they mowed down the British like grass. A TWENTY-MILE CHASE. PRECIPITATE GERMAN FLIGHT. (Rec. September 10, 11.55 p.m.) . London, September 10, morning. An infantry sergeant belonging to tho ; French left wing desoribos a twenty- ,' . mile chase and tie cuttinajie-M a. Jk:

taohment and the capture of seven guns and two quick-firers. Tho interiors of the houses throughout the villages where the Germans slept showed eigns of precipitate departure. GERMAN INITIAL ADVANTACE. 'A ST. PETERSBURG ESTIMATE. (Rec. September 10, 11.45 p.m.) Petrogracl, September 9. The newspaper "Official Messenger" states the Germans originally attacked the Allies with .a preponderance of seven Army Corps. THE FIGHT AT COMPIECNE. GERMANS PUT TO FLIGHT. London, September 9. Continuing his account of the fiVlit-' ing at Conipiegne, published yesterday, ,fiho wounded Guardsman said:. "The German.', horsemen got clear, and fled. Some, who were horseless, wero bayoneted where they stood, and then tie Guards continued their advance. "The Coldstream Guards were now leading, jWith the , Scots in reserve, and the Irish in support. Meanwhile, taking advantage of. tho fight between the cavalry and the infantry, tho German artillery had taken up a now position, and maintained a deadly fire from I twelve guus ; , Our infantry and cavalry advanced simultaaieouelyi against -the new position, carrying it in tho face of a galling fire, and capturing ten of the guns. The German infantry and cavalry supporting it did not wait for our onslaught, but bolted, pursued and decimated by heavy infantry and artillery fire. When our men secured the guns there was ( hardly a German left alive or*unwounded." '• . ■ HIGHLANDERS UNDER SHELL FIRE. .WORK GOES ON <AS TJSTJAL. ..■■:,.. London, September 8. .A, Gor.dpn' Highlander says: "You. must not-run away with the ideathat we stand.shivering and coweiing under shell, fire.-.'We go. about our business in the usual way. ; . : "I got my wound,, in the leg because I got too : excited arguing with Wee Geordie Ferris about 'Spurs' (Tottenham Hotspurs) chance this season." — '■ "Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. STOLEN BELGIAN MAPS. .NOW IN. GERMAN HANDS. ..../'■■■■ London, September. 9;. .-•' Last year several .thousand Belgian maps were stolen from Antwerp. The Germans using them.' KAISER WATCHES BATTLE. '■; ON A HILL NEAR NANCY. • Ceneva, September 9. A telegram'from Baslo states that the Kaiser, attended by a.small; staff, lvatehed the battle on Monday from a hill in the neighbourhood of Nancy. AEROPLANE BOMB. V: : . Paris, September 9. A German aeroplane dropped a _bomb at' Nancy, ■ b,ut no. one was injured. Many windows were shattered..