TROUBLE IN TANGIER.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2255, 15 September 1914, Page 5

TROUBLE IN TANGIER.

FOMENTED BY GERMANS . Madrid, September 13. The newspaper "Correspondentia" states that the situation in Tangier is becoming alarming, in consequence of a rebellion of Kabyles, fomented by German ! agitators. , Tangier is a seaport in Morocco. By the .Franco-Spanish agreement of 1912 the town, with a zone to landward of ■ it on all sides, is autonomous under an international council and a municipality. The population, mostly Moors and Spanish Jews, is about 30,000. The Kabyles form a branch of the great Berber race. ■-'.■'' CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS THE WAR IN THE AIR : GERMAN "TAUBES' , IN TROUBLE I . Paris, September 18. Rifle fire brought down a German aeroplane at Blic. The aviators were i wounded, and irere captured. . ' i Antwerp, September 13. '■ Official.—A IVube monoplane, with , nine, bombs on board, descended near ' Malines. One officer was killed, and the . other was taken prisoner. London, September 13. A Taube monoplane ; dropped four ' bombs at Nogent-sur-Soine (60 miles south-east of Paris), but no damage was done. ' Four parsons have been arrested for falsely stating that a German aeroplane had descended at Shadingfield, Suffolk, thereby greatly alarming the residents. 3 BEFORE HE WAS SHOT. 3 ' GERMAN STAFF OFFICER'S 3 . LETTER. - . . , (Rec. September 14, 9.50 p.m.) Paris, September 14. An English officer states that he has i seen a German Staff Officer's letter; ' written before he ivas shot ; in which he • describes tiro German position as becoming critical. The transports had broken - down, and there -was very little ammu- , tiitlon left. This officer is Ml of admirai tion for the Germans for their stand - at Lα Ferte-eous-Jouanu "They pqsfci ed their machine-guns in 'a position t commanding the river for a distance of 1. several miles, and delayed the Allies' 3 advance for a whole day, enabling the I Germans to retreat northwards unmolested."

AT THE SIGN OF THE GROSS. 1 AUSTRIAN-SLAV PATROL DESERTS TO THE RUSSIANS. ] . (Reo. Septembor 14, 6.15 p.m.) London, September 18. A patrol of thirty-six Austrian® .captured a Russian chaplain near L'emb'erg. Finding that the soldiers were Slavs, the priest made the, Sign of tie Cross over them, and described it a sin to ] shed the blood of their Slav brethren. ' The result was that the whole patrol ' followed the priest into the Russian lilies.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" servioes. .: "" ; . THE WINTER CAMPAIGN. HINT TO AUSTRALIANS. (Reo. v September 14, 6.15 p.m.) London, September 18. There haa been a sudden fall in the temperature on tfie. Continent. Women are now busily making warm winter clothing for the troops at the front. The nope is expressed that Australasians will realise that their expeditionary forces will be plunging into a winter campaign.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. SIR JOHN FRENCH'S SMILE. THE GENERAL AND HIS SOLDIERS. London, September 13. A soldier's letter eays: —"There is no .'eide' about John French. When he passed along he was just as ready to smile at an ordinary 'Tommy' as at the highest officer. He takes a keen interest in our life in the trenches. _ "He is a hard fighter from head to toe, and expects everyone under him to be the same. ■ "He stops when he has time to chat with . us, for the sake of .findine out whether we are being , properly looked after." PLUCK OF THE BRITISH. HUNGRY BUT CHEERFUL'. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Servicee.) London, September 1.8. An officer of a cavalry division, writing on August 30 says:—"Our troops •were wonderful, and though, tired and hungry fought grandly. We Have not changed anything for a week or taken off our boots for five days, and we look too filthy for words. "The infantry is'too pitiable for words in some cases, but they stagger on. I never once met a straggler who did not cling to his rifle and force a smile, whether wounded or not. We have been very hungry at times, and never had more than three hours' sleep any day last week, and. not always that." THE FIGHT AT TERMONDE. HAVOC BY ALUMINIUM BOMBS. Ostend, September,<i3. It is reported that the Belgians buried 1230 Germans killed near Termonde. Seventy Belgians were killed, and many wounded. The devastation at the battle ■ round Termonde is said to have been partly due to aluminium bombs, filled with petrol, hurled 'with wicks lighted into 'the buildings. the fall of liege. ; despera'te 1, fight to the last. Antwerp, September 13. It ie stated that 27,000 fell while defending Liege. Fort Loncing wa>s bombarded for twenty-sis hours, at the rate of six shells a minute —a total of almost ten thousand 6he113. . ' The fall of the latter'g forts is ascribed to the fact that they were bombarded from the town. Each fort is in the shape of a triangle, with the ,apex directed outwards: 'At' the base'.' were.' the barracks for the garrison of five hundred. The soldiers were inaccessible by shell from the outside, because they ivere protected by the fort itself, with its cupolas and batteries. Tho Germans rushed the town,-and established eight and eleven-inch guns on the heights, and bombarded the barracks from behind, compelling tho garrison to take refuge in .the small rooms in the- concrete block in' the centre of the fort. . They were horribly packed together, and almost asphyxiated, but . were kept alive by inhalations cf oxygen. . ,' CAPTURE OF A FLAG. . i '■._• ■'. Paris, September 13. i A French Territorial Reservist, telling \ of-his experiences, says that a rush car- . ried him and his comrades into the l midst of the Prussians hear the Qurcq. . Hβ bayoneted a lieutenant carrying the . Magdeburg Fusiliers' nag, and captured j it, though he was wounded. ; A SOLDIER GIRL. - f .'■■■■ Paris, September 13. ' A laundress, wearing a Zouave uni- > form; participated in the_ marching and • fighting at Moaux. Despite_ her protests tho authorities sent the' girl home.

DIET OF BEETROOT AND EARTH. Paris, September 13. Some of the German wounded in. the Paris hospitals halve'died-as. the!"result, of eating raw beetroot and earth. GERMANS CLAIM A VICTORY. ..... London, September 18. 'A Berlin message claims that the Crown Prince captured a fortified_ position south-west of Verdun, and ie. attacking the forts with his heaviest artillery. . ' ' .' COSSACK VENGEANCE. • Petrograd, September 11. A' German civilian fired from a win' dow, killing a Russian officer.'Two Cos* sacks held him, while a third beheaded." : him with a sword. —("Times" and Syd< ■< ••■ ney "Sun" Services.) . •