CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2259, 19 September 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

EXHIBITION OF WAR TROPHIES TRAIEOADS IN PARIS (Rec. September 18, 5.30 p.m.) London, September 18. Parisians are greatly interested in the exhibition of war trophies vavr being held in that oity,- and especially in

eleven German cannon. Over twenty trains of German war material have been sent to Paris since the opening of hostilities. During last week sixty cannon, thirty machine-guns, and forty motor-vans were captured. GERMANS SHOOT CERMANS. SOME FATAL MISTAKES. (Rec. September 18, 9 p.m.) Paris, September 18. A Saxon officer admits that German artillery near Malines annihilated p Prussian regiment, mistaking it for French infantry. Near a frontier village two battalions of the 28th German infantry also mistook, one another for French, and shot down every man. A COSSACK RUSE. AUSTRIAN CAVALRY CUT UP. London, September 10. During the big Russo-Austrian Battle a patrol of Cossacks came into contact ■with an Austrian cavalry force. The members of the latter dismounted and commenced to fire ( and the Cossacks dashed forward at whirlwind speed, and as thoy rode they swung down on the off side beneath the girths of their horses. The Austrians, thinking that tho ridors were killed, mounted and set off to capture the runaway horses, but tho Cossacks reappeared in their saddles, attacked the Austrians with fury, and exit them to pieces. THE NEW EXPLOSIVE. SOME THEORIES. London, September 17. Referring to the report that German dead were found standing upright in tho trenches, a chemist declares that the French arc using turpinite, tin explosive requiring a Hgroinl ruh, jind producing complete paralyeis ot oort&iu organs of

the body, causing absolutely painless death to overybody within reach. Other authorities consider the stories unbelievable, _as dead bodies are incapable of remaining in the position described.— ( 'Timee' r and Sydney "Sun" Sen-ices.) ATTACK WITH PITCHFORKS. London, September 17. Poles at Przemysl, in Galicia, armed with pitchforks,, axee, and scythes, exterminated a German patrol.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)