CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2262, 23 September 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

SEVENTEEN INCH SIEGE GUNS MONSTEIf WEAPONS ■ > {Rec. September 23, 1.39 a.m.) London, September 21. The German seventeen-inch siege gun discharges a projectile weighing 21,000 pounds, and describes a parabola covering twelve miles, and rising in height 1200 yards. It is discharged electrically from, a considerable- disthe operator not daring to remain in the vicinity. The shell on exploding liberates deadly gases. DOCCED BRITISH ATTACK. ■■■ A FRENCHMAN'S COMMENTS. London, September 21. The British fought in open order, each man behind a little "dug-out," creeping and digging as they went. The Germans poured shells on them, but the resistance took the spirit out of the enemy. \ There was a furious battle at East Peronne, between Roissel and Saint Quentin. the French left endeavouring to.out the enemy's retreat towards Belgium. It is rumoured that at Amiens the Germans were beaten through their artillery fire slackening owing to the ammunition giving out. :. "The Allies advanced 'foot by foot. Shot and shell poured on them in an avalanche, yet they forced the' Germans baok towards Noyon. They are terrible fellows. I have seen nothing like it," was a Frenchman's comments on the doggedness of the British fighting on the slopes above Soisaons. BAVARIANS INSUBORDINATE. COLLISIONS WITH PRUSSIANS. ... . Ostend, September 21. In connection with collisions between, Prussians and Bavarians at Brussels it is stated that the Bavarians permitted six train loads of French prisoners from Maubeugo to escape. Widespread insubordination exists among the Bavarians. , The Bavarian Army, is organised in three army corps, which are under the administration of the King of Bavaria, and" do not tako the oatli of fidejity to the German Emperor except in time of war. RUSSIAN CENERAL CAPTURED. < A GERMAN REPORT. (Reo. September 23, 1.30 a.m.) London, September 21. German newspapers announce "that the Russian General Martos has been, taken in ohains to Halle and courtmartialled for burning German villages and shooting the inhaoitauts. BAD NEWS NOT WANTED. GERMAN TROOPS IN THE DARK. ' London, September 21.. News of the German reverses in "Franco filtered through to the Germans in Brussels, and the Military Governor threatens to shoot- all found in possession of English or Belgian newspapers. Only German. newspapers, or Dutch, which are pronouncedly pro-German,'-are authorised to be -read. SLAV GENERAL SHOT. AUSTRIAN COURT-MARTIAL. ■'. . Rome, September 21: A telegram from Vienna states that tho Austrians court-martialled and shot General' Vodinavski, who was of Slav origin. He was accused of spying. They also shot a Slav stationmaster. CATTLE MAIMING, ANOTHER GERMAN PRACTICE. London, September 21. A Frenchman, formerly at Oxford University, writes to an English friend: — "When' the Germans, have abandoned villages they destroy everything. ■ They kill all the cattle or cut off their.feot." TRAINS FULL OF WOUNDED. (Rec. September 23, 1.30 a.m.) Paris, September 21. Every' ovening trains crammed with wounded crawl baok from tho front. Thirty coaches compose 'n train, n-ild they' are packed fuller than excursion trains. Tho worst cases are lucky if they 'can lie at full length. DUM-DUM BULLETS. (Rec. September 22, 9.55 p.m.) Paris, September 21. Thirty dum-dum bullets have been extracted from wounded men. KAISER'S SON WOUNDED. The Hague, September 21. A - telegram from Berlin states that the Kaiser's fourth son. Prince August U'ilhelm, was wounded in tub left arm. The Kaiser decorated him. RAILWAY BRIDGE BLOWN UP. Paris, September 21. Germans blow up a railway bridge near Etaples, a fishing town', at the mouth of tho Cauche, .fifteen miles south by cast of Boulogne. GERMAN AIR TACTICS. Petrograd, September 21. Russians state that the German system of utilising air-craft consists of scndiiiK aeroplanes to phbtograph and map positions. Tho Zeppelins follow, and bombs aro dropped whero the most damage can be inflicted.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) GENERAL COMMITS, SUICIDE. Lemberg, September 21. It is reported that Genoral Frorncli. who was removed from tho commend or the cavalry division which was nearly jinniMhtod 4 coiotuittod, suicide, aj

KILLED BY TSEtR OWN-AIR- ■ MEN. London, September 21. German airmen, mistaking - German guns at Nois de Oasturan for British, dropped a bomb, killing thirty Germans. ■