CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2265, 26 September 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

GERMAN TRANSPORT HAMPERED RUSSIANS BLOCK PETROL (Rec September 25, 6.10 p.m.) London, September 24. _ The Russians' capture of the Galician oilfields is embarrassing the Germans, as motor traction is essential to the mobility of the.: German forces, owing, to the enormous wastage of horses.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) BELGIAN COURT-MARTIALS. TWO INFANTRYMEN EXECUTED. (Rec. September 26, 1.30 a.m.) : Antwerp, September 24. A Belgian court-martial convicted a German infantryman of killing a peasant woman with the bayonet and another of having stolen jewellery in his possession. Both were executed: A GENERAL IN DISCRACE. GERMAN COMMANDER DISMISSED. i (Rec. September 25, 8 p.m.) London, September 24. The "Daily Chronicle's" Geneva correspondent states that General von Diemling, the commander of the Germany Army in Alsace has. been dismissed. NEW GERMAN RUSE. TROOPS DRESSED AS WOMEN. Petrograd, September 24. A new German ruse was adopted in Galicia. ..-.,_ Russians approaching a village met women holding up their hands imploringly. The Russians, taken off their guard, hastened forward "only to be withered by firo from Maxim guns hidden in the trees and on roofs. The supposed women proved to be Germans wearing petticoats.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) HUGE FORCE OF SAILORS. PASSES THROUGH LIEGE. Amsterdam, September 24. A telegram from Maestricht states that fifty thousand sailors, wounded, have passed through Liege during the last few days en route to Germany. NEW ZEPPELIN FLEET. FOR USE AGAINST ENGLAND. London, September 24. It is reported that the Germans are building Zeppelins in feverish haste. These, with mysterious big guns, greater than anything yet constructed, will be used against England.—("Times and Sydney "Sun" Services.) HORSES FOR GERMANY. HUGE LOSSES REPORTED. Antwerp, September 24. Germans in East Flanders have requisitioned twenty thousand horses. It is estimated that the Germans have lost two-thirds of their horses since tho beginning of the war. An epidemic of glanders has broken out. COUNTRYSIDE SHELLED. PLOUGHED UP FOR MILES. London, September 24. For miles in the region of Nancy German shells ploughed holes in tho ground three feet in diameter. So close ar« they together that no human •'being could have escaped.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)