CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

FIELD HOSPITAL FIRED ON

BEARERS FIGHT .WAY OUT

(Rec. September 29, 6 p.m.) . London, September 28. A wounded bearer attached to the Amy' Medical Corps states that the Germans fired at the field hospital, and every man then snatched up a gun and the fun commenced. Four hundred Germans surrounded and attacked for eight hours continuously, and finally it was, decided that the- only chance was to cut through thp Germans, and under a storm of'bullets', four'but of the fifty hospital men escaped. Another story states that after one encounter nurses emerged to rescuo the wounded, and the Germans opened a fusillade and at night played searchlights preventing the removal of the wounded. —("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) AUSTRIANS AND GERMANS. LITTLE LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER. (Rec. September 29," 6.10 p.m.) London, September 28. Austrian and German prisoners have been continually quarrelling and arc now separated. The Austrians declared: "Those beasts of brag always put us in front when German officers commanded. Wo are always in tho' weakest position, and if we waver the Ger-. mans fire upon us."

REIMS CATHEDRAL.

NOT USED AS AN OBSERVATION ' POST. Paris, September 28. General Joffro denies that the military commandant at Reims ever placed aii observation post in the Cathedral, Mβ alleged'by the Germans. The Germane stated that they ehelled the tower of Reims Cathedral because it was being used as au observation post .Ciy. the Fronch.

THE KAISER'S TALISMAN

'A FOUR-LEAVED CLOVER. London, Septembor 28. The Kai&to'e war talisman is a iourleaved clover, pressed, scented, ' aid tucked away in a ppcketbook in bis great-coat. Official bulletins from Berlin state that in 1870 the little daughter of a Court official presented the clover to King William J, who kept it in his pocket-book until after the German entry into Pans, and then'returned 'it' to i , 1 "I* has brought me luck." When the present • war broke out, the owner presented the clover tc the ' and •■Sydiiej "Sun services. -~-...,, *,-.

A PETROL WAR,

A WOMAN AS MAYOR,

EVERYTHING DONE BY .MACHINERY. London, September 28. ■ n4;- reM ' l officer writis to'his mothert , lhis war is a potrol war. -Everything is done by machinery, and the victory is to the man who has most petrol."The army crawls on' its stomach, and its stomach depends on the petrol supply. ,, — Times and Sydney "W services

Paris, • September 28. The wite of a former Senator of Aisne continues to act instead of the Mayor ot Soissons. When' the officials 'fled, she took charge of the'police-station; fire station, and hospital, and' aided b> the Bishop of Soissons, ran the town throughout the Germans' occupation.' 'AEBiAL RAIDER'S END ' " (Reo. September 30, 1:85 a.m.) Paris, September 29 It is reported that the aeroplane which bombarded Pans on Sunday was brought down at Mont Geron, after dropping a bomb on a train carrying wounded soldiers . A fragmont of the skell blew off the aviator's head "