LITTLE SLEEP IN THREE WEEKS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2269, 1 October 1914, Page 6

LITTLE SLEEP IN THREE WEEKS

A SUBALTERN'S IHTEB

(Rcc. September 30,'5.40 .p.m.) London, Sopt-ember 29. 'A subaltom writes from" thejront: :"1 do hope we'will bo able ,to wine out tho fellows in -front, and tlion perhaps wo may got a little sleep. All our people, especially the infantry, are very . tired. I don't suppose we liavo averaged more than four hours', sleep nightly for tlireo" weeks, and all in the .'open. It is Wonderful how accustomed one grows to littlo_ sleep and food and ivery little washing. .There is no time for washing, or shaving, and most of us have grown boards. > ' ' "An officer of tlie Coldstream, Guards tolls : md that he and three other officors ■were sheltering under a hayrick which .was hit by-eight shells in three minutes , 'an<J. : set ,afire. They had tio run three hundred'yards across an' artillery-swept ground to cscap9."-4-("Timcs" and Syd- ; ..Bey'"Sun" Services'.) . ; ■'■ ' SOLDIERS' SONGS. "IT'S A LONG AVAY TO TIP-' PERARY." : (llec. September 30, 5.40 p.m.) Londono,'September 29. : : "The Times!'"in!a leader, on. 6oldiers l • songs'says;—"None can tell why .'lt's a , Long. Way. to Tipperary'-suits their taste, unless- becauso it, is entirely irrelevant to the matter in hand. Soldiers' prefer -a jok'e 'reminding : them.of homo to a song telling them .they, are heroes. To our mind to -joke in. the face of death •is finer than' th'o heroic attitude."— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ; AUSTRIAN LOSSES. ENORMOUS AT LEMBERG. (Reo. September 30, 5.40 p'.m.) London, September 29. An Italian war correspondent who accompanied the Austrians- at'' Lemberg confirms' the] report that the Austrians • lost sixty killed and a hundred and-fifty thousand wounded. Boys and, girls are being employed in completing the fortifications in Trentino. Meanwhile !the grape harvest has not been picked, becauso tho promised Rus- • . Bian-prisoners have not arrived. ; ' CERMAN METHODS. MANUFACTURING EVIDENCE j (Rec? September 30, 10.30''p.m.), ■■■-' Ostond, September 29.. Before being expelled from Alost the Germans arrested twenty-sis civilians and forced them to sign a confession "■J' that the inhabitants had, fired on the ;• German's.. During the,;fightihg the Ge:r.compelled forty'' civilians to walk Jc of'-the• troops.. Several,were kill" igd by tlie Belgians. ... a'royal looter. . • CROAVN PRINCE IN A FRENCH CHATEAU; V. Paris, September 29. Tho "Journal des Debats'.' states that ■ -during the Crown Prince's,- stay at Champaubert Chateau 'he took jewels, jriedal3,- and ikons, and pillaged the famous archaeological collection.- He -\ ordered_. the furniture, pictures', , and tapestries to be'.destroyed. ? ,h FOR BRITISH,WOUNDED. ' SUBSCRIPTION IX PORTUGAL. ■ • ■Jnhiuii, SB)';-. A. thousand potuids'sterling has been subscribed for ; the relief of the British' - . wounded. BOMB-DROPPING ON OPEN TOWNS., : AMERICAN DENUNCIATION. London, September 29. "New York Tribune"- denounces the dropping of bombs by Zeppelins <jn . opon towns as an* outrage on;- numanity, „■ • and against. all notions .of civilised' ; " combat. Germany, the "Tribune" states, . has. only a narrow chance of being ab- ;, \ solved'by;the United States. : V '