CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2270, 2 October 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

HOSPITAL .WRECKED BY , SHELLS GERMAN BOMBARDMENT CReo. October 2, 0.20 a.m. Antwerp, September SO. During the bombardment of Lierre, eight miles south-east of Antwerp, shells wrecked the hospital, killing four wounded soldiers and two GERMAN PRISONERS. NO LONGER AFRAID OF BEING SHOT. London, September 30. French reports on the recent fighting remark that the. Germans realising that the stories that'tho French shoot their captives is a mistake, thoir terrified and supplicating attitude is disappearing, and they now voluntarily surrender when escape is impossibly.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ITALY'S NEUTRALITY. VOLUNTEERS NOT ALI OWED TO ENTER FRANCE. Rome, September 30. The authorities have arrested several hundred volunteers seeking to enter France, including one of Guiseppe Garibaldi's Force. GERMAN SPY SYSTEM. ITS EFFICIENCY QUESTIONED. (Rec. October 1, 6.30 p.m.) London, September 30. The "Times" military correspondent, while admitting the apparent thoroughness of the Gorman spy system, has not a high opinion of its usefulness. Its failure to ascertain until August 21 that the British army was in France is proof of .its incapacity. —("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) • «THE KAISER'S SONS. TWO OF THEM INVALIDED. Rome, September 30. An official Berlin niessage states that Prince Oscar has been invalided owing to heart trouble, and that Prince Joachim, who was wounded, is convalescent. The other sons'of the Kaiser are at the front. Prince' Oscar of Prussia is the Kaiser's fifth son, and is 26 years of age. He is chief or a .company of the First Guards. Prince Joachim is the sixth and youngest of the Emperor's sons, and is 24 ' t LOOT UNDER THE RED GROSS. GERMAN OFFICERS' BOOTY. Paris, September 30. Official.—German officers looted silverware and jewels at Compiegne and, loaded them on wagons on which they hoisted the Red Cross. THE.DAMAGE AT REIMS. ' ■ ESTIMATED AT £6,000,000. Paris, September 30. The American Consul- at Reims estimates the damage to the town at six millions sterling. Unless the scene of fighting is changed in a week the champagne crop will be lost. It promised to be especially good.