CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2273, 6 October 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

GERMANS BURN ALMHOUSES

CROWN PRINCE'S WORK

(R*. October 5, 10 p.m.)

Paris, October S. Tli© "Gaulois" states that the Crown Prince, before evacuating Clermon-en-Argonne, ordered the town to be burned. Even old men's alms-houses maintained by tlio Little Sisters of the Poor were burned, though the Mother Superior on her knees implored the frince to spare the nouses.

THE NEW EXPLOSIVE

DEADLY EFFECTS OF TURPENITE. (Rec. October 5, 11.50 p.m.) • London, October 5. The "Times" correspondent in France has received trustworthy' confirmation of the deadly effects,of the Turpenite sheila. The statement is not confirmed officially'.

These sheila contain a new explosive invented by M. Turj,fn, and in one case it was reported that bodiee of Germans in trenches which had been shelled with it were found standing upright and covered with a fine red dust.

CAPTURE OF JAROSLAW. JEWISH PRISONER SKETCHES FORTS. (Rec. October 6, 0.50 a.m. Petrograd, October 5. The capture .of the Jaroslaw forts ..by the Russians in Galicia was due to the heroism of a young Jewish private, who was taken prisoner by the Austrians and conveyed to. a place of immense strategic importance. Hβ secretly sketched the fortifications of the enemy's position, and escaped to the Russian lines. The attack reeulted in the capture of the forts. The Jew was severely wounded.

FRANCE'S BRAVE SOLDIERS. OFFICIAL CONGRATULATIONS. (Rec. October 5, 8.20 p.m.) ' Paris, October 4. M. Poincare, the President, M. Viviani, the Prime Minister, and M. Millerand, Minieter of War, have gone to the front to congratulate the troops.

DRIVEN FROM THEIR TRENCHES. FRENCH EXPEL GERMANS.. Paris, October 4. A fino feat is reported from the French left. On Thursday last the Germans held a village on a hill, which had been strongly entrenched by Jaeger infantry, with guns. The French infantry stormed the position. The first attempt was repelled, but the French returned to the charge, and expelled the Germans with heavy loss. _ During the fight French doctors and five ambulances were captured while picking up wounded. German piisoners declared that the ambulances and doctors were''waited for the German wounded, as the latter are without medical aid. CAPTURED CERMANS. A BOY'S FEAT, y London, October 4. During the'fighting at Marne a boy named Chatau surprised seven Germans sleeping in a house. With a fixed bayonet he demanded their surrender, which they readily acceded.. Chatau and a sergeant were the only survivors of a reconnoitring party on patrol. Chatau carried tha wounded sergeant to safety. Three French Dragoons made a sudden onslaught on fifty. Germans who were garrisoning at Lisy. They killed several, and the remainder broke their vines and surrendered. COUNTING" THE COST. . (Rec. 3.30 p.m.) Berlin, October 4. The Germans are keeping accounts of the cost of maintaining English prisoners for a bill against Britain. > CERMANS AMBUSHED. FLEE, LEAVING 800 PRISONERS. (Rec. October 5, 10 p.m.) Paris, October 5. At the Battle of Roye, a body of French Dragoons occupying a. village retired, drawing the enemy into a wood where there were batteries with infantry. The shell-fire decimated the Germans, who fled, leaving eight hundred prisoners, including a colonel and ten officers. ■ CASUALTIES IN FRANCE.. London, October 4. General Sir Harry Kaid Maclean'e only son was killed in the fighting in France. « Prince Franz, third son of the King of Bavaria, is amongst the wounded. General Sir Harry Aubrey- de Maclean, Kaid of the Moorish Army, was at one time in the 69th Foot. In 1907 he was captured by the brigand chief, Raisuli, and held for ransom for several months. For servicee rendered to the British Government, the Kaid, who lives in Tangier, Morocco, was decorated. Prince Franz of Bavaria- is colonel commanding the 2nd Regiment of Bavarian Infantry. SPIES SHOT IN COLOGNE.

London, October 4. . Cologne is suffering from spy fever. Twenty-one suspects were shot in one day.