CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2275, 8 October 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

GERMAN BIG GUNS WREAK HAVOC "BUCK MARIA" AT WORK (Rec. October 7, 6.5 p.m.) ' London, October 6. Among the cannon employed in the war, the German "Black Maria" easily takes the palm. Men tell uncanny tales of tho havoc wrought by theso great guns. A Taubo aeioplano will notify where a group of officers is motoring, and "Black Maria" speaks and drops a shell in front, and tho car completely ilina|)poMs. engulfed in a blast of explosion, .wjiioli leaves nothing standing

within forty feet. The hole carved in the road easily swallows men and motor.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Service.) PRESSMAN'S EXPERIENCE. UNDER FIRE IN A GERMAN TRENCH. (Rec. October 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 6.: A member of the staff of the "Debats" was captured by the Germans in the Woevre district. A Prussian lieutenant said to him: "You'll be shown a fijio display of fireworks free of cost," After being handcuffed, he was taken to where heavy iiring was expected, and thrown into a trench, where there were six Prussians. The battle soon began, and French shells began to fall. Suddenly a shell exploded over the trench, and heads and arms and torn bodies appeared to fly about. The pressman dropped prone, and 1 was thereby saved. All the Germans in tho trench were killed.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Service.) SPIES EVERYWHERE. (Rec. October 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, October 6. German spies are übiquitous in Franco, and all sorts of devices, including underground telephones, wireless, and carrier pigeons are pressed into their service.—("Times" and l Sydney ."Sun" Service.) KINO ALBERT AND HIS MEN. ACTIVELY CONDUCTING OPERATIONS. London, October 6. King Albert of Belgium ia personally conducting operations in the trenches at Antwerp. He Temains in one fort for twenty hours without rest.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Service.) A BRITISH SUCCESS. ARTILLERY TRAIN CUT OFF. Paris, October 6. British lancers and French troopers, on Monday, on the extreme western wing, got between the German main body and the Imperial Guard, cutting off and destroying an artillory train and other supplies. ' MANY FRENCH OFFICERS LOST. MARKED BY SHARPSHOOTERS. Paris, October 6. The casualties among the French officers were out of all proportion to those among the men. Every German regiment has a small body_ of sharpshooters specially detailed to pick off officers, and controlled by a sergeant who directs the fire after observation through field-glasses. The French officers' are particularly conspicuous, because they havo a mapcase, covered with a sheet of mica, which catches the rays of the sun, a certain type of capo worn, and by the way they make their signals to the men. 600 SHELLS IN 45 MINUTES. London, October 6. A British cyclist dispatch rider Bays: "One gets absolutely dehumanised—it is the only alternative to going mad. I counted six hundred shells failing in a small space in forty-five minutes without killing anyone. "We are'ordered not to expose ourselves, but we have become obsessed with a passion to see what is doing."—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.. . ,- . ' LIFE IN THE TRENCHES. ~,,„., October 6. ; The Earl of Kingston,'describing life' in the trenches, says: "The Germane keep up a terrific fire, but do littledamage. They have a gun that throws a shell thirty-two incites long that makes a hole sufficient to bury eighteen men The fireworks might Dβ lovely if it weren't' for- tho death they cause."— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun"' Service.) AVIATORS UNDER FIRE. London, October 6. ■ British aviators have returned to Deal with a fourth machine, three havinc been disabled by German bullets.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Service.)