CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2278, 12 October 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

WASTE OF AMMUNITION 40,000 SHELLS. HURLED BY GERMANS AGAINST RUSSIA. London, October 9. The Germans hurled 40,000 shells against . Ossowietz, North Poland. There was four days' ceaseless bombardment. Shells falling into the river stunned the fish, and the soldiers improvised sports, running alongside the banks and capturing the fish between the fall of the shells.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) FIFTEEN SPIES SHOTS. (Rec. October 11, 4.20 p.m.) London, October 10. Fifteen spies masquerading as Frenchmen were found in a factory near Lille. They took shelter in a lofty chimney, and all were shot off while screaming allegianco to France. GERMAN CURRENCY. (Rec. October 11, 9.35 p.m.) The Hague, October 10. . General Von Der Goltz, military governor of the territory in Belgium occupied by the Germans, has ordered the Belgians to accept German currency on the same footing as Belgian. BRITISH CASUALTIES. LOSSES OF OFFICERS. (Reo. Ocober 11, 10.30 a.m.) London, October 9. Up to Wednesday 309 British officers were killed, 610 wounded, 267 reported missing, and 84 taken prisoners. PRIESTS AT THE FRONT. (Rec. October 11, 3.30 p.m.) Rome, October 10. The Vatican has estimated that thera art* sixty-three thousand priests sory>

ing with the various armies. They are niostly engaged in hospital work, and include seven bishops and nineteen prelates. WASTE OF AMMUNITION. GERMAN SHELLS FALL LIKE HAIL London, October 9. A war correspondent observes that the German shells fall like hail, without military object, in the useless bombardment of evacuated towns like Tirleinont, Louvain, Dinant, Malines, and Termonde, and in the wrecking of isolated farmhouses and cottages . scores of heavy shells are used, where a. few sticks of dynamite would have sufficed. —("Times" and Sydney. "Sun" Services.) CONVENT SHELLED. WOUNDED MEN KILLED. _;, _ Ostend, October 9. ine Ursuline Convent at LondSzeel, about eight miles east of Malines, where fifty-six jtuns were nursing hundreds of wounded, was shelled and destroyed. -~ , . • , j A shell burst in a ward, killing seven, fho less seriously wounded fled, and others took sheltei in the cellars. . Suddenly the building burst into flames. Belgian soldiers ■ dashed through tho flames and rescued the occupants. 1500 PRUSSIAN OFFICERS KILLED. Copenhagen, October 9. A casualty list of Prussian officers shows 1535 killed.