CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

HOW A BRIDGE WAS HELD Paris, October 29. 'A Dragoon marksman, who was sta» x, ticned behind a.fence near the 6wingbridge at Sailly, near Lille, with two comrades loading for him, was ordered' ' to repel the enemy without blowing'up the bridge. Two German Lancers appeared, and were shot down. Then three, and later five. Uhlans met the same fate. Altogether .thirty Germans were killed in five "minutes. • The pile of dead effec-.. tively prevented the advance foi a; wholo day. ] ■ DARING ACT BY LATE PRINCE ' MAURICE. \ London, October 29. Corporal Jolley, of the King's Royal Rifles, narrates that during the retreat from Mons the Germans attempted to blow up the Marne Bridge. Tho Royal . Rifles Regiment was ordered to recapture it, and Princo Maurice of Battenberg, who has since succumbed to his wounds, was tho first man to cross the bridge. The Prince daringly searched a, house on tho other sido alone., HOW THE GERMANS PROTECT THEMSELVES. Paris, October 29. The Germans at tho Yser carry socalled table-tops, _ roughly-constructed wooden devices, which they throw across narrow rivulets and cauals as bridges. They are also used as shelters when charging in rushes, which usually end in appalling slaughter.