CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2297, 3 November 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

BELGIAN KING'S NARROW ESCAPE Amsterdam, November 1. ; King Albert had a narrow esoape in .• the trenches. . A shrapnel shell burst, }■ . and ono of-, his aides-de-camp was 'sev- , orely wounded. Tho King was not :iv. touched. . : "OANNOT SHOOT. AND WON'T FIGHT." . (Rec.. Novenber 2, 6.25 . p.m.) * ■■■■ • l.ondon, November 1. ;'A! correspondent' at ■ 'the front say a everywhere one hears tho same story— . : tie German foot .soldier oannot shoot and won't stop to fight when attacked. : -He hins away, fires over liis' shoulder . while running, , lor throws : down his arms and surrenders. But the superior German gun-fire makes havoc of :our trenches. Without it tho enemy would not 'have a chance'at all. Referring '■ vV -to the; rectmt fighting in Belgium he., ;declares the last, road to tho .; coast has heon finally closed against tiho Germans.—("Times"- and Sydney i , ''Sun" Services.) . . I . WAR PRISONERS OF THE BELLIGERENTS. ' (Reo. November 2, 10 p.m.) . ' - . London, November 1. ■ Jt is understood that. Germany has . : i V "advised Britain, that she. intends to . . -. treait Englishmen in Germany between : ■ the ages .ot seventeen and thirty-fivo as war prisoners, : unless able-bodied Germans now in England are liberated. 'STRENUOUS DAYS FOR BELGIAN GUNNERS. /'Hav^e|!Ootobsr-81..' ■..■. Offioial.—Two Belgian batteries,, comv;prising eight guns,- fired eight thousand. xojnnds . in-, tie. fight on' the Yser in ; ( eight days. Tho shells destroyed most ■;. of j.the, German> •batteries 1 ! -which, 'were: V; Hoc masked. . .■ v : : • 1 //.BRITISH BOMB-DROPPERS. -• .■ _' . ' Amsterdam, November.l. ■ British aviators, dropped' .bombs ; . on Germanvwar material : collected at Lich.tervoldo' (sixteen ' miles east 'of Dis-' • imudo), doing 'much damage. •■ . : iIA.WFUL' 1 DEATH-ROLL OF'A WEEK, j-.'. Amsterdam, November 1. , Tho French Army Scrvico Corps buried in a little over a week in the lYpres ■' district 25,000 German dead. The German losses 'in. tho' Dixmudo dis. ■;;;.>vtrict;' v TOre* on : a. similarscale. jThe dead in some places 'were piled a yard high. ! GERMAN DESERTERS IN MUFTI. . Amsterdam, November 1. Several hundred .German soldiers in: ;•■■■ ~mufti, attempted, to enter Holland. .The '. ! Dutch' sentries,:' .recognising them, .(threatened to,intern, them. REIMS CATHEDRAL AGAIN. i Rome, November ,1. . Hour . von Bethmann-Hollweg, Gerin an Chancellor, iias reported to the i - iVatican that a French observation post i ; ias again been installed'oh the tower ' . of Roims Cathedral, and- that,.this: will J justify'' anyfurther bombardment. , .■ i v. ENEMY'S DREAD OF THE i BAYONET. . . ("Times", .and: Sydney, ."Sun" .Services.) London, October 31. ' ... 'A German prisoner taken at Yser said ian officer :remarked: "We : can do northing here, yet we must proceed; The -'v :toayonet: ; atitackp, are as fearful as liell. : .'A [gfepii.stream of volunteers is./arriv- . ing, but . .when tho men ' are actually - 'fighting many in anguish cajll upon . their fathers and mothers. > Weariness; shock, the fear of death, and terrible i > sights combined to , break iihe soldiers." . RESERVISTS IN NEUTRAL ■ ■ ' VESSELS. " ' ' ■ London, November 1. ■' ■! , Official.—ln. view of the action of tho ! German forces .in Belgium and Frah'ce removing as : prisoners of war'all persons liable to military'service, 1 the Bri- ' . . tish;i Government has given> instruc- ! ftions-tliat all enemy reservists aboard ! , i neutral vessels are to be made prisoners . of war. . ' ' . 7; - ,■■ ,'" ■' -I

(MUTINY IN A' GERMAN REGIMENT i, (Rec. November 3, 1.5 a.m.)

■ _. / Paris, November 3. Several German prisoners refer to the recent mlituiy of a German regiment in Lorraine, stating that 150 shot i'their officers and then crossed the frontier and surrendered to the French authorities. Cases of suicides are said to bo' frequent in the, German lines.