MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2305, 12 November 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS

. RULING PASSION STRONG IN .. WAR. . . V. 1 ] ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services-) (Rec. November 11, 6 p.m.) London, November 10.'• Amongst the prisoners at Warsaw was an elderly Prussian, blinking under a Cossack's huge busby. He explained that, he was a professor of botany ad Berlin, and while marching he saw ,i rare plant-in the marshes and felt that-he must have a specimen. He left his rank and secured the plant, but while struggling in the marsh' ho lost ,his glasses, and stumbled blindly along into the arms of the Cossac'ts. JOKES IN THE TRENCHES. (Rcc. November 11, 6 p.m.) London, November 10.- , In the neighbourhood of Vially, on the Aisne, the trenches are so close that constant jokes are played between the rival armies. One of the latest tells of a German who left his lines to search for milk at a farmhouse, and by mistake wandered into the French trenches and was captured. Ho was detained all night and 6ent back to his lines in the morning dressed in a woman's clothes, and minus the milk.—("Times" and Sydney ','Sun" Services.) DELAY ON CABLE LLNES. (Rec. November 12, 1.30 a.m.) Sydney, November 11. There is great delay on the eastern lines and the war news is being held up. STEAMER MINED AND SUNK. Amsterdam, November 10.

The Norwegian steamer Pluton (1507 tone, built in 1901) has been milled and sunk near Yarmouth. A "POEM OF HATE." Copenhagen, November 10. The Crown Prince of Bavaria is distributing among his troops a so-called "German poem of hate," expressing undying hatred towards England, arid England alone.

STEAMER'S CLOSE CALL. Sydney, November 11. The steamer Gunbar ('lB2 tons, North Coast Steam Navigation Company), when entering Newcastle, had a closecall. The fort, apparently misled by" the vessel's movements, fired a shot,' .which nassed mrhi <andar tta Gi'ubaj-