CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2307, 14 November 1914, Page 8

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

TRAP LAID FOR THE GURKHAS

" ■ ' London, November 12. An."Observer" correspondent, with tho.lndian troops gives an example,-of Gorman slimness. A figure silhouetted in; the moonlight,'; wearing : a i Gurkha uniform, ,appraa.ched the end- of a trench and saidj "The Gurkhas are to wove fiirther* up, as another' Gurkha uontingent; is advancing in support." ■ The officer was puzzled, : and . asked: "Who are you?" The answer,"in good English, .was. the repetition of the order. Tho ' officer, still suspicious, said: "If you are a Gurkha',, by what boat did you cross?" ' The figure instantly turned and fled,-but within a fow yards, was riddled- by- bullets. Tho„Gcrmans.w'ere ready to. swarm -the trenches; iad.'vtho ~~ruso ;; .'succeeded.— (''Times'"an'd Sydney "Sun" Services.)

HOW THE 7 GBRSIANS ARE DRIVEN " FORWARD. (Rec. .''November 13, 6 p.m.) V London', November'l2. The "Figaro"' .states, '{that. the.Allies found of bodies of. Germans in tho vicinity of Ypres who had been . executed and Stied rto trees; because they had jefased io" and Sydney-"Sun"' -Services,) ' " KAISER : VISITS' .THE. TRENCHES. .(Re'c.; NoVember 13, '6 ; p.m.) , L,ondon,Novemhcr 12. According to 'Amsterdam advices the Kaiser last week visited the trenches ■within sixhundred yards of the Allies, and urged'the men''to defeat the enemy. The soldiers'- --cheered"; . and Sidney - "Sun"; Services.) :-;.i .VALLEY OF THE AISNE RAVAGED. (Rec.--November" 13,' 6''p.m.) ■ London, Noveniber 13., A correspondent says the Valley of. the Aisne has been banged and battered in the most terrible way, and village after : '.villag6 : ;has been "knocked-into a cooked hat." The normal: population of Soissons was fifteen thousand before the only fift-een hundred.' ..The'.itihabitants'bf the valley, however, exhibit unquenchable' optimism.— ("Times" and Sydney ."Sun" Services.) MISERY IN GERMAN TRENCHES. (Rec. November 13, 6 p.m.) •• ;• ■■■; London, November 13. •A: Swiss :■ doctor serving .with the Gerfflans near Craonno, in the vicinity of Reims, declares that the misery in tho trenches is inconceivable. There is no lire, warm food, or drinkable water. Wight is drtjaded from fear of the Senegalese.gliding iii the dark over the rainparts of unburied dead. The Senegalese often leap from the glacis like cats, and' cut the ihroats of the - Bcntinels.— ('"Ernes" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) AMERICAN TRAVELLER'S STORY. (Rec. November 13, 6 p.m.) London,: November 13. ' • !An 'American .who has returned from Germany reports that transports filled ■with troops are. at Bremenhaven and Hamburg, ready to depart for England. !An, officer informed hnn .that the Ger-' mans were iiot sucli fools as to waste Zeppelins; on single raids to London,? but .would wait'till the spring comes, when.they would- attack -England with a fleet of Zeppelins; simultaneously. : The same traveller 'states- that some British prisoners were hooted and maltreated By German crowds, and a colonel was handcuffed and led away to an unknown fate for striking a guard who had probed him .with a rifle.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun"-Semces.),j;j,.' . - ANOTHER MAYOR BUTCHERED. London, November 12. Tho- Germans, shot -the Mayor 'of Handzaeiiie for defending his daughter, from assaults iby .soldiers—("Times" and Sydney ."Sun" Services.) INEFFECTIVE TRENCH MORTARS: London, November 13. The now German trench mortars, in-stead-of decimating the Allies, buried the shells deep in holes, giving the soldiers mud baths and wounding none.— ("Times" and Sydiioy , "Sun" Services.) GERMAN BIG GUNS. OUT OF ACTION. ■' ; ' ' -Amsterdam, November 12.' Three German 17-inch guns, damaged by British artillery, havo :beon-brought to Lieco ■■■•■ v:' ■ .' ■* EIEGE FORTS RAST REPAIR. Amsterdam, November 12. ■ The Germans, are iinablp to repair the Liege forts',' pnd have abandoned the .work. _ - '" Itv.is reported - that one hundred thousand Germans passed. Ghent in the direction of Brussels.