CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2311, 19 November 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

, ' ZEPPELIN WRECKED i Paris, November 17. !AI Rotterdam message states that a Zeppelin airsliip foil and was wrecked it Maostricht, the capital of tho Dutch province of Limberg, nineteen miles north-east of Liego. - BATTLE-CRIES PROM THE FOOT- . BALL FIELD. (R«c. November 18, 7.30 p.m.) London, Novombor 17. The Bavarian troops operating along the Yser were struck by the remarkablo physical fitness of tlio British troops. They wore also puzzled by the British , battle-cries —apparently consisting of football slang. Germans wero shot or bayoneted to cries of "On the ball," "Here's for the,<*oal." Nothing could withstand the British charges. EIGHTY "FOOTIES" ATTACK A ' • GERMAN COLUMN. (Rec. November 18, 7.30 p m.) i ' Paris, November 17. During the fighting southward of fpres on November 11, eighty British infantrymen were isolated from their vyupports and unable- to rejoin the main Tbody. They took rofuge at night in a } wood, and at dawn found that a German column was being driven towards them by the Allies. They waited till the column -was near, aud then charged with the bayonet. Four hundred Germans i icere lost in killed and prisoners. 1 'ATROCITIES IN BELGIUM. J (Rec. Novembor 18, 11.25 p.m.) ! . Ottawa, November 17. Sergeant Burton, who has returned from England, states that he saw a Belgian boy ; whose arms had been cut 1 off after being compelled to walk over his father's corpse. Two' of his sisters wont raving mad as the Tesult of their .experiences. .WASTED AMMUNITION AT TSINGTAO. (Rec. November 19, 1.40 a.m.) London, November. 18. ' The "Daily Telegraph's" Peking correspondent states that according to official reports leaching the British Legation, the sunender of Tsing-tao was pre-arranged days before. Tho defend- ' eic wantonly wasted ammunition. Thir- , teen hundied shells weio filed in a di"roction where there was not a, living I soul, and xho infantry fired their rifles io tho air. GERMANS IN PORTUGUESE ( TERRITORY. , ( (Rec. November 19, 1.40 a.m.) 1 - ' Lisbon, November 18. The Germans have again entered '• Angola. There have been ' some casualties. FATE OF A GERMAN POLE. ('.'Ernes" and Sydney; "Sun" Services.) London, November 17. > !A' Gorman .Pole was shot in. Berlin for declaring that the Germans ought ' to withdraw from Belgium, seeing that they were unable to prevent the devastation of their own provinces by the inL. vador.