CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2312, 20 November 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

TSAR YISITS THE WOUNDED KINDLY WORDS TO GERMANS AND AUSTRIANS. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Servioea.) Petrograd, November 18. The Tsar, oil a visit to the military hospitals, spoke kindly words to the Austrians_ and Germans. One ward greeted him with, a threefold "Hoch!" Passing s column of marching Russians, ho alighted and conversed with them. He ascertained that 85 per cent. ,of those who were wounded in the early stages of the war had returned to the ranks. FIGHTING FOR FORTY HOURS. I'Timos" and Sydney "Btm" Bcrrices.) (Rec. November 19, 5.40 p.m.)' London, November 18. A French soldier, describing the fighting at Ypres, Bays that for forty hours they fought almost foot by foot. He had 6een a trench lost and regained seven times. It was impossible to describe "such a hell as when our seventyfives and mitrailleuses mowed down whole battalions of Germans- I myself saw one regiment advance, and ten j minutes later it ceased to exist. In less than an hour three thousand ere. exterminated."

KAISER AND HIS LOST EMDEN. Amsterdam, November 18. The Kaiser, replying to a message of condolence from the town of Emden, alludes to "the tragic but heroic end of the cruiser' Emden, which gathered laurels even in her last battle." . , Ho adds: "A new and stronger Em'den will rise, to the bow of which the Iron Cross will be attached in memory of her predecessor." (Rec. November 19, 9.40 p.m.) Melbourne, November 19. In *iew of the official intimation that 150 of the Emden's crew had landed at Singapore, the corroetness of the previous statement that two hundred were killed' 1 is questioned. -Allowing for 20 of the Emden's men who were placed on the captured steamer as a prize crew, 40 who cscaped from the Cocos Islands -, in the schooner Ayesha, the number killed of the total crew of 320 would be at the most 110; or, if the wounded be not included in the Singa-' pore figures, only 80. DIXMUDE ( A NECROPOLIS. ' Rec. November ■ 20, 0.5 a.m.) Paris, November 19. Dixmude, in' Belgium, is little more than a name. Since October IB it has been the storm centre of artillery fire,, and scarcely a stone is left upon stone amongst the ruins. Tho place has beccme a vast necropolis for the German dead.. A German soldier states that' out of his troop of 3000 scarcely 400 survived. HOW A FRENCH BATTERY FOUND THE RANGE. Rec. November 20, 0.5 a.m.) \ Paris, November 19. During tho northern battle a Gorman shell fell near a French battery without bursting. A lieutenant, desiring tof find the range, advanced amid, a bail of projectiles, examined , the shell, and discovered that the fuse was pierced for SSOO yards. The Frenoh regulated their fire accordingly, and silenced the enemy's battery. REFUGE THAT BECAME A GRAVE. (Rec. November 20, 1.25 • a.m.) Paris, November 19. The Germans, on tho coast, noticing that tho British warships' fire spared houses on tho Middlekerko sea front, went thither to resido. Tho decision hecamo known to the Britishers who suddenly bombarded the houses, killing sixteen, hundred of tho ondtay..