CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2316, 25 November 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

AGAINST FEARFUL JDDDS BRITISH' B'AHITALIOB'S -G-ALLMT ' STAND. London, Not ember 23. The Ist Battalion of the Wert Sutj : reys, at the end of October; held: a position in Belgium for two days against v great odds. They were praotioally surrounded, and lost heavily, " ; The battalion made a. brilliant-bayonet'' charge at Ypres. LANCE-CORPORAL EARNS THE yic,j (Reo. November 24, 10.20 p.m.) London, November 24.; The Victoria Cross has been granted 4 to Lance-Corporal Fuller, of the Welsh Regiment, for gallantry on' September £ 14 near Chevy. He advanced a hundred' yards and carried 1 Captain Haggard (a\ son of Sir Rider Haggard, the novelist),-S who was mortally wounded, to cover, under a heavy xiile and machine-gun. ? fire. DHJP'OF TREE BAME. •.. November 20, 1.20 p.nr.)' -- / V Lpndon, November 24. ' A - FrenoK cavalry column surprise®) three, companies of German infantry in,'! a wood east of Ypres, . They were starv-; ing, and had been eating the bark of 1 trees. Theji Eurrenderred xrith. fortjjy officers. A CHANNEL' ISLAND OCCUPIEIXiBii BRITISH TROOPS.. London, November 23. Mr. Reginald M'Kenna, Home Secret tary, announced that British , troops! have occupied the Island of Herm, near Guernsey. It was leased in 1889 to a r German company, and a ' house and 'j grounds on it were Bubsequently^elefe' to Prince Blusher. ' KILLED IN ACTION, / Sydnoy, November 24. _ Captain Docker, a nephew of Judge 1 Docker, has been killed in aotionj •~i j, Chrlstchurch, November 24. Cable advic<l has been received afcat* jV ing that Lieutenant G. yf. Chapman,£ of the Third Dragoon Guards, has been killed in action in Franca. He was a * Christ's College boy. . COMFORT IN THE TRENCHES, ("fflmea" and Sydney "Sun" Serricea.) ' (Rec. November 2d, 5,20 p.m.): ; ? } i London,' November 23. •' '-s The."Times" correspondent in Wea# I Flanders says that it/is a mistake ta * assume that life in the frencHes.necessarily entails a'maximum of 'discomfort, j The Allies' soldiers are comfortable, living for the most part below the sur- • face. ; They have 60 banked themselves about., that wind, rain, and.r eleet have V 'nojr no, great terrors for. t'ftem,.. their ') mud-walled compartments being possibly warmer than- . would ap--..' prove. ■ \ ;