CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2317, 26 November 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

GURKHAS TO THE RESCUE ; HIGHLANDERS IN A TIGHT CORNER London, November 24, During a charge in Belgium the Highlanders encountered wire entanglements. They were under a heavy fire, and the check was apparently fatal. The Gurkhas, however, wriggled through the wire 3, kukris' in hand, and disappeared in the trenches shouting their battle cries. After the tumult and carnage the Germans fled into their own entanglements. A few were made prisoners, all of whom were paralysed with terror. ' UHLAN HUNT. DISTRICT CLEARED BY ARMED AUTOMOBILES. London, November 24. 'A; district close to the British' trenches in a part of Belgium was overrun by parties of Uhlans. A naval aviator collected a few English armourplated motor-cars, which followed his aeroplane round the country. "When the avaitoir spotted a patty of Uhlans, he signalled the cars, who encircled them and attacked from, all sides and potted them with Maxims. The district was cleared in a fortnight.

SMASHING OF THE PRUSSIAN GUARD. HONOURS FAIRLY DIVIDED. .■■ London, November 24. Th'o honours for smashing the Prussian Guards are fairly divided through the - Army Corps of the United Kingdom. The victors included the Irish Guarde, the Blank Watch, the King's Liverpool Rifles, Northamptonshire, Oxford, and Bucks Light Infantry, the London Scottish, and the Inniskilling Fusiliers.. , . ; •

KAISER'S SON 'AUGUST IN CRITICAL CONDITION. (Rec. November 25, 5.30 p.m.)' London, November 24. • The , * condition of Prince August Wsl- - the Kaiser's son, ,who was reported on Monday to have met with a bad accident while on a military tour by motor-car, is grave. His shin-bone and jaw-bone are shattered. He wae driving at full speed and smashed into a German trench.—("Time's"- and Sydney "Sun" Services.) • ' BELGIUM SOLDIER KING'. . (Reo. November 25, ,5.80 p.m.)' London, November 24. King Albert of Belgium .still Tβmains in the hottest part of the battlefront, and is as muddy as the soldiers when he returns to his headquarters.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) THREATENED FAMINE IN OSTEND. ("Times" end Sydney "Sun" Bervloea.) ' (Rec. November 25, 5.80. p.m.) .-. London, November 24. Two thousand Belgians who are tomaining at Ostend are threatened with' famine. The Germans are commandeering all the food and have forbidden citizens to leave their houses except on specific "business, or to appear in the streets after soven in the evening: not more than -three persons are permitted to converse together in this streets on penalty of death. . A favourite pastime of the Germane is to make Belgian boys compulsorily drunk on champagne and laugh at their antics.

WANTON BOMBARDMENT. (Rec. November 26, 0.50 ajn.)' Calais, November 25. .. The townsfolk of Armentieres have lodged a protest against the German bombardment of the city. No military are in tho town, yet a hundred civilians have already bean killed and injured by shell-fire.

FIGHT IN THE 'AIR. ■ , (Rec. November 26, 0.50 a.m.) Calais, .November 25. Two Taubes bombarded Hazonbrouok (in West Flanders) on Friday.' The British artillery brought down one. A British biplane arrived, manoeuvred over tho' other, and dropped a bomb. The Titube crumpled up and fell. Gorman aviators are active. They dropped bombs on Hazebrouck, Cassell. Amiens, and Armentiores, killing several citizens. English aerial guns at Armentieres brought down two of the maoh■inesy killing four aviators. GERMAN REGIMENTS TRAPPED/* (Rec. November 26, 0.60 a.m.) Petrograd, November 25. Tho Russians trapped three German regiments on tho banks of the Bzura Rivor (a tributary of the Vistula), which is easily fordablc. The Germans crossed anil found themselves ctit off by tho Cossacks who . crossed higher up tho- stream. Meanwhile the Russian infantry crept up in.the rear, under tlie cover of their artillery, and the Germaus were surrounded, Only half a. reoimottt escaned.

GERMAN ROYAIi DUKE'S'NARROW ESCAPE.; j(Reo., November 26, 1.80 a.m.) ■ Amsterdam, November 26. Hβ, Duke Soxe-Coburg narrowly. es«, caped death in Poland. A grenade ex- 1 ploded in the midst of Hβ 6taff, killing\ three, s <ruse" that failed. x Petrograd, November 24. . The Austrians recently -withdrew froDJ f the outer forts of Przemyel. The Rub- : eians, suspecting a ruse, drove cattle towards the forts, and the cattle were blown to bits by treading, on. mines. .' J COPPER FOR KRUPPS HELD UpY : Rome, November 24. Five freight cars loaded with.copper recently landed at Genoa. for Essen were J. detained ou the Italian-frontier. '.~-Z GERMAN CASUALTIES AT THE 1 YSER BATTLE. . ./; London, November 24. "' The Germans now estimate they hatt. two hundred thousand oaeualties at thebattle of the Ysen