CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2319, 28 November 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

THE GUARDS SAVE THE SITUATION London, November 26. During the defence of Ypres, wliero tlie Prussian Guard was defeated, Major Christie's battery, after tliree British guns Lad beon .disabled, was ordered to retire, but rotunied and recovered tho guns. At a critical stage of the fight a charge by the Coldstream Guards, Grenadier Guards, and the Scots Guards saved the situation by recovering trenches. They suffered fearful losses, but drove out the Germans and hung on for thirty-sis hours. Tiieir resistance won the day. AMMUNITION TRAIN. BLOWN UP BY BRITISH AIRMAN. (Rec. Noromber 27, 11.55 p.m.) Paris, November 26. A British naval airman's bomb on Monday, blew up a German ammunition train. MANY MINOR INCIDENTS. BRITISH STUMBLE UPON GERMAN 1 TRENCHES. Paris, November 25. Many inoidents of minor importance are reported; ■ > I' Once a party of British troops stumbled upon the German trenches. When they realised it they wore allowed to ruii the gauntlet of the Gorman rifle fire. The majority escaped. In another case, Germans surrounded a French company near Ypres. , A German ofiicor herded the prisoners into a corner of the wood, and commanded his men to fire. All tho prisoners were_ killed. The British in neighbouring trenches witnessed the occurrence, but were unable to prevent it. THE FINAL ROUND. ANNIHILATES THE GERMANS. London, November 26. During the recent fighting at Ypres, the German guns found the range ,of a British trench. Tho British were ordered to quit it, as they wero preventing their own battery from checking the advance of several hundred German infantry. The gunuers prepared for a hand-to-hand fight as the Germans charged in close order to within twentyfive yards; but the final rounds from the guns practically annihilated the Germans. The battery then decimated tho Germans' reserves. CAPTURINC SENTINELS. BRITISH OFFICER WINS A BET. London, November 26. Router's _ Paris correspondent states that a, British officer bet a French officer that tho Indians would capturo thirty sentinels guarding a wood in Flanders. There was a fearful din in the dead of night, and then silence. Later the Indians returned in couples, each bearing a man gagged and bound. MOTOR-DRIVER'S EXPERIENCES. A DASH—SUDDEN HALT—RAPID RETREAT. . ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" services.) London, November 26. A driver of a motor-ambulance in the war zone gives details of exciting 'experiences. He says: "A dash past blazing buildings, then a sudden halt, and a rapid retreat to avoid falling buildings or to avoid shells of the 'Jack Johnsons,' as a certain type of German big guns is called, is our hourly routine, relieved by dodging a shower of shrapnel from 'the aeroplane bombs. Tho German big guns play hell with 'Tommy.' They seem to have endless ammunition. The German spy system is perfect, and wo are baffled to know by what mysterious. Tapid means they so quickly transmit news. The arrival of an ammunition column or reinforcements is received with immediate volleys of shells, which immediately cease on their departuro."