CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2321, 1 December 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

COALING THE ENEMY'S CRUISERS GERMAN SLIMNESS IN BUENOS AIRES ("Times" and Sydney "Bull" SerTiccs.) London, November 29. Buenos Aires reports that the German concern which holds the city lighting contract bought coal in England, aud several cargoes were intercepted by British oruisers, but the British War Office was persuaded to allow the delivery at Buenos Aires. The German company promptly used the coal to fill the bunkers of German warships in the Atlantic. INCIDENT OF THE VALPARAISO SEA FIGHT.. (Rec. November 80, 5.15 p.m.) London, November 29. The captain of the French barque Valentine (captured by the Germans) stated t.n his arrival at Santiago do Chile that while a prisoner on board a German warship -ho- heard the sailors say _ that they taw many of the British sailors 'swimming in the Water after the cruiser Good Hope foundered in the action of Valparaiso. These men, thoy said, oould easily have been saved. —("Timse" aud Sydney "Sun" Services.) /' KLLEED IN ACTION. ffieo. December 1, 1.6 a.m.) London, November 80. Captain Macdougall, formerly an aide-de-camp to tho Governor of New Zealand (in 1913) has been killed at the front. GERMAN OFFICERS SCAVENGING COMMISSION.

Parle, November 29. A German officer informed a French manufacturer wlios© factory was denuded, that he had a special mission to seize copper, lead, leather, [vnd other materials, and to get money by all possible means. The officer commandeered a largo quantity of- valuable old furniture, which was sold by auction in . Germany.

ENEMY'S "HORSELESS-CAVALRY." London, November 29. The newspaper "Echo de Paris" de-' clares that owing to inability to secure horses tho German cavalry has ceased to exist..