CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2322, 2 December 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

LIFE. IN THE LONG ■'/""'•'•■■'.■'■'■'•FRONT.'SNIPING COMPETITIONS London, November SO. _ An eye-witness relates that the fighting has now resolved itself into a competition in-sniping, and outpost affairs . all. along the line with' rifles, handgrenades, bombs, mortars, and mines. Every effort is being made to mitigate the hardships of the trenches, .which are heated by braziers. Ingenious shelters and dug-outs give facilities for cooking. The men are provided with skin'coats. There is'. remarkably 'little sickness, and this is due to the excellent ; food.

"RED COUNT" AWARDED THE IRON CROSS. '. ECHO OF FAMOUS CAUSE . , r. : . •... .CELEBRE. Amsterdam, November 30. •Count Mielczynski has been awarded ' the Iron Cross, first-class, for bravery against the Russians.'.' . r In December last, Count Mielszynski. '"The.Rod-Count," was the principal figure in a gloomy tragedy and sensational trial on a charge of manslaughter of his'.wife;and nephew (Count Mianczynski), when he found them together .in the former's room. In' 1909 he'., was fined for making an incendiary speech ,accusing the Gennaas of treating the Poles like wild beasts. Last year a crowd at Posen mobbed him for attending a banquet in honour of the-Kaiser. His carriage was bombarded with stones and its occupants drenched ' with water. The Count .was subsequently tried on a charge of • manslaughter, but was .acquitted in February last, having been •tn custody since his arrest, though offerteg £50,000 as bail. ■

VON.MOLTKE A PRISONER. BY ORDER oFTHE'KAISER. London, November 30. The "Daily News's" Copenhagen correspondent states that Von Moltke's Danish wife writes that her husband is' a. prisoner by the Kaiser's orders'in a palace at Homburg an der Hoeho for in- ' terfering.with the Crown Prince's operations' on the west front in. the early of the retreat. ' THE ROUT, OF THE PRUSSIAN ~GUARDS. (Rec., December; 2,. 0.20 a.m.) ■! >- i London, December 1. The Press Bureau reports that an eye-witness states that when the Prussian Guards, during .their recent attack, broke the British line where the only reserves consisted of two companies of engineers, tho.:. Guards advanced to .within- seventy yards of two of the guns, the officers of which improvised a firing line. The line withstood the Guards until reinforcements arrived, and the Guards were repulsed.

, INCIDENT THAT SAVED YPRES. (Rec. December 2,'0.20 a.m.) London, December 1. Correspondents pay glowing tributes to General Grosetti and his slender forces who have been defending Nieuporfc under a rain of shell, and Admiral Ronarch, with his seven thousand Bretons at Dixmude; also to General Mousseys for his supreme effort at. Ypres in collecting haphazard 250 cooks and tbeir dismounted cuirassier escort, with whom, he charged a German regiment for the possession of a suburb. The regiment broke and lied, and Ypres was saved.

, GERMAN. GUN POSITIONS IN , . CANADA. ■~'•"•'. l("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) . (Rec. December 1, 5.50 p.m,) • London, November 30. The Canadian authorities have discovered concrete foundations on. the Isle d'Orleans, commanding the defences' of Quebec, which were built by the Germans in 1912. The authorities have demolished them.

NOTES IN BRIEF. ' ENGLISHMEN SHOT IN GERMAN DISGUISE. London, November 30. The-."Daily Mail" sates that four Englishmen disguised as German officers were shot"in Flanders last week.

. DIED OP HIS WOUNDS. London, November 30i Captain Stewart Richardson has died iof. his wounds.

GERMAN ATROCITIES. Paris, November 30. The French Government is officially issuing letters found oh German officers and men giving their stories of untold horrors on women and children, shootings, and plunderings during August and September—a terrible record of atrocities. The documents are open for public inspection.