WITH THE IRISH BRIGADE

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

WITH THE IRISH BRIGADE

HOW THE UHLANS RUN. In the course of a letter to a Belfast friend, Captain N. G. Stewart-Richard-son, of the North Irish Horse, writes; "We are how in tho middle of the bigof the lot. The artilery fire is something hellish. .. . . And .the result is not cheering to' watch, there being a lot of casualties. It is the Irish Brigade here, Belfast, and Dublin, and they have had a bad' time. The Uhlans are just about my line They run like scalded cats when they see you, 'and are always in close formation as if they were frightened to separates. I had a grand hunt after twenty of theiu (there were only five of us), and we got four dead, picking up two more aftonvards.

"W T e joined with the sth Lancers ono day and got into an hole at . We crossed the river, getting up on the hftights with a troop, and there was a battery just going into action 800 yards away. We had to get down into the town. We were joined by Wo other troops and one of the sth. To get away back; all of us had to gallop down the road with two companies of infantry blazing away at 800 yards. We had only two men hit and four horses, and the sth had one man and three horses.

I have never seen saich bad shooting. After that we had the.open tc cross, and they gave us a real taste of shrapnel. I saw ono of the enemy's batteries wiped out next day with about eighty dead .lying in the trenches and a lot of wounded. .

"So far as we can see the next stand will be on . When the Germans advanced they left a lot. of men and material to put in a state of defence, and mounted these hellish big guns, the 11-inch'howitzer, on an old French fort. I' saw one of their shells take eleven men and nine horses at one go. _ One man sitting on tho roadside had' his head taken off while his body remained sitting there."

An agitation has been started in Sydney against the system of certain mov-ing-picturo firms tying up their clients under a contract that practically excludes them from purchasing any locallymade film. The contract has a. condition ■which sets forth that the showman will not buy elsewhere, or screen a picture exceeding 1000 ft. in length. Now as no picture of the money-making order can be compressed into a 1000 ft., tho combine is safe to leave the.theatre proprietors free for any picture of less length: As the "combine" is itself under contract to take so many thousand feet per week or month from the leading American, English, and Continental firms, its action is checking what might develop into a big industry in Australia. "On those grounds "The Worker," Sydney's daily paper, has taken the matter up. That there is room for productions (if only all picture houses were free) is proved by tho statement of Mr. C. Spencer, of Sydney, who confesses to having made £6000 on "The Fatal Wedding." The same producer paid Miss Nellie Stewart £1000 for a,performance of "Sweet Nell" before the camera.

Captain Macdonald, of the' tramp steamer Cape. Ortegal, which arrived in Lyttelton yesterday from Newcastle, had a few words to say concerning an enterprising pressman on one. of the Sydney daily newspapers. On tho day after the vessel arrived in Sydney, Captain Macdonald was surprised to find in the Press an alleged interview concerning his vessel's experience ,with tho German cruiser Leipzig oft' the PacificSlope coast. The Capo Ortegal left Norfolk (Virginia) about the end of July, and not being aware that anything in the nature of international trouble had begun, her master accordingly navigated his vessel on the usual course until San Francisco was reached, but tho journey was without incident. The Sydney pressman, however, in order to make the trip appear as graphic as possible, added that when about one hundred miles from the Golden Gate the officers of the Cape Ortegal were surprised to find the Leipzig standing a short distance off her, a position which she maintained until the vessel reached her destination. The Leipzig, however, had not attempted to interfere with the tramp steamer on account of the latter keeping inside neutral waters. The report further added that, the American pilot and Custom authorities at, San Francisco had congratulated Captain Jlacdonald "on his success in eluding the cruiser." In mentioning the matter to a "Lyttelton Times" reporter Captain Macdonald said that the only time ho saw the Leipzig was when she went into San Francisco for coal.

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