CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2325, 5 December 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

NARROW ESCAPE OF GERMAN CHANCELLOR NEARLY KILLED BY A SHELL Copenhagen, December 3. 'A' message from Berlin states that during a recent visit to the West front, Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg, the German Imperial Chancellor, had a narrow escape. A British aeroplane located his headquarters, and a British battery destroyed a room which Herr Hollweg had just vacated. Tho shells lolled two men on a 6pot oil which he had previously stood. BOMBS DROPPED INTO KRUPfr'S CANNON HALL. 'AIRMAN'S VISIT TO ESSEN. The Hague, December 4. It is rumoured in Berlin that an airman flew over Krupp's works at Esson on Wednesday and dropped bombs on tho cannon hall. The damage done, is towwi " Tfra aipaa ..flßCMfifo.

FAMOUS AIRMAN KILLED. Paris, December - The French aviator, Slarc'Pourpre, ' famous for his Cairo .to Khartoum flight, was killed whilst reconnoitring in tho Somme district. "RUN OUT"EARLY IN THE GAME.i BRITISH NAVAL "OFFICER, BEMOANS HIS BAD LUCK. ("Timee" and Sydney. "Sun" sorviccs.X London, December-,2. Commodoro Henderson, commanding {he naval men internea in' Holland, writes: "It was crushing had luck being run out so , early in our innings; but we refuse to be downhearted. At . tie back of our minds wo all cherish' \ a firm conviction that there will lie some turn which will release tj3 before , tho war ends. We must have rovonge j for Antwerp. , ' ■ Tho letter mentions that the interned! j men are Tiusy knitting warm garments, and at other occupations. .•■'-- .•-.-, A COSSACK RAID. (Reo. December 5, 0.6 a.m.) Petrograd, December 4. L Seventy Cossacks, dividing them- '. selves into, ten sections, dashed r into Czestochowa at night, killed a number of Germans, and drove into-the Russian lines 300 others, including forty, women who wore dressed as soldiers.*