CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2326, 7 December 1914, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

KAISER AT BRESLAU London, December 4. r K Berlin wireless message states that the Kaiser had an interview at Breslau with the Archduke Frederick, Chief Commander of the Austrians, and visited the wounded in the hospitals.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) BANNED POSTOAEDS. London, December 4. The British and French authorities have decided-not to forward picture postcards to.the army ridiculing the Kaiser and Crown Prince. If such caricatures are found by the Germans upon 'prisoners or -wounded they aTe liable to summary treatment, and sometimes the prisoners are maltreated 'and shot. INDIANS TREASURE A ROYAL GIFT. London, December 5. Wounded Indians lost their puggarees while en route to England, and Queen Alexandra dispatched 400 yards of muslin. The Indians were delighted, and instead of making puggarees they carefully parcelled up the treasure to carry home.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) TRAITOROUS MAYOR OF YPRES. London, December 4. An officer writing to the "Manchester Guardian" narrates that the Germans first spared the Ypres Town Hall. This aroused suspicion, and a search revealed an enormous quantity of stores and ammunition, placed beneath the Town Hall with the Mayor's connivance when the Germans.first occupied Ypres. Immediately the traitorous Mayor was shot, the Germans shelled the Town Hall, s THE TAKING OF BELGRADE. London, December 4. Tho Austrians. assert that they took Belgrade at the point of the bayonet.— ("Times'\ and Sydney "Sun" Services.) MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES. (Rec. December 6, 4 p.m.) London, December 5. Major Richardson, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, -who was with the British Marines who took part in the defence of Antwerp, has been mentiohed ■in dispatches by General Paris, who commanded the Naval Brigades at 'Antwerp. LORD KITCHENER'S MOVEMENTS. (Rec. December 6, 10.30 a.m.) London, December 6. It is officially denied' that Lord Kitchener was in France this w;eek.