CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2328, 9 December 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

.FRENCH FREELANCES Paris, December 7. The "Figaro"., prints a story of the successful exploits of a band of Frenchmen in August. About 150 French soldiers and officers, who were cut off and got behind'the.'German lines, succeeded in reaching the forests of Luxemburg. The little army secured 17,000 cart-, ridges on the battlefield, and have since defied all efforts of the Germans to capture' them. . Working in small parties! they direoted energetic and systematic efforts towards harassing the Germans in tho evenings. In tho gloom they wreck bridges and railways, intercept staff officers, destroy provisions, and otherwise worry the Germans. ..■'..'"' A GURKHA EXPLOIT. HOW. THE INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT PROFITED. (Rec. December 8, 5.10 p.m.) London, December 7._ An officer at the front, speaking in glowing terms of the work of tho jndjan troops, and their cleverness in spying out the enemy, related that as the result of an exploint by the Gurkhas, the. \Yar Intelligence Department l»nd gained reliable information, 'contained in a. couple of German mail bags. The Indians crept, out of their, trenchps, and returned, within two hours, with <he, bags. They saluted, and returned to their posts without offering any exi planation. It ib assumed that they 1 "»tUed the .Goruua. guard.

KAISER'S SON NEARLY CAUCHT. j Incident of the lodz battle, ' (Red. Deoember 9, 0.20 a.m.) ? Petrograd, Deoember 8. i An ofaoer narrates that Prince Joa- i ohim (the Kaiser's, 6on) narrowly es- j caped capture at Bresiny (east of Lodz).' ] When his deteohmeat was defeated, j Prinoe Joachim jumped on his horse, puffled his head wiytt a cloak to avoid j identification, and galloped to the rear. ; Three German aeroplanes returned'to j succour the Prince, but the Russian' j artillery brought down two. The'thirdf- • reached Prince Joachim's detachment in ■ '■] tho nick of time. Prinoe Joachim took . the observer's place in the aeroplane and so escaped. . THE VICTORIA CROSS. / : ' ! London, December 7. ' The Victoria Cross -has been -award-! Ed to a soldier named Wilson, who sold newspapers outside : Edinburgh; Castle prior to the war, and .then re-f joined his old regiment for the front. ■ (Reo. December 8, 10.30 p.m.) ' j London, December 8. j> Naik Darwan, a Victoria Cross hero, during the capture of the trenches at . Festubert on November 24, was wound- ' ■ ' ■ ed twice in the head and once. in..the* arm. ¥et no was;.theTfirst ",to'.".pUßhij round each successive, traverse, ahdl' faced the bombs and-rifle-.fire at the', closest range. -./.',..1-'-'•-•,"I • The Sepoy Khudadad, during „ fighting at Hollebeke -on'Ootober 31.) •,, worked his gun, though wounded, until', all the five others who belonged to-'tha' detachment had been killed; '......,•) GERMAN BOMB DROPPED ONf INNOCENT TOWNSFOLK. (Reo.. December 8, HK3S p.m.); .', . •>' ; parlsi;'Decembef B'. A' German aeroplane; 1 .; dropped a bomb on, the Railway 'station;'' . at Hazebrouok (in France, 15 miles westi • of "■ Annentieres, near the Belgian! border). The townsfolk, curious, gatiered at the spot, when the, aeroplane re-i-. turned and a second; : bomb,j whioh killed ten civilians anfl wpundedi'' five. ,-''•' •'"■;'■ ''■! :''■ AIRMEN VERSUS MOTORISTS,' ! London, December 7. )' Owing to the activity of the Allies^' airmen in Belgium; the Germans are's employing fleet armoured motor-oarsA equipped with anti-aircraft guns. < - MENTAL-,h6sPITa£,BHELLED. ; Petrograd, December ; 7. j ..■■^e-vGermanßf-.bpmbarded.^a-yn&tiq* asylum.on the outskirts" of "Lodz, j, 1 Scores of lunatics: jumped from/'thet \ windows, and many were burnt alive.