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CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

PICK AND SHOVEL MOUNTED INFANTRY London, December 9. 'A New Zealander at the front, ill a letter, says that liis company of cavalry has been converted into mobile infantry and armed with rifles aigl bayonets and ■picks and shovels. "They have become very efficient in.digging themselves dugouts, roofed with branches and covered with earth. The flow is lined with straw, and tho men lie close together, acting as warming-pans in keeping one another from freezing at night. Some bombs from tho German mortars make holes'lsft. deep and 20ft. across. Luckily they did not strike our trenches. "Times" and . Sydney "Sun" Services. A STRIKING PICTURE. THE MOTLEY OF THE ALLIES. (Reo. December 10, 6.5 p m.) London,-December 9. A "Times J> . correspondent who entered the: railway station at Kette says: "The scene would have rejoiced the heart of an artist —a perfect blaze of colour, a. riot of sartorial tints and trappings. It 'was a Babel let loose. Alongside a couplo of Senegalese sat an Arab in white flowing robes; beyond, the white and gold tunic of the ' lnfrinterie Coloniale"; then a Belgian trooper, a group of Chasseurs, Alpines, Zouaves, Turoos, Algerian Tirailleurs, marines, sailors, 'togotlior with Pioupious and artillery—twenty different unite. "A jovial sergeant observed: What must the "Bosches" (Germans) think when they como against a collection like this —not to speak of your; Ecossaises (Scotchmen) with their petticoats, and'the Indians and Australians? They must think that the whole world is moving on masse to hold a convention universello at Berlin.' " CERMAN ATROCITIES. "APPLICATION OF PRECONCEIVED SYSTEM." (Eeo. December 10, 6.5 p.m.) London, December fi. The Belgian Commission, replying to German denials of atrocities committed in the cities, statea that in their official proclamations .the German commanders threatened with fire and sword and heavy fines and' the shooting of hostages unless tho towns surrendered, and the German terms were observed. The Commission declares that tho orders ''reveal the application of a preconceivsystem."—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. • SYDNEY OFFICER'S OPINION, t Sydney, December 10. Captain Oswald Watt, formerly of Sydney, describing in a letter his ex-' | periencos as a French military "airman, j /eays that the Germans have broken practically all tho laws of civilised war- | tare. THE WAR IN THE AIR.

GERMAN AEROPLANE BROUGHT DOWN. London, Decembor 9. A French field gun brought down a German aeroplane at Chaumont on Monday.' Three;aviators, in two aeroplanes, were engaged at Hazebrouck., ■Seventeen bombs woro dropped, and twenty-four persona were killed. A German aeroplane on Sunday dropped- a bomb on tlie railway station at Hazebrouck (in France, 15 miles west of Armentieres, near . the Bolgian border). The townsfolk, curious, gathered at the spot, when the aeroplane returned and dropped a second .bomb, which killed ten civilians and wounded fivo. DISASTER TO"HOSPITAL TRAIN. (Reo. December 10, 11.35 p.m.) Amsterdam, December If). : A train of forty carriages, conveying fifteen hundred wounded, was derailed betweon- Uemmenicht and Aachen. Fifty were killed, and many injured. ROUTINE OF MODERN BATTLE FRONTS. 'AS DULL AS AN OFFICE. London, December 9. A correspondent, who; at General JofEre's invitation, visited tho French lings, states that in some parts life in the line has become as monotonous as in a city office. Fighting commences at 6.30 in tho morning, and the-men quit the trencbes at 4.30 and walk openly along the line. Dinner is taken at 11 a.m. by the troops on both sides, who openly distribute' soup. The opposing troops noar Reims have become so' familiar tbat they are calling one another by tlieir Christian names. —'.'Times" arid Sydney "Sim" Servioos.

NOTES IN BRIEF. SAFETY OF WATERLOO RELICS. Paris, December 9. The '"'Petit Parision" says that, the Germans have removed the Waterloo collection from Mont Saint Jean, and also other Waterloo relica. v 'GERMANY SEIZES DESTROYERS. London, December 9. * Germany has seized Wo destroyers in course of construction for Norway.— "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 7

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CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 7

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 7

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