SPIES AND SUSPECTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2333, 15 December 1914, Page 5

SPIES AND SUSPECTS

THE MAN IN THE BOX London, December 13, The sentries superintending the departure from Gravesend of deported Germans over military age rolled a packing oase over along the deck of the ferry boat. The lid was partly j forced ojjen, and the 6ailors snouted: i "There is a man in the.bos I" s The occupant was found to be Otto ; Koehn, and he was released•-. after a ; fifteen hours' journey in the box. He i told the authorities that he was a Geri man lieutenant and had'been recently I in America. He. returned shortly before i war was declared, and later'was ii-' : rested and interned. r The indications are that the escape was plotted in the aliens' canteen >at Dorchester. The packing case was adi dressed to Rotterdam. A CERMAN "MISSION."SPYING OUT THE LAND 'iN ANGOLA. ,;.,. ~, . . Lisbon, December 13. , «is stated that a German mission • that has been recently studying the ; railway and agriculture in;, South Angola (Portugese West Africa) is really composed of spies. One was- captured and the others fled. """'■' FEMALE SPIES IN THE BATTLE FRONT. CAPTURED AND SHOT. Paris, December 13. Three women spies for a month betrayed French gunners in the centre" battle line, also robbed the dead on the I tattlefield, and signalled tlie Germans by means of dark lanterns: Air were captured and'shot. TRADE WITH THE ENEMY. CASE AT ADELAIDE, i Adelaide, December 14.' Francis Snow, charged, with attempting to trade with the enemy, has been remanded. His bail wa6 fixed at £6000.' CERMAN VESSEL IN DUTCH WATERS. SEIZED ON SUSPICION. (Rec. December 14, 9.20 p.m.) ' • Amsterdam, December 14. The German vessel Delia, from Antwerp, -has been seized in Dutch territorial waters and detained, on the ground that she was attempting to nso the Dutch portion of tho Scheldt for uaval purposes.

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS -.;■ THE VICTORIA CROSS: . ■. ' London, December 13. Lieutenant Walter, Brodie,, of the Highland Light Infantry, has. been awarded the Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry at Becelaere in ousting the enemy from a portion of our trenches. : He bayoneted several,' thereby relieving a dangerous situation. The result of his promptitude was' that eighty wore killed and fifty-one taken prisoner*, UNSCRUPULOUS FOES. GERMANS FLOUT SURRENDER ■- . SIGNAL. Amsterdam, December 13. Van Horsen) a Dutch volunteer in the Belgian Army, who escaped from the Wesel camp, reports that his battalion' was surrounded at the 'Yser and hoisted the white flag and'-, reversed rifles. Nevertheless, the Germans continued to shoot until only eighteen were loft, all of whom were wounded.

f AN UNTENANTED CITY. i LODZ AFTER THE' EVACUATION. 1 Petrograd, December 13. i When Lodz was evacuated, the popui lation, who were destitute, fled en a masse, fearing German atrocities. Many - bavo reached Warsaw. 1 INURED TO HARDSHIP. 3 TURKISH SOLDIERS IN WAR. v ' London, December 13. Wounded Russians at Tiflis are astonished at thß extraordinary physical endurance of the Turks, who march' barefooted in the snow, and 6hoot standing or kneeling, but rarely ' from the trenches. Bayonet charges are .their only dread. "WHEN THE ARMIES REACH BERLIN." AN INCIDENT IN PERSIA. " v _ London, December 13. A leading. German firm of. chemical manufacturers wrote to the Imperial Bank of Persia stating that the firm I could forward goods through the German Embassy s at Teheran; .The bank replied scouting the suggestion, and adding: "When the armies of the Entente reach Berlin you will be able to send your goods direct via Russia."— "Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. GERMAN PRISONERS, PROM \ ; NEW IRELAND. ACCUSED OF BEATING A CLERGYMAN. Sydney, December 14. Six German prisoners accused of beating the Rev. Mr. Cox, have arrived [t appears-that Colonel Holmes captured' ,the Germans at Mawatani, in. Now Ireland, who were taken to Rabaul and tried and punished. He -decided - to send them to Sydney. The Moriuda also brought four other Germans on' parole, including a doctor and a magistrate. The island copra trade is recovering, a large cargo was shipped from Rabaul. CANADA'S GREAT EFFORT TROOPS AND REINFORCEMENTS. (Rec. December 14, 9.20 p.m.) Ottawa, December 13. , I Tho following forces are either being organised or are on active service:— Troops dispatchtjtj, including a regi- | ment from the Bev'mudaSj 33,000. ■ • On garrison duty in Canada, 8000. \ Now in training, 50,000. i Whon the Second Contingent sails, a further 17,000 will bo enlisted to re- •, place them. The provision of arms and \ equipment is progressing-rapidly. . Cablegram's which, have been ex- J changed with, tho Imperial Government l afford a hope of the "early utilisation c of large numbers. Excellent mounted troops are available from the Western a Provinces, lo;

MORE GERMAN ATROCITIES • SHOOTING AND PILLAGE, (Rec. December 14, 9.30 p.m.) .Paris, December 14. Before quitting Comines (eight milea north, of Lille) the Germans made prisoners of 600 men between the ages of eighteen and.fifty, and sent them to Germany. At llalines the latest atrocity is the s'hooling of a farmer's son for protesting against the ill-treatment of in octogenarian. Amsterdam, December 14. The "Het Angelmeen. Handelsblad"' reports that the Germans pillaged and burned ten houses at Ledeghem, shot thirty inhabitants,-and also.ten other* at Cortwarch. '. ' '. ■ CHRISTMAS AND WAR ANOTHER TRUCE PROPOSAL! " (Rec. December 14, 5.30 g.tn.) • Washington, December 13;; .A resolution has. been ..introduced in; the benate urging a twenty days' truce to the war operations, in order tostimulate the belligerents to reflections, upon the meaning of 'Christmas.—,' "Times" and.Sydney "Sun.".. DAY OF PRAYER FOR THE ALLIES' (Rec. December 14, 7U5 p.m.) . Paris, December 14. ..Cardinal Lucon, in response to Cardinal Bourne's (Sydney) request, has appointed January 3 as a day of prayer and intercession for the Allied' Armies, " T - — : —— —.■,. , PEGOTJD'S IMPRESSIONS CONTEMPT FOR ZEPPELINS. ("TimesJ' .and-Sydney "Sun'^Services.) '_ . London,,, December 12. . -™ aviator Pegoud, (who- was,..the first to "loop the loop"), in an interview, declared that the German airman with a Mercedes engine could do sev-enty-five miles an hour,-'"which is; just a little faster ' than" ' Al Taube' was "equal "to irom"'sixty-five'to seventy miles 'an. hour.""Germany had some fearless"pilots.*-'' •" ''■'". Zeppelins,' he says,-are geese, racingswallows, bogies'to frighten cities, owls, afraid of the daylight, too slow ano; unweildly. "Why," said Pegoud, "in the four months of the war they have only blown up half a dozen houses and filled twenty civilians?- Since>August we have 'dropped*62o" shells'in the"centro of enormous groups of. Prussian infantry and artillery, and we have destroyed three captive balloons,' besides making several''forts "feel ■ unco'mfort--1 able.'* ...,",.. THE KAISERS HEALTH REPORTED ' NECESSITY FOR OPERATION., London, December 13. The "Daily Chronicle's"'Basle (Switzerland) correspondent states'that pri-vate-advices from Berlin report that the Kaiser's chest trouble''has seriously affected his throat, and that an'operation is necessary. The doctors liave prescribed absolute quiet-for at -least a month;- nevertheless,,' the patient' is refractory, and continues to" send ". orders and suggestions to the Eastern army,,