CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2336, 18 December 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

IRREPRESSIBLE EAISER 'DETERMINED TO GO TO THE FRONT London, December 16. The Copenhagen correspondent of the Paris journal "Lo Temps" says "The , Kaiser, although his condition is seri- | ous, has vowed to qiufc his bod and proceed to the western battlefield, despite the supplications of the Kaisenn and the advice of the - doctors."—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" eervices.

ROYAL GIFTS. tfOR WOUNDED BRIHSH SOLDIERS •■ (Reo. December 17, 5.45 p.m.) London, December 16. Queen Alexandra, with Princess Vio- ' sona, visited Reigato Hospital. Queen Alexandra presented every wounded soldier with a pound note and an autograph photograph of herself.— "Timea" and Sjdnoy "Sun" services. UNDRILLED LANDSTRUM. ■CALLING UP THE LAST RESERVE. (Rec. December 17, 5 45 p.m.) London, December 16. Dutch sources report that Berlin is balling up the undrilled Landsfurm of the, ages of thirty-nine to forty-five.— "'Times" and Sydney "Sun." services. [THE BATTERED EMDEN. ' frHREE DAYS AFTER THE FIGHT. ' (R«c. December 17, 10.15 p.m.) Brisbane, December 17. The steamer Montoro,; while en route from Singapore, visited the eceno of the destruction of the-Emden three days after the fight, and states it was impossible to get near tho wreck owing to the terrible stench of the corpses littering the crumpled deck of the Bradon, which was battered beyond recognition. DAY OF PRAYER. (Rec. December. 17, 10.16 p.m.) Sydney, December 17. Tho Anglican Church has fixed Januhry, 3 as a day of prayer and interces-sion-for the war.

I A TUnXISH TALE. BOW THE MESSOUDIEH.WAS SUNK : December 16. A telegram states that -■■ the Messoudieli;Avas sunk owing to a 'leak...'l'he\crew, 'was , saved. : The Turkish: battleship Messondieh ■was torpedoed in the Dandanelles a few flays ago by: the British submarine 83. "SLIM" CERMAN PRISONERS. • iWRITEiWITH •'INVISIBLE INK. .'■'■■'- : : /./London, December 16. The censors' -discovered that prisoners' in the Douglas internment camp were .writing to Germany in invisible ink., One prisoner was sentenced to two i, months' imprisonment.