CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2350, 5 January 1915, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

DESPONDENT GERMAN FOUGHT AND DIED IN VAIN London, January 3. 'A! German on the Yser says;—"Wo have done all that men could do; we attacked day and night, and hurled! ourselves at . hell's gates, sometimes making progress, but often being beaten back, and always-..defied by the hidden English, who are well armed, fed, and clothed. Sometimes 'we thought we hod beaten them, but the silent voices of our dead tell the truth—they fought and died in vain."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun"-Services;)

KAISER NO COOD. HOW. GERMANS ABE DELUDED. • London, January 3. ,■ Germans, talking to the British in the trenches, said: "The Kaiser is 110 damn good, but the Russians liave been completely wiped out, and an army is coming west to scatter the Allies.". Some had printed postcards Baying, "We have won a great victory .over the English, but eight£ thousand men are reinforcing them. These are the last of the British Army. After that the war will be over."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun"" Services.) BRITISH TROOPS. WANT. FOE NOTHING. London, January 3. "Eye-witness" with Headquarters says:—"Everything possible is being done to mitigate the rigours of active' service under wintry conditions.The troop's are being fed as no army in. 'the field has been fed before. They have received every imaginable kind of garment through, public and private sources, and want for nothing it is possible to give them. They are ill good heart. There is a dearth of mouth organs. Any instrument for a solo or the accom-, paniment of a song in the evenings, when tho men are collected in their burrows and dug-outs behind the firing line, is a godsend. Piles of plum puddings, .chocolate, tobacco, and other luxuries are to be seen at every regimental headquarters. Over eighty tons of puddings were transported in two days. The men suffer most from their feet swelling through standing •in mild and water." . GERMAN AEROPLANE.

BROUGHT DOWN BY RUSSIANS,

petrpgratf, January 3. 'A German aeroplane was brought down at Wyszograd, on tho Vistula, on Friday last; and two aviaton were captured. , ["Wyszograd is about 40 miles westward of Warsaw.] THE POPE'S DESIRES.. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. Berlin, January 3. The Pope telegraphed to the Kaiser beseeching "him to sanction an. exchange of prisoners who are militarily unfit, audi. the Kaiser replied that the Pope'fi desires accorded with 'his own. TOWARDS SUEZ. \ —— TURKS ON THE MARCH.; : . London, • January 3. Hava's-Agency declares that the Turks have sent large forces, commanded by Germans, with artillery and pontoons in sections, towards Suez. REBEL CAPTURED. IN BECHUANALAND. Cape Town, January 8. Commandant Jack Pienar was captured near Lobasi, Bedhuanaland. AUSTRIA'S BOAST. ANOTHER ARMY TO INVADE SERVIA. (Rec. January i, 5.40 p.m.) London, January' 3. Austria boasts that she is arranging to dispatch au army of a million men to Servi*.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" jarwpes.).