CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2352, 7 January 1915, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

NAVAL PATROL WORK

London, January 5.. The naval correspondent of the "Times," referring to the loss of the battleship Formidable in the Channel, says:—"lt may be expedient to pay off. the older and less protected ships, Bnd provide fast merchantment- for patrol and search work;" —("Times" ana Sydney "Sun" Services.)

RECRUITING IN CANADA.

GREAT ENTHUSIASM. CReo. January 6, 7-35 p.m.)

Ottawa, "January 0. There Is great recruiting enthusiasm in Canada, and 125,000 are now training, while recruiting for the Third Contingent has not' yet started.

IN THE TRENCHES. THE HORRORS OP WAR. (Rec. January 6, 5.30 p.m.)

■ London, January 5. 'A', soldier at the front writes:—"The trenches are awful places, with four feet of water in them. \ •

''Imagine an incessant drizzle, acres of ploughed fields averaging a'foot of mud; scores of dead bodios rising to ,the surface giving off an indescribable stench, and acres of rotten turnips. No light is shown anywhere. There is a terrific bombardment of shells, and yet not a single soldier is to be seen. All are Tinder cover."—("Times"-' and Sydney "Sun" Services.) WAR SPIRIT, STRONG AT ETON. {Rec. January 6, 5.30 p.m.) London, January 5. The war spirit pervades Eton, from which 110 pupils over seventeen years of. age have answered the country's call. ■ • Six hundred young boys are now training.—("Times" and Sydnoy "Sun"' Cervices.) KING EDWARD'S HORSE. I ' ■ RECEIVING MANY RECRUITS. (Rec. January 6, 5.30 p.m.) London, January 5. King Edward's Horse is ltceiyijig many recruits. It has been decided not to disband, as the Corps is probably going to the front in the Spring.— ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services ) CERMAN AEROPLANES. IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. Capo Town, January 5. Two German aeroplanes bombed the British trenches near Luderitz Bay (in German South-West Africa), also the railway, harmlessly. SIXTY-TWO HOSPITALS, , FULL OF WOUNDED. (Rec. January 6, 8.45 p.m.) Berne, January 6. A fugitive reports that sixty-two hospitals in Strassburg are full of wounded.

BURYING THE DEAD. (Rec. January 6, 8.45 p.m.) Rotterdam, January 6. German sappers buried ten thousand dead near Duffeed. COME TO THE FRONT. AND LEFT A LOT OF THINGS BEHIND THEM. (Rec. January 6, 8.45 p.m.) Melbourne, January 6.. The military authorities arc embarrassed owing to the considerable number of married mon enlisting as bachelors. and who have gone to the front without making provision for their wives and families. CERMANS FROM MEW GUINEA. DEPARTING FOR' HOME. (Rec. January 6, 8.45 p.m.) fiydiwj*, Jeauary 8. tvta fiiuifuder*

Ed at Herbertshohe, are departing by the Sonoma on January. 16, the terms of tßeir surrendor stipulating that no obstacles would be placed in the way of their returning to Germany jat the earliest opportunity.

SPORT WEAKENED,

THROUGH ENLISTMENTS,

(Reo. January 6, 8.45 pan.)

. Sydney, January 6. Mr. Hill,, secretary of the New South Wales Rugby Union, states that at least half the State's Rugby l2nion players have joined the colours. The union have thoroughly recognised that for next season swimming, boxing, cricket, and other forms of sport will: be heavily Hit. They aro daily be Leg weakened by enlistments. ,

BRITISH COLONIALS*

TREATED WITH CONSIDERATION,

(Rec. January 6, 8.45 p.m.) Sydney, January 6. Mr. T. 'A'. Coghlan, Agenti-General for New South Wales, has cabled the Premier that the American Ambassador in Berlin states that British colonial subjects will be treated with greater consideration than othor Britishers. Birth certificates'would bo helpful. THE CUXHAVEN JRAID. GERMANS TAKING (PRECAUTIONS.

(Reo. January 6, 7.35 p.m.)

Amsterdam, January 6. The Germans are talang elaborate precautions to prevent a repetition of the Cuxhaven raid, and are establishing many new observation, posts. ' There is much talk of a Zeppelin invasion of England, but at ib admitted that nothing call be dpno till, the Spring.