CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2357, 13 January 1915, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

FOR VALOUR London, January 11. Bandsman- Rendle, of the Duke of Cornwall's Infantry, has been awarded 1 the Victoria Cross for tending to wounded under heavy shell and rifle.fire at Uulverghem on November 20, and rescumg wounded' buried in blown-up trenches. . J?i"7 at ? Ean e 6r > a well-known Kent athleixyhas received the Distinguished • Uraduot Medal for assisting to rescue 1 nr.ee Maurice of Battcnburg after the rrmce had been mortally woended. FIGHTING ON SKIS. London, January 11. , French Chasseurs Alpinos went into notion at Orbey upon skis. In the capturing of a German blockhouse they careered along the snow-clad hillsides \ and bayoneted the defenders. OFFICERS IMPRISONED FOR LIFE. , '. Amsterdam, January 11. The newspaper "Telcgraaf" says that General Fife and Lieutenant Gillie, Belgian officers at Liege, have been imprisoned for life for assisting 350 Bel- % gians to reach Holland in order, tojoin the French Army; also for making maps of the German position on the Meuse. During the hearing of the case General Fife'called the Kaiser a rascal. "DUTCH" COURAGE. London, January 11. , The Kaisor, during his stay in the west, encouraged his troops by sending thorn beer. He interviewed the cooks and tasted all kinds of cookery, expressing his delight at the delicious nourishment, and everywhere advertising tho fact that the war bread was superior , to white.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" services. GIRLISH ADULATION OF VON HINDENBERG. London, January ,11. Gorman newspapers hayo asked girls not, to write any more letters of aclmiration of General von Hindenberg, 'commanding in the eastern theatre. ■ They point out that a campaign occupies time and thought, and allows of no leisure for tho reading of even the 1 most beautiful literary essays. "Tho rising • generation must be aware that the whole German people regard him with love, gratitude/ and confidence."— "Times"-and Sydney "Sun" sorvices. KILLED IN ACTION. London, January 11. The. youngest son of M. Viviani. i (Prime Minister of France), a private, Was killed in an attack on the German Frenches.—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.