CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2364, 21 January 1915, Page 5

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

ESCAPE OP BRITISH PRISONERS RECAPTURED AND SHOT, London, January 19. Amsterdam reports that three British prisoners who escaped from-Lou-vain' were rearrested and shot. As a result of this there has been serious rioting in the prisoners' camp at Neerwinden. The prisoners attacked the German guards, killing one. After the outbreak was quelled six Britishers and eight Turcos were exeouted. WRETCHED PLIGHT OF AUSTRIAN WOUNDED ' THIRTEEN DOCTORS FOR THREE THOUSAND. London, January 19. . A correspondent, describing the Austrian retreat at Valieve, says: '.'Three thousand wounded were left in charge of thirteen dootors and the ambularoe staff. They were lying anywhere, • ',uffering and dying in appalling filth. An Austrian soldier, in the eyes of his superiors, ceases to be worthy of consideration the moment he is put out of action. He is just cannon fodder."— (•'Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) "WASPS OF.WAR" THE MOTOR'DISPATCH RIDERS. London, January. 19. A cavalry officer writes: "The motor dispatch riders are the ivasps cf war. They sting us into action. You are lying snugly between the blankets when you hear a rider snorting up the road with orders. The beggars always get you oh the hop." •The writer adds: "The Germans are using old ammunition, the shells being marked 1892. Many do not explode. There is many a farmer to be blown up next year when his plough bumps a buried live shell."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) COSSACKS AT CHURCH WHILE SCREAMING SHELLS BURST OUTSIDE. London, January 19. A correspondent at the front in Poland says: "The Cossacks, on New Year's Eve, amid fierce fighting, held a religious service. Just when the priest pronounced t 'Glory be to God in the highest,' a shell struck the wall, and there was a deafening explosion. Nobody stirred, and a group of officers repeatedin chorus the priest's words. The service finished, the battle was resumed." —("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Servioes.) THE HATED FLAG TRAMPLED UNDER-FOOT. BY KING PETER. London, January 19. A correspondent states: "When King Peter entered Belgrade street fighting was still proceeding. _ He trampled ucder-foot the Hungarian flag, which had just been hauled down at the Palace, and then attended a hastily-ar? ranged 'Te Deum' in the Cathedral. 'The incoming soldiers pranced over the pathway, and flowers were thrown to them by joyous women and children."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ITEMS IN BRIEF TRUCE WHILE REPAIRING FRENCH WASH-OUTS. London, January 19. A correspondent in tho North of France says: "When tho floods washed out tho parapots of the ■ opposing trenches, the British and Germans woro in full view of each other; but tliey repaired the damage without firing' a shot."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) AUSTKUN DESERTERS FOUND IN A CELLAR. Petrograd, January 19. The Russians in Galicia opened a trap-door in n chateau cellar, despite & warning not to ' open it, owing to

poisonous gases. 'They forma 200 Augi trians, deserters from Cracow hiding there. They had been in the eellal tor live weeks. !"•