GILDED DOME MYSTERY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2681, 29 January 1916, Page 12

GILDED DOME MYSTERY

Mr. J. O'Donnell Bennett, war correspondent of the "Chicago Tribune" with the Germans in Poland, describes a Russian- trick at Ivangorod which perplexed the enomy. Ho says: The German artillerymen looked on their maps and learned from them that at such and such a point there should be a gilded dome of_ a large church, and with that in mind they said to each other: "Where is that dome, and can that mass of trees in the neighbourhood of where the dome should bs mean anything?" To clear up their doubts they sent some shot across the river into the mass of trees.

The experiment was fruitful. What had seemed to bo a mass of trees was rot lopped and spread apart as it should havo been had the mass been real trees. Tho shot went cleanly through. The doubts of the Germans were cleared up. When they marched into the, fortress they found the garrison church still standing. It was not much damaged, liiey found that its dome had been given a coat of green paint, and that tho whole had been carefully covered with a thick wave of evergreeai branches. Through this mass and through the dome two of tho Geripan shots had gone. Tho Tuse had served a double purpose. It had not only given tho Russians a safe signal station at a oritical time., but it had also deprived the enemy of a capital point for taking the range, and left him at sea at a time wheji every instant was precious.