INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 725, 28 November 1914, Page 2

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

INVINCIBLE RUSSIANS. A correspondent at Warsaw says that already Russia must have lost heavily, but her losses mean little to her, as shs is "men millionaires," and never feela poorer, however many she spends. Peasants and soldiers are deeply calm in the presence of suffering and death, and the idea of a glorious death is spiritual '"eat and drink. They love their brother soldier alive, and when he i'b dead he becomes holy. This feeling makeß the Russians almost invincible. The correspondent says the German press pretends that Germany is always acting purely on the defensive in the Russian campaign. ONE MAN AND A MAXIM. Lieutenant Dimmer, whose exploit in holding up a German charge was briefly cabled a few days ago, commanded a battery of four Maxims, and was ordered to check the Prussian Guards, whose attack was supported by a hail of shells, which dismantled three of the Maxims. Dimmer nearly fainted from shrapnel wounds, and a comrade gave him brandy. The Germans, advancing in close order, were mown down in whole rows. All Dimmer's comrades were killed, and he then swallowed the rest of the brandy and emptied three belts oi 300 cartridges each before he fell unconscious. The Germans, decimated by the fire, fled, and English soldiers picked up Dimmer after the battle. BELGIANS STORM ENEMY'S GUNS. A correspondent of the London Daily Mail, describing German attacks at Ypres, suggests that there was a deliberate intention to throw away lives. He points out the futility of a single company marching, in broad daylight up to the trenches covered by machine guns and hundreds of men. The result was that the Germans were simply slaughtered. The impression was.plain that the butchery of these forlorn hopes was an example of the punishment of a company that had failed or wavered in 3ome attack, or hesitated to stand in an exposed position and be killed. A correspondent in West Flanders says the Belgian infantry gallantly attempted to drive out the Germans from Lombaertzyde. They swpet the enemy from three bridges, and finally rushed with their bayonets to the mouths of the Germans' guns, facing odds of ten to one. At the critical moment a German bugle sounded the Belgian n:uster-call. The ruse succeeded, and the Belgians, who began to retreat, suffered severely. The same night the French artillery found the range of the enemy's batteries and silenced them. The French occupied the town without losing a single man.

SYDNEY-EMDEN FIGHT. The Time 3 of Ceylon published the following narrative of an eye-witness of the engagement: — "At seven o'clock on the morning of November 9tb, the Sydney received a wireless message stating that a German cruiser was off the Cocoa Islands. She went off so fast that she could not be seen for the furrow she cut in the water. At 9.40 a.m. she sighted the Emden, which opened fireat 10,000 yds, carrying away the Sydney's foremast and range-finder. The Sydney replied most effectively. It would have done your heart good to have heard the yells of joy of our chaps as our shots went home. Most of our lads were quite young, but they were not in the least afraid. They gloried in it. The first salvo damaged the Emden. We soon shot away successively the foremasts, a funnel, and a Becond funnel. At each success our lads Bhouted: "Hurrah 1 There's another! She's a goner!' The Emden wns badly damaged, and afire aft. She went ashore at 4.20 p.m. The Sydney chased and captured tho collier Buresk, but she sank owing to tho crew Binashing tho valves. Tho Sydney then returned to tho Emdon, sending bouts to pick up tho Germans in tho \vntt<r, hut as (ho German ling was m!ill Hying on tho Emdon, am! slio refused to answer a domand to surrender, tho Sydnoy wan compelled to tiro Five minutes Inter tlm German ensign was hauled down. "If it is true, as wo have been told by many Gorman prisoners, that they llred ll(U) shots at us, then their shooting must havo boon very poor throughout tho action. It is very clear that our shooting wns fnr superior. The trajectory of tho Emden's guns whb more pronounced than ours. She seemed to drop her shots on board when she was anywhere near us, while our shells went far straighter, and appeared to do a good deal more damage when they got home. The Emden's shells completely failed to penetrate our armour plate. One shell came very near doing a lot of mischief. It struck the edge of the armour-plate within a few inches of the ward-room portholes. All our wounded were in the ward-room with the surgeon and his staff. "According to the German wounded, the Emden lefc Teing-Tao on July 31st. Her engines - had been working for three months without a break. They deny that they flew the Japanese flag whsn they entered Penang. They were flying the German flag. The only thing they did was to put on a dummy fourth funnel.