General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 48, 13 October 1914, Page 3

General News

ANOTHER COSSACK HERO. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Petrograd, October 12. There is a report of a Cossack who, when carrying despatches, was surprised by a Hungarian Hussar patrol. His horse was shot, but the Cossack shot two of the enemy, mounted a horse, and escaped unhurt. A BRILLIANT IDEA. London, October 12. The Russian-Polish peasants have conceived the idea oi capturing the Kaiser, putting him in a cage, and exhibiting him, the charge made for admission being used to augment the war fuiids. PORTUGAL MAY TAKE A HAND. London, October 12. The semi-official German news bureau announces that' Berlin momentarily expects a declaration of war by Portugal against Germany. (The embroilment of Portugal would close many neutral ports, notably the •Madeiras, and in Portuguese East and West Africa, against the enemy.) SYSTEMATIC LOOTING, London, October 12. The Germans, when retreating from Suwalki, looted systematically. One thousand two hundred peasants’ carts were commandeered for "the transport of their booty. ■ KAISER'S CABLE TO AMERICA. London, October 12. The Berliner. Tageblatt explains that the Kaiser’s cable to the United States’ President was not intended to elicit his judgment, but only to enlighten public opinion in the United States. CAMPAIGN IN TRANSYLVANIA. United Press Association. Bucharest, October 12. The Russian advance in Transylvania has aroused intense discussion in Roumania.* DUTCH SYMPATHY ALIENATED FROM GERMANY. • % Rotterdam, October 12. The bombardment of Antwerp has alienated Dutch sympathy from Germany. THE IRONY OF WAR. London, October 12. By the irony of war,. Prince Rup, precht, of Bavaria, brother-in-law oi .the Queen of the Belgians, commanded the besiegers at Antwerp. THE IRON CROSS. London, October 12. It is stated that the Kaiser pro mised the Iron Cross and £IOOO tc the first soldier to enter Antwerp. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. London, October 12. Britain and Austria have agreed to exchange women, children, and men outside military age, and unfit foi service. THE LONDON AIRSHIP SCARE. London,- 1 October 12. Insurances' effected on Thursday against aircraft damage' in Londbn totalled £1,000;000. RARE EXPERIENCES. London, October 12. A lieutenant in the Guards writes: “The Germans have a dodge of keeping ns awake. They drive cattle to graze in the danger zone, so as to alarm us. The sentries the other day managed to entice three bullocks | into our lines, making a red-letter day I with fresh-roast beef. My .shirt was I washed to-day for the first time since | I left England.” I A nurse, in describing her experii cnees, says she is being whisked to various parts of the front 1 . Tlie-e is no time to change her clothes She carries a bhmkot, mackintosh. , comb, and sponge, and has aociuired i fcli© habit of sleeping in the mackintosh instead of a nightdress.