General News

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 59, 26 October 1914, Page 6

General News

Ottawa, October 25. , (Received 1.25 p.m.) North American Indians marched to Saskatoon fully armed and in war paint and wanted to go to the front. When assured that it was impossible they gave a thousand dollars to the War Fund. They went to the nearest German settlement and intended to wipo* it out, and the Mounted Police had to intercept them. (Received 2.5 p.m.) London, October 25.

In view of the German reports of the rapid construction of airship-sheds in Belgium and the Kaiser ordering twenty-five ships to be ready by the middle of November, English experts discredit them as alarmist stories, and argue that aeroplanes have proved more useful than Zeppelin. Paris, October 24.

A detachment of British were playing water polo at Vise, when some Uhlans appeared. The British charged naked, and repulsed the Germans. A sporting newspaper states Wilding has been promoted to lieutenant for gallantry. French cavalry and infantry advancing near Lille were almost bogged in marshy ground under tire of German artillery. A French 75-centimetre battery was sent to cover the advance, but they also became bogged. The Scots - Greys charged, and sabred the gunners ,and silenced the German guns in ten minutes. During their return other guns shelled the Greys, but meanwhile the French guns had been extricated and covered the Scots Greys’ retreat. The latter’s casualties were unimportant. A farmer residing in a district recently in German occupation tells how a German officer, whom he recognised as having been formerly employed in the district, took charge of an orchard, wherefrom fifty cases of rifles and ammunition were dug up, and also a ease of shells and parts of field guns. The orchard was owned by a German, who disappeared on the eve of the war. Senator Reymond, a member of the Aviation Corps, was reconnoitring the enemy’s lines, and was struck.by a bullet. The machine ' fell half-way between the opposing linos, and there was a fierce fight for possession of it. The French were successful, arid Reymond supplied valuable information before he died. London, October 24.

Mr Stephen Graham, Avar correspondent, describing the ejection of Germans from Poland, says the Russians showed themselves possessed of superior courage, nerve, and military resource. They had to fight against a better equipped and a hundred times better educated army, and better science, but they won by virtue of personal religion in the soldier and the moral justness of the cause.