WAR NOTES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 92, 18 December 1914, Page 7

WAR NOTES.

AN INTERRUPTED DINNER.

Donald Thompson, the Kansas City photographer who carried a camera through Belgium for the New York World, walked into the World's London office looking as though he had just escaped from the surgical ward of an ambulance hospital, or, as he put it hintself, as if he had just come through a Kansas cyclone.

His face was hidden in bandages, and his lips were so swollen and torn that it was with difficulty that he could tell the story of bis adventures in getting photographs betwen Antwerp and Ostend, and, nevertheless, escaping safe to Euglrnd, Thompson is the only war correspondent or photographer of any nation"lily, so Car '-a ye; known that Lias been woundo •' He suffere.'i no inj. iv during all the weeks before and after the bombardment of Antwerp until he reached Nieuport. There, as he was dining with three German officers, a big shell from one of the British warships bombarding the German position droped through the roof into the restaurant where they sat.

The three German officers were killed outright, as the shell exploded inside the dining-room, but Thompson managed to escape with minor, though painful, injuries, and he at once made up his mind to get right back to headquarters.—(New York World).