MUTINY AMONG GERMAN MARINES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 151, 2 December 1914, Page 5

MUTINY AMONG GERMAN MARINES.

Received "2, 12.5 a.m. Amsterdam, December 1. Seven hundred German marines from Bruges, including several officers, refused to proceed to Yprcs, declaring that their duty "was only to light at sea. The mutineers were sent to Ghent. TRIBUTES TO FRENCHMEN. SOME DEEDS OF DERRINGDO. - COOKS AND CUIRASSIERS SAVE YPRES. Received 2, 1'2,'20 a.m. London, December 1. Correspondents pay glorious tributes to General Grosette and llis slender forces defending Nieuport under a rain of shell, and /Admiral Ronarch, with 7000 Bretons, at Dixmudc; also General Moussey's supreme effort at Ypres in collection, haphazard, 250 cooks ami a dismounted Cuirassier escort, wherewith he charged a German regiment in possession of a suburb. The regiment broke and fled, and Ypres was saved. A PILL FOR THE RUSSIANS. GUARDS GIVE WAY TO IMPROVISED FORCE. COOKS IN THE FIRING LINE. Received, 12.50 a.m. London, December 1. The Press Bureau furnishes the. report of an eye-witness, who states that the Prussian Guards, duiSng the attack cabled on the 14th November, broke the British line, where the only reserves consisted of two companies of engineers. Tlie Guards advanced to within 70 yards of two guns, the officers whereof had improvised a firing line out of gunners and cooks. The line withstood the Guards until reinforcements arrived, and the Guards were repulsed. "UNTOLD HORRORS." MORE TALES OF ATROCITIES. COPIED FROM GERMAN LETTERS. Paris, November 30. The Government is olliciallv issuing letters found on German office™ and men, giving their stories of untold horrors committed on women and children, and shootings and plunderings during Aguust and September—a terrible record of atrocities. The documents are open to public inspection.