GERMANS SHOT FOR COWARDICE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 179, 7 January 1915, Page 5

GERMANS SHOT FOR COWARDICE.

INCENDIARY BOMBS ROAST THE THROWERS. . GERMANS BURNED OUT OF THEIR TRENCHES. ( Paris, January 5. Germans sliot thirty of the Larfdsturm in the public square at Steinbach, because they were irresolute. After evacuating Steinbach the Germans were throwing incendiary bombs, and they had to abandon the first line of trenches, which were ablaze, owing to the wind driving the flames back.

SWAM TO THE ATTACIi. | ! I i .i 4 A GERMAN FORCE SURPRISED. ■■ Received 7, 1.20 ajn. i ' Paris, January 6. Forty Germans held a farm at an important point at St. Georges. r l\ey were almost surrounded by floods, and jfcho Allies were unable to shell thein for fear of hitting their own troops. Three Belgians and a Frenchman on Saturday night swam, waded, and crept to the farmhouse, and choked the three sentries. The rest of tile Germans were aslepe. The Belgian company rushed the farm. Two of the sleepers were bayonetted, and the rest surrendered.

A TRAITOR SHOT. ) FOR SIGNALLING TO THE ENEMY. Received 7, 1.25 a.m. ; London, January 6. Tlie mv;etery surrounding several bombardments of Fournes when exalted personages visited the town have "Been explaind in the arrest of a raihv" r.'iicial, whose signals were detected ; "onnecfc:on with the aeroplane raU. :i Dunkirk. The traitor was shot.

CARDINAL mlkcikk ARRESTKII. FOR JSXiySWfi GERMAN SACHI'.KGE Amsterdam, January 5. Cardinal Merrier has been arrested at Malines. The Germans in Belgium are angry at Cardinal Mercier's pronouncement that I hey si'arclni i'i* cicrgy\ 1 '.uses in or.Vr to confiscate the paitoiv.l.

Cardinal Mercior i 3 confined in the Arcliepiscopal Palace at Malines. and was prevented from celebrating Mass at Antwerp on Sunday.