FRENCH HORATIUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 259, 30 October 1914, Page 5

FRENCH HORATIUS.

SOW HE KEPT '.I'M X BTt-TTHflp. 'X PILE or DEAD. ■ (Received 11.5 a.m.Jj"."!""" PARIS, October 23. A dragoon- marksman stationed Ibehtnd a. fence near a. swing-bridge at SaiHy, near Lille, with two comrades loading for him, was ordered to repel the enemy •without blowing up the bridge. Two German lancers appeared and -were shot down. Then three others met the same fate, and later five Uhlans were ehot down. Altogether thirty Germans were killed in fire minotea. The pa c o£ dead effectively prevented tie advance of the Germails during the whole day. INTERRUPTED SHAVE A STARTLED CAPTAIN. CAPTURE OF THE KOMET. (Received 11.5 a.m.); StDNEY, this day. The story brought by the men who arrived by the captured gunboat Komet. which was found warped to the bank of a river on the north coast <i£ New Guinea, and hidden beneath tree tops and branches, shows that the vessel was located by the aid of information, given to the British by natives. The. capturing party sprang anyone excepting the captain was awake. The captain had just left his bunk, and was beginning to shave. Suddenly Ms cabin door was opened, and when he turned he found himself looking down the barrel of a revolver. Ji' AMERICANS ANXIOUS TO GO TO THE FRONT. REGIMENTS FROM TEXAS. (Times and Sydney Sun. SerrieesjV (Received 8 a.m.) —.' LOXDON, October 29. Offers from Americans wishing.to -join the Canadian Contingent have been received in hundreds. It is stated that a man from Texas mnte to bring 5,000 Texans, all of British descent. At/the border recruiting stations half the recruits are Americans So maiiv men have been secured that it' yrill probably now be a question of selection.:;;...; _."_ USING "ENEMY'S SHfPSFT TO CARRY FROZEN PRODUCE, TO ENGLAND. ■ .- ■ . - -- -— I _ _ , ...... .., .j (Received 11.25 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The Federal Government intends touse the captured tiennan steamers now in Australian ports for transporting frozen produec. to England. ' - THE RIJSSIAN-.ADVANCE. DESPERATE GERMAN ATTACKS REPULSED. 1 PETROGRATJ, October 28.; -It is officially reported that' fighting has recommenced in East Prussia; jriere the Russians repulsed* desperate German attacks on Nakalarzewo. ■■ ■ Fighting on the Vistula, extends ...from Kutno to the Ilzank'a River, particularly at its source in Jerzow Rawa,- where part of the enemy's positions were carried. The Russians forced the Germans to retreat at Altandrano, on the Vistula, south of Ivangorod, taking prisoners SO officers and 3jooo men, and rapturing machine guns and eight cannon. Telegrams from "Warsaw stating that heavy columns of Russian cavalry occupied Lmedtcon Tuesday., cause excitement in Potrograd, -aErtMs" threatens the whole line of the."German conitnunicatibns. .; __'' - "~ ••' /;.' i • ■■■■; j A 'German, girl spy was. court-inir-tialled and-ehofe _near Petrograd^ ". Her clothes were lined" with radmirably executed plans of Kronstadt .and the ilothe defensive works. DUTY BEFORE SCIENCE. CRUISE ABANDONED. ■ • ■■';■ /*: ." ■ " -■;" :ii>,;,.•■. : . ,^ 4 ljip .aim.): ?n~ ; : SYI>KEV, this day. ' The captain, ofttceis, and crew of the French exploring-ketch La Gurieuseiave decided 'to abaaidoa the Voyage. They will leave the vessel at . .Sydney, and return to France to re-enter the naval service. They consider that "the call oE duty is stronger than the call of science. It is their inteatkra. to resume the voyage after the war.. ... ;.V: - ■La Cui : ieuse Ta a small ketch. in which Captain Dii Baty and a handful of. men act out on a -three-years' voyage for-the purposes of ecienlifle investigation. ' The vessel arrived at Sydney on the 17th of October, and it was intended, after going round the Australian coasts,- tv come onto-New Zealand, ARCHDUKE'S MURDERER^ DEATH SENTENCE PASSED ON FIVE PRISONERS. / !X)Kl>b2f, Oeiober_ ;29.";-- ;- ---3E message from Serajevo etates' thit five of the prisoners tried for the mtujder" of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in July have been sentenced- to death. The* five include Princip, who fired the fatal shots, and Cabrinovitch, who throw the first bomb. Nine others (received sentences of imprisonment varying from three years to twenty years. . "DANISH- NEUTRALITY, MAKING IT SUBiE. . (Receiyed 11.5 a.m>). x . , . COPENHaQEN, October Jβ* lie Danish FaTJiaaieni; hae adopted-a. "bill penalising ajiyoue a ciaration regarding She deetinatijai-.,ief any ship or gerods.