UNPARALLELED HAUL OF PRISONERS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6300, 29 September 1915, Page 5

UNPARALLELED HAUL OF PRISONERS.

■ Stains -rf f * I>uris 'S °P«-7 regUrdiUg thG j^^tima^ed that there are Tl,I Russia. Gcrmaa prisoners

now exceed 2.5,000. Eleven trains of prisoners passed ih) tfourget station, Paris, to go into interment camps. Tile haul of prisoners is unparallelleci siucj the bittle of the Marne. # A noteworthy feature in the operations is the aeroplane attacks forty uiiles to the rear of the German frout, interfering with the movement of reserves and the supply of ammunition, owing to the bombing of troop trains. The dlect of these attacks can be estimated from the results at

Saarbrucb, where aeroplanes destroyed, the greater part of the strategic railways. Aeroplanes also damaged *:lie railway junction at Treves, through which hundreds of thousands uf troops passed f/oui Luxembourg towards France. Tho people of Troves were seized with mad panic. The bishop being consecrated in the cathedral, and the clergy aud congregation took refuge in the crypt until the hurricane of lire ended.