CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 6

CAMPAIGN INCIDENTS

GERMAN TACTICS IN/THE ' • CAMEROONS ("nmea" and Sydney "Bun." Services.) London, October 27. \ A .lieutenant .serving in the Came-.' ;. roons says:—"The Germans are arming •• tho Bushmen, 'making them shoot at any of our stragglers. They are doing somo of tho dirtiest tricks •: everheard of. • . "Floating ill the.river I saw all sorts of bodies, , those of our men, mixed with ; Germans. They aro going to get it hot now." - ' ——— \J RUSSIANS CAPTURE AN AERIAL {■' : ■ DREADNOUGHT. , i ■ London, October 27. i The Russians captured in Transyli ■ Vania a remarkable new aeroplane, a : , two-seated: "Dreadnought,", with an automatic engine and ample _ accommodation for guns and ammunition. They pro using it with telling' effect against flio enemy near Warsaw. , RUSSIANISING THE GALICIAN 1 " • RAILWAYS. L , London, October 27. :< ~.;A. Russian official war correspondent f ' reports from headquarters that the Russian broad-gauge Tail way ha s _ been car- . ' ried some distance into _ Galicia, and further., that communication, with the 'Austrian, gauge .has been effected. DEADLY DECOY "DUCKS." By Tclegrioli—Assootatlon—OopyTiffbt London, October 27. A iiaval officer writes that,tho latest German dodge is to place dummy periscopes on mines, hoping that. British ■' warships .will.ran them,-but.the dodge ' was discovered. POISONED BY FATIGUE. '■ ■ (Rec. October 28,' p.m.) Paris,- October 27. ;i Eminent physicians . declare that thoj (French soldiers' fatigue is 6 per cent, greater than the Germans. • The im- < meiise efforts demanded of the Germans poison their blood by fatigue, and when . they die. their' bodies immediately de- : compose.—("Times" iand Sydney "Sun" Services.) SKULKING BEHIND ."WOMEN AND CHILDREN. : ' London, October 27. ■"The Times" Shabatz correspondent : reports that when advancing on Shabatz i - (on-the Servian border, 50 miles west - of Belgrade), Austro-Hungarian troops forced two thousand Servian women and i" children to march before them as a • - screen. THE RAMMED SUBMARINE. (Rec. October 29, 0.40 a.m.) " Amsterdam, October 27. It is reported that the submarine i ttrhich the Badger rammed has returned to German waters.