GERMANS' TRICKERY

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue LXXXVIII, 10 September 1914, Page 7

GERMANS' TRICKERY

SOUNDING BRITISH BUGLE CALLS. (TIMES ANO SYDNfcY SUN SERVICES.) LONDON, Bth September. ! A wounded private in the Royal Irish ! Regiment says that a fair number of our men were captured owing to the trick o\ the Germans of continually sounding our bugle-calls. "In one of the worst lights," he says, "'the Germans sounded the retreat for our advanced battalions, and then attacked them in a murderous fashion as they deployed across tho open. The enemy threw the whole line into confusion. We soon lecovered, and drove off the Germans with the bayonet. Bugle-calla were then abolished. But tho Germans tumbled, to the game, They 'egmmenced. picking off d«pat£h riders

carrying orders, and, in consequence, some of our troops did not know whether to advance or retreat. They got cut off here and there." GERMAN ABUSE OF WHITE FLAG. LONDON, Bth September. Wounded Russians report that the Germans are in the habit of' raising the white flag the moment a final Russian charge is made, thus disconcerting the attackers, upon whom they pour a volley when at short range. GERMAN AIRSHIPS SELDOM SEEN. LONDON, Bth September. A soldier's letter states that the troops now seldom see German airships. The latter found the French airships more than their match, and prefer to trust to the army spies.' "We never turn a hair when we see this scum shot" -comments the letter." "LIKE A CROWD AT A CUP TIE." LONDON, Bth Sept. (Evening). One of the Coldstream Guards de-, scribes the German soldiers as being like a crowd at a' Cup tie. "I was well entrenched," he says. "My rifle became overheated, and I could hardly hold it. Our bullets ploughed through the Germans, but they still rolled up. Then we got to bayonet work, and drove them for nearly five hundred yards, cutting up every man who did not run away. BRITISH TROO.PS BETTER FED. • LONDON. oth September. In a letter from the front, Corporal Bailey writes :— "We are better fed than the Germans, who have more ammunition than is good for them. They fire ten rounds for our one, but very few of them could score a •bullS'eye in a hundred shots. It is a fine sight to see us on the march, singing all the old tunes. As we pass the villages, the people cheer us and give us fruit, flowers,, and smokes. Some of the cigarettes are rotten, but we save them for the German prisoners, who smoke anything." THE NEWS MAKERS GERMAN PRESS AGENT. HIS "COPY" REFUSED IN GREECE. , (HUES AND SYDNbT BUN SERVICES.) (Received September 10, 8 a.m.) LONDON. Bth September. Baron yon Schenk has established him* self in an imposing suite oE rooms in a leading hotel in Athens, He seems to 'be in possession of a bottomless purse, He daily distributes Germanised rieWß, manufactured by Woolf's Bureau ; but the Greek press will not publish it. TURKS WANT RELIABLE NEWS. (Received September 10, 10.30 a.m.) BUCHAREST, 9th Sept. The people of Constantinople are discovering the falseness of the German news agencies' war news, and are besieging the Embassies of the_ Triple Entente to ascertain the latest intelligence. SIR EDWARD GREY'S SPEECH CAUSES SENSATION. (TIUIS AND SY'DNET SUN SERYICM.) COPENHAGEN, Bth Sept. Danish papers have published long ex» tracts from Sir Edward Grey's speech. These" have created a sensation owing to their contradictions of the news made in Germany. 1 A leading paper describes Germany's alarm at the success of the British recruiting. ? One journal announces tho promotion of a large fresh German internal war loan. • f