ORDNANCE LORRIES CUT OFF

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 91, 14 October 1914, Page 7

ORDNANCE LORRIES CUT OFF

SAVED BY A SOLDIER. (Received Octobeit 14, il ».m.) PARIS, l&h October, Five motor lomes of the British. Ordaanco Corps w£*« teceutly cub off, {Tk»

teen escaped after destroying the ammuJiition. One lorry was hid in a wood. She Germans, finding it contained no ammunition, departed, and » eoldier got the motor going and towed the other lour lorries into camp. GERMAN BUSINESS FIRMS „ BEGGING FOR ORDERS IN SWITZERLAND. ' (Received October 14, 9.20 a.m.) PARIS. 13th October. . German business firms are imploring clients in Switzerland to give them orders to enable their workmen's families to exist. N : ATTACKS ON ENGLAND BY BERLIN NEWSPAPERS. BELGIUM TRICKED AND BROUGHT TO A SHAMBLES. (Received October 14, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 13th October. ; Berlin newspapers make ferocious attacks on Great Britain in connection with the fall of Antwerp, which, they state, is a sacrifice to England's brutal, Self-seeking ambition and cowardice. England was too cowardly to set her own national power in the field, .and so tricked Belgium and brought Belgium to a shambles. Sir Edward Grey and Mr. Winston Churchill had entered into the filthy state of people devoid of humanity, who were,, murderers of the masses. Through them the entire British nation had been branded with an everlasting mark of shame and, and wore a crown of laurels for ferocity. THE CROWN PRINCE HIS HEADQUARTERS NEAR VERDUN. ELABORATE EXCAVATIONS. (Received October 14, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, 13th October. The Daily Mail correspondent states that at Villiers-aux-Vente, near Verdun, which was for some time the Crown Prince's headquarters, the church and all the houses were destroyed. The Crown Prince had elaborate excavations made at the back of hiii house, with a tunnel running to a thicket some distance away, in case of a sudden attack. The excavations were sft deep, and were covered with boards' and lined with . straw. ~ PRUSSIAN LOSSES • OVER TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND *" (Received October 14, 11 a.m.) , AMSTERDAM. 13th" October. According to the German casualty lists, the Prussian losses alone are 211,000. AUSTRIANS AND GERMANS IN MOROCCO «.,T0 BE COURT-MARTIALLED FOR ARMING THE NATIVES. (Received October 14, 10 a.m.) PARIS, 13th October. The Matin states that Germans and 'Austrians at Casablanca, including the , K Austrian Consul, are to be court-mar-tialted for planning the assassination of Europeans m Morocco and arming the natives. USED AT NEW GUINEA DUMDUMS, EXPLOSIVE AND SOFTNOSED BULLETS. . (Received October U, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The transport Berrima has returned from German New Guinea. A membeT of tbe Expeditionajry Force states that he has < a collection of bullets, taken /'from prisoners, including dumdums, ei--~plosive, and soft-noised. KEEN TO FIGHT OFFICERS OF AUSTRALIAN NAVY. (Received October 14, 10.30 a.m.) , SYDNEY, This Day. _ The officers of the Australian Navy are keen to fight the German cruisers now playing hide-and-seek in the Pacific, thotigh they realise that the task of locating them in 1 the wide expanse of . water, with its thousands of islets, is " enormous., ."OH, LISTEN TO THE i BAND!" 'PROTEST AGAINST GERMAN MUSICIANS IN SYDNEY. (Received October 14, 10,30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. t Strong protest* have beer, made by citizens and city councillors against a German band playing the Austrian National Anthem in Sydney streets. Drastic action is suggested, otherwise a riot is predicted. FOOD BOARD PRICES. : (Received October 14, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. The Food Board has iTsed the price of bran at £6 15s and pollard at £7. GIFT FROM AUSTRALIAN "CATTLE KING." (Received October 14, 10.30 a.m.) \ ADELAIDE, This Day. Mr. Sidney Kidman, " the Australian cattle king," has presented 125 bullocks and given a substantial monetary contribution towards sending a shipment of meat to the' Belgians. HOSPITAL FOR BELGIAN WOMEN NEW ZEALAND LADY DOCTOR IN CHARGE. (Received October 14, 11 a.m.) LONDON, 13th October. "- Misses Maunder and Tinker, of New York, have organised a hospital of sixty "beds at Ostend for Belgian refugee women and children cind the wounded, ' with Miss Ortiston, of New Zealand, as doctor. MAJOR G. S. RICHARDSON. (Received October 14, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 13th October. Major 0. S. Richardson, of the New Zealand Staff Corps, participated in the defence of Antwerp. He has returned to London.

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