THE WAR

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2465, 6 October 1914, Page 4

THE WAR

SUN SPECIALS. [ Britishers, daacribin^; the -ssing of the Aisne say f^; mell m hail of .bullets f^ d 4 file over one place .or awledL in aing» of the Pmssian rifle P 11 *; aDL3 ayna- |- Another says: We k - B"a no"t aS ovV at li. t).o fered during toeir retieat owing the rain and the ™ a< J mmunitioll and Heavy guns and anunun to^r glxtK side, tfavall- kept to tne -"jf 11 ™....™. running etlia- on the £ rass r a of , alongside the. road. *T a 8 pea j the Way is now as th*k as , soup, but tlie middle is &«±l trUe> SIR JOHN FRENCH. | A Frenchman at the front writes: . "The British fight wjwbly. The, 6nell- i * nil day with a Another fought all ua> Paris iB displays »™. *»£*£ knoranc,, cS BritisW' Patent care of fora part of the dimplm* the i. , m PROTAGONIST Professor Munsterberg, of Haivaia, SagoSSof the German cause in | A TISmAUANS IN BERLIN. London, September 20. A Miss Pripp, of Banistown, Sydney, and Miss Brownley, a fichow teacher from Newcastle, N.S.W-, have returned from Berhn. , Miss Frh*> was studying at the -^y^ 1 ftitute ii Berlin. Mr Tilley- is * 6ydand a Martin. Donohoe (formerly a bydney •ISnSis?, and now the Chronicle's most famous war corres . P, fi a 2«tralia n . in Berlin were led !to believe that England forced &cito violate Belgian territory, and E Y France, instead of replying to Germany's ■ultimatum ™*f"K, & sace When war broke out, all tlie British, French, and Russian the institute were «#ected at the ie 'seXSy all the girls' rooms were SS and their correspondence S They were all d*mi^ from their employment, as was lrotessor Delmer, of Melbourne. Banking facilities andi ere*t at the K boiis were cut off, and the Austia liarS wire left dependent on the British Embassy. From tins *ney f each received 2s a day. The men oi the institute, including Mr 4 llle Jj were detained, and Mr Tilley himself was the butt of public derision and anger because once he <Jeclared that he was an Australian and a British*, and that all his children were Australians. „„__ T ,.,, Tl TRENCHES CHOKED WITH DEAD Prior to the capture of Jaroslav the Russian troops were compelled to emss an open plain under the fire of the Austrian guns. After five dajs shellinz they succeeded m taking tne •S trenches, whichjhey found choked with the dead bodies of tbe enemy. Many of the corpses were decaying, and the soldiers had apparently been living on wild pears and raw potatoes. • THE EXPOSED LEFT ARM. London, September 28. A military officer explains the fact of an extraordinary number ot tne Allies at the battle of the Marne being wounded in the left arm by pointing out that that arm was exposed in supporting the rifle while the feet were spread out flat behind the soldiers as they lay on the ground. r WANDERING TOMMIES. 1 \ Times correspondent travelling in the Nancy district, describes how two Red Cross Tommies, one of whom was an Australian, wandered cheerfulh into the refreshment room of a railway station in that neighbourhood. He could not_ understand how they had become so far detached from British troops. The men replied that they iad lost their detachment and instead of going back to the base hospital at Paris, they determined to push -forward to the front though they had the vaguest idea where the front was. They were arrested, tout upon the correspondent giving tne French an assurance that they were British they were allowed to return. The correspondent proceeded to Nancy in a truck containing the dieinfuoted uniforms of dead soldiers. j MAXIM GORKY FIGHTING. I Maxim Gorky, the famous Russian revolutionary and .writer, has taken part in several fights in Galicia. 1 HORSELESS CAVALRY. ■ Glanders has decimated the Gorman horses in France, and dismounted cavalrymen are searching for : horses in Belgium. • The Germans are also embarrassed ' because the Russians have captured the oilfields of Galicia. Motor traction is essential for the mobility of I the Germans owing to the wastage of .'■ the horses. SICK OF IT—AND HUNGRY. An officer who has returned from the firing line of the Aisne battle save- "1 never met a German talking English or French but who said that he was heartily sick of the whole show, and who.did not immediately • ask for food." WHEAT POURING. "- The removal of the Russian prohibition on the export of gram means that enormous supplies are now m eight. . - Not only are there vast stocks m England, which have been augmented -by cargoes diverted from Germany,