SUN SPECIALS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2489, 7 November 1914, Page 2

SUN SPECIALS.

NOTES ON THE WAR, (Received November 7, 8 a.m.) London, November <i. iNine thousand German and Austrian seamen on British ships have been removed to the camps in Britain, which are mostly under Ihe control ot sailors.

Ihe Firemen's Union made a suggestion that the navigation I BWP be amended to require that a- certain 'proportion of British seamen be employed on British ships. . The State Coach will not be used in the opening of Parliament because hJ servants <.f Hie royal household are serving at the front. The lighting \ras so close to the Belgian lines that the combatants threw stones at each other across the dyke. Tho German entrenchmenis in Kant 1 russia aro e-Ntraordinarv. The officers had deep dug-outs, with corridors leading to the men's trenches. Their quarters are like the halls of a manwon built underground, with rich carpets, bedsteads, and furniture taken Irom country homes during their retreat. They arc also equipped with telephones.

A message from Amsterdam asserts that there is every indication that the Germans are retreating along the whole front from Bruges to Thielt'.Their losses have been unormous. There are 50,000 wounded in Rollers alone. The Germans freely in Formed Dutch correspondents (hat the Eng lisli were formidable enemies. Berlin reports that Greece is energetically preparing for war. Heavy Krupp gun* have been sent