FALL OF ANTWERP NOT A SURPRISE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 14 October 1914, Page 5

FALL OF ANTWERP NOT A SURPRISE.

WANTON SLAUGHTER BY UHLANS

ROUTED BY A KICK

"THE STRATEGY OF DESPAIR."

RUaSIA'S FOOD RESOURCES

(Received Oct. 14, 9.30 a.m.)

LONDON, Oct. 13

The fall of Antwerp did not surprise General Joffre's staff, who had not expected the city to withstand the heavy guns for more-than a week.

A story is told that fifty, Uhlans with bicycles boarded a train at a wayside station. Borra, the driver, at the bayonet's point, was compelled to take the train to its destination. The Uhlans were courteous to the passengers till they reached Hazelroucy, when they leaped to the platform and bayoneted the officials at sight. They rushed to the buffet, and the driver immediately started the train and left the Uhlans, who wantonly slaughtered the. inhabitants. They thrust a bayonet through a baby girl sleeping in its mother's arms and inflicted a gaping wound in the mother's thigh. The French pursued the Uhlans from the town, killed the majority, and captured fifteen. ;

The Press Bureau states that a British subaltern was cut off from his men and hid in a wood. In a short time he saw an unsuspecting armed German soldier patrolling the road, whom he could have shot without warning, but that he felt it would be acting.like a murderer to kill him in cold blood. In order to instil a little spirit into the combat the officer crept behind the German and gave him a ferocious kick. Instead of showing fight the startled.and pained enemy emited a yell and ran for dear life, leaving the subaltern laughing too hard to shoot.

PETROGRAD, Oct. 13

A correspondent describes the present German operations a« the strategy of despair, which is without parallel in the history of warfare.

As indicating-the boundless food resources of Russia, the peasants of :Samatra are delivering daily 2500 tons of wheat. Owing to the abundant harvest, wheat is cheaper than rye.