IN THE FIRING LINE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16744, 28 December 1914, Page 7

IN THE FIRING LINE.

SCOTS FUSILIER'S HEROISM. ! RESCUING WOUNDED UNDER FIRE. AN INCIDENT ON THE AISNE, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright, LONDON, December 25. Private Graham of the First Scots Fusiliers has received the Distinguished Conduct Modal. He carried a wounded comrade safely under heavy firo at Vailly, then, hearing that another wounded' man had been left behind, he brought him in also.

FRONTIER TOWN BATTERED. SCENES OX LORRAINE BORDER. PARIS, December 25. Since the. beginning of the war Pont-a-Monsson has been bombarded fortyfive times. It transpires that on September o, the Germans at Tezainville and Saint Genevieve lost 5000 killed and' 8000 wounded. Later they brought to Pont-a-Mous-son the corpses, soaked with petrol, and burnt them. When the Germans evacuated the town an enormous number of incendiary bombs were seized. THREE AND A HALF MILLIONS. THE GERMAN AND AUSTRIAN LOSSES. (Received December 27, 5.5 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, December 26. Estimates based on the latest casualty lists agree that tho Germans have lost about 2.000,000 killed, wounded and missing, including 54,000 officers. The Austrians have lost a million and a half. CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS A FAILURE. ' ROTTERDAM, December 26. It is reported that owing to the Allies' pressure the German Christmas festivities at Ghent wero a fiasco. All tho troops had to be hurried to the front. ZEPPELIN DROPS BOMBS. TWO PERSONS KILLED AT NANCY. (Received December 28, 12.5 a.m.) PARIS, December 27. A Zeppelin dropped fourteen bombs at Nancy which killed two persons and damaged many houses. A GERMAN TRICK. "Tiincs" and Sydnov "Sun" Services. LONDON, December 25. The Germans aro using captive- balloons freely for observation purposes, and also decoy aeroplanes. Airmen arc tempted to attack tlveso and so come within range of an anti-air craft battery waiting below. A SODDEN BATTLEFIELD. LONDON, December 25. A wounded engineer writes: —"The battlefields are absolutely sodden. Where tho country is as flat as a pancake and drainage is impossible, the problem has been reived by standing ou tubs and barrels." ENTERTAINMENT OF WOUNDED INDIANS. LONDON, December 26. It has been arranged that wounded Indians shall see London before returning to tho front. Tho first party of convalescents was taken in a char-a-banc to St Paul's, Whitehall, Parliament Houses, , Buckingham Palace, Hydo Park and the Tower of London. THE BOMBARDMENT OF ARMFXTTERES. LONDON, December 20. During the recent heavy fighting at Armentieres, shells foil in every "quarter of tho town, and irretrievably damaged tho famous organ in the church. Incendiary shells fired a factory where several hundred British soldiers wero sleeping, and several wero burned to death.