BELGIAN LANCER'S DARING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15686, 13 August 1914, Page 9

BELGIAN LANCER'S DARING.

I SINGLE-HANDED COMBATS. SEVERAL PRISONERS TAKEN. . k AEROPLANE CAPTURED. / • (Sweived August 18, 1.10 s.m.) ;'.- Brussels, August 12. A Belgian lancer named Bogaerts is becoming famous. He sallies j < forth alone with his lance in posse, ; ; generally killing or wounding one Uhlan, whereupon the rest surren- • ' . der. .. I■■ . Bogaerts has already secured fouri : teen prisoners, killed three Uhlans, and wounded several others without |£ receiving the slightest injury him|v self. ;-■•■ , . .A German aeroplane was brought '/..'down by rifle fire, and two military /-aviators were captured. Belgians, who concealed them|A, selves in thickets in a field captured j I- ft considerable number of the in- | • vaders. 'p ' Fugitives, state the Germans fired many villages, after giving the in- ! habitants half an hour to clear out. •".AUSTRALASIAN TRADE. SERVICES TO BE CURTAILED. (Received August 13, 1.10 a.m.) ■_'.'•"• Sydxey, August 12. |:v Important changes in the inter- [/: colonial services will probably be ani flounced to-morrow. The Union j Company, it is understood, intend J temporarily to suspend the Mel- !■?: • hourne-Hobart-New Zealand service, bD fl to run a weekly Melbourne- • ' 6ydney-New Zealand service. WAR FUND IN SYDNEY. STOCK EXCHANGE DONATION. ..'/,. deceived August 13, 1.10 a.m.) • -• Sydney, August 12. ': A donation of £2000 has been i toadeby the Sydney Stock Exchange to the Lord Mayor's patriotic fund. Contributors of aid towards the Expeditionary force include the . . ensdorp Company, which has given *8,000 packages of cocoa. ;'"• The President of the. Evangelical Lutheran Synod in Perth, West Australia, has written to the • Governor-General assuring him of *he loyalty of the Lutheran congregations .in all Stat to Great Bri- , ta in, and stating that they arc pre- ;: PWed to defend King and country ./Wh their good? and their lives. ACTION IX AUSTRALIA. PROPOSED STAVE SERVICE. Sydney, August 12. ;•- -The Premiers of the various . "totes at a conference considered '"• tlw question of tlv circulation of authentic war news, and securing Jheir own budget for distribution. ~. otcps .will be taken to secure as J™ tt information as possible from ». 7° High Commissioner, with a ! ' * l «* of making it available to the iBSS throi, S h t!l e usual channels. LJjgc through the usual channels.