INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.
RAILWAY BRIDGE BLOWN UP
UNDER FALSE COLOURS.
London, September 21. German troops have blown up the railway bridge near Etaples.
Some Germans who were caught at the end of last week wearing the uniforms of French officers, and who endeavoured to blow up a bridge, have been court-martialled and shot.
GERMAN BARBARITIES.
MAIMING OF ANIMALS.
London, September 21
A Frenchman who was formerly at Oxford writes to. an English friend to the effect that when the Germans abandon villages they destroy everything, kill all the cattle, and cut off the feet of other animals.
DUM-DUM BULLETS.
EXTRACTED FROM WOUNDED.
(Received September 22, 9.55 p.m.) Paris, September 21. Thirty dum-dum bullets have been extracted from wounded troops.
ALL MAITfiS EXPELLED.
GERMAN ORDERS. .
(Received September 22, 9.55 p.m.)
Antwerp, September 21. m , -, , ,i , e ~ The Germans have expelled from _, , , _, . , ~ Wolverthem, a Belgian town north of Brussels, all males above 10 years
of age. A detachment of German cyclists burned two Belgian villages.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15721, 23 September 1914, Page 8
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