INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.
BELGIUM'S GALLANT KING.
REMAINS AT THE FRONT.
Amsterdam, October 25.
The Belgian General Staff urged King Albert to leave the front. He replied: "'My skin is of no more value to my country than yours, my place is in the fighting line.'' Here ho remains, in the uniform of a general, constantly encouraging his gallant little force at all points along the front.
During the fighting in the vicinity of Nieuport the King, moving down the- Belgian lines, comforted tho wounded and cheered the downhearted. When a shell fell close to the monarch in tho trenches, the soldiers, realising His Majesty's peril, fought with new valour.
ARROWS FROM AEROPLANES
EXECUTE HAVOC ON ENEMY.
Paris, October 25.
During the fight at Dunkirk between French aeroplanes and German cavalry, on October M, the aeroplanes carried boxes of steel arrows which they dropped from a height of 2000 metres (a little over 2000 yds), working havoc upon the men and horses.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15750, 27 October 1914, Page 8
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