INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15950, 22 June 1915, Page 8

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR.

ENEMY'S DUMMY TRENCHES

MANNED BY PUPPETS.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. (Received June 21, 6.15 pm.)

London, June 20.

When the Italians crossed the Isonzo to attack Tolmino, the Bersaglieri had just crossed? the river when an Austrian shell destroyed their bridge. The Bersagliere were confronted apparently by an impregnable first line of trenches and decided to assail the enemy and sell their lives dearly when an Alpine troop signalled from a mountain crest that the Austrian trenches were only imitation trenches lined with puppets dressed as Austrians and armed with wooden guns.

BRIBES FOR TREACHERY.

AUSTRIA'S TARIFF.

London, June 20.

A Rome report states that the Austrians have delivered manifestoes to Italian soldiers by means of balloons promising the men a crown for every rifle, 500 crowns for every machine-gun and 2000 crowns for every cannon or aeroplane which is surrendered.

JEALOUS OF THEIR KULTUR FOREIGNERS NOT TO SHARE. London, June 20. A Berlin professor advocates the exclusion of foreigners from German universities. The enemy's reprisals, he asserts, would be harmless because foreign countries do not possess anything good for Germans. The Rhodes scholarship is of no value except to enable German students to spend a large income. GERMAN'S PERJURY. SAW GUNS ON LUSITANIA. London, June 20. A German reservist named Stahl, who declared that he saw v guns on the Lusitania, has been indicted at New York for perjury.

UNKNOWN PATRIOTS. BODIES* TO BE BURNED. ' 'I , London, June 20. ' The French Chamber of Deputies has authorised the burning of the bodies of .unidentified* soldiers who have been i killed and the burying of identified bodies.

BATTLESHIP SUBMERGED. TURKISH REPORT. London, June 20. A report from Constantinople declares that a battleship of the Agamemnon type is half submerged in Kehalo Bay.