War Notes.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 18, 8 September 1914, Page 7

War Notes.

WORLD’S LARGEST CANNON.

Wliat is claimed to be the largest camion in the world was in July last undergoing its firing trials on the Krupp range at Meppeu, Germany. The barrel of the gun, from the breech block to the muzzle, measures sixty feet. The gun can throw a shell over fifteen miles. The total cost of the new weapon is said to work out at about £20,000. THE GERMAN METHOD. German newspapers are reported to be telling their readers that Canada and Australia are really mobilising iu order to throw off the British yoke while Britain is embroiled on the Continent. If (states the Dominion) the other war news being provided for the information of Germans at home and abroad is no more reliable than tins they must be living in a fool’s paradise. A very unpleasant awakening is in store for them. The German explanation of the military ardour of the British overseas Dominions is probably no more ludicrous than the announcements of the German Ambassador at Washington of stupendous victories resulting in the wholesale annihilation of Germany’s foes, and the capture of Generals by dozens. And this very Ambassador accuses London and Paris of being “lie factories”! The accounts of the war appearing in the British newspapers would make interesting reading at the present time. THE ROSS-SHIRE BUFFS. When called upon by the Germans to surrender the men of the lloss-shiro Buffs laughed and said, “Come and fetch us.” The Boss-shire Buffs, ever a gallant crowd, are the old 72nd and 78th Regiments, their present title being the Ist and 2nd Seaforth Highlanders, Ross-shire Buffs, (The Duke of Albany’s). “Help the King” is their motto, and they bear the nicknames of “The Macraes” and the “King’s Men.” Their war record includes Gibraltar (1778), Jersey, tire Carnatic, at Cuddalore, in Mysore, at Bangalore, Seringapajtam (1792), the Cape of Good Hope (1796 and 1806), Assaye, Monte Video, Maida, in Java, in South Africa (1835), in Hindoostan, at Sevastopol, in Persia, at Koosh-ab, Lucknow, in Central India, at the Peiwar Kotal, Charasiah, Kabul (1879), Kandahar (1880), iu Afghanistan (18781880), Egypt (1882), Tel-el-Kehir, Chitral, Atbara, Khartoum, and South Africa (1899-1902).