INCIDENTS OF THE WAR

Timaru Herald, Volume CI, Issue 15454, 17 September 1914, Page 7

INCIDENTS OF THE WAR

FRESH HORSES. AVAILABLE TO FRENCH. "Times" and Sydnoy "Sun" Services. Press Association —By Tel.—Copyright. LONDON, Sept. 15. The waste of horses by war in France is appalling. French Dragoons are returning to Paris to re-horse, and take trains to the front. With the help of fresh horses they capture whole sections of Germans, whom they find helpless for want of sleep. l Even sentries fall asleep, and all able to do so creep into barns. BOMBS IN ANTWERP. Dr Seaman of New York, who ha-? returned from Antwerp, says that a Zeppelin dropped five Combs on August 25th above tho Royal Palace. They were undoubtedly intended to destroy tlio sleeping Royal family. One cut a man in halves and injured a second. Another bomb passed through a house where several people woro sleeping into the cellar, and the inmates were dug out of the debris, only scratched. A CAYALRY CLASH. Received 925 p.m., Si-pi. lGtli. OSTEND, Sept. 15. A thousand French cavalry .surprised three thousand German cavalry encamped at Rotisbnigge, and routed them aiii-r two hours' fighting. They took no I'risonei-s but captmed many machine guns, ammunition and supply w.ejgon-j. The French lost tl'irtv.