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Waikato Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 5728, 3 October 1914, Page 3

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London, September 24

The London "Daily Telegraph" says that every dark night for the last six weeks a Zeppelin has left its hangar at Frederickshaven. on the shores of Lake Constance, and rising to a height of a thousand feet with great rapidity and precision, has dropped into the lake about fifty basket-shaped missiles containing torpedoes. These explode, throwing a great column of water high in the air. This is what Germany boasts is to be her next surprise, and from it she hopes for great results. An officer of the 12th Lancers, speaking of the fighting at the battle of the Aisne, says:—"When we came to ciose quarters the Germans screamed for mercy and held up their hands. When we had ridden through they picked up their rifles and resumed firing. Subsequently every German was unhesitatingly killed." The "Novoe Vermya," a Petrograd newspaper, prints a story, which has been corroborated by Russian Hussars and Lancers, to the effect that a German ambulance nurse went up to a wounded Russian and drew a knife for the purpose of cutting the Russian's throat. The wounded soldier, mustering his remaining strength, wrenched the knife from the woman, and dragged her to the Russian lines, Two Englishwomen who have arrived safely at Queensborough, unanimously testify to the kindness they received at the hands of the Germans.