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WAR ITEMS.
A Terror to Airmen,!- A new British gun used for the first time last month has provided a fresh terror for German airmen, who have up to the presentavoided, every opportunity of single com bat with our men unless escape without raply were plainly in possible. A Tsuba flew towards the headquarters of the British General Staff scattering bombs with promiscuous but unavailing generosity on the way. Its career, however, was abruptly stopped by a shot or two from the new gun, which found its target with little difficulty. The machine, which was flying high, was not, un fortunately, brought at price to earth; it was only just within effective range; but it was 20
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Council of War at Bordeaux on November 3, on a German soldier, taken prisoner of war, who wAD convicted of pillaging.
The name of the accused was Hen i Falk, of the 4th Dragoons. He was a native of the Grand in the neighbourhood of Lillo he Dachy of Hesse. When captured was in possession of a woman's gold watch and chain.
reinforce those fests with its own A FRENCH GIRL'S DIARY aquadrons.
The representative. of "the Government asked for a beavy sentence, pointing out that Falk's regiment belonged to a division been guilty of outrageous conduct
H.M.S. Iron Duke, Oct. 23. of German cavalry which had
Dear little Freda,I must write towards the peaceful inhabitants and thank you for your kind of Bailleul. It was stated in thought for the sailors. The boy Court that thirty women living in to whom I gave your muffler Bailleul had been violated by the was so much touched. Thank cavalrymen and that several of you, dear.
How the British Came to Armentieros.
TSINGTAU.
German Press Comments.
Admiral and Child's Gift," Admiral Sir John Jellicce, in command of the Flest in the North Sea, recently received a muffler and letter from Freda
The Berlin Lokalanzeiger says: -Germans will never forget Mr. F. G. Uden, of 33, Shackstead extracts of which are published and those who have defended the Uden, aged ton, the daughter of
The diary of young girl, the heroio fighting at Tsingtan road, Godalming, asking him to in Paris, gives a moving account Colony. Never shall we forget give it to one of your brave of the German occupation of the brutal violence of the yellow sailor-boya." The child, who had Armentieres, and of the sub robbers, nor England who insti knitted the muffler herself, has received the following letter froment entry of the British gated them. We know that
Troops.
cannot settle our Bocauat with the admiralam
On Saturday, October 17," Japan at present. For years she rans the diary, some little will still enjoy her booty. Our. children ran up shooting The mills will grind slowly, but even English, the English! and then if years should pass before tho what an entry! It will be long moment comes at last, then a before it is forgotten. The Eng shout lish soldiera
of joy will resound. were literally through Germany: Woe to you, smothered with flowers,
Nippoa !" "Although it was said the In the course of a long review Germans had taken everything of the siege of Tsingtau, Captain miles of the return joatey, Next
off with them, we still found Persius, the well known naval enough tobacco and cakes to staff correspondent of the Berliner another Now that the previous day's failure, but beform from Arras, was sentenced to five the river, "near Smederevo, six had delayed behind the rest, and close it is clear that the task of tried to make, amends for the metal watch, and. two medals throwing across on to our side of killing two pickelhauben who gigantic battle has reached its it had seriously begun ile bomb years' hard-labour and a fine of battalions of infantry and two made six others prisoners. The our enemies has not been an easy throwing operatione it was fired £20. A similar sentence. was pass-quick-firers. They orossed the women wept with joy...
badly injured that it came down
when it had completed only ten
upon and made a basty flight to- wards the enemy's lines,
M. Pichon's Disclosure.
Paris, Nov. 7. Writing in the Petit Journal
cipation in the war, M. Pichon, relates the following facts which, he says, came to his knowledge from an indisputable source: "After the battle of Chatolja, when the troops of King Fer- dinand were at the gales of Con- stantinople, when the terror- stricken government was ready
them had since died.
Another German cavalryman of the 27th Regiment of Chasseurs, captured at Lens, who had in his
A Candid General, ・・
J. R. Jellicoo. Lured to Disaster, Nish, November 11.-The fol
lowing official statement is issued here:-On November 9, the
&
-Renter.
was before."
own throat." Tsingtan is only temporarily lost, and dire ven- genes will eventually be wreaked on Japan for her" tresoherous not of highway robbery."
ed upon a trooper of the same Danube undercover of their artill
one. Tsingtau has been defended "I had promised to kiss the far longer than anyone thought regiment who had stolen a pocket-ery. Our troops defending the first French soldier who came into possible. The Japanese have book, a packet of cards, and some passage fell back, drawing the Armentieres. I kept my word. assisted the English in destroying money at Bailleul.
enemy on, and then made a violent To-day I kissed my soldier. He the most brilliant work of German attack upon them. This counter- In Germany, it was generally attack, which commenced at 2,30 was a sergeant, a fine fellow and colonisation. England will reap on the subject of Turkey's parti considered that General von P.m, and ended, at 4.30, resulted quite nice looking. He was the barvest sown by her short- Huelsen-Hassler had inherited in the complete defeat of the marching at the head of a strong sighted Government in a time not column of English Fasiliers, as so far distant. Germany has lost while be became the Kaiser's rendered hors de combat or the military genius of Moltke. For enemy. All those who were not
interpreter.
Kiauchan for the present, but favourite General, and acted at drowned in the Danube fell into
"When I saw him in the dis- not for ever." his master's request as Obief our hande. We made 2,000 pri arme round his neck. He was" When we have settled with tance I ran to him and flung my The Cologne Gazelle 8sys:-* Umpire at the Grand Manoeuvres, soners, amongst whom were in which the Kaiser ocmmanded colonel and six officere. We also Then he gave me a big kiss on how to wreak revenge for Tsing- surprised and speechless at first. our foes in Earope we shall know in person one of the opposing captured tw quick-rers. A boli checks. The English officer tau. The heroes who have and to make any capitulation and the armies. On this occasion he had Rome message says the Austrians ma ló me a fine alute and sail for the Fatherland on Chinese soil
the courage definite victory of the Bulgarians
to give the decision lost 500 killed.
Spaniards Shot at Liege. Bomething complimentary. The will not have perished in vain. seemed certain, a telegram from against the Imperial War Lord,
soldiers abeered, shouting Hip, The seed which they have sown and to criticiee him at the sub- Madrid, November 12.-The the Emperor William IL was re- osived by the Sultan and read by Staff, held to criticise the opera-ed details regarding the shooting by turns, blind to everything might and prestige will, even in
sequent meeting of the General Tribuna a few days ago publish-hip, burrah. I laughed sad cried will blossom, and Germany' him to his Council of Ministers. tions, in the following sensational af five Spaniards at Liege by the round me. I have never felt so the Far East, be greater than it The telegram said:"What are terms: Let us admit that the Germans when they entered the excited." you doing? Why do you not re- Triple Alliance starts a war under town. To-day a debate on the how the town came to life again that Great Britain, in inviting The girl goes on to describe The Frankfurter Zeitung thinks aist? The Balgarians are @X- haasted. Make an effort and you Kaiser, with Germany and Austria Chamber, Senor Rossello pro bardment began and large num sharpened a blade which sooner the supreme command of the subject took place in the as if by magic. Then the bom-Japan to capture Tsingtao, "has will succeed. Resistance was accordingly ordered, with what ghting side by side and Italy duced documentary evidence, bera loft. Here the diary stops.or later can be turned against her result is known. Germany, who forming the rear guard, Well, including photographs of the had supported Tarkey against after two or three battles similar bodies, and declared that the to the summer manouvrea in anfortunato men did not die Italy in the Tripolitan War, sup- ported her again against the Bavaria, during which huge fighting, but were shot by the Indian troops has made a very masses of infantry were hurled at Germana in contravention of the disheartening impression in Ger Balkan Statea in the same way one another with reckless force, law of nations and the rules of many. The Germans say that and with the same hypocrisy." and pell mell, we should soon be civilised warfare. He demanded the Indians are personally mach
The other papers comment on Jewish Loyalty to Russia. settled.. Magnificent are the plans that an enquiry should be held stronger and more nimble that the fall of the fortress in a similar Washington, Oct. 31-The of the Kaiser, but they present in the presence of the Premier, the Gorman soldiers, and that strain. They declare that its patriotism of Russian Jews in rallying to the Russian flag in one fatal drawback-they invari- General Palma urged the Govern therefore it is impossible for the captars has always been admitted the present war has been made ably terminate like the legendary ment to make a claim against Germans to vanquish them in to be only a question of time, and Battle of the Cats, whose caudal Germany for the misdeeds of a hand-to-hand fighting unless they they are load in their admiration the subject of an interesting study appendages alone emerged from savage soldiery. The Marquis de are much more numerous than of the heroism of the defenders. by Charles H. Sherrill, former the scrimmage. As to the dead, Lerna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Indians. It is reported that The bloud which has been shed American Minister to Argentina. if the Kaiser's strategy prevailed, said the German Secretary of the British reserve the Indians in before Teingiau, it is declared, Mr. Sherrilla interest, in the I fear that the Italians would be State had declared that the men every battle until the moment will never be forgotten by the anbject was first aroused by the transformed into gravediggers, or had heen internod as Russians, arrives for hand-to-hand combat, nation, and the survivors of the efforts made by a young Russian bo poisoned by pestilence result but in pass the story of their hav- It is generally believed that there siege can rely on the lasting Jew of his acquaintance, who was in England when the war broke ing from the putrefying carcases ing been shot turned out to be are still 200,000 Indians to arrive. gratitude of all their compatriote.
of the Germans."
Submarine-Destroyer.
The newspapers
pay: out, to get back to Russia to join Canadian Icebreaker Reaches
The new German submarine- bate to the gallant who the bussar regiment in which he
destroyer,experiments with which cheerfully volunteered to do. was a junior officer.. Mr. Sherrill A-Reuter telegram from Ottawa British Army of Over
are known to be in hand, is being fead the doomed fortress in the admits that his friend's eagerness eays that the Governor General
2,000,000 Men.
built with a strong projecting espirit of the Emperor's request. to return to a country generally of Canada has received a
a cable
Parliamentary papers include prow or ram. Its work will be to to the Governor, Meyer-Waldeck regarded as bitterly antagonistic gram from the Russian Minister a War Office supplementary eati- chase and ran down submarines Duty to the last." Although to Jewish liberties and ideals of Commerce, thanking the mate for one million mea. This beneath the waters. Ordinary the fall of Teingiau is regratiablo, filled him with surprise, but Canadian Government for the number represents the probable destroyers are at a disadvantage it will stand not as a defest, but subsequent investigation has led icebreaker, Earl Grey, which has excess beyond the numbers al when chasing submarines, which as one of the glorious pages in him to the conclusion that the arrived at Archangel. The ice ready voted for the year 1914-15, are able to plunge and escape German history, which Germans, feeling be observed was the gen- breaker has been rechristened in consequence of further enlist their pureuers. The German but not the British or the Japan- eral feeling of the Jews of Russia. Canada,
menta The numbers of the naval authorities recognise that so, will be able to look back" "The dawn of a new day seems
Territorial Forca are not included, at present submarines are very upon with pride and honour. to be breaking in Russia," he
An official wireless message The revised total of all ranks, difficult to hit or to run down. The day of reckoning with Japan asys, in which the Jew will soe from Berlin conveyed the news inclusive of the present estimate,
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German Officer's Kindness. will probably be long postponed, the members of the Greek Church that submarine U. 9, which had is now 2,186,400, and is made As against the terrible stories
It is stated that the Governor of and the Patriarchs of the Greek the credit of pinking the cruisers up as follows:
that are told of German barbar- Teington, Meyer-Waldeak, was Church will see the Jew in a Dressy, Aboukir, and Hogue, also Original estimate, 188,400,itiesshould be set an account given wounded. kindlier light where mutual na sank the Hawke., Another itom Supplementary estimate, to me by a Frenchman living in
It may benoted that only a day derstanding may at last be poss concernes Vienna discovery about August 5-500,000, a village near Maubeuge, whose or two before the ospitulation the ible. The loyalty shown by the which nothing has been heard in Supplementary estimate, now wife was confined on the very news officially circalated through Jews in Russia in taking up their England. Captain Lieutenant presented, 1,000,000, : day the Germans entered it, laat German wireless stations Baid share of the burden of war bag Weddigen, the commander of the
Revised total; 2,180,400.
month."All the local dectors According to Shanghai newspaper made a profound impression on well-known submarino U B, which British Losses: 57,000, and all other women had fled," reports, the German artillery. the Russian governing classes. was responsible for the sinking Replying, in a written answer, he told me. I stayed with my fire is systematically des The change manifest in regard of the British ornisers Aboukir, to Parliamentary question, wife. A German officer, surprised troying the entrenched positions to Jews will be voiced even by Hogue, Cressy, and Hawke, has Mr. Acquitli, in Parliamentary to find me there, asked the occupied round Tsingtau by the members of the orthodox church been awarded the order" Pour la papera, says the British casualties reason. When I told him he sent Japanese, who have indefinitely in general growth of the spirit Merite."
in the western area of the war three German doctors to my wife postponed their attacks. All the of democracy. The next Dume, New Naval Agreement.
are, up to the 31st October, ap- and two of them remained in my waters round Teingtan have been he adds, "will be more truly The Vienna Reichsport reports proximately 57,000 of all ranks, house for two nights and a day, sown with mines. representative of all the people, that some days ago a new Anglo Mr. Asquith adds that the Govern- giving their services unstintingly This broader basis of representa Russian Naval Convention was ment are not in a position to and behaving with the utmost tion will gradually extend so de concluded, in accordance with estimate the losses of the other consideration. When they left to give the Jews a status of polifi: which the chief command of the Allied Powers, nor those of the me to hasten after their division, cal and industrial equality," Russian Baltio fleet and Black Sea enemy.. Sentence on a German Pillager,
Sentence of twenty years' pan
servitude was passed by a
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Archangel.
U 9's Commander Honoured.
true, the German, Government would farnieb full explanati on.. -Reater.
fleet bas been placed in the hands German Fear" of Indians. of English Admirale Great From Berlin it ie reported that Britain farther undertakes to the defest of the Germans by the
they expressed their keen delight at having been of use and regret at leaving up We certainly owe my wife a life to their skill,
tri-
According to a telegram to the Frankfurter Zeitung from Tokyo, the Japanens Admiral Kato ugain made proposals to the Governor of Kisuohan for the honourable surrender of the town." The Governor's reply was not pablish- ed in Germany,