OFFICER TELLS OF
DETAILS OF WAR
I'APJS.—A French cnvalrx captain
writing fiom it village on the Meuse
desc ribes in t lie Figaro experience dur
ing the flghtnig of early O'. toher. H ‘ J
is a translation of his letter:
"We are garrisoned at II 1 can
not complain too much because the
officers, men and horses arc remark
ably well installed and 1 sleep every |
night in u very good bed In a house
evacuated by its owner. The village .s
•*.iec kilometers from the enemy's
t i Ml the inhale!mts have bee i
e\p» Ilea b cause many signals n
given a * night by spies and because
of the tierce bombardment we have
suffered. This Is a measure very
painful to enforce upon the people, but
if was indispensable, and the innocent
have paid the penalty for the guilty.
“It is u veritable siege in this part
of the battlefield, and our infantry is
advancing very slowly, digging itself
in :in at Sebastopol, conquering 200 to
ACC meters a day.
My squad holds a supporting posi
tion at Ft*-—. It in all that the cav
wHli> v«ir» do at thi moment. We
‘fortress cavalry* so to speak.
"tail* foot soldiers play cards in ilicj
trenches and amuse themselves only j
a few meters away from the enemy.
The two lines are so near at certain i
points, that the soldiers throw hand!
grenades into the German trenches,
twenty-five or thirty meters away, as
the survivors of the Crimean war will
relate.
"One must give full approval to our
general staff, since its position estab
lished by the enemy are so formidable
that it would be useless sacrifice of
thousands of lives to advanc e over open
fround. I find that we have adapted
ourselves marvelously to the new sit
uation and our troopers, among others,
organize the defence of villages w'itli
great spirit. All very cheerfully, they
bore loopholes in walls and houses,
build barricades and plug windows
with mattresses against fragments of
bursting shells. This diverts and
amuses them. Moral and sanitary
conditions are excellent.
“On our left operates the unit of Col.
£ It is a reserve unit, but the
name <»f its chief even more than its
military valor makes it the equal of
units of the active army. When you
ask tlie men of this brigade who their
commander is they respond with pride
and almost contempt at your ignorance
‘Why Col. / * they say. It is ex
traordiary to see how tin* prestage of;
a name is able to transform a troop |
and giv e it cohesion. 'Phis name Is |
more than a flag. It is for these j
colonial reservists a gunge of success. <
a fetish.
“Yesterday, I was able to escape a
few minutes. The bombarcfr/ieitt since
October I has ceased completely. Our
infantry is mistress of —and the
enemy’s artillery no longer fires upon
the village. It Is quite useless
searching out pieces of artlllerx sta
tioned in the rear of the crest I*
B-. Our artillerymen have pre
pared themselves remarkahlx well. ’
They have built shelters and suffered
but little from the German fire.
“I profited l>\ a few hours «*f liberty
j to v isit the battlefield neai t he woods
j of -to tlie east of B — l saw
I there the most moving spectacle of my
life. One. forgot that there were
corpses in seeing the high inoral lesson
which this spectacle taught. I have
sent my officers on a pilgrimage there.
Treasures of energy have been extin
guished. There were more than six
hundred where they had fought in tile
positions where death had caught them,
one section in the midst of a bayonet
charge, one section on its knees, filing,
iri fjont and behind the officers in their
places; not an officer or man with his
back turned. They were reservists.
There were some parts of the line
where the regularity of the intervals
i fa foot) between the eorpese were iin
I presslve.
I "Passing next to the German side. 1
was able to observe tho effect of our
set ent\ -five-millimeter guns Men in
trenched in deep shelters were torn to
pieces A Utile to the rear, in the
woods, were long rows of dend They
had been killed by our infantry In
one plane six men had crawled to each
ether's side to die together One of
them still held in his hand this postal
card which I send you. and which I
intend lo send to the Hubsch family
it the end of the war, that they may
know that their son died like a Chris
tlan. It will he a little consolation for
this unhappy family.
"The card is dated at Rastatt, Aug
ust Id and addresser to Randwermann
Ifulisch, 1 Komp Rrsartz battalion, reg
intent No 142. Muthelm 7-P. On the
side reserved for correspondence is the
following In German:
" ‘Sunday afternoon. 3 o’clock.
" 'Dear Brother:
" ‘We are today at Rasttat with
Fritz A souvenir of the good God, be
cause today is your birthday Bless
ings from the heart. Your brother
Fritz, Your sister Gretchen
‘On tho hack is a sacred picture rep
resenting the disciples approaching
Christ, with this legend: ‘But they con
strained Him. saying, abide with us. for
1 it is toward evening, and the day is far
spent.—T„uke 24:29' And underneath
written by hand: ‘The Saviour saith.
[ uni In thy midst alwavs until the end
of time.'
"A little farther on another group of
eight tiarl also united in death Be
tween thorn was a little prayer book
opened at ttie prayer of the doing.
Fach Gorman soldier carries one of
these little hooks, containing several
prayers particularly appropriate to the
battlefield
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OUTLAWRY RULES RELGIAN AS
IN I7TH CENTURY WARS
BUl.'OKS.—In some aspects civiliza
tion has been set back several centuries
by the war in parts of Belgium. Con
ditions in Burges and the surrounding
region are so unsatisfactory that the
entire countryside seems likely to re
turn to ti state resembling the period of
it • sixteenth century, when the fam
ishing population resorted to stealing
plundering, and smuggling.
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Such occui'ances are lining reported
now along the Dutch frontier They
have led to saugllluar\ tights between
itclgian smugglers and t Jenna n sol
diers and Dutch frontier guards. Law
less elements of the population are
raiding farms, billing or wounding the
occupants, and stealing their posses
sions.
The Germans are doing whatever
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In cities like Antwerp prices of the
necessaries of llfo have risen greatly
The Herman authorities, while refrain
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alien, demand large sums from Un
people through a complicated system of
stamp taxes. These taxes are imposed
for infraction of any one of the many
petty rules which have bocn made.
TEACH GIRLS “SAFETY
FIRST” IN DANCING
PITTSBURG—"If there is one open
goto to the downward path it is the
unregulated donee hall," Public Safety
Director Hubbard declares.
He announced that public hulls are
to be under police supervision and
women and girls are t<> be taught a
"safety ttrst" position. Hubbard says
he has ascertained many high school
girls attend dances of questionable
character while parents suppose they
/are visiting friends.
“We plan to have policemen learn
the ‘safety first’ position,” says Ilub
hard, “so they will ho able to insist
upon ii at all public dances, thus ob
viating the (lose embrace, which is
one of the most objectionable fen
| tares.”
The Kermis* Saturday night Don’t
I miss it.—Adv.
SCAFFOLDS OFFERED
FOR SALE AT BARGAIN 1
POTTBYILLK, Pa.—By the ™m
mution of the sentence of Jlalina
Massa to life imprisonment by the
Hoard of Pardons, this county loses its
last possibility of hanging. Massa was
convicted before the electrocution law
was enaoted. The county will now sell
ull its scaffolds to counties in other
states where hanging is still in fashion.
Bomo of the scafforlds are thirty years
old. and used repeatedly when excep
tions were very frequent here.
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Don't hesitate, but you mn dance
any way at the Kermis?
Tango or any other go, too. The
Kormiss, Saturday night. Eagle Hall.
—Adv.
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It's a long long way to Candle so
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Kormiss. Saturday night. Eagle hall.—I
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50c is th* pric* for th* best night's
amuiement you ever had. At the
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“FAST CURE” EXPERT
experiments on self
WALLA WALLA, Wash Mis. Linda
Buriichi Huzza rd, the "fast euro”
j spec ialist, who is serving a term in the
penitentialy as a result of the appli
cation of her cure to u woman who
died while talcing it, is trying the curoj
on herself. She has fasted for t hreo j
weeks, hut now will resume eating for!
a few weeks and Inter ngnin try Iter
cure. *
Airs. Huzzanl decided she must sub
mit to an operation, hut when denied j
permission to go to Seattle to have it
performed, sought to avoid it by tak
ing her starvation cure. Aside from a
slight loss of strength there is no
change in her health, the attendnnts!
sa y.
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