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Tuesday, September 22, 1914. ^ STORIES OF BATTLEFIELD. ^Ptrre^ponrients Write <>i Sidelights & That Are Interesting. Among r..e most vivid pen pictures Ep.rom Lurope s meat re 01 wm a iui^^respe:id? r.t's story of the Gorman ^^roops" dramatic* approaea toward the jr.;. ^nc.es at ?Mons, w.ore the British my in waiting. Another stirring epiB^e describes the ride on horseback ^moi a messenger along an open road swept by the shots of the enemy. It m "was a fatal ride, but one o those sacI rifices of life which the exigencies of (war demand. L Tfce London Standard publishes a Inscription of the fighting at Mons, Rlgiiftn, taken from a letter of a sergeant in the British army to his broth ers. The letter says: "We lay in our trenches, with not a soifnd or sign to tell them (the GVr* mans) what was before them. They crept nearer and nearer, and then our officers gave the word. A sheet of i flame flickered along the line of the . trenches, and a stream o;' bullets tore through the advancing mass of Germans. They seemed to stagger like ' L -drunken men suddenly hit between the |L ?S;*es, after which they made a .run for ! "Halfwav across the open another rvolley tore through their ranks, and by this time our artillery began dropping shells around them. Then this officer gave an order and they broke into open formation, rushing like mad toward the trenches on our left. We gave them no rest and soon they were I or the more again in flight. ^ Thrilling Cavalry Dasli. gp^'Then came more furious shelling HA our trenches and alter tnat anj^TFier mad rush across the open on Mr front. Tiis time they were ^Htrftngly supported by cavalry, who ^Buffered terribly, but came right up Bio the lines. We received them, front ^ raLks with Dayonets and rear ranks keeping up an incessant fire. After a hard tussle they retired hastily, and just as tn?y thought themselves safe ^our mounted men swooped down on ?hem, cutting them right and left. 'tThis sort of thing went on through whole day. After the last attack we lay down in "our clothes to sleep Inner hofAro enn ^ UCOl VT c U^U, UUb ivuQ MV&V4 V guu rise we were called out to be told we Iiad to abandon our position.'' A Belgian who escaped from Mons, said: "Amid a terrifying din of thundering artillery shells burst over the town in all directions. All the inhabl- j ^ tants# who hadn't fled from the town,1 f "mshed into cellars and barricaded the doors. We were unsfble to s^e the actual fighting, but when I left Mons the town was utterly wrecked. Bodies lay everywhere." Tpmnest of Flame. "As I rushed from the town during a lull \h *be battle I witnessed a thril- ! ling episode. 1 was hidden in a densely wooded district of the forest, from l which I saw column a ter column of ' L t * L^erman infantrv emerge. The French k were waiting for them, and their heavy ?ns and mitrailleuses poured a con- , Mlnuous stream of lead upon the en"It Tvas a tempest of flame and bul- j lets from the mitrailleuses mowing I down the enemy with terrifying precision, but still the Germans kept marching from the woods on to t:e ^ roads. I saw a German aeroplane ^struck down with a shell fired with Meatfly accuracy from a French gun. 0* "Amid all this frightful carnage J^what most impressed me was the devastating effect of t'.ie French artillery fire." Demoniac Shells. All accounts agree on this point. A surgeon major, writing from the east- . em frontier, says: ^^"For an hour, sheltered under a low Kill, 1 was not more than 200 feet Wrom a French battery, wiich was ' orking magnificently. During the Bur 600 German shells fell near this HPoattery. One first hears a dull boom. W Then, as the shell flies over your head, f a screaming whistle. It bursts with a deafening explosion, with dense smoke and lead, striking down trees ^ or anything else within reach. I saw Pone shell alone kill a second lieutenBfeit and g'jnner, and wound a lieu nart and five men. ?; roticed among the officers and ( y men there seemed to be no thought of death. Alter the engagement one ! gunner said to another: "What! Xot > dead vet?' 'Not today,' was the reft ply. 'I will let you know when 1 R s?m ' Made Deaf by Gun's Roar. The Germans took the Xamur forts by using 120 siege guns, mostly of 1 eight inch diameter, and a few even IK inch. Tae latter were so heavy i Vat it required 40 horses to draw each j Pun. They throw a shell 12 miles. * The Germans did their best work at ' W 3.000 yard range, most of the shots 5 hitting, and the cannonading was kept up for TS hours, night and day. A wounded survivor said ho had ; F never seen shells of s ;< h .si/-- j.nrl power. All " * * 1 - forts wore striOKen stone uea . ami suiiic went delirious betoro the /rench regiment sent to relie.e t..em was ordered to retreat and join tai main army. T. en they marched gallantly oir with what was left of the garrison the band playing tne ".uarseniaise. Rode Into Death's Jaws. A correspondent describing the fighting be.ore Malines, Belgium, says "I could see dark blue masses of 1 ?* r ? xr 1 1 : 1, ^ ^ 1 ^ jDeigiaii miuiui N lanni^ uat/K., cuui as 011 a winter's morning. Through a mistake two battalions of carbineers did not receive the order to rciirre and were in imminent danger 0:' destruction. To reach taem a messenger would have had to traverse a mile of open road swept by shrieking shrapnel A colonel summoned a gendarme anrl srave him the orriprs. anri ze set spurs to his horse and tore down the road, an archaic figure in towering bearskin. It was a ride into the jaws of death. ! "He saved his troops, but as they ! :ell back the German gunners got the range and dropped shell upon ! shell into the running column. Road ; and fields were dotted with corpses in , Belgian blue. "At noon the Belgians and Germans were in places only 50 yards apart, i and tr.e rattle of musketry sounded \ I like a boy drawing a stick along the i paling of a picket fence. The railway ! embankment from which I viewed the battle was fairly carpeted with corpses o:' infantrymen. 1 saw peasants ! throw 12 corpses into one grave." Spectacular Pursuit. A dispatch from St. Petersburg to i ihe Reuter Telegram company, recites a daring act credited to Prince ^ris- : toff, a colonel in the Russian I se artillery. When the Germans , were retreating from Stallupoehnen, a town of East Prussia, the prince ordered his men to unhitch their torses .from their i own gims, mount them and gallop af- J ter the Germans. Under a heavy fire j the Russian cavalrymen went forward, ; capturing the German guns and ; brought them back to their lines. "Germans a Brave Lot," "At times," a French soldier de- j clared in a letter home, "we 'jould j hardly hold our rifles, they were so hot. Often we had in the trenches no cover of any sort. We had just to dig up a heap of earth a foot high or so and, lying behind it, pelt away for all we were worth. "Our shooting, I can assure ' you, was as steady as though our arms were at the rifle*ranges, and even so often in front of our nositiona we could see the dead accumulating in great heaps. Far away on my right I saw at one time British cavalry charging. We took tte risk and looked up to see it. Upon my word, it was a magnificent sight. 1 was too far off to see what happened when they got i, ? ? ,,.1, : ? v. ~ i. * :c uume, u uicii tuev uiu wuu iiiagumcent dash. I don't think they lost heavily, at least not very heavily, for we saw them get back again. "The way the Germans came on again and again throughout the day was great. They are a brave lot."' Duty Before Dying1 Son. Paris has read with intense pride the story of the brave General Courieres de Castelnau, who had six sons fighting :or France and whose youngest. he saw struck down at his side by a shell in the battle of Charleroi. When a staff officer ran up and said. "You must hurry if you wish to s^e him alive." t'.:e father turned away his eves, directed that the unconsei ous boy be carried to the rear and resumed his task oi directing the combat. An interesting sidelight on rural life in France during tbe stress of war is given by a correspondent: "Coming through a town in the ! center of France," says he, "I ap- ! -preciated more than in crowded Paris j that the nation was at war and her j sons fighting and tiding on the north*- 1 ern battlefields. 04' the male popular tion of 200. two-thirds are mobolized and are on the firing line. There are loungers in tae sunny market place, but not the usual throng?now onlyold men and women. The middle aged and young women and e bovs are i in the fields gathering the harvest. Called Him Down. 1A T : _ - 11 4 1 ll ..1 ...1 T marie: .tvi me pia.ce wuere i was ; i spending my vacation tnis summer a ; fresh young farmer tried to kiss me. ; He told me he'd never kissed a girl > in his life." Ethel: "What did you say to him?'' Marie: "I told him I was no agri- i pnltnrol ovnori m o r? t crofinn NOTICE TO JURORS. Jurors who were summoned to ap- | pear at court OJonday 21st, inst, are ! hereby notified that they need not : come until Wednesday 23rd. inst., as court will not convene until 10 o'clock , September 23rd, 1914. Jno. C. Goggans, C. C. 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