The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-09-03 00:00:00

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by." I left one of my comrade. to guard them, and went to
ask help from the commandant of the fort. He Bahl It was
unfortunate, but that he could not allow any one to leave
the fort, as It was contrary to orders. Then we returned to
the man on guard. We followed a road bordered by a
very thick hedge, when, arriving at a turn in It, we
saw three Vhlens leading off cur comrade, chose gun
th, y had take n, as well as those of the two wounded men.
They would have to pa s about twenty paces from
us, an we lay down and loaded our gum When
they were within distance In, comrade eald to site.
" Deuohli 6 are you pure of your man I" Ile is already
dead," said I. Their backs were aloott turned tons; we
lba el. The two who led cur comrade lortaioly fell dead ;
our bars had gone tarcin.h their breast the third tied ;
we jumped over the hedge; my comrade tired again, but
Illiated him. The man we had saved could not thank no
enough. In cut it short, I Paid, If we had been in your
plate, what would ton heve done I"" At you did," replied
he. '' then you pee 000 owe us nothing; in War time thtse
, things happen every day."

TRAVELLING MORE AN EXPERIENCE THAN A PLEASURE!
A traveller who has just returned from St. Peters-
burg gives no the following account of his experience
on the journey
Between St. Petersburg and London the war has not
(arced me to deviate from the route which was must agree.
redo by a tingle inch The delay occationed has been ism,
than twelve hour", and the extra expense, incident only on
such delay, idel not exceed eleven shillings. From the
ftmalari merrier I have travelled withi.ut personal Meow
widene at the speed of the poet, proved by the fact that
letters written !rum Breelau. Berlin, and Br usaels, barely
reached London before: me. Officers at the cutom. houses
do their best to make thing. plessat.l ; my baggage wait
p rased at three frontiers within four and twenty hours,
and the examiners seemed determined 1101 to find any
4it the art purchases which lay under their timers. Pats.
ports, ahmt which travellers have grown negligent,
may require a little care But RIISSia, not having re-
lented fn.tii ancient rigour, ILL poses LOW HO Illrlher
ri-tenlaiti is than lii times of peace It la wita pleroUre
too, Viet I report that In paesin4 through Austria, Si usela,
and Belgium. I was not naked °Lee for my paseport. Oa 01.
Loring Fealice th, Minuet rigour was In rule; indeed, I was
in danger of being turned bin k because the French rite on
Mr Fi.reim Wilco parsp.irt was out of date. 'We !all
the i ill dal politely, 'let yeu go title time, Mit when you
come again you must get a new vete.' As I walked on board
the iteamer at Calais on Saturday last, I oluerved • lady
tuned back, • Yon cannot, Mai•ame,' said the mail at the
ladder, 'leave France without a passport. I may add that
&trim the past week the boats from Buyer to Calais have
been empty, while on the contrary those from the French
side have been crowded. A panic, dembtless, has seized
tourists on the Continent, Mid that not wholly Witilotl4
reason. because It has been impossible to predict a weak
beforehand *hat might It imam. 011 the whole I to
the opinion that travelling through countries iu state of war
Is mote of an experience that. a pleasure.'

kl. gdmond About has written an article in the Paris Soir, glove on their left hands, the right ones being bare, in order
In which he speaks of the Germans as "Teutonic vermin,' better to grasp the sword. lu the hollow road itself the
and says that by the Ist of January, 1871, France Moat sweep bodies of men and horses also lay thick; the corpse' aU gong
away all the Hohenzollern, and their feudal followers. the sides of theroad, fur nearly • thousand yards, formed one
The Count de Chamtord has written a letter, in which he almost unbroken row. A little lower down I found the Wall-
says that being preventeo at ms exile from fighting for leur corpses. Many of these men had still their muskets In
France, he ffers her wounded soldiers his chateau of Cram- their hands, mai.y fdreflngers being stiff on the trigger. Oil
hoed as an asylum, the left of the FA-in .:1i position were two small cottagos which
had been • mark for the Prumian cannon, and their shells
kir. I Ohm, one of the lea ling members of the German
had n.ade • complete ruin of the build Mes. one
Groner ic S. c'ety, who I. f t Lemon.. to take part in the war,
is
reported amongst the killed. This tact shows wi.h what
roof was completely gone
of upper story of ' and the whole front
the other had been blown
haste the P wall the Prussian new kyle* have been pushed to the in Ou the plateau behind the Fro cn earthworks all the
front.
ground was ploughed and torn by the PIII+51•11 shells,
hire. Whitbread, wife of Captain Whitbread, of Londharn- wood,. on o they got tie range, were admiralty aimed.
hall, Suffolk, Is useisting in nursing wounded soldiers at the Many limbers were strewn about, one of its three horses red
seat of ear. Mrs Pearson, sot, rof mre, Waif rd (7 main, beside it ; a shell Mot burst beneath one of the home., and
. f Ipswich, has also left England on the time benevolent had bins, him, limber, and one of the gunners ell to pieces
mud. All the French pr goners with whom I have spoken agree in
It is stated that reports conflJentially made to onr Govern- asserting that it was the terrible accuracy of the Prussian
meet by nun.. who pne.ess the opportunities ..f correctly ariioery which forced them to yield toile position. Once the
1 estirna mg the reihforeentents 1 •rwardeel fr. in
.heyond the 1 farm-house of ha Villette was stormed and hold by the Frits.

Rhine durn g the laet lortniint, lead to the 11...ee1:414We Infer.
ence that n..t only hime to ;Nips In the ranks

dans, the earthwork. on the Verdun rond brcAme untenahle.
a. from the ear.iPn of La Villette the "'rumen damn could
_

caused by dea h, vionnds, rd lianime been 111 k d up, but that
the German armies In France are now by many thousands
more nuwerotta than they were when they crovel the
Iran tier.

shoot tha 12 French earthwork,. Seeing- this. One
could not help seising why so terrible a sacrifice of life was
made by semling the Infantry straight up the road at the
French works? Perhaps it may have been thought nece•saty
" "

The following is a translation of a letter from a Pruss'an
officer hi his sister in London :—" Mars-IsTour, France.—
Beloved,—Well alit unwounded after terrible fighting. Fire
most fearful. I am the only efficer in my c. mossy who
escaped being killed or wounded. Of our 250 men we have
loot 150. My horse was shot under me. We were forty
hi ore without food Passed the night on the battle-field
without even a cloak to cover me. Enough, for to-day. Au
reuoir 2Pori,"

to make • moral iMplWaioll On the French, and to aisor,
them that nothing could stip the Prussian Infantry.
" SWISH ! SWISH
It Is admitted here that the martini...es did much execu-
tion at close quarters. That the stories about their doing
execution at 2 050 metres were pure Invention I now know,
for had they really shot that distance I shHil I in all pro-
Initially not be wilting this now, for wss within 15 0 )ards
. . .

The French, held,: thus brought to hay, fought like rats
In scorner; but there can be no opinion that they never—not
even at Waterloo or at Borothno—fought more splendidly.
They are not usually supposed to excel In defence, but
yesterday they held the Mil above Gravelotte in a way that
the troops also kept the heights of itirermanti would have
been proud of. Much as the Emperor has vapoured, one
sentence in his bragging declaration of war is true enough—
his troops are falli, in, spite of eighteen years of he potism,
the troops of the Crialea and of holferino."—C,rrespondent
of Daily _Altus.

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of them. and new r heard of .c; of their balls coining near.
All that did come were Chassepote. After all the talk we
had been treated to about their great sumo toriry, one would
have expected them to do better. But the,'..tzt Is, the French
soldiers do not do justice to their ',own, which is undoubt.
edly better than the needle-pun, a RotaPy superannuated
weapon, though It ts made to do all 1. It capable of by the
Germans, who never dream of drawing trigger until
they feel sure of their also. Their fire Is therefore fir less
rapid than that of the French, but far 'more deadly. Now
nothing so encourages young troops ari to find that the
"swi.h, swish" of bills Is no , followed p any very serious
results 0 the oti.er hand, it is not stall encouraging to
Bid that nearly every shot fired tells. So Welch s , was this
the cme on Thursday, that by those who wrre at the "taking"
of Saarbrock it wm rernaekni that the French artillery
practice against the stwlon was good, and its mum cases ex.
OBAPIIt, but sesterday It Is said to havo teen much Inie-Mr
to what It wm at Saarbrilek, when they had more °nosed to
them. I myself thought the Prussian artillery practice slow,
lot when I got upon the top of the plateau occupied by the
French I saw hog accurate It had been.