The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-06

"TheTe was q painful silence. No one
spoke word for a minute. He had drawn
my somewhat brutal answer from me by
his own brutal manner Then, feeling that
had been little rough, and not wishing
matters to go too far, said: But don't let
us quarrel, let me- have something to drink,
for haven't tasted food since a. M
ITO my great establishment, the manners
of this same officer at once changed, and he
invited me into the house as If he had for
gotten everything. He entered first fol-
lowed, and the two other officers brought up
the rear. We passed into a well-lghted
room where, seated at long table. we're
five or six officers In the uniform of a
generals staff, writing busily. AS we
entered they rose TO their feet and saluted.
l looked into the face of the man had been
talking to.
at was Crown Prince Albert, now King
Of Saxony
THAT was the reason he did not intro
duce himself. OF course, when | recOg-
nized him 1 at once apologized for what
had said, but he gave me his hand and said !:
AS we are in France | will say sans ran
cune mo hard feelings). Now, let us have
that drink Then, as an officer produced q
flask and handed it TO me: But l don't
drink at all, for that is every drop we pos
$685.
"Well. left the body of Col. Won Roeder
WIN a = datd dn0 HCAlS DtaCh W odlubo und-
RE. Here l found my comrade, Baron
Falckenhausen. the -aide-de-camp, and
learned from him that the Third battalion
had been led into Saint Privat by SER
geant-majOr, for there had been no officers
left. OF 5000 men and So officers our losses
were l 800 men and 40 officers. l was one
of the seven officers left, and l had not re-
ceived scratch. Out of the whole divis-
ion only five officers entered Saint Prevail
l was one OF the five.
II met two French officers who were
prisoners. One of them wore on his breast
the medals of the Crimea, Italy, China and
Mexico. He said he had been in all the sue
cessful French battles of past years. MATS
maintenant, voyez Vous, je mai pas de
chance cBut this time, do you see, l have
had no luckD
"The other was an officer of the generals
staff He said Saint Prlvat was magnifi-
Gently prepared; $4,000 infantry had besn
placed around its walls Baron FalcKhausen
asked him how it YVES possible we could
have taken the place, as we were in the
minority, and the position of the French
was superb. Que voulez vous M'sieur, on a
tue vous ce qu'on pouvais, mais chez vous
la reste arrive toujoursr cWhat will you
have, sir! We killed all we could, but with
you there is a reserve always coming upr)
That is the greatest compliment you could
pay u.s. said the baron.
Now | would like to finish my story by
telling you how Won Treskow was sent
home. The morning after the battle
went to see the wounded, and while going
my rounds l saw Won Treskow's orderly
standing in front of a house. He asked me
to go in, as his master particularly wished
to see me. | found the poor fellow living
upon common kitchen bench, bandaged
round and round, body. arms and bench
together. In front of him was standing a
soldier, holding the inevitable cigar to his
mouth, while in his eye was still the eye
glass. AS son as he saw me he began to
swear horribly because / was not wounded.
When he had finished, and was asking him
about his wounds, he said:
az want to go home to die. Two sur
geons say that unless my arms are both cut
off cannot live. 1 don't want to live in
such plight. And don't want to die in
this miserable country, bat in a civilized
place like Potsdam. Now you are not
wounded, so make yourself useful. Get me
phaeton, coupe a landau or a Victoria,
anything, but don't send me back in farm
wagon lying in straw like a common per-
son.
II tried to explain to him how impossible
it was TO get anything of the kind in that
place, where everything was destroyed. We
were not in Berlin. He reminded me that
Prince Pless. the chief OF volunteers of the
medical brigade of st. John, had magnif
cent coupe, that it was no use to him here
| and why shouldn't borrow that to go &c
| the frontier! l thought there would al
least be no harm Ia asking, SO went out &c
look for Prince Pless. l found him, and
explained the object of my search. He al
once lent me his carriage. So poor Treskow
was taken home in a princes coupe. anddied
six weeks later in Potsdam.n
TRACEY L. RORINSON