The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-13
Leo Duran, in Silk Business lere, and
Now a Soldier in France, Re
cites His Experience
y large urar.itses o.

busy purchasing large urarHHes o.
mares in tho best districts ~ tev1,.-
Tncv selected tho best stock and ~
high prices. Carloads ~ tie MARI,
were sent to Germany and as s'nu 40
! tho No. was declared the French Go
crnmeui found that there vas IN N~-
expected shortage 81 =addl" h'r.c. r.
uunatclv. tho war ! going 80 last ard
tho needed horses arc hr,ng inrn-'oI
from Canada. Australia AMI Africa
~ course ~, now famous 49, guns
bayr done wonders Every tins thrr
have encountered IN" Germans - q.
lat,c- hnvc Ind TO cir" way tocau-o
tho Fr"e"h shooting s. almost always
accurate. laid before that the Friend
infantry * Gu.ug practicalf AL ''-
work hut Il IS with tho support -
tiilcry. The statistics show TIE r"r,or.
age q; casualties and II viii 10 ..'er
that infantry suffers much more i..p
other arms, thus:
Killed and wounded: Infantry ~
per cent. artillery ~ pe- cent, q
airy, . per cent, Rcd Cross g.. v-r
cont
! Never IN history have officers su~,-,7
os much as during the present we
They have given their livcs freely ir'r
| nlgn 10 low 'HNH' ara 'i'T 'N'I'p
has had abe effect OF rendering 'he 'u,.
fearless. During August csnec't''
France having been taken ~ sIrnr
all officers were still wearing rcd -.
sers and any amour, Of gold hraIdnc
They were easy targets to Germ
! sharrrhooters. Tho percentage -
aad wounded IS as follows:
officers of all ranks. :" r"'
! soldiers 60 rrr cont
The figure su"ah for themser.'
Such a toll ~ f'.ei officers has force
many carly promotions. and We '''"
several tV"3tN-! enr-"id capti'ns. AZ
| ia" \apo."on.c wars
| During AuSo.. the French 'os' ~ ..
soldiers heCaus" they wer" un3'
~ the German methods ~ '"'ro.
mon. also bc'lus" Of tht fhe'
they had eight machine guns - .
French two .n a SING" r'-'" ~. "
september ana October the I"s-,s ~ p.
tr ..h have been slight. owing O. IN
fart t.at I'll. German buN', doc
prove - 10 deadly mt all Il Is - en-.
t.tt e. goes right taroisa '1G
/ body. leaving two tiny hc,e- which Joss
u ,HIsr!yrs vtEu two weeks NJ.
S.us.e Application - Iodine. y M.
with ~.vc-a, bullet wounds ou's q. .'
IL" head OF heart can go 90 pa" p
arul within month. I'll, Trs..h
Ia makes an ugly wound. wa,cn
counts for the heaviest percentage o.
Aus,ro-Gcfmans killed In battle
Sleah.ng II iodine. Il is low used
,ro"iy as a l-"nera, remedy ror "a,
wounds. Surprising a solder has b.
let In the shoulder. the bullet :. ~.
t,arted with q knit right on the bate
field iodine - poured into the r q
ard tic man Is sent home wei rardaroa
Tor "a couple " weeks. during the
EG.s,-IapHncse war the japanese
were The ilre, to recognize the vr-
,tu,s o! iodine. ana tho remedy has boon
taken up by all nations
one OF the surprises - this war hae
been neither the acrop.arrs nor ~.
SEQ" German guns. but tho ba,oY..
fighting II has been commor.y sa.i
thit VIII tn new arnum'uts man 30
man encounters would hc 70 more ..'
on the coutr.yy al. d"cislN" tatt.c- . 10
being gained with iac tavo.o.s 70
81 tights the French rNcr. >.mo
regiments from Ind. the G.r-u q
,~o.di':s looking very much Ike Ja-s-
resel az" expert fighters with tsc Is,
However. when the Germaa-, w' ar
even they are. hear tie French .-."
sounding Ill" charge they simply ..e
their heads and pour out bullet '''.-
bullet with closed eyes. and when 'Hsv
sea the Gl!tt'finG triangular bay,:''s
upon them they take t. their e"s
axe RABBITS. Nho.e German '"t;I' pa
SEEING he black soldiers from 49, a
charging with horrible yels, Eneel Down
ana can PARDON. comrade' EJ, -7-
Africans give no quarter. kr.,c n--
teeth flra1te o. I.