The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-24

Vishy, Aug. 24.-The presidential palace and all the hotels have been converted into hospitals and are now filled with wounded. All branches of the service are represented, the pa tients including artillerymen, infan- trymen, chasseurs, dragons and Hus- sars.
 They are a cheerful lot for men who have been carried from the fighting and delight to tell stories of the bat t1ef1eld. Many make light of their wounds and joke about their expert ences, and all are said to be anxious to go back to the field.
 Isn't that hard luck said one with four bullets in his thighs, .sto have to be hooked with four. Still perhaps the fighting"
 Another was greatly excited for fear the fragment of a shell which had struck his arm had ob1iterated a tat tooed buttery of which he was ex- treme1y proud.
 the Bonhornme Pass, told this story Of conrade:
 sssHe was a marvellous pointer and got the bulls eye every time, but they got him at last. His legs were crushed but he asked to be carried to another gun for one last shot z Tn the court at one of the hospitals, three infan ntrymen with their heads swathed in bandages were found by a visitors to be playing marbles with bullets extracted from their wounds They don't roll as well as agates. : said one with a grin, ebut in times of war one must not be too particular. .
 The Hague, Aug. Belgian refu-s gees are arriving here in large nuIn- bers. Their condition is pitiable- They have lost all th cir possessions and their homes have been burned.
 One woman and her twca small cfliI-s dren had been forced to look on while her husband was shot to death by German cavairy1nen. Later. in her flight, she became separated from her children but a neighbor succeed. where they were restored to the rnoth- .S. The woman is ii ca,1dition scr. utter collapse and 1t is feared that her reason has gone. publishes the foIlowing details of the fighting around Ldege. obtained by 1t from a Belgian officer
 German troops rushed on tho barbed wire defenses before the forts of. IIege in the darkness of night 5 A very strong current of electricity was being nlaintained in these wires and as result the first ranks of thes Germans were e1ectrecutad. went to he shrine Of Iss to inform the spirits of the i'm perial ancestors of Japan,s declaration of war. It is announced that a. flock of white doves descended on the roof of the Imperial sanctuary at the moment of the expir- ation of the ultimatun to Germany, and this is accepted as an omen of speedy success.
 The Ladies Patriotic Association. which has a mem bership of s100s 900 is sem ding to the volunteer nurses com fort pa ckag ages for the soldiers and will provide for the families of those who have been called to the service The pital ship.
 Lon don, Ar1g. 24-ro news Of Jap ar1ese Or German military operations in the far east has reached London since Japan declaration of war upon. Germany 8
 According to the Japanese embassy here those who sare looking for the occupation of KaIn-Cha.u almost sim
 aItaneously with the issue of the Jap anese declaration Of Bwar will be dis appointed. The view is expressed at the embassy that, in ord CT to avoid needless loss Of life the operations again Kaiu- Chan vii be more pro- longed than otherwise would be the case.
 London, Aug. 24s:58. n1.--A
 despatch to the Central News from Rome says fishermen in the Adriatic report that the entire Austrian fleet of about 10 units is proceeding south
 ward from Pola, the Austrian naval
 base. The objective is thought to be Cattaro, in DaImatiaA