The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1914-09-22

some went deErlOuS before the french
regiment sent 10 relie,e TEN was or
dered TO retreat and join the main ar
my.
Taen they marched gallantly out
with what was left OF the garrison
the band playing the 'lIarseillaise.
Rode Into Deaths Jaws.
A correspondent describing the
fighting before Malines, Belgium,
says
q could see dark blue masses of
Belgian infantry falling back, cool as
on a winters morning. Through a
mistake two battalions of carbineers
did not receive the order to retire
and were in imminent danger OF de-
struction. TO reach them messen-
ger would have had to traverse mile
Of open road swept by s4rieking
shrapnel A colonel summoned gen.
darme and gave him the orders, and
he set spurs to his horse and tore
down the road, an archaic figure in
towering bearskin 1t was 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
smell into the running column. Road
and fields were dotted with corpses in
Belgian blue.
''At noon the Belgians and Germans
were in places only 80 yards apart,
and TIE rattle of musketry sounded
like boy drawing a stick along the
paling of a picket fence The railway
embankment from which l viewed the
battle was fairly carpeted with corpses
OF infantrymen. saw peasants
throw y corpses into one grave
Spectacular Pursuit.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg to
the Reuter- Telegram company, recites,
daring act credited to Prince Eris-
toff, colonel in the Russian lose
artillery.
When the Germans were retreating
from Stallupoehnen, a town of East
Prussia, the prince ordered his men
to unnitch their horses from their
own guns, mount them and gallop af-
ter the Germans Under a heavy fire
the Russian caValrymen went forward,
capturing the German guns and
brought them back to their lines.
"Germans a Brave Lot"
AT times French soldier de-
clared in a letter home, eve could
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 heap OF earth foot high or so
and, lying behind it, pelt away for all
We were worth.
Our shooting, l can assure you,
was as steady as though our arms
were at the rifle ranges, and even so
often in front of our positions we
could see the dead accumulating in
great heaps. Far away on my right
saw at one time British cavalry charg-
ing. We took the risk and looked up
to see it. Upon my word, it was a
magnificent sight l was too far off
to see what happened when they got
home, which they did with magnif-
cent dash. l 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 brave lot
Duty Before Dying Son.
Paris has read with intense pride
the story Of the brave General Cou-
rieres de Castelnau, who had six sons
fighting Tor France and whose young
est, 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
see him alive" tie father turned away
his eyes, directed that the unconsci-
Gus boy be carried to the rear and re-
sumed his task OF directing the COM
bat.
An interesting sidelight on rural
life in France during the stress Of
war is given by correspondent:
Coming through a town in the
center of France" says he, 81 ap-
preciated more than in crowded Paris
that the nation was at war and her
sons fighting and dying on the north