Rock Island Argus., 1914-09-21
FOREIGN
GOSSIP

LOndOn.-The asserted Company
which presents itself at the headquar
ters OF the American Residents Relief
committee resembles a congress OF
nations. Negroes. Japanese, Chinese,
Hindus and Arabs are among those
who show papers proving themselves
citizens of the United States and who
are trying to get home.
| The first rush of applicants for aid
was made up chiefly OF tourists, but
later began the stream of Americans
who had resided in Europe for some
time and were employed in the various
countries affected by the war. Many
negroes who had been engaged as
musicians and entertainers were in
stantly thrown out of work and sought
the help of the American government.
Actors, circus performers, vaudevil-
| lians and all sorts of entertainers
found themselves in a similar plight.
Chief Lewis Deer of the Cheyenne
Indians and his company of braves
who were deiighting Austrian crowds
with their reproductions of Clusters
last stand came to grief at Libach,
where the circus with which they were
engaged was forced to disband, and
after several weeks of interviews with
German and Austrian officials, who
were suspicious of the Redmen, they
finally made their way to London with
tales of hardships which rival the
stories Of pioneer days in Wyoming.
Only by putting on all their feathers
and war paint were the Indians able
to establish their identity thoroughly
and make their way through the war
zone. In ordinary clothing they had
nothing but trouble and merely pro-
gressed from one jail or compound to
another. But buckskin suits decorated
with beads and crowns Of turkey
feathers stamped them as real Ameri-
cans and speeded their passage.
Paris.-The principal sources of
really graphic information of opera
tions at the front are. for the moment,
accounts given by returning wounded
and prisoners and by private letters.
They all go to show that the worst
predictions as to the bloody character
of the war are being realized.
The ravages in the German ranks
are due in part, it is declared, to fur
ious charges with the bayonet, but
mostly to the 70 millimeter guns.
A German officer, interviewed on his
way to one of the interior military pris-
ons declared 1.-The French cannon isn't
war cannon, it's a butchery cannon"
One of the latest battles at Rambil-
lers in the Vosges waS fought on the
edge of a forest between two regiments
of infantry supported by artillery, and
so fierce became the fire on both sides
that the two regiments were obliged
to retire at the same time leaving the
field to grape and canister.
From the Sergeant Aviator Decaen
it is learned that six German flying
machines succumbed to musketry fire
at the Luxembourg frontier. I'VE are
in France for the moment" he writes,
"and the Germans are retiring, burn
ing Belgian villages as they pass. Gas
finger, on a Belgian aeroplane, came
back from the frontier with ball in
his back; fortunately the German bull
let's don't seem to do much damage;
this one was stopped by a loaf of
bread. Our squadron's going ahead
and, very soon, a letter dated Berlin"
The following letter from a briga-
dier OF dragons is a specimen of a
certain class of letters that have be-
gun to arrive in Paris.
MY dear parents: If you receive |
this letter it will be because 1 have
been killed, but don't weep for me,
since my fate will have been the
noblest a Frenchman can dream of, to |
die for his country on the eve of vic !
tory. We shall be the victors because |
RIGHT onH nnnfdnnnn
side. l shall have done my duty to the |
end and I hope my death will have |
been useful to my ycountry. My last !
thoughts will be for YOU
With this letter there came another |
from the cure of a little Belgian vii |
lage giving the details of the death of |
the writer of the above. 1t was in a |
Belgian forest that party of dragons !
were surprised by an ambush and all !
shot down excepting three and on
these three the Prussians rushed TO
complete their work. The brigadier
already wounded in the leg managed |
to master his pain and charged alone
and the cure adds that there was other
than French blood shed upon the field.
His body is not lost" the cure con-
tinues, lit reposes in the little ceme-
terry of our village where you will
come to visit his tomb after the war"
A letter from a wounded soldier to
his wife in Paris reads:
I'VE were in the first rank with our
lieutenant Jean Ebrard at the head.
He received six bullets. First wound
ed in the thigh, he got up again, col
Iected his men and went on ahead. An
other ball struck him in the shoulder
and four others were stopped by his
knapsack, he found another later in
MS belt. Precious souvenir he said
He went to. have his wounds dressed
)n returning to the place of assembl-
ng. There's a sample OF the conduct
# our officers
London.-The Blue Cros society,