Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-09-30

the direction of. the Russiau lines. Al
though, we had a very good map, we
could not tell precisely where we were
At last we touched ground and saw In
the fields not far away crowd, OF
peasants.
1.-The officer at once shouted, Soak
the apparatus with benzine and get
matches ready, so in case they are
Austrians we can set the whole thing
on fire.
'But we had no need to do this, for
they were Russians. We had come
down about three miles within the
Russian frontier, and soon a party of
our own troops arrived and carried us
back to their quarters"
!. Loops Loop Amid Bullets.
A French aeroplane appeared above
Brussels and dropped hundreds Of leaf
let's with the message to the citizens
Of Brussels: 'Take courage. Deliver
ance SOOn."
The aviator circled the city twice, &C.
cording to the Antwerp correspondent
of an Amsterdam paper, dropping the
messages, while German soldiers below
fred repeatedly at him without effect.
Finally the Frenchman looped the loop
with the bullets flying around him and
drove off.
King Honors Boy Scout.
Georges Terpen, an eighteen-year-
old boy scout of Liege, has been deco
rated by the king of the Belgians and
has received a commission in the army
for the brilliant work which he has
accomplished since the beginning Of
hostilities. Young Terpen captured
eleven spies, all of whom have been
shot. Near Malines he killed one
uhlan and captured another, although
he was suffering from a broken arm.
Terpen declares that the only weap-
on he used against the German SOL
diers was long knife.
King Near Death.
The London Nails Abbeyville cor
respondent says: king Albert came
within an ace of death during a sortie
on Malines. He was directing opera
tons from his motorcar when shrap-
| mel burst ten yards away, blowing off
the rear wheels of the carr
Oddities In the News.
A street hawker in London is offer
ing for sale "any flag on earth bar
one" He displays a stand Of national
colors from which the German has
! been removed. ',.-~~~~<-~=-~~~-~- g.
German music is barred at the fash
ionab bic prom" concerts in London
Strauss was replaced by Tschaikowsky
for recent program. and Franco-Rus
sian selections are to be substituted fol-
Wagner at the next performance.
The seventeenth ar-old daughter of q
Russian senator has gone to the front
to fight for her country.
Only two men are now serving as
| tramway conductors in Berlin. AID
vices here say old men and women are
doing service as drivers.
Shoot at Germans Buttons.
1.-THE blue-gray uniforms of the Ger
mans are hard to see at a~distance,
said a Yorkshire light infantryman
land for concealing movements ar
more effective than our khaki, but
is surprising how quickly you lear
to pick out such things as buttons
badges, arnlets and even peaks Of cap
OR spikes of helmets in the sup and tel
by them Of the moving men you canno
see otherwise.
Aim at Il button mile off and yo
hit German in the stomach, is Wha
we say, and it's near enough to tn
, truth. The Germans are such stickler
for rules that have seen their artiller
keep firing away at a position Of our
after it had been occupied by their ow
men, and at the hospitals they fin
quite a number of Germans hit b
, their own rifle fire"
Fight In the Air.
A fight in the air over Paris is thu
described:
, Three German aeroplanes hovere
over the capital, and Immediately tw
? French machines were sent up to Ell
, gage them. Meanwhile machine CUR
! mounted on public buildings and rifle
kept up constant fire. By this NEAR
one of the German machines BEGAN
J.. separated from the others, and tt
o French aviators flew swiftly in its d
D rection. The German opened fire,