Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1914-09-25


Then they marched gallantly out
with whit was left OF the garrison. the
band playing the rMarsci.aise.'
Rode Into Deaths Jaws.
A correspondent describing the neht
ing before Malines. Belgium. says:
Il could see dark blue masses OF
Bel, ian Infantry falling back. cool as
on a winter morning Through a mis-
take two bait lions Of carbineers did
not receive the order TO retire and were
in imminent danger of destruction To
reach them messenger would have
had to traverse u mile OF open road
swept by shrieking sbrapnel A colo
mel summoned gendarme and gave
him the orders. and he set spurs to-
his horse and tore down the road. an
archaic figure In towering bearskin
II was ride into the jaws of death.
He saved his troops. but as they
fell back the German gunncrs got the
range and dropped shell upon shell
into the running column Road and
fields were dotted with corpses IN Bel
gian blue.
at noon the Belgians and Germans
were In places only fifty yards apart
and the rattle of musketry sounded like
boy drawing stick along the pal.
ings OF picket fence. The railway
embankment from which viewed the
battle was fairly carpeted with corpses
OF infantrymen. ! saw peasants throw
twelve into one grave"
Scs2tacular Pursuit.
A dispatch from st Petersburg %
che Reuter- Toicgram company recites
dh.'pg act credited to Prince Eristoff
a colonel in the Russian horse artillery
When the Germans were retreating
from Stallupoehnen, town of East
Prussia. the prince ordered his men to
unhitch their horses from their own
guns mount them and gallop after the
Germans. Under heavy fire the Rus
sian cavalrymen went forward, captur.
ed the German guns and brought them
back to their lines.
Germans a Brave Lot"
''At times" French soldier declared
in letter home. I'VE 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 be
hind it. pelt away for all we were
worth
Our shooting, can assure you. was
as steady as though our men were at
the rife ranges, and ever so often In
front Of our positions we could see the
dead accommodating in great heaps. Far
away on my right | saw at one time
British cavalry charging. We took the
risk and looked up to see 1t. Upon my
word, II was a magnificent sight. I
was too far or to see what happened
when they got home. which they did
with magnificent dash. 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 COurieres
de Castelnau. who had six sons fighting
for France and whose youngest he saw
struck down at his side by a shell in
the battle OF Charleroi
When staff officer ran up and said.
You must hurry IL you wish to see
ham alive" the father turned away his
eyes, directed that the unconscious boy
be carried to the rear and resumed his
task of directing the combat
An interesting sidelight on rural life
In France during the stress OF war is
given by correspondent
Coming through town In the cen
ter OF France" says he. II appreciated
more than In crowded Paris that the
nation was at war and her sons fight,
ing and dying on the northern battle
fields. or the male population OF 200
two-thirds are mobilized and are on the
firing line. There are loungers In. the
sunny market place. but not the usual
throng-now only old men and women
The middle aged and young women
and the boys are In the fields gathering
the lnrvest
Back to Middle Ages.
IAN old dame stopped her knitting
and asked me If could give her news
OF what was happening. Others crewd
ed about me, among them one arm
ed veteran of lS70-the village oracle.
who had been cheering the others with
the hope that the English troops were
also in the battle line There are no
newspapers or telegraph; we seemed