The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1914-12-04
eQ CORRESPONDENTS at the front
or maroOned in obscure places
while the great European CON

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grimly humorous or tragic side lights
of the war.
Johnny Poe, famous ex-Princeton
football player and soldier of fortune.
who recently enlisted in the British
army, has been promoted and is now
an orderly for colonel. Ills mother.
Mrs. John P. Poe of Baltimore. has
just received letter from him. He
writes that be is In the One Hundred
and Twelfth battery of the heavy
brigade, royal garrison artillery. and
says:
"Our battery has been in action for
the last five or six days. am one of
the colonel's orderlies. so ride around
from one battery to another We bil
let in houses and barns. and thus far
we have had plenty to eat and good
place to sleep. The heavy brigade
fights away back from the infantry
| have had few shells burst near me
and In most cases was well under GOV
er. Shrapnel shells have an unpleas
ant sound as they go by,
I'VE were given splendid reception
by the natives when we first arrived
There were plenty Of fruit. cigars. olga
rettes, crackers. beer and chocolates
given us.
Seldom do we see newspaper.
When was working | never forgot
the day of the week or month. but
here am often far off in both"
1--WE Are No Longer Men"
A letter written by private found
in a German trench says: You nave
no idea of our fatigues and privatlons
during the last fortnight For the last
four days we have had to support an
artillery fire of inconceivable violence
The solid earth rocked necessarily be
meath bursting shells.
Every day hundreds of my comrades
have been carried away dead or wound.
ed. If it does not finish soon those not
killed will disappear gradually. There
| IL a limit to our endurance.
THE French villages we pass through
are ruins, not bit to eat or drink III
them. We are no longer men; the wal
makes brigands of us d"
A Terrible Experience.
A mile and a half crawl with five bul
let's in his body under artillery and
rifle fire was the experience OF Private
Dan Hurst Of the Codstream GUARDS
Writing to his wife. Hurst says:
Don't fret over me. ! have hve
wounds, but am lucky chap to oe
here to tell the tale, for If the smell
which hit me in the chest had explod
ed a bit lower would have been XIII
ed outright. 1t rained In torrents al
night, and the Germans put sentrle'
with bayonets over us.
"On Wednesday they removed US u
the far side of haystack out OF thell
line Of fire so we could not get hit. bu
one of the British shells exploded neal
us. and of course got hit We though
II best to make a dash for it | coult
not walk and had to crawl on my
hands and knees with my wounds
bleeding. and while was craving
away they started to fire on us. Ther'
were six of US who started, but oni!
two of us finished. Our trenches wer'
only a mile and half away. but l
took us four hours and half to craw
there"
A Heroic Sacrifice.
Correspondents Of Finnish newspa
pers report the heroic sacrifice OF TN
crew of a picket boat in order to saw
Russian cruiser, which was unwit
tingly approaching a mine in the gui
! of Finland.
Realizing that 1t was too late to Sig
uuI the danger, the boat denDeratel.
rushed at the mine at full speed. 1
terrific explosion followed Six of tn
crew of seven persisted. To the sur
yivor, who was severely wounded. wa
awarded the Russian decoration Of s
/. George.
? Censoring the Censor.
L As threats and entreaties have prove
equally vain against censorship, II
Paris Temps attacks it with ridicul
l. Pierre Mile, one Of the best know
l. contributors, writes a column articl
q beginning:
II Regarding the origin Of the convu
sion which is shaking Europe, togeth
& with the least known diplomatic score
u and the most concealed strategic pre-