Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16
BRITISH DRAGON SPEAKS BITTERLY
OF AN INTERRUPTED BREAKFAST
BY GEORGE DUFRESNE.
international News Service.


international News Service.
Paris.-The stream of wounded from
the battlefields of the Marine and the
Ourcq is being directed past Paris to
hospitals in the rear, for the obvious
reason that until it is quite certain
that Paris will not have to defend her
self against attack it would be unwise
to fill the ample hospital accommoda-
ton of the capital
In the American hospital only SIS Of
those 500 beds are. occupied. I came
across soldier OF the Sixth dragons,
suffering from a bullet wound in the
hip that he got at Compiegne. The
night before the battle his squadron
was on outpost duty. Some firing had
been heard, and he rode ahead of the
squadron to see what was happening,
believing that French cavalry were
engaged with the Germans close at
hand. He cantered along a moOnlit
road until suddenly in the shadow of
some trees he found himself in the
midst of a group of German horse
men. He had his carbine across the
neck of his horse and fired point blank
into the breast of a German trooper
with whose horse his own came into
collision. The German was as quick
with his weapon, and both men fell to
the ground, the German dead, the
British with a bullet through his hip.
An instant later the squadron came
gathering up and cut the German de-
tachment, about thirty strong, to
pieces.
Has Strong Prejudice.
The British dragon has seen things
which have given him a strong preju-
dice against the enemy. In Belgian
village he saw the yet warm corpse of
peasant woman who had been struck
down by uhlan's lance. The uhlans
were riding out of the village as the
British rode in, and the man who
killed the woman did so because she
could not or would not give him some
bread.
Once on patrol duty he came across
stationary motor car. In it were
three French officers and a lady, all
which they were when they died.
volley had been poured into the car.
The lady's hand hung carelessly over
the side of the car, and the fingers
showed marks of rings which had been
roughly stripped off.
Our cavalrymen were, he added,
good deal pestered by the enemy's
aeroplanes during the retreat from
Mons. Whenever a German aeroplane
appeared over bivouac the order was
given to change camp, and weary men
aRd horses had to move further on.
One man told in q voice from which
the bitterness had not yet passed of
breakfast lost in this way. The meal
almost assumed the proportions Of
feast Two geese and three hens he
and his mates had prepared for them
selves, and just when they were ready
to take them from the fire the enemy
appeared in force, and the breakfast
had not only to be abandoned, but to
be abandoned to the Germans.
Turcos Best Patients.
Of all the patients the best, say the
doctors, are the Turcos. There is no
limit to the pain they can endure.
Yesterday afternoon the parade of
two standards captured from the on
envy was accepted by Parisians as
good augury for the success of their
arms.
The number Of French priests serv-
ing with the colors is a good deal
larger than has been imagined and it
is stated authoritatively today that as
many as $4,000 priests are enrolled as
combatants. The departure of the
cardinal archbishop of Malines from
the Care st. Lazare gave rise last
night to a picturesque scene. The
archbishop was fully robed, and stood
on the platform surrounded by large
crowd of priests and others who have
sympathized keenly with the Belgians
in their struggle. AS the train left the
station he stood in the carriage bow
ing to those on the platform-an as
cetic figure of the Richelieu type,
man of dominant personality, with
charm of pose and expression that
u1dQS one E6GllIS uOW hSSl1lJ WIZ
is appreciated by his countrymen in
Belgium.
Loss of Horses Appalling.
The wastage of horses during the
present war has admittedly been APP
palling. At the st. LaZare terminus
today | met a general with some 200
men of the Ninth French dragons.
They had no horses left and had
come to pick up some at present wait
ing in Paris. They were then taking
an eastward-bound train as far as
Chateau Thierry. Their purpose was
to harass the retreat of the Germans,
who at this point in the firing line
are said. to be, utterly exhausted.
Whole sections of them are being cap
tured helpless after three sleepless
nights. Even the sentries are asleep,