Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-30
MINOR TERRoRS OF WAR;
IT'S COMEDY AND PATHOS

A distinguished prisoner In Hungary is
Russian general, Eugene Mastinoff.
General Mastinon still looks quite defiant.
although he has grown shade more
modest since he was taken prisoner.
When brought into the prison camp, he
asked, through an interpreter, for the COM
mander. Colonel Alfred Won obauer COM
piled with the request, and, with the
courtesy characteristic OF officers. pre-
sented himself to the Russian general
The Gagged Russian lion was tactless
enough to remain seated. Colonel obauer
then commanded, in a firm but quiet
tone: "Attentionl" whereupon the gen.
eral found It advisable to show. by rising
stIffly to his height, that he took the les
son in military discipline.
A correspondent OF Vienna paper
thus describes n war-prison scene in
Hungary. between Estergom CGran) and
Kenyermezo:
You find there next to Frenchmen,
with their well-cared-for compilations,
Russian officers, with effeminate features
and red-faced, weather beaten Servian
officers. Beside fiaxen haired Cossacks
there are four fellows with coal black
heads-negroes from the coal mines of
Cardiff, who were seized on British mer-
chant ships. servian gypsles from sha-
bats complete the picture. In the centre
of the circle there is a grindstone, on
which Cossack dutifully and humbly
sharpens, for one OF our infantry soldiers,
q bayonet. which is to do service against
the northern foe. All around are grouped
Servians and Montenegrins, who look on,
with ill-concealed anger, while their
hoped-for deliverer serves the son of the
Puszta. Now there approaches the group
an elegant fgure-Captain Geony, of the
Royal Yeomanry, whom England's decla-
ration of war surprised In Hungary and
who now waits in vain for the British
Consul, who iB to liberate him. Monsieur
G.. Rainal, the former trapeze artist OF
Ronacher's variety show, now French
lieutenant of the reserves performs a
trick on a chair with three legs.
An instance OF how anxious Irish SOL
diers are to go to the front was wit
messed recently at Chelsea Barracks,
where the Irish Guards were quartered.
Late one evening some one spread the
rumor that the Irish Guards were to be
transferred to one Of the army depots.
That evening was OF the widest
known at Chelsea Barracks. Then came
the announcement that the rumor was
true.
Immediately the Irish Guards set UP
the cry. I'VE want tc go to the front.
Our place is In France. We won't go to
any depots." For more than hour
the yelling kept up. Then the officer
made speeches telling the men to be
patient that they soon would be off for
the scene OF fighting. Even after these
promises n force of mounted police was
established about the barracks to insure
peace and quiet.
Corporal ]. Bailey in letter home eX-
presses lively contempt for German
Workmanship as follows:
"On the firing line the Germans seem
to have more ammunition than is good
for them, and they keep firing away at
least ten rounds for every one OF ours
without doing half the damage, or any
thing like II.
The Daily Mail prints the following
How he once had a fight with the
Kaiser in the old English style and beat
him ia related by Alfred r. Price. hotel
proprietor. Ilfracombe. North Devon The
fight took place in August, 1873. The
Kaiser, then 10, was on holiday with his