Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-09-20
WOUNDED TELL BEST STORIES
Those Being Brought Back from
Battlefield Giving Best Accounts.
PROVE WAR TO BE BLOODY
Missives Addressed to Relatives by
Helpless and Dying Give De-
tails of Awful Carnage
at the Front.

PARIS. Sept. 19.-The principal sources
| or really graphic information of opera
tions at the front are. for the moment,
accounts given by returning wounded and
prisoners and by private letters
They all go to show that the worst
predictions as to the bloody character Of
the war are being realized.
The ravages in the German ranks are
due in part it is declared, to furious
charges with the hayonet but mostly to
the 75-mllimeter guns
A German officer, interviewed on his
way to one OF the interior military prs
ons, declared THE French cannon isn't
war cannon. it's butehery cannon"
One Of the latest battles at Rambillers
IN the Nosges was fought on the edge
OF a forest between two regiments Of in
fantry supported by artillery. and so
fierce became the fire on both sides that
the two regiments we're obliged to retire
at the same time. leaving the field to
I grape and canister.
From the Sergeant Aviator Decaen II
is learned that six German flying ma
| chimes succumbed to musketry fire at the
Luxembourg frontier. I'VE are in France
for the moment" he writes. land the
Germans are retiring, burning Belgian
villages as they pass. Gastinger, on a
Belgian aeroplane, came back from the
frontier with a ball in his back: fort,I-
nately the German bullets don't seen, 70
do much damage; this one was stoppei
| by loaf of bread. Our sduadron's going
ahead, and very soon. letter dated
Berlin"
| Specimen, of Letter.
The following letter from a brigadier of
I Dragons is specimen of a certain class
of letters that have begun to arrive in
Paris:
My Dear PARENTS If you receive this
letter 1t will be because l have been
killed. but don't weep for me. since my
fate will have been the noblest a French
man can dream Otto die for his country
on the eve of victory. We shall be the
Vlctors because we have right and conf
dence on our side. shall have done my
duty to the end and hope my death will
have been useful to my country. My last
thoughts will be for you"
With this letter there came another
from the cure of a little Belgian village
giving the details OF the death of the
writer of the above. II was in a Belgian
forest that a party of dragons were sur.
prised by an ambush and all shot dowr
excepting three and on these three tht
Prusslans rushed TO complete their work
The brigader, already wounded in the
leg, managed to master his pain and
charged alone, and the cure adds that
there was other than French blood shed
upon the field.
His body is not lost" the cure con
tlnues. ut reposes in the little cemetery
Of our village. where you will come t.
visit his tomb after the war;
A letter from a wounded soldier to hii
wife in Paris reads:
I'VE were in the first rank with oul
lieutenant Jean Ebrard, at the head
He received six bullets. First WOUNDED
in the thigh, he got up again, collected
his men and went on ahead. Another ba.
struck him in the shoulder and foul
others were stopped by his knapsack. HI
found another later in his belt. Precious
souvenirs ne said He went to have hi
wounds dressed on returning TO the plac
of assembling. There's a sample of the
conduct of our officers"