The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-12-11
MARINE OFFICER
LOST HIS LIFE
With Cigarette In HI. Lips, Went
into the Firing Line and Brought
Three Wounded Men
to Safety.
THE AMAZING BRITISH
belgian Newspaper Moved Three
Times and 10 Now Being Pub
Iished in London Every
Evening.
THE AMAZING BRITISH
by P M. Sarle, United Press Staff
Correspondent

by P M Sarle, United Press Staff
correspondent
LONDON, Nov 9. (By mail to New
York. -The heroism OF a British ma
riue officer who lost his life saving
three of his men, is described by sur
yivors of the marine brigade which
unnecessarily assisted in the defense
Of Antwerp. Although shells and bull
lets were falling thickly, the officer,
(name suppressed by the British war
office, which does not allow the men
ton Of names}, cody smoking CT
gazette, went into the firing line and
brought to the shelter Of the trenches
three wounded marines, but was
MORALLY wounded just as he got the
last man TO safety.
The marines also tell OF one OF their
sergeant. who to encourage his men,
defed the German fire by sitting out
in the open munching cold chicken.
He could not be persuaded to move
until he had finished his meal, and
he escaped uninjured.
"They are the most extraordinary
soldiers" writes French officer, who
for some weeks has been on special
duty with the British troops. They
make war, as everything else, calmly
and deliberately, with care and ex.
actness which is truly amazing. To
see them seize gun, to load it and
spend the exact time necessary to do
it well that it need not be done again,
reminds one of the mechanics in a
watchmaker's shop. Never for a amos,
ment do they give you the impression
that they are fighting. To realize
that they are soldiers 1t is necessary
to see one of them fall, from time to
time, shot by missile in the head
or breast.
whatever happens they betray no
emotion, and nothing makes them
abandon their USUAL habits IN the
morning they take out their toilet ar
ticles, and whatever the days work.
be it long march or a fierce battle,
no detail of dress Is neglected.; all be-
gin their duties with the smart APP
pearance of men on parade. After the
maneuver or after the battle they
make another toilet equally minute.
Later you win see soldiers who
have returned from a long march.
playing football like boys out Of
school. When they have finished
playing, they talk and read 1T is NJ
uncommon thing the evening after a
battle to see some English soldiers
with head bent over kipling or
Wells" NY s,i.s,.tf .fagssiyq c.8s
On behalf of the three women Of
Kent whose husbands were lost in
the recent North sea disaster,
friend wrote to King George saying
that they felt they could better bear
their great sorrow IL their husbands
had died in action. The letter being
referred to the first lord OF the admir-
atty, he replied:
1.-THE duty on which the Cressy, the
Hogue and the Aboukir were engaged
was an essential part OF the arrange
ments by which the control of the
seas and the safety Of the country
are maintained, and the lives lost
were as useful. as necessarily and as
gloriously devoted to the require
ments OF his majesty's service as If
the loss had been incurred in gen.
eral action"
'In exile" was the pathetic head
ing of the first column in L'Independ-
ence Beige. the famous Brussels news
paper, which retiring before the adj
vance of the Germans, was successful
ly published in Client and Ostend,
and which has now moved its head
quarters to London. Fleet street
gave its Belgian conferes a warm well
come and the newspaper, still printed
in French, is published every evening
In message Of welcome to the edi-
tor. Premier Asquith says: 1T feel
confident that before long LIndepend-
ence Beige viii again be issued in
Brussels. and our friends and allies.
the valiant Belgian people, will be
once more restored to their own
country in full enjoyment Of that free
dom for which they have made such
splendid and terrible sacrifice" An
other Belgian paper published in Lon
every morning has page-pf the Lon
don is the Antwerp MetropoIe, which
don Standard.