Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1914-11-20
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Reporters Not Needed!

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Formal announcement is now
made that all correspondents will
be withdrawn from the scenes OF
conflict in Europe. This is all
excellent idea. In fact there was
never any need for them any
way. The Belgian and French
war offices have from the be-
ginning rendered the services of
any newspaper man wholly un-
necessary. Gifted as these two
remarkable institutions are with
the purview of all events even
before they happen, and pos
sessing as they do a keen sense
of humor and a most lively
imagination, the world has been
treated during the past two
weeks to a class Of news" that
no mere reporter ever would
have sent out.
German armies have been
routed at places where they were
not, with losses greater than
their full complement of officers
and privates. The famous Ger
man Uhlans were cut to pieces,
killed or captured six times last
week. They were slaughtered
again Monday und as they were
reported Tuesday within fifteen
miles Of Brussels they will no
doubt be exterininated again to-
day. In the meantime the de-
feated German army lies before
Liege, whose forts have only
had a little paint knocked off,
while for some strange reason
the government is hastily leaving
Brussels for Antwerp which is
the northern-most seaport of
Belgium. The war office has
not advised that the flight simply
means hat the government is
locking for some sea bathing
before the close of the season,
but this may come later.
Last week this remarkable war
office killed off General Won En-
mich. How he fell was a detail
too trivial to explain but it was
intinlated that he had committed
suicide because Liege, which was
then admittedly in the hands of
the Germans, hat not surrender
ed. Tuesday the Crown Prince
was killed, and no doubt the
turn OF the Kaiser himself will
come, when all of the royal
family has fallen.
In the mean time France is
performing prodigies of valor
everywhere. In Lorraine last
week the French fought a des-
perate battle with 10000 Ger
mans and in the conflict $4,000
OF the Kaiser's soldiers were
killed or capturedl AS we would
say in America that vas going
some.
But superliuman bravery AMI
mates not the French army alone
but each individual in pulling off
stunts which would make the
Three Musketeers blush with in
efficiency, if nothing worse. Only
d few days ago, according to
the French wal office, there was
a French private in Luxembourg
named Jean. All French privates
who become heroes are named
Jean. Well, this Jean saw a
battery Of German artillery COM
ing. Mon Dieu, there is my
chancei" There is always an
old stone fence ready in these
cases. The wall did not disap-
point Jean. 1t was there, He
took possession Of it and got real
The first shot fired at a
hundred yards killed the captain
of the battery. CONSERVATION
reigned, There was uproar, con-
fusion, death. Jean, we are told,
killed off every man of the bat
terry before a we'll directed shot
put the wall and incidentally
Jean out of business. We can
understand how Jean should
have been killed to preserve the
dramatic climax. They always
are in such situations. But in
asmuch as he had killed the
whole smear we have been trying
to decide for a week who fired
the gun that picked Jean. There
is only one solution. The German
no doubt left the piece
negligently pointed in Jeans
before they were killed
and the French war office ex-
ploded it by telepathy in order to
complete the tragedy und there
by preserve the verities in such
cases demanded.
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