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

distinguished prisoner in Hungary is
a Russian general, Eugene Mastinon.
General Mastinoff 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 tho
courtesy characteristic of officers, pre-
scented 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: Attention. whereupon the gem
eral found It advisable to show. by rising
stiffly to his height that he took the les
son in military discipline.
A correspondent OF q Vienna paper
thus describes war-prlson scene in
Hungary. between Estergom (Gran) 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 naXen-haired Coseacks
there are four fellows with coal black
heads-negroes from the coal mines of
Cardiff, who were seized on British mer-
chant ships. Servian gypses from Sha-
bats complete the picture. In the centre
of fhe circle there Is a grindstone, on
which Cossack dutifully and humbly
sharpens, for one Of our infantry soldiers,
a bayonet. which is to do service against
the northern foe. All around are grouped
Servians and Montenegrins, who look on,
with il-concealed anger, while their
hoped-for deliverer serves the son Of the
Puszta. Now there approaches the group
nIa a1b 70 ntafp nf
Royal Yeomanry, whom Englands decla-
ration OF war surprised in Hungary and
| who now waits in vain for the British
| Consul, who is to liberate him. Monsieur
| G. Rainal, the former trapeze artist OF
| Ronacher's variety show, now French
| lieutenant OF the reserves, performs q
| 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 one of the widest
| known at Chelsea Barracks. Then came
| the announcement that the rumor was
! true.
Immediately the Irish Guards set VI
| the cry, 1--WE want to go to the front
~
any depots." For more than an houl
the yelling kept up. Then the Officer
made speeches telling the men to bt
| patient that they soon would be Off FOL
the scene of fighting. Even after these
promises a force of mounted police wai
! established about the barracks to insure
peace and quiet.
Corporal ]. Bailey in letter home ex
| presses lively contempt for German
craftsmanship, as follows:
"On the firing line the Germans seen
to have more ammunition than is goot
| for them, and they keep firing away al
least ten rounds for every one of our:
without doing half the damage, or any
| thing like 1t.
The Daily Mail prints the following
| How he once had a fight with thu
Kaiser in the old English style and bea
| him is related by Alfred r. Price. hote
| proprietor, Ilfracombe, North Devon. Tht
| fight took place in August. 1878. The
Kaissr, then 10, was on holiday with his