Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-09-29
THE WAR IN EUROPE
News Paragraphs Telling Of Happen
inos at the Front.

Gen. Francois Joubert Pienaar, Of
Boer war fame, has offered his sword
to the Allies and will be attached to
the staff Of Sir John French. The war
will be long and fierce" says General
Pienaar. The German army, which !
know well, is the finest fighting ma
chine in the world, but we shall beat 1t
in the end because our armies are some
thing better than machine"
A dispatch from Geneva, states that
Emperor William Of Germany, is i'll
with inflammation Of the lungs as the
result Of having fallen into a trench
filled with water.
Typhus fever is said to be raging in
the German camps around Brussels
and near Termonde, Belgium. 1t is re-
ported that several hundred Germans
have already succumbed to the disease.
General Marquet of the French army,
was killed in battle, Sunday.
Four bombs were dropped on Paris
from q German aeroplane about five
o'clock Sunday afternoon. One of the
missiles blew off the head Of man;
the others did little damage. The mis-
sles dropped Sunday were the most
powerful that have thus far been used
in aerial raids on Paris.
An incident Of daring heroism on the
al
tie line was related in the dispatches
Of Sunday. The lieutenant and fifty
men, accommodating ten miles in ad-
vance of the main body on the Oise
river, encountered 5000 Germans. The
F'renchmen took refuge in nearby
woods, and from their shelter fired VOL
leys until only thirteen Of their detach-
ment remained alive, and Of these four
were wounded. The party then crept
away. The Germans, fearing a trap
hesitated to attack the Frenchmen In
the woods.
The wholesale encouragement Of
marriages on the part of the soldiers
and sailors of Germany, Austria and
France has attracted much interest in
England, and the archbishop Of Can
terbury has sent a letter to all the
English bishops urging them to reduce
marriage licenses from $40 to $3.50 so
that soldiers and sailors summoned to
active service may wed before leaving
home.
A dispatch from Ostend is to the eff
feet that a number of Bavarian SOL
ders are under arrest in Brussels.
charged with facilitating the escape of
several thousand French prisoners or
war The Bavarians are protesting
against alleged insults offered by the
Prussians to the queen Of Belgium, who
is Bavarian princess.
German cathedrals are now flying
large white flags in the hope Of pro-
tecting them against the bombs Of
aerOplanes.
The French gunboat Surprise has
taken charge Of the German colony at
Coco Beach in Kamarun, on the west
ern African coast.
A story told Petrograd newspaper
Is to the effect that a small body Of
Russian infantry successfully worked
a shrewd trick on a large force of Aus
trians in Galicia, few days ago, which
resulted in the destruction Of the Aus
trians. BY pre-arrangement Russian
COssacks and artillery rapidly retired
under protection Of small infantry
force. The Austrians followed and the
Russian artillery was slipped behind
them. AS the Austrians' artillery and
infantry crossed a river bridge and the
airy dashed through the river in
pursuit of the Russians. the bridge was
blown up and the artillery on both