The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-12-27


not even reach them, means a complete
nasco Of the whole enterprise
The new Krupp guns OF ~ cent?
meters are known as the busy Ber-
thas," being so called after Frau Krupp
Won Bohlen. 1t was a pity she could
not have been witness to the baptism
Of hre at Antwerp. All OF the krupp
officials have received the Iron Cross
An officer told "a correspondent OF the
: London Times that every battle is won
by the bayonet in the last issue. The
British soldiers have put the doctrine
Of the machine gun to great shame.
have heard OF charges impossible by
the rules OF the game which have
wrested victory from the very teeth Of
defeat"
tn. following scene was described by
\ an officer who took part in IT.
y "For long hours the soldiers have
lain in sodden burrows exposed TO ter
r!ble fire. Nerves are unstrung. tempers
on edge At last they are upon
the enemy: they can now prove their
yalor with cold steel. At last IL Is man
% man.
Suddenly the sound OF loud and con-
tinuous laughter is heard. one of the
soldiers has passed the border of re-
straint He is transformed, a very
figure OF destruction: 1t is no longer
dull courage, but a blaze Of fury that
sweeps the ranks OF the enemy like a
ere:
Machine guns have no reply TO such
zeal OF passion; no machine conceived
could oppose this living flood of wrath.
The sound OF that terrible laughter will
Ping in my ears as long as ! live
The French supplies for tho soldiers
in the fields are abundant. Conveys OF
prov isions, both OF food and ammuni-
\ ton pass up and down the lines with
perfect regularity. One soldier re-
marked that he was being overfed; he
never had the good luck before TO have
more than enough of chicken and rabbit.
The troops also are so we'll provided
with tobacco that they can AFFORD to
give some to the civil population in
towns where the Germans had cleaned
out the tobacconist shops.
Tho German Ambassador in Rome
hss denied the accusation against the
German Crown Prince OF having pill
LACED the chateau OF Baroness de Baye.
The latest development is given in a
letter from the Baroness. She writes
that she had received from =. witness of
the theft a letter saying that the Crown
Prince sent for locksmith and at the
muzzle OF a revolver the locksmith was
forced To open doors OF closets and tc
pack up the proceeds OF the theft
Then under an escort he was forced
20 take the cases into Rethel.
A typewriter journal called the
North sea Mines is published on the
battleship King Edward VII. There is
page OF wit and wisdom written by
the Duty Clown" The following is
Commandeered:
Wisdom is merely what other people
cont know and we do"
l ! give some impressions gathered BY
motorcyclist who has been in from
Of the army and continually under fire
When they are in the trenches witt
shells bursting all around, men become
mere machines. They get absolutely de-
humanized under continuous fire. 1t Il
the only alternative TO going mad! Ont
has no consciousness of danger. bu
o9eys orders without realizing what they
mean One forgets what death is.
When first l had TO carry a des
patch under fire ! used TO dismoun
When | saw a shel burst on the roat
ahead and wait to see IL more wer,
coming. Now / don't notice them. NJ,
comrade riding twenty yards behind ms
was killed by a shell but the inciden
had no effect on my mind. We are NJ
better than brutes on the firing line"
TIE following Is an extract from
private letter written by an officer to hi,
mother:
|, "A padre turned up yesterday and a
' night was not safe to begin earlier
". held a service at which a great many
" our men attended and afterward Their,
was large attendance at Holy Com
mun.on. strange sight.
1T Vas in a woods. in black darkness
ave for two candles burning on
irK'ng case which served as an altar
\ chal.ce was a tin mug. The soldiers
Lrmed with battle, each with his rife
hnef in circle round the light.
There must have been just sucl
scenes IN early Christian days"
N'"'h"r story an officer tells OF "A Ger
wan prisoner very detected amid hi
guard
Damn tho Kaiser" he cried. :"
"'n J was back in Sheffield" and THU
was spoken in very good English,
me English soldier badly wounde,
wa found lying alongside a WOUNDED
'er'nan who was shot in both arms. 4
! 'N'FeNs was in the Germans moutl
en1 me English soldier was holding (
"'s MS enemy smoked II.
seems that the third volume Of Bis
oa' memoirs, the publication o
wien was 10 be made later, was AT tn
Sl"'.al request of Bismarck himself de
I"S''ea IN tho Bank OF England w
,'n assume that this treasure will re
"'~-h secure in the banks safe.
80 doubt the German Chancellor ha
Tug mind when speaking OF "scrs
p'p"r' the speech Of Frederick Will
'''H from the throne 20 the First Parlia
''eht OF Prussia in 1877 Having hande,
oVsr me patent Of the Constitution h
never Will ] allow q sheet Of writ