The Princeton union., 1914-09-24
BEST STORIES OF
INCIDENTS OUT
Picturesque and Dramatic
Scenes on Europe's
BattIefieIdS,

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W ANY paragraph in the war
" news from abroad is a story
l1'A in itself, telling of dauntless
courage in battle, and many a
humorous incident relieves the grim
picture of the awful conflict.
''The most romantic, dramatic and
piquant episode that modern war can
show" says a naval lieutenant in de-
scribing an episode in the Helgoland
fight. His letter reads as follows:
'The Defender, having sunk an ene-
my, lowered whaler to pick up her
swimming survivors. Before the whal-
er got back an enemy's cruiser came
up and chased the Defender, and thus
she abandoned her whaler.
Imagine their feelings-alone in an
open boat without food, twenty-iv
miles from the nearest land and that
land the enemy's fortress, with moth
ing but fog and foes around them!
"Suddenly swirl alongside and up,
if you please, pops his Britannia maj
esty's submarine Ed, opens his con-
ming tower, takes them all on board,
shuts up again, dives and brings them
home 25O milesv'
Small Boy Saves Family.
Theodore Taperzer, nine years old,
Of Philadelphia arrived at the Offices
of the American relief committee in
London in charge Of Hungarian wid-
ow and her six children, whom he had
brought all the way from Budapest.
From the Hungarian capital this boy
had acted as guide and interpreter of
the fatherless family.
Taperzer, who had been visiting rel
atives in Hungary, started to come
out alone. At the railroad station in
Budapest he met a family whose ia
ther. now dead, had been a natural
lied American citizen. He took the
Hungarian mother and her children
under his care On his arrival in Lon
don the boy drew a draft on his father
in Philadelphia, which was promptly
honored by the relief committee. He
then acted as Interpreter for the wild
ow while she told her story and Sc
cured aid from the committee, after
which he attended to the securing of
steamship passage for his charges.
Feat of Lone Swordsman.
George Andre, Frances foremost all
around athlete, has been decorated
with the military medal and promoted
to be sergeant, according to the Off,
cial Gazette, for great feat Of gal
lantry.
Andre, who holds the hundred me-
ters worlds record, while fighting in
Lorraine with a company was sur
rounded by a large German detach-
ment. The athlete, sweeping his heavy
sword around his head like a fail,
slew many Germans who were gather
ed around the standard.
He captured the standard and re-
gained the French lines at his sprint
er's gait under hail of bullets.
Twenty Against 200.
La Liberte of Paris relates an Incl
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in which French lieutenant and nine
teen cuirassiers attacked 200 dragons
Of the German imperial guard and
dashed right through them. They con-
tinued the fight in the streets of Remy
and finally reached Paris after a Sc
ries of hairbreath escapes. Three Of
the nineteen were killed, and five were
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through the German lines in disguise.
The party had dismounted at farm
outside Remy at 10 o'clock at night
when they were cut off by a squadron
of the imperial guard. The lieutenant
consulted his men, and all agreed to
try to break through the enemy. The
guard gave way before their impetu-
| GUS cries, and the fight was continued
in the streets Of Remy. where thirty
of the enemy were slain.
Escaped In Disguise.
Unfortunately the little band got sep
arated. One entered a house and con-
cealed himself behind pile of wood
Another, after dismounting and killing
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garden wall and hid. The others got
into other houses.
In all cases the fugitives put on
| civilian clothes and remained hidden
for two days while the Germans kept
searching for them. The lieutenant
was found in marsh with two ribs
broken and his shoulder out of joint.
He was taken into a factory and was
dressed as an overseer, and eventually,
with the help of safe conduct, the
whole eleven passed through the enc
my's line and got to Paris.
| In a trench outside the village OF
Observation-Disclosures four dead Ger
man soldiers were found sitting with
playing cards in their hands.
A shell burst over them and killed
all during game Of pinochle.