The Princeton union., 1914-09-24
THE BIG WAR; !
OF THE. ORDINARY !
Humorous Side Lights on !
Great Struggle Found ;
In the News. !

ed lay all about, and mixed with them
were wounded horses which struggled
and screamed in agony. But in spite
OF all we held on. I do not think we
were afraid at ALL"
Bravery Under Fire.
In the orders of the day made public
at Bordeaux numerous cases of bravery
are cited.
Private Philips of the Second bat-
TALON Of riflemen during the battle ran
out under fire to his captain, who was
mortally wounded, and brought him in.
Private Philips went eight times to the
firing line under violent Smelling to give
water to the wounded, and he also as
sisted his commandant to rally rifemen
dispersed by the enemy's fire.
| Of all the wounded patients the best,
say the doctors in the military hospi.
tails in Paris, are the Turkos. There is
| no limit to the pain they can endure.
Spartan Women.
| Among the victims Of the battle of
Gumbinnen were the two grandsons of
the famous Russian Journalist, Katkoff.
1t is related that when Nine. Kat
kof was told her sons had fallen her
first words were:
"Have we won the battle?'
| Told yes, she said:
Then don't regret my sons death,
since they were useful to their coun-
try.''
1gnaz Reising and his wife, Sophie
Reising, peasants residing in Geisel-
! bach, Bavaria, sent their six sons and
three sons-in-law into the war. When
the soldiers went out somebody asked
their mother why she did not cry like
the other women present. Il wait till
I have real cause for that" she an
| swered.
Mrs. Vanderbilt Washes Dishes.
A caller at the American Red Cross
| hospital in Paris found Mrs. W. X.
| Vanderbilt washing dishes in the soul
| lery. No work is too trivial for the So
ciety leader, Paris reports, and her
name is blessed in the Red Cross
world.
A wounded Prussian officer was TAX
en- to Petrograd hospital, where a
nurse carefully dressed his wounds
The following day he ascertained that
the nurse was none other than the
| grand duchess Olga Alexandrovan, the
czar's sister.
It is reported from Kiev that Prin-
| cess Helena Georgievna, duchess of
| Meuchtenburg, and Princess Marina
Petrovna have entered the hospitals at
| Pokrovsky convent at Kiev and start
ed work among the wounded.
Tried to Eat Boots.
Scores of wounded Germans are ar
irving at Dieppe from Senlis Many
| of them were a week in the field with
| out food. One poor fellow said they
had eaten grass and even attempted to
| eat their straps and boots. They had
no emergency rations and were nearly
| mad with thirst.
Oddities In the War News.
The Austrians report that Russians
have done great execution with ma
chine guns mounted in trees, which is
| novelty in the style of mounting
guns.
Two Americans arrived at Ostend
battered and haggard, but wherever
| they met Germans the waving of the
| big American passport secured them
politeness, they declared.
At Sottegehem they came upon some
German officers in wayside tavern.
| A lieutenant called for a song in Eng
| lish. One of the Americans obliged
with "You Made Me Love You. I
Didn't Want to Do IT,
The lieutenant then said, 1T you
come from Brussels you must be hun
gry.'
The officer disappeared and return
ed with arms laden with ten pounds
Of butter and hundred eggs.
The United States diplomatic service,
| now a sort Of handy man for all ma
| tions in Europe, has been asked by
circus agency to find 'Teddy Bobs,"
Briton, in Germany. If the fact he
is eight feet tall and lame in the left
leg does not aid in finding him, it is
expected his appetite will, for he is
one of the most prodigious eaters in
Europe, and if not found will aid his
country by reducing Germany's food
supply.
Germans Sob; French Stoics.
There is one marked difference, Who'll
~ psychological, between the German
and the French wounded, who are con-
stantly arriving at Bordeaux. writes
correspondent.
Physically there is little difference
between the German wounded soldier
being carried by and his wounded
French antagonist in nearby cot-the
bullet or shrapnel has torn the Ger
mans flesh no more cruelty than it has
torn the Frenchman.
But almost all the German prisoners
are suffering extremely from nervous
exhaustion. Therefore the popular