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

tutor and others at 1lffacombe. Mr..
Price was then 15
"'I was wen paid to keep II out OF the
papers, said Mr.. Price yesterday.
"The Prince had had his morning bath
in the sea, and while waiting for the re-
turn OF his tutor and the others, VINO
had gone for a stroll along the shore, ne
began to amuse himself by throwing
stones at the bathing machines. Ihese
belonged to young Prices father and the
boy told the Prince to stop damaging MS
fathers property.
the Prince.
young Price.
"The Prince promptly knocked the boy
down with blow on the nose, aimed with
his left. The Devonshre lad got up ana
fought furiously for 20 minutes until
the German party arrived and separated
them Both we're marked, but the Prince
had the worst Of the fight"
A correspondent of the Reich writes
that after the capture OF Tllsit the RUS
SLAMS occupied an estate OF the KAISER
which comprises model farm ana an
enormous garden, such as the Russian
roldiers had never before seen. The
exhausted soldiers lay on the carpets and
slept soundly.
The following morning the men laughed
heartily at the idea Of sleeping on the
kalSerS carpets WIFI theh DOO'' N'''
They remarked: -,
''Thank you, william: we slept well.
Nevertheless we shall fight you.'
The strictness of the censorship may
be Judged from an article from corre-
spondent of the Echo de Paris, which
begins:
"There is no danger of my being in
discreet. I know no more than any
body! But 1 believe that without saying
too much I can say"
Then followed six lines of blankness.
The censor evidently was of opposite
opinion to that OF the writer
The entire stock Of pedigreed cattle from
Kaiser wilhelms great sporting estate
at Rominton, East Prussia, one OF the
great breeding establishments on the Con-
tlnent, has been conhscated by the Rus
SLAMS, according to a Petrograd official
report. The prize stock has already ar
rived at Smolensk and WILL be distributed
by the Russian Agricultural Institute to
the various breeders in Russia.
There doesn't appear to be a man
| among them who could score a bulls
| eye once in a hundred shots, and as for
making a good show at Bisley. they sim
ply couldn't do IL anyhow. German pris-
oners admit that they are bad shots. and
they are amazed at the way we pepper
| them when they are advancing.
TITS very jolly in camp in spite Of all
! the drawbacks of active service and we
| have lively times when the Germans
aren't hanging around to pay their re-
! spects.
TITS a fine sight to see us on the
| march, swinging along the roads as hap
py as schoolboys and singing all the
| old songs we can think of. The tunes are
sometimes a bit out. but nobody minds
so long as we're happy.
Were jolly sight better fed than
the Germans, and in most ways better
Off than the men in South Africa. We
always have as much bully beef as we
can eat, and potatoes and other vegeta-
bles with jam are nearly always served
to US.
"As we pass through the villages the
French come out to cheer us and bring
us food and fruit. Cigarettes we get more
Of than we know what to do with. Some
I Of them are rotten, so we save them for
the German prisoners. who will smoke
anything they can lay their hands on.
Flowers we get plenty of, and are hav-
ing the time of our lives"
An old lady of London. anxious to fol-
low the European campaign with the aid
of a war map which she had purchased,
took 1t back to her stationer, complain
ing that 1t did not show the battlefield
of Armageddon, about which she had
heard so much.