Bridgeton pioneer., 1914-11-12
WAR INCIDENTS
THROW LIGHT ON
Naval Foes Too Strong,
German Officer Cannot
Pity Drowning.

iA fetal In Germany tells of a con-
4 y versation with Lieutenant We'd
digen, the commander of the
submarine which sank the British
cruisers Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy
and, according to reports in German
papers, also the cruiser Hawke.
Lieutenant Weddigen almost spared
the Cressy, feeling strongly against
sending this last ship to the bottom
because 1t was the only thing to save
the men from the other cruisers, who
were struggling IN the water.
Lieutenant Weddigen said that
through the periscope Of the subma-
rine he observed both other ships sink.
with the Cressy alongside for rescue.
The havoc appalled, him and he almost
determined to let the Cressy stay
afloat. He was about to leave the per-
iscope and retire when his second in
command, who was also shocked, re-
minded Weddigen, you know we
have four navies fighting u.s."
Thereupon Weddigen went back to
the periscope, made his observation,
and sent the torpedoes which finished
the Cressy.
School Work Amid Shell Fire.
The director of the gymnasium at
Altkirch Upper Alsace) writes to the
Neunkirchner Zeitung as an eyewit-
ness of an examination held at the
gymnasium while the town and the
gymnasium itself were being lombard
ed by French artillery. he says: "At
sium the emergency examination (Not-
prufung), which was to last till 2:30.
The building is situated on a height
near the railroad station, and the fire
from the French artillery batteries
above Karsbach, near Barhutte, against
the German position at the railroad
station, passed directly over the gym
nasium. A misdirected German shrap-
mel found its way into the Untersekun-
da and the physical laboratory, causing
considerable destruction, but fortunate
ly injuring no one. The examination
went on quietly all the same. OF the
three boys examined two passed
through the fire of the hostile forces
all the way to Muelhausen, distance
Of seventeen kilOmeters; the third boy
turned back, and L do not know what
became Of him."
Soldiers Tribute to Nurses.
"In my ward, where lay, tie wom-
en- who. minister to me and toe others
are renewing the miracle of evangeii-
cal charity" says a letter from
wounded French soldier. "Only this
time it Is not a ceremony, but ne
eessity. They washed US when we
eame-our faces, our hands. our feet
and brought us back to human SEM
blance from underneath clots of mud.
"For eleven days now / am here.
We all are comfortable. We have the
attendance of the best physicians in
Havre, and we have, above all, the
care of the Catholic Sisters of Charity.
How shall l praise enough these
angels on earth? OF infinite goodness
are they, without sentimentality or af-
fected sensibility. So 1 have seen
them where death and destruction
abOunded. and so I see them here
the same. In these women one finds
no romantic goodness that is in real
lty only selfishness projected for self
satisfaction. One finds the goodness
Of great souls; the goodness Of a pity
that is divine"
|. When He Saw the Dead First
In the same letter, written to his
nancee, the wounded Frenchman said:
II thought of you and then thought
Of my first day of war on the crest
above Flachslanden, In Alsace. saw
there my first dead-Bavarian dra-
goons. My God! How big they looked
sleeping on the gentle slopes! Since
then have seen so many dead my
eyes are scared. Our French look so
small and quiet, after they cease cry
Ing out in pain and die. Their KNAPP
sacks are little. Their blue overcoats
twist about them in such ludicrous
way! have gotten so when ! see
dead men let my eyes fall on their
hands-the hands that are always
stretched so wide as If they sought
something. And on them l see so
many little gold bands that are we'd
ding ringsw
big Berthas" Fire Twenty-three
and 0ne-half Miles.
The range of the famous German AZ
fentimeter guns is fixed at thirty-eight
kilometers (twenty-three and one-half
niles by Norwegian engineer who
witnessed the operations of the Ger
man army in Belgium and reported