Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1914-09-23
GRIPPING STORIES
FROM EUR0PE'S
Individual Instances OF Splen-
did Courage In the
Face of Death.

TORIES of unsurpassed herofsm
in the face Of the enemy's fire
Al on land and ON sea and In the
air continue to thrill world Of
readers OF the war news as the battle
Of the nations" RACES with undiminish-
ed fury.
An eyewitness Of the loss Of the
German cruiser Ariadne and the Ger
man torpedo boat destroyer V-157 in
the fighting between British and Ger
man warships of Helgoland relates the
following story:
'Tbe Ariadne attacked gamely, but
shell pumped her boilers, putting
half Of them out Of commission De-
spite this the fight continued. The
| quarterback of the Ariadne took fire,
but those Of her guns that were still
capable Of being worked continued
, shooting. The enemy turned west
ward.
THE forecastle Of the Ar1adne was
soon ablaze, Her magazine was food
ed, but the gallant vessel was doomed.
Her crew was mustered and gave
three cheers for the emperor and sang
the hymn The Flag and Germany
| Above All"
SHED Shells Overheard.
The London Telegraph's Harwtch
correspondent gives further narratives
of the Helgoland fight CLEANED from
| British sailors. They say that many
| of the German shells which made hits
did not burst, and to that fact they at
tribute the comparatiYe hghtness OF
4 the British casualty list. - + ~
''There were five shells in the boiler
of the -" said one of them, mention
ing the name of a destroyer. eff one
of them had burst-well, it would have
been all up with the ship"
"What did you do with themY' he
was asked
ooh, we just SHE'D them overheard
We've no room for such rubbish aboard
our yacht"
In another instance It IS related that
a shell fell ON the deck Of a British
ship. There was no immediate explO-
sion. The sailors rushed at it and
pushed it into the sea, a plucky act,
but just what sailor would do.
Went Down With Flag.
One incident has been described
which shows the grit Of the German
sailors 1 give it as nearly as possible
in the language of my informant
1--WE were hard at it with a German
: cruiser" be said. 'tand she was in
E bad way. on the point Of sinking We
could see her decks were in an awful
mess. and her stern was in flames. 1t
=, had been shot away. We could see
only one man On the forecastle, but he
' was a plucky one He hoisted a flag,
and it was still there when the ship
r went down. suppose he went down
" with her."
: Describes Perilous Flight.
The following letter from a German
" military aviator is printed in the Bran.
denburger Zeitung:
o while our company still lay In gar
. rison I received orders to start on a
fight into the enemy's country at day
break the following morning. We
=, headed for the French border. I'M
O mediately my observer, a first lieuten-
j. ant, called my attention to little black
! puffs Of smoke, and knew at once we
!. were being fired at by hostile artillery
: So we climbed to 1000 meters
= 'Next we noticed that three Of the
9 enemy's aeroplanes were pursuing US
but soon we outdistanced and LOST
>, sight Of them. Later we heard thai
,, two Of the enemy's aeroplanes ha6
been brought down by our artillery.
3 with q threefold hurrah we now
.. few over the border toward a battle
~ field Of the war Of 1901, which w
~ reached without any further untowart
= incidents Here we noticed long col
a umns Of troops marching from tn,
~ south toward the northeast. We cir
cIed around the place and then startel
toward Mas.
:. 1--WE were now continually fired on
:" l saw, among other things, bow a bat
talon Of infantry stopped In tho stree
&c and aimed at us. Silently and Quietl
>, we sat In our taube and wonders
Il what would happen next Suddenly
noticed faint quivering throughou
~ the whole aeroplane. That was al
as saw Iatel Que Oh Inc QIaneS IA
four holes made by rifle bullets, bu
U without changing our course ON "
u few"
VI Lieutenant Champagne Of the Frenc
nc aviation corps. while flying over til
Az German lines at the height Of mill
1,e was subjected to the enemy's fire.
- she'll struck his machine. and he stoy
70 ped the motor.
The aeroplane oscillated vioaentl.
but the lieutenant succeeded I'm 70
planning into the French Ines b
ia landed safely and gave important IL
~ formation concerning the German %
sitiOn.
of Soorns Eleven Wounds.
ler A correspondent at st. Petersbu,