The Washington times., 1914-09-27
War Bulletins

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wounded Turcos wearing necklaces
of German ears were brought to~ths
French military hospitals in Havre.
according to Harry OwsIey, jr., of
Princeton, n. j., secretary in 1907
aud 1903 of the American legations IN
Paraguay and Uruguay. and at one
time halfback on the Princeton foot
ball team.
Between $50 and 1:3o Friday
eighteen trainloads Of wounded Ger
mans passed through Aix-la- Chap
pelle from France" says an Amster-
dam dispatch. -
Officers of General Won Kluck'.
staff are riding $4,000 worth of
American race horses. The animals
were the property OF jefferson Davis
Cohn. of New York They were
taken by the Germans at Chamont,
near Senlis, and a few wasted ami
mails were left in their place.
At least fifty aeroplanes have been
employed in clearing the English
Channel of floating mines during the
past week. An observer in an aero
plane from a high altitude can see
several fathoms down into the water
and the mine can be spotted easily.
The British government is deter
mined to keep as much foodstuff
out Of Germany as possible Food
stuffs assigned to neutral countries
accessible to Germany will not be
permitted to enter unless the gov
ernment assures England that the
food is not destined for Germany and
not intended to replace other sup
plies destined for Germany.
The administration of the Otto
man postoffice at Smyrna has noti-
fled the foreign postoffices that
they must remove their signboards
on October and hand over all mail to
the ottoman postal authorities in
order that the delivery of letters and
newspapers may be made by the
latter. This order is issued in con-
nection with the recent decree by the
porte that all Turkish institutions in
the future would be free from for
eign influences.
Prince, Oscar. the Kaiser's fifth
son. is suffering from a heart affec-
tion due to overexertion in the field,
and has been obliged to leave his
regiment and enter a hospital, ac-
cording to a Berlin dispatch via The
Hague.
oil
been paid by the German gunners
recently to the homes of President
Foincare and the members of his
family. located in the department of
the Meuse. A raris dispatch says
the French Presidents home at
Sampigny was bombarded with
special violence yesterday.
The powerful Austrian fortress Of
Pelagosa has been dismantled, ac-
cording to advices received from
the commander of the French fleet
by wireless.
A French soldier who drives an
automobile between the base and the
front gives an interesting account OF
the condition of German prisoners
captured a week ago. He was with
a small force which surrounded
$50 Germans in a woods. They were
famiShcd. he said. and had been liv-
ing on grass for several days. Some
OF them weer old men over fifty
years of age, and were baldheaded.
When a representative Of the
Austrian commander appeared before
the Servian commander to demand
the surrender of Belgrade the lat
ter answered: "Return to your camp
and within three hours you will re-
ceive my answer Three hours
later the Servian batteries reOpencd
fire on the Austrian positions across
the Danube.
King George. accompanied by Queen
Mary and Princess Mary, inspected
a huge section of the new army mo-
bilized by Field Marshal Kitchener
Yesterday. Most of the men were in
khaki. but here and there, says the
dispatch, were rows of men who had
not yet gotten their uniforms Alto
cethcr 10000 passed before their ma
jesties.
II is rumored in Petrograd that the
First Roumanian army corps has
been sent to the Austrian border.
on rctreatinE from Peronne the
Germans left behind them an entire
hospital staff I'm which there wcrc
seventy women nurses, each of whom
was armed with a repeating pistol,
according to a. Paris dispatch. When
asked why the nurses carried tho
arms contrary TO the rules of war.
tho surgeons in charge answered 10
command ''rCSpcCt for their PERSONS