The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-02-20
Every Man at the Front Has a
Story to Tell That Would Out
live the Best Selling Best Sell
ers If He Could Tell It as an
Author Could - Strange Incl
dents Are Continually Being
Recited by the Soldiers.

TAT HILE the mighty war Of
wv nations progresses, which
eventually is to decide the
fate Of several Of the worlds
greatest powers, the fate of each indi-
yidual soldier is also hanging in the
balance. Each minute of his life is a
lifetime In itself when facing fire or
performing some dangerous duty.
Each one, II he were a writer, after a
battle could tell a story 81 thrilling it
would put the efforts Of the author OF
4 best seller completely to shame.
Men in the trenches fight and die,
never to be heard from again, while
others are permitted to tell their deeds
10 Z listening world because Of a
chanco meeting with q correspondent,
4 letter written home or by an act Of
bravery Of unusual merit which comes
to the attention Of the officers.
Hittfns m Air Scout.
a German artflerist writing from
France tells OF the death Of a French
aviator who was brought down by Ger
man gunnefs.
To-day / saw a French aviator
brought down by our guns" he said.
The French fiers had been growing
holder and holder, especially In recon
noiter1ng behind our 'front.' and 30 we
concealed q half battery of howitzers
In . village about four miles to the
rear In order to teach them a lesson.
Things happened as we expected. By
8 o'clock In the morning there came
IN aeroplane, sailing along with the
greatest assurance In the world. The
guns at the front were not permitted
to Gre. and after passing them the
aviator, thinking all danger past, kept
coming lower and lower, reaching final
~ q level of only about 1000 feet
Not s~uspecting that he would encount-
q German artillery so far in the rear
he came within easy shooting distance
for our gunners In the village.
suddenly two shots were heard.
and two little white clouds were OBJ
served In the air not far from the aero
plane. The aviator remained virtually
at the same spot until he was almost
enveloped by the next two cloudlets.
One shot exploded just in front of him,
the other Just behind him. Our men
had got their range very quickly.
The next two shots, fired almost
simultaneously, settled its fate. The
FIRST one cut OF a wing smoothly; the
other was a square hit, and the appa-
ratns was scattered to the four winds.
/ have not seen such a beautiful shot
In the whole war;"
Detached Force MoIests Germans.
In all its wealth of heroic actions the
present war contains no more surpris-
ing episode than one which has just
been brought to light. The facts are
as follows:
For over four months. ever since
Aug. %, an organized company of $50
French soldiers have been living in
the Belgian provinces Of Luxembourg
and Namur, and, although surround
ed entirely by the German forces oc-
cupying Belgium, they have constantly
escaped capture. For more than four
months they have conducted a guer-
rilla warfare against their foes, in
nicting heavier losses and more dam
age than could be done by al entire
regiment in the open. and every at
tempt of the Germans to dislodge them
from the mountain forests where they
have fornd ref--r hos fai'eh.