Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-21
YOUNG GIRLS AMBITION
IS RuDELY SHATTERED
She Wants to Go to Front and Serve
France, but Sex Is Dis
covered
WHAT GERMANS CALL DREAD"
French Journalist Has Three Kinds
Made Up From Kaiser's Formulate.
but His Stomach Balks at Each.
Furious Fighting Described.

Especial Gable to The Times-Di.patch
PARIS March 2o.-when your father
was dramatic author and your Chris
tian name Is France. you can hardly
be suspected. even though YOU are only
girl. TO cit meekry In schooiroorn
and go out for walks with the mistress
when great war Is being wased. and
your nanesnke. France. IS partially
invaded, and Russian schoolg..,s-ac-
cordinE to the ncwspapers-are enlist
ing like anything.
Al least. that is the way Mile France
bourgeois felt about Il; So one even
ing. just after dark. the sentinel or
duty by tho military motor park AZ;
Versailles saw slender figure ins.nu.
ating itself into one OF the crea: 'front.'
bound cars. He told his superior. who
opened tho door OF the car ana saw
huddled In q corner young smooth.
faced soldier IN Rn artillery uniform
whom he arrested
The arrested ones voice hands snd
especially his bu,;oued boots aroused
suspicion. The arreste- with .
brusauo. but not rough, gesture. sven;
on tho troopers kept and down
tumbled mass OF yellow hair
1t WAS Mile. France Bou-ceo!s. VINO
had felt that her President and conn
try needed her imagination, he herr.
ease-alnsi tho only one-ot her Gather.
the dramatst Mile. France has been
gently reprtnsnded and sen; back to
school
GERMAS-HANED BREAD
FAR FROM APpETIYING
Serge Raeset al ente7p-!s;nr French
journalist has had the tA7ee Kinds o:
German bread the X bread * *
bread. and the piss blood bread. es?e-
c'aily made for him by his Paris bake.
lie describes his feeling when H.. a;s
or these th!se kinds of bread All
three were made exactly according 10
German iorEau!ae, that Is 10 say. rye.
orsn and piss blood Tor the third kind
et bread
The X, bread looked appe,!z!nr Win
soieen crust but when cut II emitted
a sour smell After eating Some o, &;
Monsieur Basset suffered from seye..
indigestion. The pigs blood b-end
looked like "a piece OF charcoal wiz
marks OF m:ldew here and Their.
When cut the inside looked like dried
UP mold. The smell was strong, and
could be detected ten feet away. /,
was twofold s.nei!-a-s,ly. sour
sweet, and. secondly. smell reseu-
bling that of organic matter on the
verge Of decomposition The baker
refused 10 take any money for baking
the German breads
GIVES TERRIBLE PICTURE
OF FURIOUS STRUGGLE
young French soldier, who had
Just returned from the firing line. gives
terrible picture OF n furious struggle
In one OF the French trenches.
The Germans he says. began ,heI,.
attack upon us with their Twelfth
Corps of Saxons, composed mainly OF
fresh troops.
We did not think they could have
Inc audacity to leave their trenches IN
rull daylight but all OF 4 sudden we
saw them advance in column :or,na
lion with four ranks in close order the
hrst files without equipment. but with
their haversacks fun OF grcundcs
which they began 10 hurl AZ us.
immediately our artillery. mitran-
leuss' ana infantry opened a murder
GUS fire ana ~ tho end of = uuar,c,
or an hour we had corpses piled ward
nigh In front OF Us. hut II was I'M
=
they swarmed Oh like ants
our riiie.i We're $50 hot tina, they
were d'fii"nlt,"o hold. The Germans
came on and JUMPED into our trenches
ana II was then the tragic bushes.
began. Our hayoncts were OF no no..
at such close quarters, and /, vac
fearful hand-,o-hanG struggle W.
tousht with axes. pitchforks. shovcls
ana knives. II was horrible for N.
thaee quarters OF an hour that 1t lasted.
About midnight It began all over
again. when we contaminated r.,,,
several companies and in the end suc.
oeoaeo IN dislodg!ng them from some
OF their own trenches.
one very curious fact which wan,
10 put on record Is that all The CO.
mans who fought aga!ns, us ma 49,,
brandy mixed with ether. We ,,s,od
VIVA. remained OF some in the flask
or wounded German I, had n ,,n.,
peculiar TASTE"