The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-10
LEFT ALL BEHIND
IN RAPID FLIGHT
FROM FORT vAUx
Germans Unable to Move Sup
plies in Retreat.
Munitions and Food Fell to
Army of France.
|TEUTONS' DOG WAS CAPTURED
Only Occupant of Fort Enlists
Under Tri-COlOrs.
Total German Losses in Verdun
Battle 100000.
Germans Unable to Move Sup
plies in Retreat.
Munitions and Food Fell t
Army of France.
TEUTONS' DOG WAS CAPTURED
Only Occupant of Fort Enlists
Under Tri-COlOrs.
Total German Losses in Verdun
Battle 100000.

With the French armies at Verdun.
Nov 1O.-The only German occupant
of the shell SCARED, battered, but still
firm Fort Vaux, when the French tri-
umphantly entered it, was a monde
script dog, and he is now being treated
with all the honors of war-but out of
German supplies. Such was their
haste in abandoning the fort that the
Germans left behind a million cart
ridges 5000 meat rations, 5000 bot
ties of mineral water and large guam
titles of anti-tetanus serums and other
drugs now unobtainable outside of
Germany.
With their artillery in place, the
Fort Vaux garrison now dominates the
entire Woevere plains. New lines of
German entertainments are vaguely
visible several kilometers Off They
are in low, marshy ground where 1t
will be practically impossible to en-
trench firmly.
In the twelve hours 1 was in the
fort, from Wednesday morning until
dusk, the Germans shelled it almost
constantly, the big projecticles thud-
ding down every moment with clock
like regularity. Some hit the roof,
making the whole structure reverber-
ate, but without doing damage.
The garrison was gay and watched
with interest while the commandant
counted the hits. Lieutenant blot, the
first French soldier to re-enter Vaux.
came up and, 1aughingly saluting
Mon captain" said:
1.-The question of your observation
post has been finally settled. A Ger
man shell just destroyed the one you
chose, so you will have to take mine" y
Picked News From Air.
The first intimation to the French
| that Vaux had been abandoned came
when the Paris wireless picked a Ger
man semiofficial story to the Ameri-
can press out of the air. The French
had then almost entirely surrounded
the fort and were Smelling it with four
hundred millimeter guns with a pre-
cision which would have made it's con-
tinued tenancy by the Germans i'm
possible.
With the news dot and his COM
pany Immediately returned and sue
ceeded, with few extensions, in rem
dering useless the planted mines, with
which the Germans had intended to
blow up the fort after French occu-
patton. The several that did not ex-
plode went off prematurely and did
only a superficial damage.
Hear Hughes Elected.
One of the prizes of the French was
the record book of the German com
mandant, containing plans for the re-
organization for the fort and data on
the killed and wounded in the recent
fighting. The new figures lead the
French to estimate the total German
loses at Verdun at 100000
At noon Wednesday the garrison
heard that Hughes had been elected
The word came by wireless to General
Mangin, who planned the entire re-
taking operation. He spread it tele-
phonically to all the stations along the
line. The men were greatly inter
eSted.
But the dog. AS I left, he was in
the hands of two "Poilus." They were
feeding him as he probably hadn't beer
fed in weeks. His tail was wagging.
In another day or two he is expected
to enlist under the tri-colors.