The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-30
SEX RlOVEID
nr.n e0 M - GAS NEWS OF
ulnu u'THE ARDMORE FIELDS
HISTORY REPEATED
WAR INCIDENTS RECALL PHASES
or EARLIER CONFLICTS.
Famous Strztagems and Gallant Acts
Of Warriors Long Dead Are Brought
To Mind BY Daring of Present Day
Fighters.

" heard around the world had It's paf
u aliel in the shot that came from IN
70 pistol held by Gavrio Prinzip whicl
brought death to Archduke Francis Fer
o dinand and his wife, and plunged th'
& world into war
Horatius. who defended the bridg,
across the Tiber. has had his counter
= part in many an individual, and Pau
Y Revere's ride was made Thousand
0 times when the kaiser let loose his dogs
5 of war.
0 IL was in 5eT Il. c. that Horatiu.
, gallan,ly defended the bridge against
I the army Of Lars Porsena. king of Clu
stun. The modern Horatius at the
bridge was Highlander, one OF the
, thousands OF unknown heroes.
One hundred and fifty men were de
, tailed TO hold bridge. The German
advance was temporarily held up by
the courage OF these men. Finally a
silent Maxim was left standing with its
gun crew lying dead in ring around
IL. IL had been loaded and the belt or
the gun was charged when all the gun.
ners were wiped out. There II stood on
its tripod silent and the Germans ad.
vanced.
suddenly in full view Of the ADVANCING
foe lone Highlander rushed out. seized
the Maxim. shouldered IL. ran across
/
IL. Then he opened hail OF bullets
on the advancing column. which broke
down and took to cover. lie had checked
the advance. this lone Horatius. and
enabled reinforcements 20 come up. They
arrived too late TO relieve him. for when
he dropped thirty bullets had cut him
down. but he had saved the bridge
In the Franco-Prussian war a dis
patch was lost" which might have
averted the French defeat in 1870. Ba-
zaine whose message Marshal McMa
hon never received. was after the was
ordered shot for treason. a sentence
which was commuted to twenty years
Imprisonment
Early in the war when Field Marshal
John French and General Joffre were
straining every nerve TO hold back the
German advance. which they did finally /
AT the Marine. a French general. so the |
story goes. refused TO open orders sent /
by an officer who had been promoted 4
over his head The message. like the /
dispatch in the Franco-Prussian war. |
was lost" and a division which was /
left without support was almost ami /
Inflated. The story goes that the gen.
eral was ordered shot.
Sea Exploits Duplicated.
The first Victoria Cross in the Crit i
afterward rose to be a rear admiral. /
Com. c. n. Lucas. who. when a shell,
sizzling but uneXploded. fell on the
deck. picked il up with his hands and
cast IL into the sea The tossing over
board Of the shell undoubtedly saved
the British flagship.
At the battle OF Jutland. when the
fleet OF Germany and Great Britain met
for the first time in combat. British
bluejacket picked up an unexploded
shell and tossed IL overheard. saved
his ship and won the Victoria Cross
Germany's sea raiders recall the ac-
tivities OF Confederate raiders in the
Civil war. The Emden bagged "A score
Of ships in the Indian ocean; the speedy
Karlsruhe captured many merchant
men. and the Dresden and Leipzig gath
cred in others before they themselves
had their careers ended. but none of Ger
nany's commerce destroyers approached
the record Of the Confederate cruiser
Alabama. which in the China seas In.
iian ocean. Caribbean sea and the At
antic captured 50 United States yes
sells. while the bag OF the Florida to-
-alei 81. the Shenandoah SO, the Tai
ahassee %. the sumter IL and the .
racOny l. In a little less than two
ears the Alabama had sailed rs 600
niles before she net the Kearsarge and
s.-s s--aS Of Che-5JIrg Ii
A. the conference at ChatiIlon in 1915
he allied nations representatives go.
ogether and agreed that no separate 4
,e1re should be made with Napoleon. ;
Early in the war Great Britain. France !
md Russia signed such an asreemen. !
gsinst the Huns and since then every :
lation that is fighting the Hohenzoi. :
erns has agreed that there shall be !,
10 separate peace made with Germany i,
Camouiisge in war is not new: n n.,- .
zen used in hundreds Of forms on the >
'sttleheld and elsewhere. The wooden :
iorse of Troy had its counterpart m
si5 when the steamship River Clyde.
which was used as a transport in the
indinS Of troops At Soddul- Bahr. on
he Gallipoli Peninsula deceived the
turks
Apparently the ship got out OF con.
roI and the British beached the vessel
car the proposed landing place. Then.
! a spectacular way. the crew took 70
he boats and rowed or The Turks
aw in the Bleaching nothing more than
n accident. That night thousands Of
oldiers hidden on board effected a land
X under cover Of darkness.
Ancient Devices in Trenches.
The device used by the French 70 hurl
n the principle of the catapult used By
esiegilg armies 10 hurl stones into
slled cities.
Another ancient device USED in
ench warfare i the shield used by
,nnh throwsrs 10 protect themselves
ON bullets OF the enemy. In fact
any Of the instruments Of warfare
'vised or used by Pericies. Archimedes
Ceilini. Hannibal Caesar. Ma
'leon. Wellington. Moltke and Grant
I've been made more efficient.
Helmet styles have not changed in
INJURIES There Is a curious reseIIl-
ance between the iron pots worn by ge
cient knights and those employed by ha
= soldiers Of America and Europe tn
deed. ancient and uiediaeval armor
ting hack 10 the time Of the crusades str
: beer initiated by the twentieth cen ISL
~. Some OF the designs found in tn,
I~eums isaVe not even been altered vol
K IS ri1rs thar ice years since the tn,
r of lSie. vhel wooden ships ma cal
i.rtrcc f1r fso- tim. poured hs,oad-
- into sne snotheT. and uers fas- "a.
'ei tcgether while the CRY went up Ia,
fhe hoarters a irht hand 10 h8nsi -
ch encounters had their parallel in 70
y var when two British desiroys-s CIR