The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1920-11-26

49, Ano6oAAhcs vi the ucWS bt1uus ~ | "
one whose name announces that It II Il
devoted to true stories, and q sub c
dtie calls attention to the good old a
proverb that truth Is stranger than 4
dction." Truth In this case makes c
the concession Of trying to appear as I
much like fiction as possible. But It Z
b not In the realm of imagination tina, s
one would look first for the verifi- |
cation of our ancient adage that truth
Ii stranger than fiction. The news OF
the world as 1t Is turned out day by
day II to q very large extent con-
cerned with the strange and unusual
thing. often paralleling fiction, often
going beyond it. The variety Of the
possible combinations Of circumstan-
ces il SO great as to surpass the i'm
agination of the most fertile fietiOnist,
says the New York Times.
Ask any one what events chronI-
cled In the newspapers are or have
been stranger than fiction, and the
Hrst answer will probably be the war
itself. The war, certainly. No one
did and no one could have imagined or
written down such a stupendous trag-
edy as the world has just gone
through. II Is a case where the plain
facts have far outdlstanced the ne
tionists as well as the historians
looking into the future. Old Bernardo.
: knowing what the German ruling class
had in mind, knew that war with
France and Russia was coming and
the world as whole had slowly been
prepared through years for Euro
pean clash. But no one foresaw q
conflict in which the whole worio
would be involved. a war which wouid
cost millions Of lives and money run
ming into the hundreds of billions o.
70 dollars.
% What Stranger Than This3
A. Not only the war as thing In It
" self. but unnumbered phases and Incl
r. dents Of the war passed beyond TIM
a. Imagination Of the men who wrote be
e. fore 1914. Americas part In 1t a'on'
u. forms an almost unbelievable episode
IN What writer would have dared dec
nv ade even ago, to have told OF a.
NJ American army Of 100000 men fight
en- ing over the old battlefelds Of Nortf
er ern France and Belgium?
ng What brilliant fictionist could hav
en- incurred the results OF the war; ~
tn restoration of crushed nations OF NJ
cd rome the breakup Of old empires
mt what revolutionary genius OF nctle
q, would have fancied Russia under u
10 po,sheyiki for nearly three year
his Who could have given an air OF res
,nc inv to a romance in 1913 dealing WI
its the fate Of the Gar of Russia
too Kaiser Wilhelm Of Germany!
Ugh The true stories Of the heroic dee
uch NJ the war, the personal exper'ehe
nth and tragic Incidents, are In many cas
in too strange and unreal to have pass
its unouestioned In the pages OF ncti
ing eun with a range OF seventy-l
los miles drops a shell into Paris Gnu
at the moment 1t lie crowded Tor ~
Eriday mass. No wonder that
DAVIS the world would not believe :
.rnx such thing had happened! Inc
.oL use of gas by the Germans aga
w. Tho british in the Ypres sector
i".v another fact the world could not u ;.
.S, itself to believe without great ell
A., Tho first air raids, the first SUP
49, r,ne attack on passenger ships
"a oven the announcement that tne
man troops were marching on FRI
through Belgium upset all the .
.,h If thinking in q supposedly
wv world A world which has
,hrough the days since August
~. vii, have no reason to DOUBT
.,,hs truth is stranger than fiction.
w. outdoes Jules Verne.
hsue' Tor wears the imaginative stor
the For yeaiD Wv .,.hr,.r;nas g
49, ,o Jules Verne on submarines !,
" "Twenty Thousand Leagues ohoe
Goa" was bromide among WI
n'auo ond takers who wished to menuo
mplex anu 'a .,ano, and the fantast
ltieh.s oo,natiye. Yet the vividness OF
story contained nothing so pie'u'
and certainly nothing SO true az
en,c tale Of underseas suHesi'''
cereals haro,sm brought into this por'
lie, Ave pn,sodalnhia from Off the Del
q mile canes recently by the Survivors
American submarine SO.
mates disabled in a practice crash
,son in tho submarine was tilted by ner
on one mander SO that her stern stoe
column 90 water and while cataracts
,lworth through her compartments a
would doors were opened between thel
X to cars and men climbed to the
the ship that stood above Inc
to fall not knowing that any pa..
rain at vessel was above the water hhe
day. For nearly thirty hours the ete
It cease t,ed for life, without drinking
in heavy atmosphere po,s'n ne
chlorine gas, and with only 81
food to eat. !. ),
grand They ripped ho'e re
very lit plates of the Vesse,' M s,cn
auntie on pipe ana waNeu also
i about help came. Then, each uis :,
70 alone araS,t for heroism by giving ?
Of con- some one else in the crew. . TN
ant take rsscued BY steamship captains
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