“For several hours the Kaiser stood alone in an isolated spot in the full glare of the sun, his eyes glued to a field glass through which he was following the operations of his army. Finally he walked back to a waiting automobile and was driven away unattended.” TRAPS 28 GERMANS From Paris comes the story of the arrival of twenty-eight Prussian prisoners, the first to be seen in the French capital in the present war. It seems they had become separated from their regiment and lost their way. They asked a peasant near Meaux if the Germans had taken Paris and how to get there. The peasant replied that he thought Paris had fallen and would conduct them to the right road. When it was too late the Prussians found he was leading them into the British lines. ESCAPED WITH A LAUGH Telegraphing from Sydney, N. S. W., the Reuter correspondent says: “An attempt was made at Nauru Island, a German possession in the Pacific just south of the equator and near the Gilbert Islands, to seize the British steamship _Messina_. A German magistrate with a party in a small boat approached the _Messina_ and demanded to go on board her. “‘By whose orders?’ the mate of the _Messina_ asked. “‘By orders of his Majesty, the Emperor of Germany,’ the magistrate replied. “The mate laughed at the magistrate and ordered full speed ahead, and the _Messina_ soon reached the open sea.” “WEEL DONE, SANDY!” “A magnificent Gordon Highlander recently attracted attention at the Gare du Nord,” telegraphs a correspondent from Paris. “He was in fine humor, although he had been wounded in the side in the fighting on the Marne. He had a sword in his hand which, he explained, he had captured from a Uhlan directly after the German had struck him with it, and he had shot his assailant dead. “Some women of the French Red Cross on their way to the front caught sight of the Scotsman and hurried up to see if he was badly hurt. An animated conversation followed. The Highlander, anxious to express his gratitude to the French Florence Nightingales, hesitated a moment; then he kissed all of them on the cheeks. The crowd cheered delightedly and the nurses were not in the least abashed.” LIFEBOATS A MINE TRAP A London correspondent telegraphs the following incident: “The master of the Grimsby steam trawler _Agatha_ reports that while fishing in the North Sea he sighted a ship’s boat afloat, and supposing that some disaster had occurred went toward it, put out a boat and found the derelict to be a lifeboat supplied with sails, mast and oars. The _Agatha_ tried to tow the prize home, but immediately an explosion occurred, luckily too far distant to harm the trawler. “A careful examination revealed that a mine had been attached to the lifeboat by ropes and wires in such a manner as to explode and blow up any ship which steamed alongside the lifeboat to pick it up.” SHOOT POISONOUS GASES