A young reserve officer who has returned to Paris, relating how he captured the sword of a Bavarian colonel, said: “When charging the Bavarians I noticed that their colonel was striking his own men with his sword to prevent them from running away. He was so occupied in this that he forgot the approach of the French and was shot dead.” THINK OF KAISER AND GOD A Rouen correspondent has obtained possession of the diary of a German officer, who surrendered to a party of stragglers, and quotes the following from it: “Aug. 5.--Our losses to-day before Liége have been frightful. Never mind; it is all allowed for. Besides the fallen are only Polish beginners, the spilling of whose blood will spread the war lust at home--a necessary factor. Wait till we put our experts on these deluded people. “Aug. 11.--And now for the English, who are used to fighting farmers. _Vorwärts, immer vorwärts._ To-night William the Greater has given us beautiful advice: ‘You think each day of your Emperor; do not forget God.’ His Majesty should remember that thinking of him we think of God, for is he not the Almighty’s representative in this glorious fight for the right? “Aug. 12.--This is clearly to be an artillery war. As we foresaw, the infantry counts for nothing. “Aug. 15.--We are on the frontier; why do we wait? Has Russia really dared to invade us? Two hussars were shot to-day for killing a child. This may be war, but it is the imperial wish that we carry it on in a manner befitting the most highly cultivated people. “Aug. 14.--Every night now a chapter of the war of 1870 is read to us. What a great notion! But is it necessary?” PENANCE, NOT TENNIS The _Daily Chronicle’s_ correspondent at Amsterdam telegraphs as follows: “The Cologne _Gazette_ says: ‘A thousand English soldiers are now prisoners of war at the Döberitz military exercise ground near Berlin. “‘It is proposed to give English officers facilities for tennis and golf, but this plan is opposed by the _Gazette_, which says that men of the nation which plunged Germany into the war will be better occupied sitting down thinking of their country’s sins.’” CROSS ON PRIEST AS TARGET “Official couriers arriving here from the American Legation at Brussels witnessed a fresh sample of German atrocity toward the conquered Belgians,” says a correspondent in Antwerp. “Passing slowly through Louvain in an automobile, they saw sitting outside a partly burned house a boy 8 years old whose hands and feet had been cut off at the wrists and ankles. The Americans stopped and asked the child’s mother what had happened. “‘The Germans did it,’ she said with spiritless apathy. “Evidently in terror lest she had said too much, she refused to answer further questions. The child’s wrists and ankles were bandaged as if the frightful injuries were inflicted recently. Details of the shooting down of one Jesuit priest of Louvain were told to the American couriers by another priest who witnessed the affair.