The dragoon cantered along the moonlit road, until suddenly, in the shadow of the trees, he found himself in the midst of a group of horsemen--Germans. He had a carbine across the neck of his horse and fired point blank into the breast of a German trooper, with whose horse his own collided. The German was as quick with his weapon and both men fell to the ground, the German dead, the British soldier with a bullet through his hip. An instant later the British squadron came clattering up and cut the German detachment--about thirty strong--to pieces. SAVED HIS COMMANDER In the orders of the day made public at Bordeaux numerous cases of bravery are cited. Two of them follow: “Private Phillips of the Second Battalion of riflemen, during the battle ran out under fire to his captain, who was mortally wounded, and brought him in. Private Phillips went eight times to the firing line under violent shelling to give water to the wounded and he also assisted his commandant to rally riflemen dispersed by the enemy’s fire. “Bugler Martin of the 14th Hussars, a member of a patrol commanded by Lieutenant de Champigny, in a fierce skirmish with a German patrol, seeing his commander wounded and captured, charged the German officer who had made a prisoner of De Champigny, killed him with his own hand and rescued De Champigny.” GETTING REAL CRUSTY “Vienna Bakeries” all over France have now changed their title to “Parisian Bakeries,” says a Paris correspondent. BATTLES QUITE THE THING When fighting was general about Brussels smart women of the Belgian capital motored out to watch battles in the cool of the afternoon as gaily as though going to the races, says an Ostend correspondent. CHILD PLAYED AMID DEAD Here is part of the description of scenes on the battlefields on the banks of the Marne as told to a Paris correspondent by an eyewitness: “The greatest optimism reigns. I saw the remains of blown-up bridges and hundreds of lifeless horses and mules in the deserted trenches. Dead soldiers had been buried and the wounded cared for, and some priests were throwing burning brushwood on carcasses. “In the blazing sunshine not far away I saw a little boy, son of a Turco--for the Turcos often bring their wives and children on or near the battlefield. “He had a rifle of some wounded soldier which he was hugging in his little arms as if it were a toy. He was perfectly happy surrounded by evidences of death, destruction, suffering and blood. His father was lying wounded in a village close by. The child had strayed away.” POISONING WATER A Petrograd correspondent says: “Wounded officers who have returned from East Prussia charge that the Germans are poisoning the water. A woman brought water to soldiers and they immediately became ill. Their officer tendered the water to a German, who refused to drink it, and when analyzed it was found to have contained arsenic.” TRIED TO ROW TO WAR