The latest charges against the British censor comes from Germany,
where it is asserted that the censor deleted entirely the message
sent by the Kaiser to the Queen of Spain at the death of her
brother. The message, the Germans declare, never reached its
destination.
* * * * *
In a raid sixty Cossacks captured three hundred German cavalrymen.
The Cossacks were sent out to learn what was going on in
Czenstochowa. They divided into sections and dashed into the
sleeping town simultaneously. They killed a number of Germans before
they had time to crawl out of their blankets. Then they drove three
hundred Germans ahead of them to their lines. When the prisoners
were examined forty of them were found to be women dressed in
soldiers' uniforms.
* * * * *
Japan has transported two hundred big Krupp guns, together with the
men and officers for handling the guns, over the Trans-Siberian
Railway to the Russian front. For this service Japan is said to have
been promised that half of the peninsula of Saghalien which at the
present belongs to Russia. These guns were purchased by Japan from
Germany last year.
* * * * *
The King of Saxony has joined the troops in Belgium. His presence
greatly encourages the men. He is said to be taking the Kaiser's
place while the latter is in East Prussia exhorting his warriors
there.
* * * * *
When a wounded Belgian soldier was examined in the hospital a
leather purse was found in his pocket and in it a bent and broken
Belgian one-franc piece, part of which was missing. The purse itself
was badly gashed by a bullet. The man's wound did not heal readily
and the surgeon, probing deeper into the man's thigh, found the
missing part of the coin imbedded near the bone. It was removed and
the soldier speedily recovered.
EVEN THE BUTLER!
"I have the honor to inform you that I have enlisted in the 4th
Queen's," wrote a butler resigning his position with a wealthy Kent
family by whom he had been employed for fifteen years. "I hope my
leaving will not inconvenience you, but I feel that my obvious duty
is to do my little share toward the defence of my King and country,
especially as my work as an indoor servant is such as can be
done--and in times like these I think should be done--by women. No
single man with any patriotism can remain if he is able-bodied and
otherwise eligible to serve in the army."
"THEY ARE BRAVE MEN!"
"A Hindu belonging to a Lancer regiment to-day rebuked in my
presence a man who spoke slightingly of the German people," cables a
correspondent. "With amazing dignity he said:
"'Do not talk like that of the Germans. It is a great country which
can make war on five Powers. They are brave men who can fight and
die as the Germans do. The pity for them is that they are not so
well trained as we.'"
THOUGHT KIPLING SPY.
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