PAGE TWO.
THE REVIEW: REIDSVILLE, N. C.
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1915
LATE ST
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ORIES FnOffl WAR FRUNT
TEEfB ith m.vm.
German Officer, Mortally
Wounded In Trench, Kept
Diary of Anguish
Ten Days.
FROM numerous sources stories
--frour tbe front in the Ivin'opcun
'- war are reaching this country.
The devotion of a dg lor iiis
wounded master is described in a let-tt-i
Just received iu New York city from
Laurence V. '.I tenet, a member 'of the
committee of management of the Amer
ican ambulance hospital iu Paris:
"A very interesting case turned up a
lew days ago. A private suidicr of a
r.ou.ne regiment was severely wound
ed near the Heljdau frontier. Wucu he
left Algiers lie was followed by" his
dog, a very handsome white and liver
colored setter, and thin dog followed
Ids comimuy throughout the campaign
anil Into the trenches, every niiiht
Ftinriug his master's blanket, so that
they managed to keefTiffiriyvSrii7 and
comfortable together. Dining u vio
lent bombardment by the German ar
tillery a heavy shell struck the parapet
of the trench, killing about u dozen men
and burying this man deeply under the
earth. The dog managed to diy him
out. exposing his face, before he was
completely suffocated, and theu man
ged to pill the attention of men lu
the 'adjacent trench by seizing their
clothing with his teeth and dragging
them toward his burled master. ."The
man was finally dug 8) ft and was found
to be very badly wounded with frag
ments of shell, pebbles and peees of
earth that were driven Into his body,
lie has lost one leg so far. and we
may have to take the other oft.
"The dog managed to force his way
. Into the hospital train and reached
Aubervilllers, near Paris, where man
and dog were brought Into our hospital
with one of our ambulances. I had a
kennel built for the dog. and he Is now
living near the kitchen and visits his
master in the ward once or twice a
day. It Is really touching to see bis
devotion and Lis evident distress at his
master's suffering."
Boasts of Twenty-six Wounds.
There, is a friendly rivalry among
the wounded In the Berlin hospitals for
the distinction of having the worst
hot tip man in the war. . One who
claims twenty-six wounds holds the
present record, but Horst Tfeiffer is
envied for his remarkable combination
at npril mill luck.
Near plxmude he received an order
which be was to take on his bicycle to
the firing line. lie had to pass on his
way a road that was exposed to a hot
machine gun tire from the enemy. He
was hit eight times and dropped off
Into a ditch at the side of the road, but
succeeded nevertheless In handing his
message, to another soldier, who car
ried U. to its destination. One bullet
had grazed. his skull, another passed
through the upper Jaw, one through
tbe chin, one, through the bone of the
Mgbt arm, .and one struck his left
wrist Two others struck his helmet
and his shoes, , Ilia comrades finally
succeeded in rescuing him from his
dangerous position and sent him to
Berlin, where be has been awarded an
Iron cross, ' .,. :( r . . .,'
Auntie Wanted Real Hero.
An automobile drew up at the Qua!
d'Orsay, says Le Rlre, and the chauf
feur, a young man well groomed,
shaved to perfection, wearing the uni
form of a private and with u brassard
ou his arm bearing the letter A (auto
service). Jumped out ami embraced an
elderly w oman who was walking along.
"My dear uunt! How are you? It is
our months since 1 have seen you.'"
'Yes. I only got back to Paris yester
day. Anil you. my dear boy. how
Iiroud of you 1 nm!"
"You ought to be. There are not
many fellows who have gone through
what I have."
-Tell me."
"In the first place. I was not anxious
to carry a knapsack and trudge along.
Bo I volunteered for service with my
automobile and was at once accepted
Then came the first setback. They
wanted to. put a machine gun In the
tonueau. I did not care fpr that sort
of work, so I boaght another machine, i
a light ninabout. and abandoned ray
j fifty horsepower. It .cost .20,000 francs
$4.000. but my skin is worth that.
The littlo machine struck the eye of
A general In charge of a fortified camp
and he made me his chauffeur. .Flue;'
But at the end of September he caught
rold and began to complain of the air
at high speed.
"I wid to myself. 'He Is going to
leave me for a closed machine. In
war. you know, one needs resolution
and energy. I displayed both. I
taught another machine, a big llmou
sine, fitted de luxe, with a light motor
running smoothly arid slowly. It tick
led blm to death. It cost me .10.000
francs Sd.OO0i more, but what of thatt
My skin Is worth It So now. you see.
toy dear aunt, bow your nephew extri
cated himself from difficult altuatlons."
"And you really carried all thla out
yourself, my dear?"
"I certainly did. aunt"
"Tell me. my boy. you expect to be
wnj belr. don't you?"
"I certainly hope ao. my dear aunt:
particularly after all these exKne."
"Welt remember. I am a woman of
fay word. If you do not lea re your
automobiles and yonr general and th
Rich Aunt
Heroism
Demanded Real
From Nephew.
Devotion of Dog
For Master. j
rest of your roddlfng. and If you don't
try to get yourself killed before this
War Is over you shall not get a cent"
And the Indignant dowager moved
off. head in nir.
His Wife's Allowance.
Illustrative of the social leveling In
fluence of war, the following incident
Is told of two Englishmen:
A new commanding officer was ques
tioning a smart young corporal.
"Are you married?" asked the officer.
"Yes, sir."
"I'on't you think you ought to make
her some allowance out of your pay?"
continued the odicer.
"If you think It necessary, sir," re
plied the private.."!, will, sir. I'm keep
ing up. the house and car and allow
ing her (oo a year, but If you think
an extra sixpence a day would be any
good to her 1 am perfectly willing."
War Redeems an Apache.
Not long before tbe war a notorious
apache asked a Paris-police captain
for a Job ns stool pigeon, burglary be
ing dull for the moment. The captain
accepted, whereupon the apache held
out his hand, but the captain turned
away.
The other day the captain got a post
card from the apache at the front. It
read; '
"You refused to shake my hand late
ly. Yon were quite right. But now I
think you'd consent to shake my hand,
for I've only one left"
The captain admits he would shake
bands now.
Put Batteries In White.
A device by which the Uermaus have
helped whiter mask their batteries in
the field lu northern France is describ
ed in a letter written to the Frankfur
ter Zeltuug by a Journalist now serv
ing as nn artillery olticer at tfie' front
For Weeks, he said, the German bat
tertes in shifting positlous had been
hurling their iron hail against the
French near Lille. Then snow fell.
covering the landscape with white. Iu
vain the French officers on observa
tion sought to discover the German
batteries as on the day before by
watching for tbe suu glint on the metal
parts. Everywhere there was but an
unbroken stretch of white.
The Germans, the writer explains,
had turned each battery Into white by
wrapping the wheels and gun carriage
with white towels, sheets and curtains
and stretching a white sheet in front
of it Suddenly a central patch in the
white sheet was drawn away, and the
white nose of the cannon was pointed
upward through it The very artil
leryman who touched it off, the corre
spondent adds, was dressed In white
from top to toe in a ludicrous long
nightgown, and the entire battery and
Its crew were quite indistinguishable
amid the white of tbe snow covered
landscape.
Kept Diary of Anguish.
For ten nights during the recent
heavy fighting In the vicinity of Yprea
the soldiers In the opioslug trenches
listened to the plaintive cry of a
wounded man. The trenches on both
Ides of a narrow, muddy canal were
not more than 100 yards apart Both
Germans and French knew the cry
was, that of a wounded man In need
of water.
Whenever a German or a Frenchman
tried to creep out of a trench to reach
the sufferer bullets found the would
be rescuer. On the tenth 'day the bat
tle tide rolled onward, and the French
found In a hollow a German officer,
bis head pillowed on a knapsack, an
open diary by bis side. A smile was
on his race. Between the leaves of
the diary was n photograph of his wife
and two little children.
A bayonet had pierced him through.
but for nine days and nights before
the end came he bad devoted his ebb
ing strength to writing a record of
nguisli, physical and mental.
The diary has been sent to the lady
of the photograph. On n blank page
French commander has written, "To j
the wife of a noble gentleman who
died a hero."
Earl Thrice Wounded.
Lieutenant the Earl of Kingston, of
the First Irish guan's. ought, accord
ing to his own estimate, to be dead.
He is now lying at the it Hilary hospb
tal. Denmark Itill.-In - southeast Lou
don, suffering from the effects of three
bullet wounds and a fractured thigh.
Telling how that came about, he said:
"We had n bad day on Nov. I.
About half past 7 o'clock" iu the morn
ing the must damnable shell fire start
ed, salvos of their big hlh explosives
Intermittently with what they call
'universal. It has three distant burst.-
one forward, one segmental uui.
straight down, third segmental back
ward. This lasted till half-past I
o'clock. 1 called the roll in the treiub
and found I bad only one killed aud
two wounded in spite of the spltefu'
fusillade. Of course, if we had not
had a good trench we were all In.
1 walked down to the next trench
where Captain Mnlbolland was. report
ed all well. etc.. and that 1 expected
an attack. He bud not bad such n had
helling., but bad lost two more meu
Iban I. ,Ab"f '2 V ! suddenly they
started shelling again. Our guns aa
swered their tire, but there was nosfgn
of an attack. The howitzers, however,
had our range exactly. Suddenly I
nw the Gordons retiring, followed by
thousands of Germans We could do
nothing. If we shnr there was as
much cluun e of killing our own men
ns the enemy, ijs ihey seemed all mix
ed fop-Onions, Oxford aud Ger
mans. "They were enfilading our trenches.
no we drew hu'k on our I - -1' fifty yards
and I made our nn ii swrt throwing up
a lie down trench ns best they could,
but the enemy turned a Maxim on us
and I went down before it was com
pleted, 1 had ,a rotten time. They
shot at me on the ground, and shells
burst all round. 1 had had my hat
shot a way before I fell. Then my ser
geant and a drummer carried meawav.
1 hear nce both chaps have been kill
ed. It seems wonderful to be alive.
Even when our medical officer was
dressing me two shells came through
the roof aud he 'dropped, my injured
leg. How It did hurt! And, poor chap,
be got covered with boiling water. I
am afraid there are few left In the
regiment"
Knew Where It Would End.
An officer attached to the British
headquarters in a letter to hla wife
writes:
"In war the viows and ideas of your
enemy are at least as instructive and
interesting as any comments you may
beur from your own people. There
fore the following notions from the
lips of a German ollicer recently cap-
lureu are certainty wormy or your
consideration, us the conclusion he
drew, contained a stroug element of
Common sense.
"lie was asked how long be thought
the wur would last He replied that
he was unable to form a definite opin
ion, but that he would be very pleased
to prophesy where It would end. So
he was asked to proceed and then said,
'Within forty yards of where I was
captured.' "
What Worried Him.
Maurice Donuay has received at the
French academy a letter from a friend
iu a dugout at the front- It contained
not a word about the fighting or the
"Jack Johnsons" or the weather iu the
trenches. The writer was troubled
about only one thing he was afraid
that the academy, which has been re
vising Its dictionary of the French lan
guage for about threescore years, might
have already reached the letter "I,"
and about one word under the letter
"I" this orthographer In the trenches
holds strong views.
The word is that commonly and, ac
cording to him, wrongly written "in-
lassable" (Indefatigable). He implored
M. Dounay to bring all his Influence to
bear upon the academy to insure-the
word being written "ilassable" in the
revised edition of tbe dictionary., That
Was tbe only topic be wrote about It
waa apparently the one uppermost In
his mind. '. .
M. Dounay assured him that the
academy was working on the letter "E"
and that tbe war would be over long
before It got to "I." ..." ... .r ,'',,.
Pictures Night Alarm.
The modern battlefield at night does
not lack picturesqueness, according to
a German officer wbose opportunities
to be impressed have been many. In
a letter to a friend he wrote:
"Being on observation duty at night
Is not aa lonely a Job as you think.
Time passes very quickly. There are
nights, however, when every minute
seems an hour. All that depends upon
circumstances and your own frame of
mind.
"War here h more intense than it is
in the east. My observation post lies j
ciose to tiio unes or tne r rencn on a
hill. From there I report tbe move
ments of the enemy aud direct our ar
tillery, fire. Over me fly hundreds of
shells and shrapnel from both sides.
"A shower of them came last night
Until about 10 o'clot k all was quiet.
From out of the night came the usual
battlefield noises, if noises one could
call them. Somewhere men spoke iu
an undertoue, what language 1 don't
know. Then came the sound of foot
falls. A man coughed In a suppressed
manner, aud (be steps of another were
recorded by the faint voice of two me
tallic .'.substances' striking together
Then the .tdeps and other sounds van
lshed, and I replaced my revolver,
There was not lung to be seen until,
to my right the rifles in a French
trench began to sputter. Little tongues
of purplish tire seemed to leap across
the ground, a ml through the air went
the wail of thousand of bullets. What
they shot at I could not discovery-false
alarm, of course. But they kept It up
valiantly, and the excitement com
municated itself to the trenches In
front of me and to those beyoud on
my left
"Headquarters wanted to know what
Was the matter. After confessing my
Ignorance I returned to my task of
observing things in the dark, Soon
the fire bucatne general. The battle
field assumed an aspect w hich 1 would
call beautifully terrible, There were
moments when It resembled a large
city in which the Inhabitants passed'
the night by pulling up and down the
nil utters of their windows. Of a sud
den whole rows of houses .would be
lighted up, us the men in the trenches
fired volleys. For a moment a. part of
this city would He In utter darkness.
uud then would rise from H the col
timns of fire emitted by the howltxet
batteries. The pillars of fire would
Mae almost perpendicularly, giving the
.mpression that you were looking upon
n vast nuniler of steel ovena.
"For the ereater part of an hour the
ihDih'nr t-otiHnmd. Then the out.
break- Jerut-iied In volume and fre
quency and finally died dut altogether."
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RESOURCES:
CM
Loans and Discounts,
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured.
North Carolina State Bonds,
AH other Stocks, Bonds and Mortgages
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures,
Demand loans, v 1
Due from Banks and Bankers, 40,743.43
Cash Items, . 2,080.38
Gold Goin, 4,492.50
Silver coin, including all minor ; :
. coin currency, 3,278.75
National bank notes and other
U. S. notes, 15,300.00
$330,191.49
2,025.13
3,000.00
6,000.00
48,753.76
6,50000
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Total,
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$462,365.44
$75,000.00
40,000.00
165,649.26
165,071.73
32.48
6,613.45
1,768.00
330,753.47
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$462,365.44
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