battalions of English, Gaarda are Bava, yes 8.
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Avrgoritarive news has reached Chester of an act of great bravery performed by the Duke of Westminster on the battlefield. He was in the company of Captain Grenfell and Lieutenant Percy Wyndham, son of the Countess Grosvenor, in a hot engagement, when Captain Grenfell was wounded. The Duke, of Westminster, at great personal risk, and in the face of a heavy fire, carried the captain into safety.
A strixino war incident is told by one of the Worcesters who was in the thick of the fight at Mons. He is now back at home at Tipton, Btaffs, practically recovered from his wounds, He was struck by a piece of shrapnel and rendered unconscious. A French cavalryman found him and carried him ten miles to @ Red Cross van, and when they parted the Frenchman took a chain off his neck and gave it to the British soldier as a keepsake.
A telegram from Geneva, dated September 16, states that important documents just obtained show that Germany planned the violating of not only Belgium and Luxemburg. but Switzerland also, 90 as "turn" the Belfort fortress. The speedy Swiss mobilization in forty-eight hours defeated the German project. Swiss officers discussed this plan with indignation, Two hundred and fifty thousand Swiss are ready to prevent any such attempt.
Tuzre seems to be no doubt that joven the German officers, as they advanced on the day before their final check, shared the illusion that Paris was besieged, and that already their comrades might camped in the Place de VOpéra, says a correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle." When they learned something ut the truth they were stupified. This fact and the rainfall help to explain the su'donness and completeness of their breakdown.
Tue Imperial Chinese Vase from the Summer Palace, Peking, which was presented by the Emperor of Chine to the Into Sir Holliday Macartney, K.0.€.0., and which his son is eelling for the benefit of various war relief funds, was includ. ed in a sale by auction held on September 24. Messrs. Garland-Smith and Ca., of Mount Street, Grosvenor Square, auctioneers, announced that they would make no deductions from the proceeds for commission or expenses.
A WMAKKAMLE recruiting few been performed by the Rev. F. C. Load, Vicar of Stokenchurch, @ little village in South Oxfordshire.
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