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X, pig^-,.- :-rSB '?sfSf^^^P^^^P" FAR is so not only of life in the cities, but even in the field. Major Anton Nu meyer of the Twenty-third Bavarian infantry in a letter to his brother, John Numeyer, in Philadelphia, says: 'Teople far removed from the scene of this war are in no way able to ap preciate the ferocity of the fighting or the horrible suffering following the bat tles. Small battles with, us have been as large as the largest ever fought in the history of the world. "When one of our soldiers goes into a country he never knows when he will get out, nor does he know which country he is in, for that matter. He can write a letter if he's on the firing line, but he does not know where he is. "First I was fighting against the Rus sian mixed forces. From the eastern I was transferred to the western side near Luneville. Five consecutive days in the trenches near that place was a dreadful experience. If you lifted your head above the level of a trench you were apt to be left without it. Many a poor fellow lost his life that way. "The trenches are a war necessity, but to be intrenched in them brings in- BOY PRINCE OF BELGIANS GOES: TO FIGHT JB PRIVATE SOLDIER Vivid Stories of War's Horrors -Germans In Amazing Marches 5 Tell What Young Duke Will Outdo All Records of I Have to Face In Either Ancient or I Trenches. Modern Armies. more vivid pictures of condi tions in war stricken Europe are given in private correspondence than in the official reports. This ',*t* Photo by American Press Association. DUKE OP" BBABANT, HEIR TO BELGIAN THBONE, WHO HAS JOINED ABMY AS A PRIVATE. tense suffering and all kinds of dis eases. Yet despite this warfare our boys are in prime condition for any fight into which they may be ordered." Shells Sing a Mean Song. William Kysh, a New Yorker, who was in the old Twenty-second engi neers, New York national guard, and enlisted in Princess Patricia's Cana dians, writing home from France, shows that he is having no easy time with the allies. "Things are pretty tough here on the firing line," he writes, "especially sit ting in the trenches full of water and getting shelled all day. The 'Black Johnsons' which the Germans send us sing a mean song. But we are getting used to it now. We are gradually driving the Germans back, but thus far only by yards, and you may realize what work that is. "I am writing this in an old barn which has been occupied in turn by both French and Germans. All the ground we are now on has been fought over. We get a certain number of days in the trenches and then a certain number of days out, different regi ments relieving each other, and all get ting a turn at the good and bad fea tures of the campaign. In some places our trenches are only a matter of fifty yards from the Germans. There are all kinds of sniping going on both day and night and occasionally a charge." Duke of Brabant Not Fourteen. Just going to find what life in the trenches is like is the little Duke of Brabant, the not yet fourteen-year-old son of the king of the Belgians. He has joined the Twelfth infantry regi ment as a common soldier, according to reports from Dunkirk. Recently the prince, with a rifle on his shoulder and a knapsack on his back, marched past the king, the queen and Prime Minis ter de Broqueville in the midst of his company. The heir to the Belgian throne ex pects to enter the trenches whenever his regiment Is ordered to the firing line. Prince Leopold has been in constant touch with the Belgian army for three 'months. He begged his father, King Albert, to allow him to join, and ulti mately the king gave his consent. The boy joined on his father's fortieth birth day. When the regiment in which the young prince enlisted paraded before Ids mother and father the king ex- pressed his joy at seeing his son in such a heroic regiment, which had made a glorious defense of Dixmude. The prince is unusually tall and looks much older than his years. He was born "in Brussels Nov. 3, 1901. He has one brother, Prince Charles, who is eleven years old, and one sister, Prin cess Marie, who is eight. The home life of the Belgian royal family is said to be particularly happy, and the Duke of Brabant has seldom been away from his mother. Dispatch Rider In Perils. How death rides beside the dispatch bearer is shown in a letter Robert Stovold, a New York citizen, has re ceived **fcin his brother in France. The letter says: "Three times a week George has to take dispatches up to the firing line. Photo by American Press Association. GERMAN SOIiDIEBS HAVE MAIL BOXES FIXED TO TKEES OK ANYTHING HANDY. This is a pretty risky job, and he has had several narrow escapes. Once he had to jump out of his automobile and lie down for several hours while shells and bullets went whistling by over him. Another time as he was driving along with his automobile some Ger mans hiding in the woods fired at him. Fortunately they missed him, but sev eral of the bullets struck the automo bile. "Another time a shell burst twenty yards from him, but by a miracle he was not touched. He was enveloped in smoke, however, the fumes of the shell making him feel sick and giddy. George, however, seems to think it great sport." Germans Outdo Annies of Old. A Berlin letter says the prodigious marches of the Germans in East Prus sia and Poland have outdone all the records of the armies of old. An average German march, the writer states, is twerity to twenty-one miles, but after three days a day of rest is observed if that pace has been kept. On the famous retreat of the 10,000 Greeks after the battle of Cu naxa, in 401 B. 0., from near Babylon to Trebizond, on the Black sea, the average day's march was sixteen and three-quarter miles, but this average was secured by several forced marches of twenty-seven and one-half miles, and the normal day's march was about fifteen and one-quarter miles. A striking accomplishment was that of Napoleon's guards, who covered 110 miles in six days on their march to take part in the battle of Jena, and that overbad roads through the Thur ingen forest The Ninth German army corps, with exhausting marches behind it, covered forty-six miles from the vi cinity of Blols to Orleans in thirty-six hours on Dec. 16 and 17, 1870, over a muddy road and was ready to fight the next day. One East Prussian regiment marched 122 miles In five days to join Hinden burg's army and took part in the battle of Tannenberg in the afternoon of the fifth day without stopping to rest. Stokers Are Other Extreme. But the trenches in the wet and the long marches in the snow have been only one extreme. The other extreme lies in the stokeholds and engine rooms of the battleships for that matter, on all ships just now when they are in the war zone around Great Britain and have to flee for their timbers from the German submarines. Away down in the hot coal bunkers, almost naked, the grimy stokers will be serving the coal to feed the roaring furnaces while the engineer and his staff are attending to the powerful engines. These men get little glory, for THE PBmCETON^^G:^ in action the stokeholds" and engine rooms are battened down in order that the furnaces may be run under forced draft, and this means that when the order "Every man for himself!" goes forth the stoker has not even the chance of swimming for life which his comrades on deck have. He has no knowledge of how the bat tle is proceeding above, and, although he can hear the shells bursting and fearful explosions occurring on deck, he must stick to his work of feeding the engines so long as the orders come through from the control station. And all he knows is that if the enemy's tor pedo comes it will "be aimed straight for him, for he is in the very vitals of the ship, whether he is on warship or merchant craft Gets King's First Whistle. "Well done, Indomitable stokers!" signaled Admiral Beatty after the fleet he commanded had sunk the Bluecher and crippled the German fleet as it scuttled back to Helgoland, while in his report afterward he said, "Great credit is due to the engine room staffs for the fine steaming of the squadron." That tribute gave as much pleasure to the men as the admiral's little son, Da vid, felt later when King George spe cially invited him to Buckingham pal ace and presented him with a whistle, the very first one which the king him self had owned and which when he was a small boy was attached to his first sailor suit Aviators Delight In Job. Midway, perhaps, between the ex tremes is the air man, with perils and excitements that are all his own. There are joys in flying which not even war can take away, and letters from the men show that the aviators keenly de light in their part in battle. There is still some popular misunder standing on matters aerial. The vision of warfare in the clouds, of air craft dropping bombs on armies and forts and themselves grappling in the cen tral blue "has so taken possession of the average imagination that the ca pacities of both dirigibles and aero planes are exaggerated considerably. The truth is that fighting in the air and dropping bombs form a very small part of the flying man's business. His main occupation is to get information about the enemy and to prevent the en emy from getting information. At the same time amazingly daring feats are being performed by airmen, but the facts are hidden from the world because of the exigencies of war. Only the barest statements are made in the reports. It would be difficult to exaggerate the value of the flying man to his army. He reports on concentrations of the enemy many miles behind the fighting line and thus enables com- Photo by American Press Association. HIS STEED IS AS MUCH LOVED BY GERMAN OF TODAY AS BY ABAB OF OLD. manders to guard against surprise. He brings valuable information regarding the nature qf the enemy's defenses, the lay of the country and facts that the best of maps fail to make plain. Then his services in directing gunfire are practically indispensable. Germans Saw Value First. It was the Germans who first saw how the aviator could control the fire of the big guns. They knew it long before the war started, and in the early days of the march through Bel gium the Belgian defense in the field was quickly broken down because of the accuracy of the shrapnel fire di rected by taubes overhead. Much of the land between the Ger mans and allies in Flanders now is ab solutely flat There is no ridge or emi nence to command the plain that stretches league after league on every side, with something of the vast monot ony of the open sea. Without aerial observation artillery fire would be largely a matter of pure guesswork in such a country. With the aid of the flying scout a quite invisible target is reached with a high degree of pre cision. The labor and organization required to keep an aeroplane fleet ready for action hardly can be conceived by the uninitiated. 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