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Show A Dnrlni; A1 vent lire. M. About has just given, in one of the Paris papers, a most amusing, account ac-count of the detent of the linden recoii-no'sance recoii-no'sance in Iront of the Niederbninn, which he justly calls a fbolharday affair. af-fair. Six grand ducal officers, with ten or a dozen men, actually marched thirty-two kilometres (upward of twenty twen-ty miles I into the enemy', uquutry, making their observations and gleaning glean-ing information, not at night time nor in aisguise, but m broad svjnliht and full uniform. They ci-ossod "on t he-Sunday he-Sunday morning near Lauterburg, were seen by numbers of people, cut the telegraph tel-egraph wires at Ilunspaeh Station while the inhabitants were at church, passed tho day iu riding about the country , and were not caught until the Monday morning, when they were surprised sur-prised while at breakfast in a farmhouse. farm-house. They rushed to their horses. There was a pretty hand to hand combat such as Wovermans loved to paint, but the audacious Germans were outnumbered outnum-bered and taken at disadvantage: poor WinsluO waa killed, four other nffint. were taken prisoners, two of them being wounded (one of these has since died), and the sixth escaped, it it said, on a Fretiih hoop hurso, his own having hav-ing been killed in the affray. It was a very brisk, picturesque sort of affair altogether, al-together, and M. About justly remarks that it reminds one of the fanta.-tical feats of D'Artagnan and his companions compan-ions or of some other di.re-'ji-v;i heroes of Pumns' .i.uiancei. 3cver-theless, 3cver-theless, the iiicur.-ioD, if it entailed lo.s, was not without profit, since the officer who escaped took Lack to his friends the information he had come to seek. The prisoners seem to h:.-; been treated with the uiiio-i kindnes-and kindnes-and couney. as it is to be h"pcJ ., prisoners will be on both sides throughout through-out the war. Dai'; .-I'M ('jlifnmi-i. |