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Show MIS TO QUIT IF AGA!NDEFEATED Death of Young Clive on Battlefield; Military Honors Hon-ors for British Soldier. J.ONDOX, Sept. 3:o.j p. in. War gossip, speculation and incidents of the field continue to fill the pages of (he papers that are not occupied with official of-ficial communications. An "Kxchange, Telegraph company dispatch dis-patch from Home says that a iuess;ie from Vienna states that the feelitij is growing at the Austrian capital tnat continuance by Austria of tho present war depends on the outcome of The operations op-erations in GaJieia, which are drawing to a climax with a battle- at )?awa Rnska, west of Lrmberg. The Austrian crown pri nee, C, en oral ( 'onradc a nd Archduke Frederick are on tho ground direteing the engagement. The news of the World describing the death on the battlefield of Archer Winsor (.'live, vounjjer son of the earl of Fly mouth, says that seeing a man whom he took to be an Knglish officer, wearing a cloak of tin officer of a certain cer-tain British regime lit, the young mau approached and saluted hini. The officer of-ficer proved to be a German, who drew a revolver and shot Winsor Clive. The first wounded British soldier, who died at the hospital iu Dortmund, was buried with military honors, gays tho correspondent at Amsterdam of Rotifer's Telegram company. 'Members of the Veterans' club, with veiled banners, ban-ners, followed the capket to the grave, where a Catholic priest conducted a commitment service. The veterans fired a last salute and taps were sounded. Reu tor's Faris correspondent says that the Matin reports that military and civilian doctors are puzzled because several Germans died as a result of slight wounds despite most careful treatment. Post-mortems revealed the presence in the. tsomach of raw beets, to which particles of dirt still clung, showing, in the opinion of i he physicians, phy-sicians, that tho men had devoured -the roots torn hastily from the fields as the armv retired. The Bailv Post. a. new English paper appearing in Paris, asserts that General von Kink's provisioning base has been cut. The Echo de Paris states that it learns that several Gorman generals have admitted that their troops have reached the end of their resistance and are incapable of tho sliahtest additional effort. The Eoulngue correspondent of the Times bas visited Lille to ascertain the tmth of the statement that a German army Corps was marching southward to reinforce ihe main army. The inhabitants inhabi-tants of Aire knew nothing of such a movement and there were no Uhlans in that tow-n. Their attitude was one of resignation; they had come to understand un-derstand that so long as they remained quiet, and satisfied the demands of the unwelcome visitors they would riot be hurt. Bethune also was open tto visitors, vis-itors, but no Germans were in that town. |