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Show HUHI TORCHES IN GRUESOME DANCES Farm on Edge of Forest of Parroy Scene of Peculiar Fatalities. Sp,dal Cib'.e to The Tr:b;;n. fAlt! A:;r. 7 v!r nf tel format of Trroy. In Lorraine, midway lntfn tbi Krnr ar.d ""i'Tiian linen, and at a d'.taive of aVut ;n jaMi from either, at'f-d tl. rtnama of fnrtn build n(C. nurTOundod by wa'is. Neither hide could hoM thin vm:.i;o ground for long, for it Vk In poe-lble to -n l mur.lMonn and fJpp'iie to Its JefndT. who were, moreover, exposed to a norm of shells fr"m the 'nrnv. Th- French f -r a tlm noWM the dlff.-culiy dlff.-culiy by ftendintr a prtv -f dmK.-oiia to hold tbo farm during the nlcnt. In order to present lt o-Tuptitton bv th (;r-rr.a (;r-rr.a n'. and wr. hd ra a i hk them at clay-break. clay-break. The ("TfltHKem wan iniccf-iftfijl. t'ndT cover of nlnt the Germans fre-qu-nttv advanced to within forty yards, only to be nK'wn down. I-urniK the day thev kept up a hot Mre uttlnt the farm, h-it as tt w'hi enipty no harm wart done. TnSa went on for a week, the French draBrons hold in ir Ihe farm by night and e vh f u a 1 1 r. k it ' a '- (me dav as the Fim-h were fnlllns: bark they na w the Havona advancing In a battalion to attack the farm. In tho half Hunt their fleure were Jinf discernible. discerni-ble. The French fired on them. Suddenly Sud-denly a rheet of flame shot up. The hayloft, the hAyrkks. everything bean to -laze. The Germans bad set them on Are. Suddenly the French were horrified to see men running to and' fr". yelling like madmen and enveloped In flames. They rolled on the pround or rushed, soma toward to-ward the ( Germans, others toward the French linen, crar-kllni? and explolln(r ns they ran. One of these poor wretches, who managed to reach the trenches, lived a couple of hours and was able to supply the kev to the mystery. A German battalion had been ordered forward to take the farm. A score of men, with their Incendiary encrfnes, a kind of compressed powder In the shape of pat-1 Mies, macaroni and little laths of wood, were t' lire the buildings. One of these' men allowed the flames from the biaziiiK haycock to reach his clothing and the ba(? in which he carried the pastilles. In a few seconds the mun was a livlmr torch. His comrades, terrified, ran to help him. They, too, flared up, for they were carrying cans of petrol as well as powder. TheHo were the human wfll-o'-the-wlsps seen dancing In their death agorty. |