Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 16 | Acts of Personal Bravery Rewarded

AGTS OF PERSONAL BRAVERY REWARDED Incidents Where Special Risks Are Taken Recited by General Staff. RUSSIANS OUTWITTED Small Detachment of Infantry In-fantry Routs Cavalry on Eastern Front. Special "able ro The Tribune. BERLIN, Oct. 2- The following further fur-ther detailed accounts of special acta of bravery of German officers and soldiers have bee n pu h Ush ed by the general staff: In one of the recent battles at the western front about thirty men of the Hlxth company of the One Hundred and Fourth Saxony Infantry regiment, with flying colors, attacked a French trench. The small detachment waa greeted by a murderous fire, but It stormed the position, posi-tion, of the enemy and repulsed several counter-attacks. In less than half an hour twelve were killed and when the enemy received reinforcements there was nothing left but a quick retreat through a hall of bullets. Rescued the Flag. Closing around the flagbearer. Sergeant Franks of Mitwelda. the band started to fall back. A few minutes later Franke was struck by two bullets and dropped dead. When he fell his neighbor, Corporal Cor-poral HJngel nf Hasslan, picked up the flag, hut he was also killed shortly afterward. aft-erward. A. volunteer. Private Keuhn of leipslg, finally succeeded in carrying the flag back to the line of the regiment. Of the thirty men who had attacked the trench only seven returned, but the flag was saved. The survivors have all been decorated with the iron cross. The Third company of the same regiment regi-ment wss engaged In the Woevre district when It received a flank fire from the direction of n farmhouse. Sergeant flchllerf of Elbenatock and Corporals raiiHch of Muehlau and Olaeser of Onie-nau Onie-nau volunteered to reronnolter the posi-llon posi-llon of the invisible enemy. They ran across an open field under a heavy fire a.nd found that the farm was in the possession pos-session of the enemy. Sixteen Prisoners. rnstcad of turning back, the three men cautiously crept up to the house under the cover of an orchard. In the yard they found a slightly wounded French sold ier, whom t hey took prisoner before he could give an alarm. Behind a greenhouse green-house they found another Frenchman, whom they quickly disarmed. When Pause h and GlaeHel smashed the front door of the farmhouse three enemies appeared ap-peared and threw up their hands. In the meantime Sergeant Schlierf had cltmbod to the roof of the greenhouse and discovered eleven Frenchmen in this building. Covering them with his gun tie ordered them to surrender and they obeyed without resistance. Thus the three members of the patrol, who have ail received the Iron cross of the second Class, made sixteen prisoners in a few minutes. Outwits Russians. During the second Invasion of the Russians Rus-sians in Ks st Prussia Lieutenant von Robendorff of the Forty -sixth mounted 7hauseurs regiment was ordered to advance ad-vance from Roessel to Sorqultten with two corporals and twenty men. Near Borqutt ten the small detachment met a Russian cavalry division. Lieutenant von Robendorff drew his men up behind a hill and ordered them to dismount for an engagement on foot. When the Russian advance guard appeared ap-peared near the hill It was greeted with a sharp fire. The Russians were completely com-pletely surprised and fled, leaving several sev-eral dead and ten or twelve wounded. Two hours later the Russian cavalry returned, re-turned, supported by a regiment of Infantry. In-fantry. Then Lieutenant von Robendorff snd his band had to withdraw, but they held the enemy at a respectful distance and suffered no losses. Fooled Once More. On Its retreat toward RoesscI the detachment de-tachment learned that Russian cavalry had taken possession of this place. Drawing his small force out to a line of 200 yards Lieutenant von Robendorff dashed into the town and the Russians were surprised and fooled again. A squadron of Cossacks, which had pitched camp on the market place, fled In wild disorder, believing itself attacked by a numerically superior force. Lieutenant ron Robendorff hauled down the Russian flag from the tower of the town hall ami collected a large amount of booty. For these and other daring deeds the lieutenant was decorated with the Iron cross of the first class, but a few weeks later two Russian bullets ended his life when he tried to break through the positions po-sitions of the enemy near Piasano, in northern Poland.