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Show Russian positions were taken one after the other. Suddenly the com-mander com-mander of the company. Captain Ooe-bel. Ooe-bel. fell badly wounded. In a hall of shells Private Thio ran back and Picked up the unconscious officer to carry him behind the front. The private had hardly made a few pares when he noticed a solitary Russian Rus-sian soldier, who fired at him from a distance of about thirty yards, but missed. Dropping the -wounded captain cap-tain for a moment, the private killed the Russian. He succeeded In dragging drag-ging the officer to a farm house, where several other wounded officers ond soldiers had found shelter, but as the Russinji shells negazi to fall thickly around the shanly he picked the captain up once more to carry him further to the rear. A few moments mo-ments later the farm house was struck by a shell and all of its inmates were killed. For his bravery the heroic private, who thus twice saved the life of his commander, has received the iron cross. SAVES CAPTAIN'S LIFE; WINS IRON CROSS BERLIN, Oct. 2. A correspondent of the "Berliner Tageblatt" writes from the eastern front: The fifth company of the 145th German Infantry regiment was storming storm-ing Russian trenches southwest of Brest-Litovsk. In spite of the numerical nu-merical superiority of the enemy the |