Show Sl SUNDAY MORNING NING AUGUST 23 2 2 Soldiers See Portents Portents' d J Visions in Thick of E If Russians Are Reported to Have Declared red That I Appeared to Them in a White While on a White Charger LONDON Auga 28 In In a n. telegram I from It la is stated that many Russian sentinels declare that thc they have seen scorn th the famous ghost of ot General In a white uniform riding on a n. white horse This apparition according to tradition tradition I tion always marks a critical moment I for the armies of the czar and InI invariably in- in I variably causes panic In the enemy's rn ra n k The Tine telegram has started a corn corre correspondence e c- c in some somo n newspapers l p rs on war var myths and amul th the appearance of apparitions which alter the tho course of ot battles Supernatural appearances appearance of ot this character writes one correspondent have marked the narratives es of oC al almost almost al- al most all wars Indeed an army r might begin to suspect the Justice of Its cause If It were not guaranteed by some apparition of ot this sort Thus In classical history you OU have havethe havethe the time appearance of ot the Castor and Pollux at the tho hattIe battle of or Lake Ike ridin riding on white horses The They won the battle for tOI Rome and carried the news of It at Incredible speed to the city Another apparition Is that of ot the Cross which appeared In the skies at noon above the arm army of ot Constantine Constantino Con Con- I. I at the tho battle of or tIne tho Millan Mil Mil- lan bridge near Rome in The Tho cross bore the tho famous words In Inthis Inthis inthis this sign you will conquer and Constantine Constantine Con- Con iff hr said aId to have been so BO af affected at- at by the portent that he had tho the cross Inscribed on the shields of ot his soldiers and became a Christian His victory over his hi rival made him Reman Roman Roman Ro Ro- man emperor and confirmed him In Inthe Inthe the tho belief In tho the apparition It has been supposed that with the advent ent of ot high explosives wireless telegraphs and long lonc range artillery these visions would be crowded out of the tho modern battlefield but this Is not so There Is the tho now famous stor story of ot the rider on the tine white horse at M Mons ns who Is believed to have caused the Germans to retire in Sn the tho middle of or their victorious career The Tho English soldiers who saw this thin apparition Sll say It vas St. St George the tho French soldiers have identified It as St. St Michael although some somo are aro In Inclined Inclined In- In dined to believe It was Joan of ot Arc The dean of or Durham h h hi against the circulation o 0 and a n. well known novel have Invented it out oot of ot h In last October But Dut it in inn In the tine dean or anybody ei dj cis' cis that this narrative I Is n no authenticated the the apparition on true used to wen wea Turkish bO war Will a no whit white ride a a. white horse hors so 80 t who call him the worshiped Worship white gene genea gene genea hi a method of at generalship las last t many minutes but hut it Created on a fn In n the legend leend of ot was an tIM tIM-it of ot the Pan Slav and among his last laet writ his mY mysterious death in In artIcles Prophesying tho the the and the Slav The British Weekly i in fri on Angels and Demons Demons' thou though h it has no Intent cussing cURsing tho the credibility of oti hating lating to angelic present war yet that so BU s may and do take doctrine firmly rooted in and In experience Dr Dr- Horton ir In a a. the wars war's awakening ot ot of spi says saya ho asked 61 young youn men at tho the front If hi tho the White Comrade of f J much Inns has been heard in t lines No he said MId I 1 hive n no not but I fw believe elleve In ln him Not No possible here for for tho seen in ti time s like thia A Mother writes of ot a aj for whoso whose protection she ahlf shean ahai an angel guard suard H told 1 turning from tho the lines linea at both saw aw and anal felt the thep h p angels and any ny ono one wh Who me mo was safe |