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Show ,f7 X' Foreign ! . 11 rt r Capitals 7 Bread' Night -- i "Attacks Zeppelins j h i ::;1 i O ai j I i Lthaa minute the dm was indeTh rty' thousand" soldiers" r shout ng h a fast M b could fire his magazine nfte. The or- -. 4o h not 4h fieppetin unless it wa overhead Every man's dutv was to ahHt straight up h tcU fllllngthc-aithe, ' They were putting up a feie of metal l4ifc Freund fMlacn scribable, ith ' They ftUiHtJLhg tt mg ' j tracing the vtert justing gretsi ftti'ertiik xm! wmn 1 Hesftl tbewb from in Antwerp wrecked by d Zep peimrZTmd-Burtin Antwerp wrecked by bom be 4 from Zeppeltn. Zeppelin in Bight, 1 Count Zeppelm, inventor of powerful air creft which beers hit name , Emi erf a t v Hy exaggerated, others assorting that the Germans hare yet to reveal the terrible effectiveness of this arm f their service. This modem Instrument of death the Zeppelin had Us real beginning in the eirU war. Count Zeppehn, the in-- 1 attack on Antwerp, thus graphically ventor of the German dtr.riM. made pdewnbes what happened his first balloon ascent 4n a captive bai- I watch d the Zpp lin dropping kwm at Fredervcksburg m, lAs4.wbBA5ffistiwnKUtotwerpl wid such per-h- e was serving in the t mow army in fect;on only makes war more terobfee. the role of a foreign attache. with a refinement of barfrwttsm. From that day Count 2p)tin has Th wildest flighr of Imagination caul. In t approach what happened. devoted not only hs time, but hls- -l of Not until 1 aclock in1 (tie morning the form tune, to the development of air craft which now bears bis name did the big red harvest moon begin to A special correspondent of the United sink. The street were deserted. An Press, an eye wanes of the Zeppelin hour and a half later I was awakened by. soldier talkinr extKediv In the treet beneath my w nduw 1. at above the sound of their vi e was a terrific whirring high in the ssy 1 jumped from bed, rushed to "the window and looked upward. There was a terrific c plosion joaway a deep. roar. A moment later ajEpark came whirl ing and circling through the sir like a shooting star gone mad It sank into the sky ln of roofs and another explo fsome flourishing American community I General Joseph Joffre, tst chief ef the French force. The French, anxious to emphasize in their national hero his most warlike attribute, call him Joftre lo Taciturn (Joftre the Silent . Faasibly his tiabit of silence has ftomcThmg to do with the La k of koowleige conremiug him outside of France In France, they knew enough about him two years ago to make him general4 In chief by enarlmous vote of Tiere The higher war council, but-o- et mere name. If in America hi was n tlaL before the war and now the data eopprpmg him are still ajljtoa as if his gemus. or megger It whatever it is that has enabled him to s famous war fm defeat the chine, had bcn kepd by the French as a Burrne for thdr enemies, much ss to have kept as a the Germans se-surprise that wonderful gray green color of the.r unJrau. It may perhaps help us to a better" appreciation of General Joffre as a man and clfirer If we bear 1q mind the many charactenstF'S which he seems to possess In common with one of our own national heroes. Colonel Goethals, the builder of the Panama canal. To begin with. bth of these men. the world 9 greatest peace Vctor and the world a greatest war Victor to date, are military engineers, educated ahd trkined as such. Colonel Goetbals looks a bit more like & soldier, to be sure, but both possss so large a fund erf human sympathies that they have been able to endear themselves personally to grat bodies of men the builder of the Panama canal to tbe vast army of wuramen of all nationalities employed- - in digging' the-b- ig ditch, the commander in chief of the French army to the millions of soldiers he commands for the defense of his country Parence. impartiality, firmness and a clear understanding of human nature, rouplyd in each of purpose and the a rare singien ability to keep their own counsel ihaae viw-- aha aanka men hara hound their which Ahese organizations o tfiemselvesu General Joffre entered the army In the war of IvTO when only eighteen years old and was promoted for gallantry on the field Pf Marshal Immed-atfl- y after the war be 'sas Intrusted with the rebuilding of the forts around Parts, the forts that today wre prejared again to defend the capjJAl against Ite DermanA- - Made Joffre was sent captain at tweru-twinto the east erf France to build up the chain Of fortresses there that have proved of such value la resisting the invaders Afterward he spent many years raising impenetrable fortifications --at fey American Prev Association. Tonkin, Island of TVrrooea, and MadaIk Rd prp.rwg cook ! rtaff gascar.' His next achievement was UppG.n.,, Jaffrt (fourth from feft) conf.rrmg wrth e e, suppression of thg uprising In ratio rt for IFraoth troop. with a small force, be ham a maa world ahould twk to ad the man of blood and Iron. cold, hard.! curly for hi, bum- - crushed the natives and gfter a short ttaetf bow to the com p abrupt. unemotional haa met he- and con.ider.le regard who would make a campaign marched Into Timbuktu. of new type of military match a pparentiy IB a genial gentle- - t bleat caller. Santa Claus with the add, Since that time Joffre has been at the tt. The old type familiar man rather ahprt and stout. Uta poe- splendid heard do match fata hair or bead of the French war college. of tion . a drooping mild aesaor beary a Ite of htnorg and developed' to JWTLLZAM SCOTT hr Pirnwia- - the Xiiuri Wcalj white mustache and a bead of white i a popular banker anti Orat ciUxen of This man FRANCE HAS. FAITH IN JQFFRE. THE . SILENT commander -- 1 -- case-wit- tn Mao-Mabo- n. t -- o. ' UwMgi. TIbk fu rrf that are inter (led to kill mm, and ! idren w hat a great H zlan Yoi know, tmlv t wo Christ-m- s ago Fmiwrur Vwlliam of Germany and king"- - Albert of Belgium sjm nt part of the hohdav season together. K ng Albert s lab daughter loved the emperor so much because he played wuh her that she cried to get n to bis lap ar, was inconMdate when j hi rlit was ended Bow tie mo order hs Zrpfei9 now to drop bomba on little girl and her the houe whtre brother ard seders and father an4 mother are shaping I can t understand sion boomed as the people trembled Fired. And then up aga. hm the stars t Thousands of Shots Another spark feM and there sas ms the leihrtpa a tnie TTn a new sound third expUtoft high and out 6ver the" ufkjrts of r It town There a sickening feeling f i dUed the air It began faraway the rattle of rlfbs. thousands of tftter helpk ssmeas lo witnessing such The firing grew nearer and Sight, and rrrngied wth this feellnr them there is a fa inat on in the tliuunh uuder Thre were sharp orders ln-tha my window the soldiers began to such thing la not sirhnatah hoot, the flashes lighting my room that up there In the sky are men, hu man beings, working, carrying out j They hgid their ride- straight upward orders, watching rujfi of the clt,The sourd grew hud'r and Ibutfer 'SsifeaeSL- -. Followingthere r arnlpahttrip ad- turning m-- s sensational of a Zeppelin on was a lull in attack by the Germans, and London and Paris, which weft panto at the possibility of a emitter attack, began to breathe easier The part tTBe played by Germany's serial nary was yet to be disclosed. Opinion on that phase of the war coy a wide range, some erf the jb- wrrers contending tKat the destructive possibilities of the Zeppelin had been a levrs nvn ByJQHH J BREEN. the mh putting rabier. Dafeo-Ther- W odWsmy tts 4r - r wfctii that en(erd the dmth taoy- Anti . 40 znme above The tng guns nr tje fiJTtgarottnd o cst began to twv.m Aeroplane ms- hi.ie guns mounted on wtrtomobiles wf-r- dished about the streeta, adding their iirrmg railing sound to the din. It was a m Hum Fourth of July. in the tmdst of it all there 'were'-igh- t more of the big ban booms' the voke of the Zeppelin bombs, in Quick To the taftt. to the midst. su''ecaem ?f Die bullets and Inordinate confusion, the supermen jn the Zeppelin had tried o sink to the job. Two o7 the eight homl fell within twenty and thirty meters of the Red 4"rnM hwpUals, the other Bit beat a tattoo kn the field around the wireless station, which the air men wrer evidently trying le de- - . Th holes inth earth about atroj the staGoW were ea h tlie siM and shape of a cistern A the last bat h of bombs went over the side of the car the balloon arose and r;ed awsv from the city. The firing ded out s1uwljri'HaIT an hour later the Zej pelm was reported tw Ive m le awav Two children, three women and five men hnd hren Injured, though nons seriously, and three houses destroyed NarT ail the terrified families of tha city had taken refuge in the cHaxa f r a wek lefore the same Zeppelin had bombarded the town and killed The bullets ftrerf by twelve person the soldiers ame falling from the sky, luit as41a from breaking akyiighla 4hy caused no injury - Black. fighters Aid Allies Campaign te. of the Indian the rermn of Nepal and who trace The main the r dewent from the Raipyt. efonld BraLman army is m its infantry In appearance j rai1ief!gTir Ihan eat. Rajpjl Jaf. Fdhs Punjabi. Mahrrpta and Gurkhas, tf all caspa.lho Gurkhas are deceiving. They and at several reugtona Mshamtnedan, Hindu. Buddhism- - are all warriors what the a;p sranca of the Japanese who will lay down their Uvea in eager- - although a little heavier. And they the history of the great European struggle is being art-te- n the igmcntv kmwn to ranee ss the Turkos are adding dally to their record In bayonet of daring achievements encounters they broke through the German lines without firing more than ATctr "Phota -- amt recaptured end' brought bak field guns whlh the French troops had abandoned- w 4he elri-nrt- A -- T - the rifle anti machine gun fire poured into them, refus.ng to Lstcn to the who try to keep them omder cover Cold steel played a considerable part fn the battle of armies flghfng along the A tame the Ote and Wbcvra. The s thaws 'ificountrnT la that the troops scarcely see eah other before they actually come hand to hand The re klessness displayed at the beginning of hostilwith the resultant ities carnage d4i- through the machine guns appeared and every movem'rt of the attacking and defendpg force was carried out with the utmost caution until the moment of atual conflict. The Germans suffered most in then) engagements, for the French troops from Africa are adepts with the bayonet, and they waited warily in the trenches until their adversaries were so cioM tnat a Quick dash brought them together erroany declared France, soon afr make use of the splendid regiments of native troops Tfotfi her eolonies The Turkos are ti e tirailleur Algerian. dusky Algerian infantrymen, splendid fighters, we disciplined and in the pink of condition from their continuous border fighting Nine regiments of these Tcrce Algerian fighters has France at h r hack, some 1 s hcrtivM Tfr . 1 tglifJJ1 ' I lr III PVH y TVtfTjB I. . Cl which they hav, cr.raeel The Foreign legion. oj (le at three companie of mounted infantry, the zouave, and the Turk.a are foot The touaee, ere 1 rendunen, the legionarlea of all nationaliUea and the Turku, nr native, Th- - Chan-eudAfriqite and the .pa hi are cavalry. Ure former i ranch i!id Lie toirf rT I b-- en sr ra . iul'iyafabihnJorfinrji la made inr of two The Foeig4egkjfr regiment of six battali(i ea h. an n rt. effective force of i.soo fully d per cent of whom are Alsimtu who will not eeiVe in the Orntua army. It e'tmated. Another 19 are Genoa na, moet of them d- rerter from the German army', r rd rule The revt in made up of advea'nrers from all ever the world. tnan of dihem men who have nothing to lire fur r boot on. want to die The black troupe which Kngland pitted againat the Germans are all Indiana who hare been trained In modern warfare by Engtiah officer per-cen- t. 1 - and-,'wh- with-thei- Photos by American Press Association- - Upper - Englieh Indian regiment unieadmg equipmvnt. Turkow i Lower Prettcb - neaa for the British raj, and the d&fk wear perpetual erm, on their face skinned fegtment, of the Indian army The grin d e "Soi eeroe oft when they . f form a lighting force bard to atop, go Into a fight- The Gurkhas wen conquered by the Among the most interesting as well ss the most formidable fighting outfits Bntisli in Bit after years Of fighting in tha Indian army am the Gurkhas. and have become loja! subieete at W ALTON tMT.I.IARA These little fighter, who come from England. 4 |
