Show WORLD WAR YARNS by frank E hagan g all battle that fought the tattle battle of pal pas do c calais wa was a naval battle that viat web m never fought if it had been the out come of the world war might line lave been different at mid light on autu august it 8 1011 rear admiral flouzer of th thil french navy was at cherbourg and end there received a wireless order to take what whitt he lie had bad and for the calais pass arriving there be was to attack und and ogba it out to the end with the germun german high seas beal fleet the order was equivalent to telling a mouse to attack a bulldog the french were eure sure that german woul would strike at her by a com bained land and eca tea move invasion of belgium by the army and of the anglish channel by the navy to assure herself of naval bases from which she might bold hold or defeat england the authorities knew that they were sending rouyer to his death but he might be able to bold hold up for a few precious hours the ger man battleships and the great trans ports filled with soldier crit which they would be convoking england yet in the he war so no help could be hoped for from the mistress of the seas had bad three small armored cruisers of his peacetime peace time timo fleet and three other vessels of the navy school division which joined him nt at brest ile left cherbourg at 3 30 in the morn ins ing and by 4 that afternoon be he was in his battle position rouyer waited all that day for he the appearance of the german fleet and nothing happe happened I 1 at 11 0 clock that night great britain declared war neit next day british war ships were helping him guard the be pas as de Ca calais lalit why ie je german fleet appear no one knowl mows some historians declare hat that the german high command blundered there and threw away a chance to crush france the greatest spy y achievement what Is said bald to have been the greatest spy achievement of the whole war was a coup pulled by the germans which resulted in the defeat of the russians fi at the he battle of the Ma Ala lakes general commander of the russian central army bad had received reports that be he was being encircled by forces so he prepared to bait halt his advance in east prussia just as he was about to issue the necessary orders an airplane land ed cle close to his headquarter and aheu the aviator was brought to him be he wan vas handed a letter from grand du dul e hi bicholas cholas the hessian russian commander in chief complaining of his slow advance and declaring that the rumors of the german encircling movement were mostly fiction be he then ordered to push forward as rapidly as possible and break through the german lines the russian general reluctantly obeyed and the result was the crushing disaster of the magurian Ma Masur surian fan lakes A story scene followed at the grand dukes duke a headquarters the unlucky produced the let ter which the aviator had given hlin him and the grand duke immediately in to formed him that be he had gaitten no such letter the aviator had been a german spy and the coup had been planned by the germans soon there was another casualty added to the thousands of russians who bad died die in that battle it was the death of general by suicide baseballs an and battlefields battlefields de ides color sergeant hank gowdy noted for his inspiring indan ence on morale of the A I 1 E F other professional ball players served their country overseas in to 1918 from them it would have been possible to select a formidable club entirely capable of offering stem stern battle on the dini diamond nond to any of the present major league out fits the club mentioned would have included the following lineup all of aba tb moah niom hers fh hon n in n F a colors cat catchers hers gowdy or ot regan a former cincinnati player pitch ers grover cleveland alexander sherrod smith leon cadore noyes of the athletics and lambeth of brooklyn first base dots dote amiller of the pirates second base johnny evers the old cub star with the knights of columbus shortstop short shop chuck ward of brooklyn third base cy batese batem athletics and out fl elders Ble and sam rice nice of washington and miller miter of cleveland two lieutenants were mentioned as utility men hey were moose mccormick McCorm lck a noted pinch hitter for the old giants and eddie grant a shortstop who also p played under mcgraw grant became a captain before 11 fore anything was wits don iona all about 0 11 t form forming ir S the club commanding if company three hundred undred Il and seventh try w was as killed during d U r in 9 the ar gonne fl fighting g hu ng at the th e head h e a d of his bat battalion tallon western newspaper colon union |