“Shall you go back?” Col.  Hayes was asked.

“Does anyone wish to visit a slaughterhouse a second time?” he replied.

PRINCES WOUNDED BY THE FOE

Prince August William, the fourth son of Emperor William, was shot in the left arm during the battle of the Marne and Emperor William bestowed the Iron Cross of the first class on him.

Prince Eitel, the Kaiser’s second son, was wounded during the battle of the Aisne.  Up to October 7 four of Emperor William’s sons had been placed temporarily hors de combat.

Prince George of Servia, while leading his battalion against the Austrians September 18, was hit by a ball which entered near the spinal column and came out at the right shoulder.  The wound was said not to be dangerous.

HOW THE SCOTSMEN FOUGHT

At St. Quentin, France, the Highland infantrymen burst into the thick of the Germans, holding on to the stirrups of the Scots Greys as the horsemen galloped, and attacked hand to hand.  The Germans were taken aback at the sudden and totally unexpected double irruption, and broke up before the Scottish onslaught, suffering severe losses alike from the swords of the cavalry and from the Highlanders’ bayonets.  The scene of this charge is depicted in one of our illustrations.

TWO TRAGIC INCIDENTS

During the Russian retreat through the Mazur lake district, in East Prussia, a Russian battery was surrounded on three sides by the enemy’s quick firers.  The infantry was on the other side of the lake, and the Russian ammunition was exhausted.  In order to avoid capture, the commander ordered the battery to gallop over the declivity into the lake.  His order was obeyed and he himself was among the drowned.

During an assault on the fortress of Ossowetz, a German column got into a bog.  The Russians shelled the bog and the single road crossing it.  The Germans, in trying to extricate themselves, sank deeper into the mire, and hundreds were killed or wounded.  Of the whole column, about forty survived.

IN THE BRUSSELS HOSPITALS

A peculiar incident of the war is noted by a doctor writing in the New York American, who went through several of the great Brussels hospitals and noted the condition of the wounded Belgian soldiers.  These soldiers carried on the defense of their country with a valor which the fighting men of any nation might admire and envy.  The writer remarks: 

“Two facts struck me very forcibly.  The first was the very large number of Belgian soldiers wounded only in the legs, and, secondly, many of the soldiers seem to have collapsed through sheer exhaustion.

“In peace times one sees and hears little or nothing of extreme exhaustion, because in times of peace the almost superphysical is not demanded.  War brings new conditions.