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Newspaper
Denver Tribune
Location
Denver, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1914
Page
2
A Chicago Tribune cable from Brussels describes German occupation of Brussels after the civil guard disbanded. German troops march in double file, with a royal show of force, while crowds watch from windows and streets. The city hall flag is replaced, shops close, and morale mixed with fear and anger among residents.
An officer recalls the battle against the Ninety-ninth German brigade from 5:30 a.m. to nightfall. French artillery wrecked horse teams and silenced heavy guns, the church steeple guns mowed defenders, and the Fifth company of the First battalion seized the flag along with eight guns, 90 horses, and 587 prisoners including ten officers.
Paris reports hundreds of foreigners volunteered for the French armed forces with 150 Americans among them. Twenty four were medically examined and accepted while about thirty percent of other foreigners were accepted. Among the Americans accepted are William Thaw of Pittsburgh and a cousin of Harry Thaw, who served as an aviator.
Count Guerry de Beauregard reports the death at the front of one son who led a squadron of the Seventh Hussars. He notes another son, an artilleryman with the general staff, and his eldest with the Twenty-first Chasseurs. Long live France.
Bruno Lessing, aboard the Nieuw Amsterdam, recounts a frenzied exodus from Austria and Germany as mobilization begins. He describes crowded Marienbad and Nuremburg stations, hotel fills, mass baggage, and empty farms while foreigners flee toward Holland and Belgium.
A series of anecdotes recounts rewards offered for lost items and brave rescues. A New York woman regains a $500 diamond ring after a finder’s reward. a Philadelphia dog owner learns a costly lesson when a paid reward cannot be honored. a Western railroad president’s daughter is saved on Lake Michigan and a rescuer asks for a lifetime pass but ends up with a lawful job instead.
A new monument in Bievres France honors Mlle Dodu a telegraph operator once decorated with the military medal and the Legion of Honor. Questions linger over her wartime deeds including a claim she hid telegraph equipment to avoid capture and a supposed council of war trial.
Observations at battlefield hospitals show wound severity distribution with 60 percent slight injuries, 15 percent serious, and 25 percent very serious. Head and right arm are identified as the most frequent projectile lodging sites in recent wars.
Modern research shows tuberculosis of lungs and bones was common in ancient Egypt, with evidence over 3,000 years old. Scholars note possible coexisting diseases like malaria and appendicitis among Pharaohs.
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