“The next morning the body of the chief of staff was discovered by the officer. The General was terribly cold in his wrath.
“ ‘The price must be paid,’ he said.
“The burgomaster, his son and two men-servants were put against the wall and shot.
“The carnage in the streets, with burning, hacking and stabbing, followed.”
U.S. TARS SING BRITONS’ HYMN
A correspondent in France describes an incident at Havre when the United States cruiser Tennessee lay in the harbor and a British transport, the decks of which were thronged with soldiers, passed her. The American cruiser dipped the Stars and Stripes, and suddenly the British Tommies broke into “Rule, Britannia.”
“Then,” says the correspondent, “an amazing thing happened. I heard and was thrilled by it. The gallant American sailors took up the rolling chorus—‘Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves. Britons, never, never, never shall be slaves!’ It was the most perfect act of brotherliness which I have ever witnessed.”
WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT
The Berlin correspondent of the New Rotterdam Courant writes:
“The most gloomy sight to be seen in these days is the advertisements of deaths in the dignified Kreuz Zeitung. The families of officers there make known the blows that have fallen upon them.