DEADLY RUSSIAN ARTILLERY
A LOST PROFESSOR.
f"T;__«_6" and "bvane? Sun" Service-.; (Received November llth. 0 p.m.) LONDON, Noyen.bor 11. A Gorman tion-commissioned officer capcurod in East Prussia relates that h© Lay in tho trenches for six dii3*s, living txilely on coffee, bccau.o the camp kitchen., were destroyed and transport «as wholly impossible owing to Russian heavy artillery incessantly shelling tho roads'. They were, unable even to transport ammunition. An order from the Kaiser enjoined attack as often as possible, so as not to permit tho Russians to advance. Amongst the prisoners at Warsaw was an elderly Prussian, blinking und*_a Cossack's huge busby. He explained that ho was a professor of botany in Berlin, and while numbing ho saw a rare plant in the marshes and felt, ho must, havo a specimen. Ho left the ranks and secured tho plant, but whilo : .ruggiing in the marsh lost his eyeglasses and .stumbled along into tho Cossa-cks' armi-.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 15123, 12 November 1914, Page 7
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