Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1914 — COUNT RAZES OWN CHATEAU [ARTICLE]

COUNT RAZES OWN CHATEAU

.Husband of Cincinnati Girl Directs Artillery in Dislodging Germans on Hi* Estate. Paris.—The Countess de Chambrun, formerly Miss Clara Longworth of Cincinnati, a sister of ex-Congressman Nicholas Longworth, has received a letter from her husband, who was at one time a French military attache at Washington, and is now an officer of an artillery company at the front. In his letter Count de Chambrun says: • “I am now having the great pleasure of directing the artillery fire against our own chateau, and I take great enjoyment in seeing piece after piece come down.” ' The De Chambrun chateau is near St. MihieU where a stubborn struggle has beeff going on for six weeks, since that jjolnt has been occupied by the Germans.'’'