Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1915 — Page 2

MISSING MAN HOLDS KEY TO RICH MINES

Football Star Raises $39,000 to Purchase Diamond Land in South Africa—Wife Also Missing. Minneapolis, Minn.—A world wide March has been instituted for Joseph Myers, mining engineer and graduate of the State University of lowa, who is said to hold the key to the location of 1,100 acres of diamond mining land in South Africa. Dr. Fred C. Wheat of this city, a classmate of Meyers and one of. the large body of stockholders backing the project, has instituted the search. Meyers, a football star and former coach at the lowa College of Agriculture at Ames, disappeared from the Grand Hotel, San Francisco, July 5, 1910. Not a word has been heard from him in the four years since, and Dr. Wheat says he is convinced that someone obtained knoweldge of the information Meyers had and that he is a victim of foul play. With Meyers his wife disappeared also. She is believed to be with Meyers if he is alive. Dr. Wheat is certain that Meyers did not abscond with the $39,000 which he obtained from the stockholders* subscriptions. TWo incidents of the Good Samaritan nature form the prelude to the strange tale. Sandy McDonald, a miner, gave Myers a chart locating the diamondbearing land following Meyers’ kindness to him during an illness while the latter was in California. McDonald ■aid he obtained the papers from another Scotchman, also a South African miner, when the latter was on his deathbed and McDonald was making bis last moments comfortable. Meyers then investigated and his reports that the charts located valuable diamond land were verified. Dr. Wheat said. Then $30,000 was subscribed by lowa alumni and Meyers returned to South Africa to purchase the land. Simultaneously, diamond-bearing land was discovered only twelve miles away.

This raised the price of land, and In 1910 Meyers returned to raise more funds. He had obtained $9,000, Dr. Wheat said, when suddenly he disappeared. Just before the last word was received from Meyers from San Francisco he was preparing to return to South Africa to work on watersheds, buy title to the land from the British government so that the two-thirds ■hare, required when diamond mines are discovered, need not be paid, "I'am certain Meyers was on the square,” Dr. Wheat said. "We verified every statement he made. The papers are believed to be in a safety deposit vault in Chicago, but we have been unable L locate the bank. 1 *

GIVES HIS HORSE ANNUAL VACATION

Owner Keeps Flies Off Twenty-Year-Old Mare, Rests Her Feet and Provides Luxuries Kansas City, Mo.—“ Gypsy,” a 20-year-old mare, owned by Frank D. Parsons, a real estate dealer, is so faithful and so well thought of by her master that she is given a vacation once •very year, Just like railroad presidents, doctors and other folk of the city, except that her period for rest ■nd pleasure is much longer. Four montha out of every year are play months for her. For fifteen years ‘‘Gypsy* has virtually been a member of the Pareons family. She stands without hitching, is always ready for work, and, despite her age, is in rugged health and shows no signs of being an old horse. December Ist every year Parsons has “Gypsy’s” shoes removed, and she is allowed to rest four months. She is given a diet of rolled oats and alfalfa, a box stall to sleep in, and a big lot for romping and rolling when she feels like IL “I am often asked how I keep her looking so well when she is so old,” Parsons said in talking of his horse. “It’s because of the humane treatment she receives. Gypsy has pulled my buggy many years, and she has earned •a yearly vacation. She rests all winter, and In the hot summer days she has leisure besides. If the day is hot rd rather take a street car than hitch her up. “The files never bother Gypsy in the summer because I spray her twice a day with a preparation that keeps off the pests, and she will stand all day without tossing her head or stamping her feet “The hard pavement never hurts her feet, either, because she has a piece of sole leather next to her hoofs and the shoes are nailed on the leather. She hasn’t had a sick day in years and she neyer fails me. “Some day she is going to be too old to poll me around, and then she is not going to get a bullet. I am going to give her freedom and let her close her days in some pleasant pasture. A horse will work without food until it drops. It never complains, and it puts all its trust in its master. A man who wouldn't treat his horse right won't treat his family right.”

Farmer Owns Old Mule Big’fiaurel, Va.—William H&mphrey, • farmer who is 61 years old, has a mule which is older than he by one month and one day. “Fannie,” the mule, helped pull a Union ammunition, wagon in the battle of Bull Run. In the retreat the animal was slut through the leg and captured by the victorious Confederates. After the • war Humphrey found the mule in Georgia and it lias been on his farm ?ever since. When young Fannie was ’jet black but is now white as snow. The animal has the run of the farm and has been no work for tan

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WOMAN SAVES . GERMAN AIRMAN

Cry of “Don’t Kill Him; He Is a Brave Mani” Stays Bayonet Against Cheat. c AVIATOR HAD SHOT THREE MEN Companion With Whom He Was Rid- - Ina Killed by Bullets from Division. J —— Rotterdam—A German aviator, who owes his life to a French officer’s chivalrous cry, writes to his father; •‘lt is a miracle that I am still alive after my experiences of the last few days. 1 left one morning in my aeroplane with Lieut. J. , an aviator of firqt rank, to reconnoiter the movements of the enemy’s troops around Sedan. Near Betrix we were caught in r.ain clouds, and had to descend to 1,000 yards. Immediately we heard the sound of shots. A whole division of the enemy was firing at us. “j , who was piloting, was struck In the stomach. The motoi stopped working, and the aeroplane descended gradually in a volplane toward the enemy’s lines. When we were about 800 yards above them the machine dipped suddenly. 1 turned around and saw that J had fallen back in his seat, dead. A second bullet had struck him in the forehead. 1 seized the controls, and mataged to restore the equilibrium of the machine. 1 was aiming at the forest beyond the French lines. “The minutes during which I planed at a height of 200 yards above the enemy seemed an eternity. Rifle bullets whistled around my head, and suddenly I felt a violent shock in the temple. Blood poured down and nearly blinded me, but I still held my hand on the controls. “But the machine struck an airpocket and almost capsized. As the dead body of my comrade interfered with my steering, I had to land among the enemy. “When the biplane struck the ground it turned right over and flung me to a considerable distance. French soldiers ran at me from every side. “I took out my revolver and shot down three. A moment later I felt a bayonet point against my breast. Then an officer ran up shouting: “ ‘Don’t kill him; he is a brave man! ’ “The cry saved my life. 1 was taken to a General, who asked me for certain information, which I refused to give. Then, from loss of blood, I fainted, and was carried back to- the where the bullet that had struck me in the forehead was extracted. It had not smashed the bone, for its force had been broken by my aviator's helmet. “They dressed my wound, and gave me red wine to drink. 1 must say the officers behaved toward me with greatest correctness and perfect politeness.” The aviator then recounts how, during the confusion caused by a German attack, he succeeded in escaping and returning to his own lines.

WAR CAUSES MICE EPIDEMIC

Bread Crumbs Dropped by French Sol- - diers Attract Swarms of Rodents. London. —One curious resuit of a foreign invasion is recorded in the letters of Prince Metternich to Mme. de Lieven. From Judenburg, a small town in Styria, the Prince writes: “The Burgomaster here has been expatiating to me on the large amount of damage done by mice to farms in the surrounding district. On inquiring how long they had been afflicted in this way 1 was told, ’Since the French were here.’ ‘Do you mean to tell me the French brought mice with them?’ 1 asked. ’No,’ replied the Burgomaster, ‘but they ate so much bread that they covered our fields with crumbs, and since then all the mice in Styria appear to have settled here.’” ..

Smokestack Dummy “Slain”

Amiens, France. —A factory chimney, of which there are many in Northern France, makes an excellent observation post. There was one near Albert, which aided, the French for several days. A captain climbed to the top, whence with a telephone he effectively directed the. fire of the French batteries. The Germans probably saw the officer, for they began to fire at the dhuhney. The first day they aimed about twenty shells at it without result, for it is not easy to hit such a thin mark five or six kilometers (three to three and three-fifths miles) away. The captain was ordered to descend, but before doing so he Installed in his place a life-size dummy with a fine gold embroidered cap. By the* OS'of a cord thia dummy could be made to appear at will. The game caused much pleasure to the French troops for two days- Each time a German shell missed the chimney the dummy would appear in the summit as it to chaff the “Boches,” but finally a shell struck the chimney squarely and the dummy perished among the brick. The artillerist who told jne this Ataxy was very tired a few nights ago »nd went to sleep with three comrades on top of a hayrick. There were three other men sleeping in another hayrick alongside. In the morning this artillerist was greatly surprised to see the (hrep men in the second hayrick all dead. In the night a shell had burst and killed these near neighbors, but the men in the first hayrick were so tired and so accustomed to the sound of explosions that they had not been

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MASON-DIXON LINE BEGUN 151 YEARS AGO

To Mark th* Boundary Between the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland. Philadelphia, Pa.—ln 1763, two English surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, began the surveying of what came to be known as the Mason-Dixon Line between the states f Pennsylvania and Maryland. This line afterwards ecame famous as the supposed boundary between the North and the South, or between the free or slave-holding states. The line was surveyed at the instance of William Penn and Lord Baltimore. The surveyors were three years in making the survey from the northeast corner to the foot of Savage Mou: tain. In 1767 the work was finished from the 1: -ter point to Virginia, now West Virginia. The line is said to have cost $300,000/and the surveyors employed an army of 100 axmen, and a road 30 feet wide was cut through the dense forest. A mixture of sand and lime stones of light brown-grayish color was brought over from England to mark the line, and these stones were set up at intervals of a mile wherever it was possible to erect them. They weighed 500 pounds each and were four and one-half feet high. On some parts of the line the country was so rugged that mounds of dirt and rocks had to be substituted for these stones. Today the Mason-Dixon line has been resurveyed and remarked and divested of its chief erroneous traditions. In 1849 a revision of the line was made by a joint commission from Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware, and it was then found that the change involved by the correction amounted to less than two acres, which were added to Maryland. In 1903 Pennsylvania and Maryland each appropriated $5,000 for the restoration of the line. Many of the peculiar English stones had disappeared, and the commission made an exhaustive search for them. The Identification was an easy task, for, on breaking them, the stones emitted a sulphurous odor. So thorough was the search that some were found in the curbing of streets and in people’s cellars. One was taken from the wall of an old stone church, where it had done service for many years. In the places of those that could not be found new stones of marble were set up. On every fifth stone the coat of arms of William Penn was cut on the Pennsylvania side and on the Maryland side the escutcheon of Lord Baltimore was placed. On the others the monogram P. and M. was cut. The stones are now set so near one another, even in the mountain regions, that the traveler may stand at a stone and see the next one.

BAGG’S HENS ELOPE WITH BINN’S GEESE

Padlocks and Burglar Alarm Proving of No Avail, He Goes on a Still Hunt. Rome, N. Y. —Mystery surrounded the disappearance of about fifty of the choicest fowls on the poultry farm of Geo. Bagg, at Brewerton, on Oneida Lake. Twenty hens were taken a few weeks ago; soon afterward about twenty more joined the missing. The poultry house was double padlocked, a home-made burglar alarm was used, and still the poultry seemed to melt away. There were no traces of predatory animals, and the superstitious wagged their heads, while Mr. Bagg was in despair. A few days ago he put in the day hiding in some bushes midway between his poultry yard and the nearby banks of the river which flow’s into Oneida Lake. As he watched, the mystery was solved. Four unusually large geese from the farm of Frank Binn, across the river, had been fraternizing with the Bagg hens all summer and been enticing them to leave their home and go over to the other farm. These geese were seen solemnly waddling down to the water, followed by several hens. When the geese stepped into the river a hen would flutter a few feet up and down the bank and then with a squawk would fly or hop onto the back of a goose. Then, squatting contentedly, the fowls were carried over to the Binns farm. There Mr. Bagg found his missing hens, the geese having carried them all over on their backs.

GIRL CANNOT SAY “HELLO"

“Central” Loses Power of Speech Just As Call Comes In. Muskogee, Okla. —Miss Flora Wetzel, 18 years old, a telephone operator, suddenly lost her voice while attempting to answer a call. She had just made one connection, and turned to answer another, when she discovered she -could dot speak. Her lips formed the usual “number, please,” but gave no sound. Her'vocal chords had suddenly become paralyzed. Greatly frightened, she tried again and again to speak. Then she managed to signal for help. When friends arrived she tried agaifi to talk to them, but could „ not When they realized her condition they took her to, a- physician. Dr. B. W. Randall declared she might never be able to speak. She yaa taken to the home of her parents. Except that she is unable to make even the slightest sound. Miss Wenzel seems normal. About a year ago she was severely ill, and coughed incessantly. It is said to be possible that she weakened her vocal organs at that time- Physicians were unable to state whether or not any other serious results would follow the attack, although they declared that complete paralysis sometimes followed from atr tacks of the kind.

WOMAN PIERCES LINES OF ENEMY

Wife of British Officer Tells How She Dressed Wounds of Injured Countrymen. WAS DISGUISED A 8 A PEASANT Found Bruges, Crowded with Suffering, City of “Supremo Sadness.** London. A vivacious Englishwoman, the wife of a well known officer bearing a famous name, just returned from Holland, but whose name for obvious reasons must not be mentioned, tells a remarkable narrative of an adventurous day's tour she made behind the German lines. ••I made up my mind,** she said, “to see for myself what was going on. I was warned that if I went out on my adventure in my usual clothes I should be seized as a spy. So I disguised myself as a Flemish peasant woman, with the assistance of a national costume — earrings and headdress complete down to the very shoes; stained my face brown with a concoction of strong coffee, borrowed a pair of spectacles and a market basket and set off across country on foot. “I reached Bruges safely enough and with nothing untoward to mark my journey. Bruges I know well enough at ordinary times, but as the city was when I entered it I should not have recognized it. It was a city of supreme sadness —of gloom, desolation and pain. There were wounded Germans everywhere, wandering about the streets aimlessly and apparently uncared for. My heart bled at the sight of some of them, though my own hospital training has hardened me to most incidents of suffering and pain. Automobiles, vans and all manner of vehicles were being used to hurry the wounded through and out of the town. Hospital organizations seemed to be all at sixes and sevens, and large numbers of the less severe cases were left to take care of themselves. I watched the Hotel du Lion being cleared of bandaged and shattered soldiers, who were being removed elsewhere. Scarcely had the last ambulance van left when a huge wagon drove up filled with crippled children, under the care of Little Sisters of the Poor, who have a sort of hospice for these unhappy young folks not far from Bruges. The children were carried into the hotel under the superintendence of some German officer. “The town was placarded with notices forbidding any civil person the possession of any kind of firearms, and ordering all householders to be indoors, and all lights out by 9 o’clock at night The revelry that has marked the conduct of the German soldiers In other towns in their occupation was here totally absent The soldiers moving In and out in constant procession, all looked anxious, tired and harassed, as though some dark fate which they could not understand was hanging over them. They were constantly looking behind them, furtively, suspiciously. No hilarious foregathering at the cases, no drinking, no uproariousness, but everything strangely, almost uncannily quiet “The military commandant evidently noticed this. If worried him, and he ordered a regimental band to form up In the Petit place and to play enlivening music. The band obeyed and began playing dolorous- jigs, with absolutely no jig in them. There was no music, in the brass melody; the music was ridiculously like that of those painful German bands which used to make us all so sad in London in the glad days when there was no war. Finally the commandant stamped and ground his teeth and sent out the order that if the band could do no better than that they bad better stop. They could not do better, so they Stopped. “On the way out of town I met a German soldier with his arm and head dreadfully shattered. His bandages had slipped and he, was trying vainly to replace them with his left hand. I took pity on him and helped him, redressed the nasty wounds and rebandaged them with pocket bandges I happened to have with me. The soldier fumbled in his pocket and at last found a crumpled 5-franc note, which he offered me. Of course, I refused it. “‘Why do you refuse good money for a good action, madameT* he said. * ‘Because I am an En glishwoman,* 1 replied, ‘and Englishwomen do not take payment for good deeds, however small or great they may be.’ “ ‘I cannot believe you ‘are English,* he said, ‘but you are an-angel, angels have no nationality. May I kiss your hand?’ “I held out my hand and he bent low over and kissed it There were tears in his eyes. And—l rather wish now that I had accepted that b-franc note to keep as a souvenir of Prussian gratitude.-

FIND NEW USES FOR OLD GUNS

Washington. D. C.—The Navy Department has found It possible, by making some changes in the carriage, to turn the discarded one-pounder guns of the mark VL type into effective antiaeroplane guns. About sixty of these guns made in 1899, and which long ago gave place to a more modern weapon, have been recalled by the Navy Department Tram various Grand. Army posts and other aemt rfvje-oraagiWtioMS to which they were loaned and are now being converted at the Washington saw yard fete *^ky-eaaxobeßS l *< yg- .--A—.,

NEW CORN RULES

Chicage Board of Trade Prepares fe» Federal Corn Grades. [Natlenal Cr»p Impravamant 8«rvi««.) in order to adjust its rules te ee» tjiß with the new federal grades of eern, which go into effect July 1, the Chicago Beard of Trade on April IB amended section 8 of its rule XXII so as te permit the delivery of No. 1 white corn, No. 8 white corn, No. 1 >ellow corn and No, B yellow corn ea all contracts at l-2e per bushel ever contract price. No, 1 mixed corn and No. 3 mixed eorn are deliverable at -on tract price. No. B white corn and No. 3 yellow corn are deliverable at 8c per bushel under contract prieej a<i No. 3 mixed corn at 2 l-2e under contract price. All of these grades are the new federal grades. Section 3 of the same rule is further amended so as to permit the delivery of No. 4 white corn and No. 4 yellow corn on contracts at a discount of 4 l-2c per bushel and No. 4 mixed corn at a discount of 5c per bushel, provided that No. 4 corn of the new crop can be delivered only during the months of November, December, January and February.

TESTS ALL CORN.

H. L Harter, superintendent of Her> nepin county (Minn.) schools, has started a competitive plan whereby four thousand farmers are to select seed and properly cultivate twentyfive acres of corn with a view of raising the county average ten bushels. His circular states that this would increase the county corn yield 1,009,000 bushels, which at 50c a bushel, would be a gain of 3500,000 to the farmers of the county. He has made arrangements with tLe Northwestern National bank to furnish the grain exchange rag dolls, which have been sent to all the schools in his county. He is also distil buting government bulletins to the schools. - > He has asked the teachers to take up the subject of germination; and while waiting for germination to take place, to ask the pupils to find out how far apart the rows of com are planted, the distance between each hill, the number of stalks and ears to tie hill, hills to the acre, average weight per ear, number of bushels tc the acre, market value, cost of preparation of the soil, seed, planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing etc, and net profits per acre. He winds up by saying: “Be enthua iastic and you will be successful.*’

BOYS ACTIVE IN TAZEWELL CO.

E. T. Robbins, agent, Tazewell county, Ill.: The Tazewell County torn breeders will start a system of seed corn inspection so as to produce a Reid’s Yellow Dent corn of uniform type and quality, but I think we will hardly undertake the construction of a seed house this year. We have two good seed houses in the county in private hands and another that is toler* ably good, having altogether a capacity of probably 1,000 bushels of seed corn. Our people have no seed oats to spare as the crop was poor here last year. One or two cars of oats have been shipped in from lowa for seed. One car of Texas Red oats was shipped I believe, to Texas from here, but as these red oats are not good market oats, I am not encouraging flair use. 1 have tried hard to get our farmers to fan their oats thoroughly to blow out their light oato this year and to test their germinat-. Ing power ar.d treat them for smut One drug store sold 59 pints of formalin last Saturday, so you see ths farmers are taking hold of it. 1 wish to thank you very much for your suggestions about the seed corn and we will try to profit by them.

CLUB WORKS FOR COUNTY AGT.

The Deering Progressive Farmers’ club of McHenry county, N. D., mee«.s every two Meeks on Thursday at ths hemes of the rneml ers. This club is endeavoring to buy its supplies collectively, and tc build a telephone lipa The programs consist principally ol debates and talks by the members. The club would like to have a county agent and is working to that end.— The Farmer. >,

POOR SEED EXPENSIVE.)

W. A. Posey, agent Clay county, Iowa: “Farthers who tested their seed corn found in numerous Instances that corn which they thought good for proved to be only 90 per cent strong. It pays to test every ear. By planting a single spoiled ear, the farmer loses 200 hills of com. The crop from these tills would pay amply for the trouble of testing all the seed used.'* By planting seed that is only 90 per cent strong, there is a 10 per cent loss in the crop, equivalent to ten aOres out of a 100-acre field. The farmer whc eliminates this loss could turn these ten acres into pasture and obtain as large a crop, with nine-tenths ths from the remaining 90 acres.

PRIZES TO ORGANIZED COUNTIE

The lowa State fair will devote » ■pedal section this year to, exhibits counties having a county agent. Th« counties that send in exhibits which qualify for this purpose will. be awarded $l5O by th® state board of agriculture, ( ‘

The Farmers’ club of Anoka county, Minn., has started a fund to build a hall by charging every one attending uo meetings 19c for supper.

BOY HIVES LIFE TO DELIVER ORDERS

French Lad, Wounded, Refuses Aid And Offer to Let Another Complete Mission. VOLUNTEERED FOR THE TASK Dies After Whispering Instructions to Commander of Last Company Hs Was Told to Visit. Faria. —Rene Granger, a lad of IS years, enlisted in the first days of the mobilization, and after a short period of training joined a regiment in Lorraine. In a few weeks his carriage and intelligence had gained him the rank of corporal. One day when his regiment was in the trenches the Colonel called for a soldier who should vohmtoar to carry orders of the staff to different companies. He did not conceal the fact that the mission was one of real danger. Corporal Granger volunteered. He listened tentatively to the Colonel’s instructions. Then with a quiet "C’est bien," went on his mission. fe He reached the first trench in safetyJ and gave his message. The next of his journey was a dangerous one,” for he had to pass over an open space of 300 yards, swept by the enemy’s fire. He went down on his hands and. knees and crawled, only lifting his" head in order to see his way. Within a few yards of the trenches a bullet’ struck him in the thigh. J He sheltered behind a tree, hastily | dressed the wounds, then dragged him-S self to the trench, there he his message to the commander. This! officer pressed him to remain and lets another complete his mission, but Granger refused. “I have given my word,’’ he said. There remained still two companies to visit One of them was quite near, and he reached it without much difficulty, but the last was 600 yards away, far advanced in the zone of fire. Granger began his terrible journey. At every few yards he was compelled to stop, *so fierce was the suffering, caused by his wound. Bullets whistled around him, and one pierced his kept He was within 20 yards of safety when a shell burst in front of him, and fragments struck him, inflicting a terrible wound. He lost consciousness a moment, but he had been seen from the trenches. Two ambulance men ran out, placed him on a stretcher, and carried him to their company. Young Granger recovered consciousness and remembered that he had a mission to fulfill. He asked that Ute commanding officer should be called, and almost with his last breath whispered the orders he had been given. The sacrifice of his life was not in vain, for the instructions he had transmitted enabled the French to repulse a fierce German attack with heavy loss.

HERMIT IN 1760 FORETOLD WAR

Quaint Document Written In Switzerland Also Predicts World’s End in 1999. Trenton, N. J.—A prediction of the European war, and the further prediction that it presages a series of catastrophes to conclude in 1999, with the end of the world, is contained in an old Italian document, with an interesting history, in the possession of Antonio Federici of No. 22 Berkeley place, N. J. Mr. Federici received the document from his brother, the late Thomas Federici, who was at one time a professor in the Roman Catholic College 1 at Rome. According to Mr. Federici, the document was given to his brother by Pope Pius X. The quaint old document, written on a double piece of finely grained paper in Italian, is said to have been the work of a hermit, who lived in Switzerland. How it came into the possession of the Pope is not known. It bears the date of 1760, and tells, as prophecies, of the birth of Napoleon, his rise as the greatest military man the world has known and his defeat. The dates of various past cataclysms Including wars and natural disturbances are given and the European war Is foretold, although the date is set for 1915. Of the present gigantic war the prophecy says: “Famine. slaughter and mortality will be extensive, so that there wil be left a small number of men. When two meet each other they will embrace for joy.” In 1950, sa s the prophecy, “three suns” will appear, and this is the beginning of a series of disasters, which will culminate with the end of the world. , Sicily will be swallowed up by the sea and Naples will be destroyed by fire in 1960, according to the prophecy. At tie same time Fiance and Spain will be desolated by earthquakes. In the Orient there will be pestilence and famine. In 1970 there will be an eclipse for seven days, after which the first star, it Is predicted, will appear. From then until 1999, when the world will come to a violent end, there are predicted vague catastrophes.

Camel Corps in Battle

Cairo, Egypt—Reports of an engagement between a British and Moslem camel corps, in which twenty of the enemy were killed before the British force retreated to avoid- envelopment by a superior cavalry force, have been received here. One Egyptian and one Tndiee officer at the RriHeb force were killed, together with twelve men.