Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1918 — Music a War Horror. [ARTICLE]

Music a War Horror.

A grim story is told of an air raid on Paris. If its -truth were not vouched for by the most respectable authority one would say that it was an invention of De Maupassant In his most nihcabre vein. While the work of ’rescue was going on by candle light in one of the houses which had suffered most the crowd was suddenly horrified by the defiant notes of the “Rakoczy March,” blared out apparently by a strong brass band. Every one was aghast at so brutal an Insult till the tenant of a flat on an upper floor said that he had an orchestrion which played that par- / tlcular tune. The explosion must have set it in motion. At the risk of their Ilves some firemen managed to reach the machine, but in the dark, and not knowing' about its mechanism, they could not stop it. It went on till the floor on’which It stood collapsed.