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... THIEVES FIRE ON NATIONAL GUARD. DRAMATIC FIGHT AFTER BANK ROBBERY. THREE ARRESTS. Thieves broke into the savings bank at Tarraaa, near Barcelona, and carried off 3,000 pesetas, says Reuter. The motor-car in which they attempted to escape collided with ...
... visited Brakpan last nisht and looted a store. They also endeavoured to set the headgear of the Brakpan Collieries on fire, but the guard drove them off. Two dead Boers were found afterwards. No damage was done lo the collieries.'-* Reuter's Special Service ...
... ere ebserved by big fires, which could be seen for a long time. On their way, before crossing the British coast, the air- ships were taken under fire by guard vessels, and during ‘the attack itself under extraordinarily heavy fire with in- cendiary shells ...
... and other cooking apprartus. What the incandescent gas light is to an ordinary gas burmer, a fire made with the incandescent fire-mantel is to any ordinary fire, the advantages of ule patent mantel when applied to any ordinary grate being exactly similar ...
... “Roar of the Ga* Flames.” The Inspector: Can you explain where the fire was?—l can. Tbcre was a smallish fire on the roof. I mean it was not burning fiercely. Previous to getting out could hear the roar of the gas flames which were coming out from underneath ...
... road in our centre. The enemy's fire wvas very heavy, the slope of the ground favouring hi,> fire. The troops advanced pluckily, firing voileys. The Maxim was wel' managed, and it did great execution. After the firing had proceeded for half an hour at ...
... orders had been issued against any armed men being permitted to re-enter Paris; in their rage the fugitives threatened to fire on the guard, but after- wards went in search of another gate without carrying out their menace. This morning it was rumoured that ...
... over £3,000,000 in the Fire Department seemed to be an appropriate occasion for a retrospective glance at what had been accomplished. It took the company, he found, thirty-six years to reach its first million of inconie in fire premiums. The second million ...
... and modern romance writers. It is the spirit which prompted the French general to exclaim, Gentlemen of the English guard, fire first! before giving the word to his own men to advance. It is the spirit which made the French admiral tell Admiral DUNCAN ...
... down from that direction shortly afterwards and saw us on parade. He was the worse for dHnk, and said he would order the guard fire volley into us and then commit suicide.” Explaining the work, witness said the tumes were stifling, and the protectiott ...
... unquestionably never been absolutely extinct. The story of the exclamation of the English commander- Gentlemen of the French guard, fire first !-may be, like so many good stories, a fiction; but it is a mythical fiction, and embodies an idea current for worship ...
... to a gallant Englishman: Gentlemen of the French Guard, fire first. M. Victor Hugo, victor in Poesy, victor in Romance, has gloried in the fact that Cambronne, so far from saying that 1 the Guard dies, but does not sur- render, used one short word ...