AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 842, 27 July 1871, Page 3

AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.

The Prussians aver that while the French lost trophies and standards hy the hundred during the late war, they themselves have lost but one standard, and they tell the Btory of its loss as follows:—This standard belonged to the Second Battallion of the Sixty, first Pomeranian Regiment. In tho battle th:it took place bofore Dijon on the 23rd of January, this standard was originally canned by Sergeant Pionke at the head of his company, which was

advancing towards a large factory held by the French. The color-sergeant, together with the whole tection of men about him, was shot down at once; Second-Lieutenant Schultze then took up the colours, and carried them forward about twenty paces, when two bullets struck him simultaneously in ths head. Adjutant Von Puttkaininer, who was already bleeding from a Wound in the cheek, then sprang from his horso and rescued the colours, but at the same time was struck dead by a shot through /the head. The same thing happened to a couple of musketeers who tried to carry tho fatal flag. First Lieutenant Weise then took it up, but he fell just as the remnant of his company were driven back to the quarries. Owing to tho dust and smoke it was not at once noticed that the colours had been left behind. As soon as it was known, a detachment of men was sent out to to look for them, and never returned ; and, of a patrol subsequently dispatched, only one man came back. The next day news was received from Riceictti Garibaldi that the flag had been found shot to pieces, soaked in blood and buried under a mound of dead bodies.