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WAR SPIRIT 0 ALLIES BODES ILL FOR AMERICAN EFFORTS TO END GREAT STRUGGLE
UHLANS CHALLENGE
DEATH IN STALKING
ENEMIES' POSITION
British Casualties Admitted
ly Arc Greater Than
Any Other Conflict
War. '
at
of
; German Horsemen, Gallop
ing Out to Draw Fire and
Show Opponents' Strength,
Have Small Chance of
Escape.
riOTTEKDAM, Sept. ID.
nmccrnlnR the Ucrinnn ; Uhlans, of
whom so miicli has been heard" In the
Etitojiefcti war, J.ulgl Hn'rzlnl, a widely
known Hnllali war correspondent, says
l fj-i. Corrl'-rc Delia Sera!
"As we nenrod a small station and the
train Icssei-fd Its speed we saw a smnll
troop of cavalry guarding the railroad
crosslns-a. patrol of Uhlans. Their de
meanor woi calm Though the were In
the enemy's country, their carefiee atti
tude save the Impression that thoy were
meicly In a maiii'Ucr camp.
"The swarms of cavalty which the Ger
mans send out ahead of their mh'nnco nre
to be found everywhere on any highway,
nny path. It Is their buplniss to see as
much as possible. They show themselves
evervnlierc, and they ride until they nrc
,,i' imnn. heenlnc this uu until they have
" .' .. .. rm.-i.. I.. tt.A n1 nt i
located V,e "? ' ' Vi- ,.lr rr,t f ihn Wern" von Veaulleu. Ho wan shot on
rldlnc Into death. The entire mint or llio ....
; enemy Is established by them, and many September I while scouting over the cn
' of them aie klllcd-that Is a certainty cmy'i llncB, but managed to guide his
- they fncf. .Vow and then, however, one i aeroplane back to safety. The observer
of th"ni nnnaKcw iu eotuiiu iu mint, in.
I Information himself (which otherwise' Is
J obtained by ofllccrs In their tear malting
l obstivatlons).
f "The llr with which the Uhlans are re-
!' ciMved permits of n fair estimate or the
'' ilnnrtli of the enemy, for they know
5 that usually nil the soldiers shoot as soon
as the cuvmn of the enemy shows It3elf.
I "The German Uhlan Is employed cntlie
f y for loconnnlspance purposes nnd what
I Ji known as 'screen' and contact work.
1 "hi 'ereen work' the Uhlan Is used to
( cover Inlnntry or artillery advances, tuk
' Ins a lio'ltlon on the Hank as soon as
this has been accomplished.
"In 'contact work' the Uhlan tides In
email bodies until he has drawn the tire
of the enemy. Instead of retreating as
he ma. do In ordinary reconnaissance
viork, he endeavors to trace tho front of
the enemy, riding parallel to It usually
until the last man Is shot down. The
contact action has meanwhile been close
ly observed from the Gciman front, and
the advance and attack of the Infantry
i,i governed by the Information gained
at tho expense of tho Uhlan, for whom
there is no hope ns soon as he Is dt
talled for this duty, but who. from
All arcounts, does not seem to mind this
part of his work."
150,000 MEN LOST
IN BATTLE OF AISNE,
LONDON ESTIMATES
LONDON, Sept. 19.
According to officials at the war olTlco
hero today tho .combined losses In tho
world's greatest bnttle now raging along
tho Illvcr Alsno In Northern Franco total
more than lf,0,000. The Hrltlsh casualties
In this buttle admittedly arc gi cater than
At nny other time during tho war. Tho
German losses ate terrific.
UKItlil.V (Oy way of Amsterdam),
Sept. 19.
The German losses In the war ns shown
by the lists thus far given out total 45,
0'J In killed, wounded and missing. They
are listed thus: Killed, 74S3; wounded,
!S,:Mj missing, ODO).
A list published today, the twenty
eighth that has been Issued, gives tho
following: Killed, 10W; wounded, 4039;
missing, 1020: total, C101.
The German aviation corps suffered a
great loss In tho death of Lieutenant
RUSSIAN NEWS REPORTS
INCREDIBLE, SAYS DUMBA
Austrian Ambnsndor Denies Truth of
Stories From Petrograd.
NEW VOniC, Sept. 19. Dr. Constantin
Dumba, the Austio-Hungarlan Ambassa
dor, exasperated by reports of extensive
Russian victories In Gallcia and Russian
Poland, has given out a statement char
flcterJzlns the reports ns absolutely fnlse
and misleading, and designed to Influ
ence public sentiment against Austria.
Ambassador Dumba's statement reads:
"I am compelled to protest most cm
phatlcrfllv asalnst the false reports sent
Ma London fiom Home, Jlllan. Geneva,
Copenhagen and St. Peteisburg about tho
Austilan campaign In Itusslan I'olnnd
and Gallela To quote some of these re
porta purporting to come from official
sources:
CALLS STOUV INCREDIBLE.
'"The Austrlnns loin since the battles
of Lcmberg KO.OflO men, dead and
Hounded and Iflo.OOU prisoners.' I have
read this Incredible lie at least twenty
times In big headlines, repeated even In
the same paper several times. But we
hear that Immediately afterward 'the
Austrian Geneials, Dankl nnd Aurfcn
berg, who hail to retreat from Ttusslan
Poland, succeeded In uniting and rally
ing for a new ling.' 1 do not think that
anybody endowed with a little common
jens i an for ne moment believe that an
army of l.OOO.MO liming lrft,t 450,000 men
should be nble Immediately to rally for
a new tight.
"Acconhng to ofllclal (?) IVtio
firail news, tho Austrian, while lecedlns
and hotly pursued to Lemberg, had al
leud.v lust about y,0H0 men. (There was
bnrdlv urn one left to tell tho tnie.)
The steel forts of 'the first cln'fes fortress
of MichnlluuHk lmrl lionti silenced nnd
f9tnrmud with incredible bravery by the
itusslans' In reality Mich.Ulowsk Is a
Lilian village with 007 Inhabitants, where
the Austrian troops had erected provi
sional field trenches. The reports spoke
of 5fk) Austilan held gun." and 1010 heavy
guns captured. (Nobody knows the
ttliercaluuts of thotu mvtlilcal 1000 hiuvv
gun's, as no Austrian fortress has been
taken.)
'Then again: "The backbone of the
Austilan army in Gallcia was utterly
broken after tho fall of Lcmberg.' It
practically no lunger existed, bo that
tho dreaded Cossacks had their choice
beUccn a rush to Budapest to Join hands
with tho Serbs and the announced on
ilaujht to Berlin via Hreslau."
CALLS NEWS FANTASTIC.
fount Berchtold, the Austrian Foreign
eretary, sent the following dispatch by
tireless denying Russian reports:
. Af'er the battle of Lemuels the offl
il Russians news agency published as
usual fantastic news about an alleged
Mctory of the Russians, slvlns the num
ber of prisoners taken as ;o,coo and the
number of captured guns as 800.
.t It '"'""ting to compare with this
ory the official communique of the Rua
!?" Gn'al Staff, dated September 11,
"out the same battle. Here the numbers
e gone down tn Sfwi m-unr.... i -m
nna frit- --- .tau.tcg mm tf
G.n.;.i e?'"niunlnue admitted that
do,.. ",u""ow was in a very
hrj u.,,m e8eaPea defeat
---... ,, hiiiing-.
who accompanied him on the trip was
unhurt and secured valuable Information.
The lieutenant died two days later.
Captain Fiederlch P. Lannsclimldt, of
tlie Fourth Foot Guards, was killed In
n bat tin with the French hear Chalons
on September 15.
BORDEAUX, Sept. ID.
It was nfllclaliy stated today that let- ,
tors found on dend and captured German i
olllcers prove conclusively truth of the
earlier reports of terrible mortality in I
the German rnnks, especially among the j
ctllccrs.
In the tenth nnd Imperial Ouaid corps '
there Is raid not to have been a single
high ranking officer who was not cither .
killed or wounded.
All of the companies of the first bat
talion of the Prussian guard nie now
commanded by volunteer officers of ninny
yeni-'.s service who have taken the places
of those killed. Numerous companies of
German Infantry, which consisted of 250
men, have been reduced to sixty o-seventy.
MAUBEUGE CAPTURED
BY GERMANS ON SEPT. 7
City Suffered Severely From Bom
bardment of Week.
LONDON, Sept. 19.
The Times correspondent at Boulogne
announces the fnll of Maubeuge In the
folowlng dispatch:
"Maubeuge fell on September 7. The
Investment began on August 25. On Au
gust 2H the first shell wan fired. On Au
gust 27 the main attack was concentrated
on the forts to tho north and cast of the
city.
"Forts do Boussols, des Essarts and do
Ceifontalnc and the enrthworks of Rocn
were destroyed by heavy artillery.
"Tho town suffered severely from tho
bombardment, which continued with
great violence for 12 days. More than a
thousand shells fell in ono night near the
railway station and tho Rue de Frnnco
was partially destroyed. The loss of life,
however, was comparatively slight.
"At 11:50 o clock on the mornlinj of
September 7 a white tlag was hoisted on
the church tower and trumpets sounded
cease firing,' but the firing only ceased
at 3 o'clock that n.ternoon. In tho mean
time the greater part of the garrison suc
ceeded in leaWtig the town. The German
forces marched In at 7 o'clock that eve
l nlng."
SCULPTOR OF MARTIAL
HEROES KILLED IN WAR
Fricdrlch Ffannschmidt, One of Most
Famous European Artists.
NEW YORK, Sept. 19.-The death In
battle of Frledrlch Ffannschmidt. ns an
nounced in today's dispatches from Ber-
( lln, removed from the body of European
sculptors one of Its most famous mem
I bcis.
Ffannschmidt, who was a member of
the Senate of the German Royal Academy
of Arts, and president of the Association
of German Sculptors, was born In Berlin
In 1S04. Among his famous works were
statues of Field Marshall Von Moltke,
General Von Der Tann RatlisamhauVien
and Paul Gerhnrdt. For his skill In thes
works he was decorated with the Ludwlg
Cros of the First Class and made a
member of the Bavarian Michael Order
and the Order of Merit for Arts and
Sciences. ,
critical
only after
I. , ...
Hans ,.LT at ?" as'on'shlng that Rus-
mBtuUd. PU,rely s"-a'el concentrating
bir" for. H?ur f0rce3 RrounA L"'
camJ sPraHns false reports; but the
wSvm "that" V '" Wh'C" thU ls dne best
derv h ?Um own ome,aI wr reports
ene the fullest confidence."
GERMANS SEEK NEW WEAPON
TO SHATTER BRITISH NAVY
French War Office Reports Experi
ments With Aerial Torpedo.
BORDEAUX, Sept. 19.
Word has rea ned the War Office that
tho Germans are experimenting: with a
new weapon with which they hope to shat
ter the British navy. This weapon takes
the form of an uerlal torpedo.
At Berne, Switzerland, a telegram says
that every night a huge Zeppelin hovers
over Lake Constance at a height of 1000
feet, carrying on experiments.
Wicker work torpedo cases are lowered
Into tho water attached to ropes. The
explosion which follows Is terrific.
Tho Germans evidently hope to line the
North Sea coast with these engines and
perhaps to shell the British fleet with
them.
VIENNA POPULACE RIOTS,
ATTACKING WAR OFFICE
Outbreak Indicates Public Feeling
Against the War.
TaX - --xchanEe
nor2lark " - frm V,enna t,,at
Wadowi T ar' break'ns all of the
l,Ti-9.,"i',reak occurred on ThnrM.v rt
lwird th. w- the P"111" feeling there I valley of the Meuee, taya that corpses
war. i ,lo heaped up 0H the banks of tha river.
I
BODIES POISON PARIS WATER
Corpses Heaped Along the Marne
Contaminate Capital's Supply,
TARIS, Sept. 19.
Parisians have been warned that be
cause of the battles on the banks of the
Marne which Is the largest tributary of
the Peine, the wuter of the river hers
muet not be used for drlnklnc purposes
without being boiled.
Philip Rader, on American volunteer
aviator who has just returned from the
f" n "hiii ii.iii mill i in iiw i in 'iirniii n i mi i i I .iMinm wiiiim uw
SACK OF LOUVAIN
LIKE TRIP IN HELL,
EYEWITNESS SAYS
Citizens Shot Dead Like
Rabbits and the Torch of
the Firebug Invader in
Every Direction, Is Story.
CLEMENCEAU RAILS
AT HOSPITAL CARE
OF GERMAN WOUNDED
O
A VICTORY AT HOME
WAR DRAMA'S SHIFTING SCENES
FROM GREAT THEATRE OF STRIFE
The name of Mine. Adrionno Buliet,
head of the Dames du Sncre Coeur, ap
pears in n Ioiib list of names of those
killed on a battlefield.
She was struck by a bullet from a
German machine Run ns sho was rais
ing the head of a wounded soldier.
A ragged group of eight arrived at
London on n ship from Boulogne, plainly
showing they had endured hardships In
tho battles In France, They wore the
garb of I'rench peasants. Ono had a
corduroy jacket, trousers much too short
for him nnd bathing ihoes. Unwashed,
and with two or three days' growth of
beard, they walked out of the Harbour
Station.
As they passed talking I caught a
broad Irish brogue and a rcsponso in an
equally pionounced Scotch dialect,
"Who nre you?" I Inquired.
"British soldiers, guv'nor!" was the
reply, "Lost our regiments, borrowed
these 'ere togs, enmo through the Ger
man lines, reached Boulogne at last and
now wo nro going to Shorncllffo to re
port. Then we are going back again,"
How two British soldiers, a captain
and a corporal of the Dragoon Guards,
escaped from a convent hospltnl. where
they were held prisoners by tho Germans
after being seriously wounded, wns told
by ono of them when they arrived at
Folkstone from Ostend.
They had crossed r,o miles of country
occupied by tho enemy nnd got Bafcly
by their outposts. Tho corporal told the
story qulto casually, ns It It were an
ordinary adventure.
"With tho rest of the wounded I was
taken to n convent Inside the German
lines. I 'fcund my own captain there. A
shrapnel shell had exploded In front of
him and the fumes had sent him off,
nnd he had a slight wound on the fore
head, "They left the convent unguarded, be
!ng confident, I suppose, that we could
not escapo through their lines. Wo had
heen there a day or two when wo saw
them sending up a guard.
" 'This Is tho time to escape, and ws
are going to,' said tho captain.
"We got nut without difficulty, and
lay for ton hours In ambush behind a
hedge. Then we set out to get through
the lines. The captain had a map of
the country and n damaged pair of com
pnsbes, which we patched up with dough.
The map enabled him to know exactly
where we were.
"We lay low all day and traveled by
nlsht, covering 27 miles of ground each
night by crawling almost flat nnd run
ning bent almost double when wo found
cover. We had no sleep for IS hours.
"Once we attempted to swim, but found
out clothes too heavy to carry, so we
made for a bridge. It was guarded by
25 Germans. We came nearer and looked
up very carefully. The ientry on our
side of the bridge was asleep. We ciept
past him And over the bridge, Tho whole
guard was asleep. The second time we
crossed the canal was by a pontoon which
they had left unguarded.
"Once we got clear of their lines we
had no further difficulty. Tha Belgians
assisted us all they could to get to
Ostend."
Former Senator Chauncey M. Depew's
side whiskers, long a familiar adorn
ment, served as his passport on his rail
way trip from the Swiss border to
Paris. Frenchmen thought none but a
Briton could wear whiskers like Mr.
Pepew's and passengers cried "Viv?
Entente Cordlalo'" when they noticed
the American. Mr. Derew arrived In
New York yesterday on the White Star
liner Baltic and said he hear, I the Kaiser
had boasted he would hang his hat on
taken In
Senator.
tho date," added the former
Last week a proposal was publicly
made in London by Mrs. L'dward Lyt
tlctnn that there should bo a general
token of mourning for those who In the
glorious exploits of British aims In
France and Belgium have died for their
King and country. This proposal wns
tp tho effect that those fnmlilcs who
lose loved ones in tho war should wear
a purple armlet bearing in gilt letters
some general phrase, such as "For King
and Country."
Tho Duchess of Devonshire, Lady
Lansdowne and other ladles have an
nounced that for those of their relatives
who die nt the" front they "will not show
their sorrow as for those who come to a
less glorious end." Their outward signs
of mourning will bo restricted to the
wearing of a plain white band on tho
sleeve.
Tho suggestion of this unpretentious
mark of mourning, whether the band be
white or purple, is generally approved.
Some distinctive token of the kind if
made uniform for high and low alike,
is worthy of adoption. Its simplicity
will be ever so much moro expressive
of the nation's grief nnd fortitude In
adversity than tho wearing of sombre
black mourning attire.
One brnve French mother has learned
that her three sons were war victims, one
dead, another missing and the third
wounded, She guessed from the demeanor
ot the priest who called that one had
been killed, nnd repeated Mme. Castel
nnn's famous question, "Which?" The
mother's name was Mme, Salat. and her
three sons had left school to fight along
the frontier,
A London soldier, who was In the
general engagement around Mons, says
the Germans screened tho advance by
holding French women and children in
front of them. The Gormans did not
drive the defenceless non-combatants be
fore the column, but carried them. "Of
course," the English soldier added, "our
gunners could do nothing. It was worse
than any savage wnrfaro I ever had
Imagined." Another man, back from
France, recounted an Incident of the Ger
man occupation of a village. He says
the victors threw a French soldier, whom
they had captured, on some embers and
burned him alive.
Describing the recent visit of F.mperor
William with Prince Oscar near Longwy,
the Rotterdam correspondent of tho Lon
don Dally Telegraph says tho Kaiser In
spected the machine guns theie and then
said to a gunner:
"lou have fired many rounds,
many hit?"
"About 100 per cent.," thi
replied.
How
ie gunner
It Is reported that since the beginning
of the war the Holland-American steam
ship line has had scurcely enough ships
to convey to the United States all the
Americans strunded in Holland. There
am now mountains of luggage on the
Wllhelmlna wharves awaiting transporta
tion to America. In older to cope with
the gigantic demand the company hna
chartered several ships from other coun
tries. German newspapers have received this
telegram today from Crown Prince Fred
erick William:
"Please collect and forward as early
as possible woolen underwear and socka
for my soldiers. Greetings.
"WILHELM, Crown Prince."
The Crown Pilnce a few d.ia ucn tnio-
graphed to a Berlin newspaper a similar
POINCARE DECORATES GENERAL '
BORDEAUX. Pept. 19. President
Polncnre raised Geneial do Castolnau to- I
day to the rank of grand officer of the
Legion of Honor. The honor was be
stowed on tho ie'oinniendation of Gen-
I.WWJ W!,IC" --mutes ;-" arm.e. in .he fleW " "
ALSACE SUFFERS
REIGN ftP TERROR
IS BASEL REPORT
Prussia's Iron Hand Felt by
Natives, Though Proved
Innocent of Wrongdoing,
Correspondent Charges.
By JOHN CAMERON
BASEL, Switzerland. Sept 19.
News from Alsace filters slowly
through, whatever tho turn of events.
Tho impression heio Is that this stilcken
province, the population of which lins
suffered In full the miseries of war, there
has been no fighting of moment, although
the sound of artillery duels near Mul
tilumen for tho last week has been easily
heard in Basel.
It appears now clear that after a
billllant action on September 9 the
French did not enter the town of Muel
I'auson, but contented themselves by oc
cupying stratfglcnl positions In the
vicinity.
Tho retirement of the French after
their Initial occupation of Muelhausen nt
the opening of tho war was followed
by n reign
one of tho blackest chapters of tho war.
Always suspicious of the attitude of the
people of tho conquered provinces, tho i
Gejrnnns needed only an excuse to wreak ,
vengeance and terrorize the population
Scores of the wealthiest citizens of
Upper Alsace have either been put In
pribon or have sintered grave punishment
Harboring of French soldiers is consider
ed sufficient Justification for bloody re
prisals, the strange theory of the Ger
mans being apparently that the man
whose house rt Invaded by troops, who
fire from the windows, is lespousitdo ur i
their acts. It may be true that some ,
were consenting parties, but many wore
helpless.
An Inquiry Instituted at Burzweiler, ,
near Muelhausen. where the village was '
burned, showed that five Inhabitants were
executed on a charge of harboilns J
Frauctlreiirs, although that there weie
none of them with tho French army has !
been proved Tho Inquiry failed utterly !
to establish tho ohurges and proved cm. .
phatically the Innocence of the victims.
All the wounds with which tho German
soldieij. afterwards wero Inflicted from tho
houses wore certified by tho doctors to i
huvp heen caused by projectiles used only I
by the German army. I
It Is now understood that the alarm and '
tho subsequent fqsillado by which Ger-
man soldiers wero killed by German tire l
was caused by Chiang shooting a
wounded charger behind a brick kiln on
tho outskirts of tho town.
The pi lest of a villngo not far from
the Rhine told mo the following instance: '
A shot wjs heard ono night In his vil
lage. It was tired from the Inn Troops
surrounded the building and rid lied it
with bullets. Finally, they took It by as
aault, when Its garrison was found to
consist of two Bavarian soldiers who.
panic-stricken at tho sound of a shot
tired In the night, tired their rifles, imag- .
ining themselves besieged by tho Fren.ii i
They were dragged from the loom in I
which they were hiding nnd even theii
own circumstantial storj failed to sat- I
isfy the officers, who proceeded to shoot !
all male Inmates of the inn. The cause '
of tho panic wns discovered In a Sol Her
sleeping ni a neighboring loft, who had '
accidentally hred his rltle. i
These are a few Instances of Incidents
of dally occurrence which have caused a '
deep impression on the people of the i
city of Basel If. In ears of pe.i .- '
thjj Herman hae f.illtd iu win the ui
fiition of the lsatian-. the U.-t u-
ROTTERDAM, Sept. 19.
Stories of the sacking of Louvaln, which
nro nlmost unbelievable In their horror,
renched here from tho frontier.
One of tho most vivid 13 that of nn as
sistant In n bicycle shop, who, though a
Dutchman, wns given special facilities for
escape owing to hla being mistaken for a
German. "At midday Inst Tuesday," ha
begins, "a feaiful upioar broko out tn
the fltients while we wero nt dinner, and
tho crackle of musketry wns soon follow
ed by the roar of artillery near at hand.
"Healing shrieks from the Inhabitants
of our streets, I rushed to the window and
saw that several houses wero already In
flames. Soldiers wore snmshlng tho shop
windows and looting in all directions. As
tho peoplo rushed Into the streets from
tho burning houses thoy wero shot down
like rabbits. With my governor, his wlfo
nnd little boy, we fled to tho cellar,
where I and the boy hid under a pllo of
tires, white the manager hid under a
chest and his wlfo got Into a drain, where
fho stood with water up to her waist for
many hours.
NIGHT MADE HIDEOUS.
"Night fell and the sound ot shooting
In the stieets became brisker. I crept
out of my hiding-place to get some wnter,
nnd peeping out of my window saw to
my horror tfiit almost tho whole street
was In luins Then we found that our
own hnu"c was alight, nnd It was neces
sary to choose between bolting and being
burned to dentil v,l;er we worn. 1 decided
to make u dash for it, but the moment I
was outside tho door thrco Gejrnnns held
me uu with revolvers and asked me where
1 wns going. My reply wns that t was
a German, that my master nnd his wifo
were Germans who had been trapped in
the burning house.
"Ajipnientlv my German was goo-'
j eiimign to make them believe my state
ment for they promised to give us snfo
j conduct nut of the town. Our wnlk
, through tho streets to the railway sta
tion r shall always remember n.s a wnlk
1 thiough hell. The beautiful town, with
. Us noble buildings, wns a sen or flame.
j I'eiid bodies lav thick In the streets.
j I'l'-adlul cries came from many of the
i hnu.ses.
"It was 5-.Z0 on Wednesday morning
, "hen uc reached tho railway station.
S'lldleis were even then still going nbout
1 the stieets with lighted brands and ex-
!iosies in their Hands setting a light to
nnv buildings that still remained intact,
hi the parks they had already begun to
bury the dead, but in many cases so shal
low wero the graves that a largo part of
each body wns still visible.
A HARROWING SPECTACLE.
"At the railway station wo witnessed
a iruiy nariowing spectacle. Fifty citi
zens, both men nnd women, bad been
brought fiom the houses from which tho
soldiers swore that shots hurt been fired
They wcio lined up In the stieet. pro
tecting with tears In their eyes that
tliov were innocent. Thou camo a tiring
squad. Vollej followed volley, and the
50 fell dead where thoy stood."
Tills story Is corroborated bv an Inde
pendent dispatch from n Dutch' Journalist
who happened to be at Louvaln on his
wn to Brussels.
Ifo said he was standing on Tuesday
evening near tho railway Mntion nt Lou
valn, talking to a Get man officer, when
hn was strongly ndvl.se! to leave the
spot owing to the great danger.
A group of some BOO men nnd women
described as hostages, ueie ranked in
the open space by tU station, nnd they
weie Iiifoimed that for every soldier
fired on In tho town ten of them would
bo shot. Tho wretched people sobbed
nnd wtung their hands and fell on tholr
knees, but they might ns well have ap
pealed to men of stone. Ten by ten as
tho night wore on, they wer brought
from the rnnks and slaughtered before
the eyes of those who remained.
Bitter in Criticism of What
He Calls "Quixotic' Atti
tude of Attendants, While
French Soldiers Bleed on
Battlefields.
BORDEAUX,. Sept 19.Georgea Ciwnen
conu'a patriotism finds vent In an lron
leal criticism In his paper L'Homme
Llbro of tho Alleged quixotic nttltude of
tho hospital authorities toward the Ger-
man wounded In largo numbers, cspe- -dally
toward their hospital assistants
who are allowed to accompany them. M.
Clemenccnu says:
"When I hear tho qnsstlon" discussed
as to whether or not bods should bo re
served for the German nurses, while
our own aro half dead from latl&ue aaa
lie on matting In corridors, I confess
that I rofrain from lntorferlns with Break..
difficulty. Tho whole thlngr beats ni
comprehension. "
"The German woundod appear to bi
freo of any great suffering Judging1 from
their appearance In front of fc.owls of
steaming soup, stuffing their fill, under
tho survelllarco of a bespectacKsd major,
talking and joking In their hoarse gut- '
turals, which make our men squirm aa
they lie silently under blankets, and at
thls'momcnt I say to myself:
" 'How many of their comrades oral
finishing our wounded on battlefields?
Thero should bo a limit to such stu
pidity. In the hospital under notice I saw yes
terday a smiling young miss offer cigars
and chocolate to wounded Germnns. By
all means let us respect and attend to aa
enemy who has betn wounded by our men
when they wero endeavoring' to encom
pass our ruin. This is well nnd good. But
when one of our men seeing these dainties
pass hitn asks sadly: Then, Is' all for
these gentlemen? Is there nothing fpr
us7" It does not seom right. The French
soldier added: 'It Is a little hard to givo
.c's life on the battlefield and then se
e rewarded who tried to take It '
7 invite the Government to reflect ott
.nose words of a French soldier.
"To crown nil, I learn that the be--pectaoled
major heretofore mentioned Is
al'owed to leave tho
tume Comment on
i
ho city in civil cos-
this Is needless "
'
BRUSf-.".lS FEARS FATE
SUFFERED BY LOUVAIN
Schoolhouses Filled With Straw
to Await Torch, Belgians Say.
LONDON, Sept 19,
A courier who arrived from Brussels
witli dispatches says tho Belgians expect
to see Brussels tieated as Louvaln was
before the Germans evneuate ,lne i-
Ho says all the important public build
ings, Including the Palais de Justice nnd
tho largest and most Imposing pilvata
residences, already have been mined by
tho Gormans ns though to blow them up,
while schoolhouses and many other build
ings nro filled with straw icady for tht
torch.
The courier also declares that the Ger
mans liavo mined all roads leading Into
Brussels, but that the Belgians thintc
they Intend to make their principal stand
on tho Namur-Llege line, as the forts and
other defenses are being reconstructed
and tho work is going on night and day.
The Germans nlso have been preparing
for n strong defense on the Valenciennes
line. According to the cornier the Ger
mans now seem to be using Luxemburg
for their principal lino of communication
for their armies In France.
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