The sun., 1914-09-13
DINARD AMERICANS
WORK FOR RED CROSS
Aid French Soldiers Brought
Back Wounded From the
Battlefield.
HOTELS ARE HOSPITALS
Returning Troops Tell Of AtrOc:
tiles Committed by Ger
mans in Belgium.
HOTELS ARE HOSPITALS

The foliowin1 letter pds roceiUed by
George stuart Smith Of is Broddudy
from his sister. Mrs. Niud Ldre Durycd
(Mrs. chester y. Duryea), vho IS IN
Dindrd uhere she toitncsScd the French
mobilization:
"DrNARp. August 2S.
"F'riends tale this to England tonight
by one OF our very occasional boats, so
am sure you will get IT,
I'm n way. l wouldn't miss this expert
ence. for history is being made at light
ming speed and I'm right in the drama.
Each day when the wounded arrive
after three and sometimes four days In
the sitting train. coming from Alsace and
Belgium we all line the little streets and
pelt them with flowers. shouting ourselves
hoarse, as tho slow procession passes on
TO the Hotel Royal, which is now a hos
pital. where finely bred women in Rcd
Cross uniforms wash and tend their poor
manned bodies with proud humility.
Every one works for the cause. We
all are enrolled on the Red Cross and
take my turn from 7 \. VI. TO i. NJ,
doing the humblest services with a glad
heart. Then Mrs. Ponsonby and | have
formed an Anglo-Sdxon Society for buy
ing material. cutting II out and giving
shirts, &C, to the poor TO make, paying
them out OF our fund. The days aren't
long enough for all there is to do.
our only paper Is a sheet ten
inches by eight. and when "A paper from
the outside world comes It goes from one
end OF the town to the other till reduced
to pulp. The suspense Is awful. OF the
thousands from Brittany who marched
away singing the 'Marseillaise' few have
been heard from, and soldiers aren't al
lowed to write save on printed cards.
alive and well and signature. without
name OF place. They come spasmodically.
then alas. cease. and the sorrow of those
mere Is constant tax ou our hearts.
but the courage and se.f-abregation OF
these people IS astonishing The fishing
fleet was sent for and now tho bay IS
filled with boats. their owners and fishers
mobilzng at 81 Malo. The old cathe-
dral there Is throngcd all day and all
night with women who. accustomed to
long farewels for the dangers OF the sea,
now are bidding an eternal farewell To
their sole means Of support Before each
door there is now an image OF the Mother
of Sorrows. with a tiny hight always
burning, Yet these people never murmur
and will give up theii last son for France.
Refugees from Charieroi are coming
now, and their very appearance proves
the horrors they experienced such tales!
of murder, children taken on German
shoulders 10 face their own parents on
the firing line, one man told me how
ful Inhabitants were locked In room
and picked of by carb mes thrust through
the window shutters till all were dead.
The Germans laughed to see them dance
the dance OF death This one was left
for dead and found later and his head
had been battered in by musket butt
after he fell. These refugees have no
clothes and seemed dazed by horror one
woman had her baby murdered In her
arr~ ana was found sitting with it under
a hedge, demented.
Mrs Rowland PEN has been trying 10
get to America In every way and Mr..
and Mrs. Wolch too. Ia vain. We have
10 go through all sorts OF red tape about
passports now far more complicated then
at first. First, write to our Ambassador.
Then his paper comes back and has to
80 90 Rcuncs. Then to our Military
Mayor. II takes ten days. and meanwhile
boats to Engltud lapse from date given
out. and likely as not the steamer leaves
without rs passengers. Luggage has al
most Invariably to be left behind, as
only sixty pounds are taken. The Nelchcs
bought three tickets for each person to
take more trunks"