Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-17

not fred on us yet, but all the
rest" Then he added thoughtfully:
Perhaps 1t is better that you go.
But you cannot return to Belgium;
you must go back to Germany"
He stopped as if he had gone too
far, and then sharply commanded the
orderly to remove us.
Over and over again from officers of
various degrees came the same note
of doubt, at times better concealed, at
times quite evident. Generally
speaking, the higher the rank and the
better informed the man, the less
certain seemed his conviction that
Germany would sweep the continent.
Some, we thought, had in mind the
agreement between Russia, England
and France, not to conclude peace
separately; others were considering
the Russian hosts.
Between Brussels and Aix-la-C Cha
pelle we saw twenty eight troop and
ammunition trains speeding toward
the western or northern frontier,
some of them to discharge their loads
as near as possible to Maubeuge,
Rheims and the River Aisne, others
to strengthen the German attack on
Antwerp, whichawe had not long left
behind us Sixty thousand troops
passed us on that day.
10. Jaf nf
transporting?" Major B Won. -,
in charge of transportation at -,
was asked
Under Fire Again.
YES" was the answer They're at
lis from all sides. Some of the men
have been under fire in two countries,
and now they will see service in
third He knew that I had come
from Client and from Antwerp. which
the Germans were about to lombard
vet. to his credit, it should be said
that he did not ask for information OF
Peleian activities. Similarly, al
though many soldiers and one man
high in the civil government Of Brus-
sells asked what was going on in Ant
verp. il was noticeable that German
officers, as a whole, recognized the
obligations of neutrality. | remem-
her that, not far from Alost, the sec
ond German picket whom ! had seen
"A rain-soaked bristle-w hiskered
giant. under a canvas-covered he'll
met-popped from behind farm
house and called out;
Halt! wohen?"
Then, while looking over our papers
he asked (as II the answer were the
price of admission):
"Any British in Antwerp with the
Relgians?" We had previously agreed
that "None of your business" was the
proper answer to such talk; but the
fellows bayonet was Internally bright
and sharp. and his countenance like
ice. IT wasn't only the equinoxial
rain that made us shiver. While l
was trying to timber up my German
he passed us along TO the next sentry
most. Very soon we discovered the
English bugbear to be strongly in
trenched in the soldiers That day,
eight miles south of Client, we had
run into a skirmish (Which is another
story, and the report had reached the
German lines that British force,
landed at Ostend, had worked down
south of Antwerp to attack the Ger
man line of communication.
The Belgians they held cheaply
enough, although the former were
still worrying the German garrisons
and harassing the line of communica-
ton. On September 10, a German
Landwehr private of the Seventy-frst
Regiment, Ninth Army Corps, boosted
that they could crack the Antwerp
forts within twenty minutes after the
siege guns had been brought into play
and once the aeroplanes had found
the range.
A Pleasure Walk.
The rest will be a pleasure walk, he
said. We heard other boasts, and
later saw proofs of the power Of the
Krupp siege guns with their deadly
long range fire and discharge of ter
rible tons of steel and explosive.
On September 81. 5000 Landwehr