The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-12-17
YOUNG H0RSEMAN
TELLS OF WAR

Mrs. F. V. Fagaley. of the Heights.
has received paper from her former
home in Kentucky relating the expert
ences of a friend, who was caught in
Belgium during the first month of the
employ of horse importing firm of
Illinois. was buying horses in Belgium
when the war broke out,
The story of his adventures follows:
They landed at Antwerp July Ia. For
Two weeks they travelled over Belgium,
contracting for horses the Belgian act
ing as interpreter. Mr.. Cullip is a
Kentuckian and understands none of
the languages spoken in Belgium. They
were getting along nicely with their
business in that peaceful country, with
no worry about the rumors of war, and
when hostilities were declared and the
Germans proceeded to invade Belgium
they were caught entirely unprepared.
The Belgian was Immediately drafted
into. the Belgian army, and Mr.. Cullip
was left stranded in a strange country,
without knowledge of the language and
unable to cash his drafts and get any
money.
For over three weeks MIR. CulIip un-
derwent experiences such as fall to the
lot of few Americans. AS soon as
fighting in Belgium commenced all bus
mess stopped and it was difficult to
buy any necessities or to travel for any
distance. Mr.. Cullp had no passport
and his efforts were directed towards
reaching the American minister in or.
der to secure papers that would permit
him to leave the country. With great
difficulty he got to Antwerp, but found
that the American minister was at Os-
tend. He was repeatedly taken for a
spy by both the Belgians and Germans
and was several times arrested and
searched. He had made friends with
certain Belgians while buying horses :
these friends on several occasions saved
his life by hiding him when the mill
tsry authorities were looking for him.
On one occasion he was hidden for two
hours by the conductor of train until
il was time for the train to leave and
thus evaded arrest. The Germans oc-
cupied all the towns that he could
reach, and their treatment of the peo-
pie was so cruel and inhuman that his
life was constantly in danger.
He received no mail while in Bel
gium and the letters that he wrote mad
to be left unsealed for the inspection
of the censors. No newspapers were
printed in Belgium after the war broke
out and he was entirely ignorant of
what was happening outside of BEL
gum.
MIR, Cullp finally was able to reach
0stend. and through the aid of Bel
gan friend convinced the American
minister that he was an American and
entitled to a passport, which he re-
eeived. Then he borrowed money from
a fellow American to pay his passage
across the English Channel and on
August sailed from 0stend to Folke-
stone, England. At London he was
enabled to cash his drafts and get
money for his steamship ticket across
the Atlantic, and on August 26 he
sailed on the Atlantic liner, New
York. He was compelled to take
steerage, which cost him as much as a
cabin, but he was glad to get home in
any way possible. About 1900 Ameri-
cans were on the steamer, some paying
exorbitant prices, but no one objected.
All were so glad to get away from the
scene of war that the overcrowding,
the poor food and the darkening of the