The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-03

= +o +1,.. ga te,aet5 from N1arburg, | l Germa1ly. where he had been taking post graduate courses at the UHazy CT sity. are most timely, but owing 70 l measure of war news in the cokuA1a1lsI
 of the Farmer yesterday were neces-d 4
 sarfIy incomplete. The con1pAefaon or | | MT. Davenport's observations are most interesting. l
 Mobinzation of troops, in Germany began on August 2, and from then un- I ttl inc fourteenth Of the month on en l average of from 185 to 200 trains load lea with soldiers. food. cannon arnTnu77 milton, nurses and such battle necessl- ties went through from Frankfort Ioz lof fir trees were also transported for Istrategic use, probably in masking de- l fences.
 l MT. Davenport was quartered on a hill overlooking the valley through
 which these trains passed every fol1r minutes.
 l All along the line the women of the ltowns and villages had established re= I lief stations where the soldiers were l given coffee. sandwiches and other I lperor's orders, however. no beer, the great German drink, was passed to the soldiers. The soldiers would get their necessities at the stations, but procure than anything else were the little battleaeld post cards, which they lean send from the front to their peo- lple at home, and which tells exactly
 where they are l At the university where the Bridge
 bort man was studying. were four Rus sian students. who had been taking
 summer courses. They proved to be lspies and were caught poisoning the \ water supply outside the city Mr. Davenport was on the street when I he passed the bodies Of two of them who had just been shot M s
 After England declared war, four English students at the university
 fwere immediately arrested and put in to the poorhouse in MarburE Here, while they were not i'll treated, they
 were given nothing but water and
 German pancakes to eat and were put
 to hard labor Just before MT Daven- port left they were allowed to go { about the town on parole.
 l The Americans staying at the Pea- sionn with MT. Davenport were par ticularly fortunate as it's keeper was the head of the city council and was ! accordingly very influential. He did leverything possible to help them and
 by his kind advice, saved them from many trying situations
 , He took their passports to the po- : This prevented them from being arrest led every time they walked down the ? istreet
 : During the first i've days Of mobII- 2 ization they had to stay in the house ! all the time It was the Americans
 who tried to get out of the country 2 during this time or persisted in roam 2 ing about the cities who met with 2 such narrowing experiences
 A Latin professor from Boston, was
 larrested three or four times and final 2 lly was taken to the station and strip 2 lped. Nothing suspicious being found 2 he was told he could go. but such a 2 menacing crowd had gathered outside { that he told the police he preferred 2 to be kept in the station
 ? Before MT Davenports passport had
 been s.vised,,' z he was arrested perhaps . lsfx times. Twice he was taken to ' the police station and detained about T an houU and a half before he was re- e leased. He was mistaken at various times for
 an Englishman. Russian, Dutch P man and a. German Accord6ng to him, ' the worso part of walking about in
 fpiciously, There are large number
 of soldiers left in each city to protect
 it and these mutter as one passes or
 else approach and ask for pasAports sI During the period of mobilization IT the gathering troops of soldiers kept is walking the streets Of the city, singing Le s@The Watch On the Rhine seHai Ic to Thee Fatheriand.. :. ''Morgenroth, 2 ,7a and other patriotic songs There was e. 4sone carousing but not much as the -e Emperor had forbidden the use oi B. liquors
 r- Two or. three days after the outbrean ly of war some of the store keepers start t, ed to advance the prices of their artf- T. cles and refused to accept German pa
 per money
 Immediatelv the eoverrrxn ent tool t- hold of the situation and closed t11es y, stores, forbidding them to reopen. un se til after the war was over, at least Americans experienced some de3aS In In getting their express company ly checks cashed otherwise they had n, al great trouble in getting money. of Two weeks ago MT. Davenport, an r. other American gentleman and thre ce American ladies. an students at tn n- University of Marburg, decided to g xe to Rotterdam by way of Cologne y, Ordinarily. the trip takes nine an an one half hours but this party spen e. four and one half days trying to reac
 their destination. The train wouI creep along slowly, stop in some ope at field and wait there for hours Ieavin e the passengers to sit and starve a there was nothing to eat or drink.
 AS the trains approached the bridge Ter leading to Cologne powerful search 70 lights played upon them, illal1ninatn
 every part Every window had to q
 shut Anyone who opened a wfndo-
 was shot as it was feared that spie 'k- might be on the trains and attempt f rt destroy the bridges by droppin sw bombs when crossing them Thes IS precautions apply to all bridges in th he empire.
 .Cologne,'' said Mr. Davenpor
 Hooked like a city of the dead. Ger orally great busting city of one ha In. million inhabitants, on this nnorndna st. i it resembled a cemetery. The s11oT he were closed down ana a few autornc ta- piles which had not been taken fc A use in the war were rolling about ths
 was all.
 "In order to get into Holland N 3 had to go to the Dutch Consul fc EE passportA- In this city, we purchase E our tickets -to- Rotterdam, what z