Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-09-21

were quietly and comfortably chatting
with them In the streets.
That began about y. m. wcdncs-
tday. August ls.,and We who left i]rus-
sels the f6iIowing Sunday had FOR
In,ort than three days seen the spirit
Iof quiet, unaffected enforced good
feeling steadily deepening. one does
Inot imagine these things.
Approach Battle Line.
Working slowly up to the German
line OF advance on Sunday, Monday.
Tuesday and Wednesday OF last week.
1--WE entered different and more dra-
matte field OF observation.
We were there by sufferance mere
~. and we knew II. No German corrc-
spondcnts were with these Germun
columns, and no correspondents OF any
nationality were wanted.
| But everywhere. although our pass
ports were closely scrutlnizcd and we
were sharply interrogated< we met
! with kindness and received Assistance
ons'many doorwayss ~ va. passcd
along We saw chalkcd yn Norman
script tile words good people" or
YER, good people, words written
there ~ advance guards who had gone
Iahead Of tho main body 70 select quar-
lters for officers. men and, horses.
The number OF officers 'and men
each house would hold ami the num-
Der Of horses that could be stabbed In
each barn also was chaked on the
doors Of these Belgian farmhouses. VIII
las and cottages. PA
Good People" Acknowledge.
Good people" meant that the adj
vance guard had been received With
civllity. Very good people" meant
that they had met with heIpfulness In
making their arrangements.
On one house which stared blankly
out on a village street from broken
windows there was written In German
script these words:
This house has been unjustIy at
tackled; go easy now"
In the region around FaIt-les- Ce-
neppe the invaders seemed to have
been quietly received by the non-com-
batantf. the inhabitants evidently un-
Outstanding the status fixed for them
by the laws OF war. As result we
did not see a broken window or smol- |
derlng roof for a distance Of perhaps |
ten miles.
As the afternoon wore on, the Ger |
man soldiers, parched with dust and /
heat, were met at the country cross
ways and village corners by Belgian /
women. who gave them cups OF water
from buckets that would be many
times refilled before the column had I
passed.
Pro-Frcnch but Friendly.
sometimes | saw this mercifui act I
accompanied by cheerful smiles from
the women and grateful mods from the
men, Who would utter hoarso words OF /
thanks.
II Is to be remembered that all this
time we were drawing closer and
closer to the French border and that
naturally throughout this region the
pro-Fronch feeling OF the Belgians be-
came more intense.
Princes Wine Cellars Tapped.
In Beaumont the vast cellars of that
Prince de Caraman chimnay. who
married Clara Ward Of Detroit, were
literally but not indecently drawn
upon by the Germans but during the
Iwo long days we were prisoners here [
We saw only two German soldiers
whom you would describe as really l
inder the influence Of wine. Il
Both we're privates. One was bols- |
erons and friendly ana a little wear
ng, as men in that state are apt to be
Ihe other. who came into the inn
Dom that served as our prison on the
ieeond night of our detention. was
iurly and suspicious and kept NUT il
erlng that we were spies lie sobered &
With amazing rapidly when an officer v
inferred the room, and his departure b
vas as swift and quiet as II was COM 0
cal e