The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-09-04
BRATTLEBORO GIRLS
HOME FROM EUROPE
Miss Elizabeth White Reached Brat
tleboro Last Evening Miss Ethel
osgood Went to Beverly.

Miss Elizabeth White, who, with Miss
Ethel Osgood, was in England during the
mobilization of troops for the war, ar
rived in Brattleboro last evening, having
landed from the Arabic in Boston yester-
day morning. Miss Osgood, who went to
Beverly, where her parents were visiting,
viii come to Brattleboro tonight or to-
morrow. Miss White, who is a teacher
IN Plainfeld, n. j., is a guest of her
mother, Mrs. Jennie Nj. White of & Put
ney road a week, before returning to her
school duties She says she and Miss Os-
good had no unusual experiences because
they had their passage booked ON the
Arabic and that boat was not taken off.
They were in Bath, near Bristol, at the
time war was declared. and except for the
extension of a bank holiday from one
day to a week, which made money rather
a scarce commodity, they suffered little
Inconvenience.
Miss White was impressed with the
quiet seriousness with which the English
! people take the war. That ii is a life and
| aeath struggle for the life of the nation,
| all apparently feel 1t was common oc-
currence to have horses driven by Eng
| lish women requistioned III the streets
| by the authorities and in every instance
! that came under the observation Of Miss
| White and Miss Osgood the women who
were deprived Of their steeds expressed
the feeling that they were glad they had
something that would help the govern
ment.
It was while they were in Bath that
the mobilization of the troops in England
was started. Miss White said today that
as the troops marched away not tear
Twas shed, although neither soldiers, wives
Inor sweethcarts knew where they were
to 60.
The attitude of the English press. Miss
/ White said. is remarkable The lesson oi
the Boer war, when information reached
the enemy through tho medium Of the
press, has been learned there, and nothing
il published that the head Of the war of
fee is not willing should be put in print
and there is nothing in print that gives
information to the whereabouts of any
particular regiment or body of troops.
Everywhere in England there Is tire
mendous gloom, to use the descriptiv,
phrase of Miss White There is no at
tempt to conceal the fact that it Is til,
final struggle for national supremacy an,
everyone, regardless of rank or station
appears to understand that fact
The Arabic was crowded to the lim
of its capacity on the trip to Boston apc
went nearly l0o miles north OF the usua
route, most of the way in the CONVOY o
at least two battlcshps No lights Wer
shown at night, but, when necessary, th
fog horn was used. The wireless outfi
was not in use until after the ship wa
beyond the three-mic limit from Queens
town, and even after that it was use,
only for official messages Some little in
formation leaked to the passengers, bu
t. they knew really nothing of the report
of the war from the date of their sailing
Aug -, until after the pilot came oi
board in Boston harbor yesterday morn
ling, bringing with him copies of tn
ldaily papers,
From young women on the Arabic. VIII
had been in the north of Germany at tn
declaration of war, Miss White learne
1 that it was common prediction in Ger
Emany that the army of the Kaiser woul
4 be in Paris Sept ; and in London
e little more than Il month later. Fror
= these young women it was learned tina
f lin Germany everyone considered that tn
lcampaign had been planned months b,
: fore the declaration of war and that Gel
f many is satisfied that nothing human ca
V stop the advancing troops.