Evening journal., 1914-11-24
nY MILLIAM q. sHEpHERn.

/ dying Of hunger
Paragraph cut out by censor).
The Uhlan smiled triumphantly ana
started his horse off downhill through
the mud. And thus the Austrian
point has slipped out OF my present
reach by 30 miles, but | am promised
that tomorrow I shall be taken TO
the very point where the lines of the
( enemy are so near that constant
rife fire Is going on.
The big fact that stands out at tho
present Is that the Austrian govern
ment wants the United States to
know what is going on in Austria.
Vienna, for many weeks. was unre-
presented In the worlds news. Aus
tria had been blamed for sending a
note to Servia that brought on the
war. and Austria's side of the story
has never been told in the United
states. Austria's side of the war
question can be told In one word
Russia.
Russia. Austrians say. has driver
Servia and other Balkan states TO doiy
Austria. for Russia desires a pathway
through Austrian territory 90 the sen
and il was only by fighting Austria that
such an end could be gained SerVi'
| killed the Archduke Ferdinand, say the
| Austrians, but Russia WAS behind Ser
via in the matter. Austria sent the
note that caused the war TO Servia.
but, in reality, II was a note to RUS
sia. an ultimatum that the time had
come when Russia must quit her un-
derhanded methods. or fight. And
Russia fought
Nothing Is heard here about the
French or English. That might be
another war for all you hear of II
here. Down with Russiai' is the
cry In Austria. Everybody knows
that over towards the Atlantic Ocean
from here. there is long zig-zag
battle line dipping down into France
toward Paris But all that gigantic
movement OF which only month ago
| was a participating witness, seems
a worldwide distance away Here
Is another battle line not In garden
land like France. but through noun
tains and wild country over 500 miles
long. with six million men at war.
II was in Berlin that ! received my
marching orders for Austria. Would
he welcomed? Was the first ques-
tion In my mind. | went TO the Aus
trian consulate In. Berlin and told
them wanted to so to the Austrian
front
1--WE will be delighted to have an
American newspaper man tell
the truth about AUSTRIA" said a con-
sui. He found a small clear space IN
NV vise-cOvered passports, wrote
Good for journeying in Austria, on
II and refused to charge me the usual
fee for such a service.
"Here's a box you can drop some
money in for the Red Cross he
said, but l won't charge an Amerl-
| can newspaper man money for en-
tering Austria just now. we want
you there"
My next move was to 60 to Vienna.
For several days II looked as II ia
have to walk from Berlin TO the cry
where fThe Merry Widow" was Wrlt-
ten. There were no trains.
"Wait a few days and you VIII se'
train" the Austrian consul told me
"The Germans are moving 6OOOO'
men into France. and they are usinl
the cars" And so I hung around Ber
lin waiting. In Paris such a DELAY
would have been intolerable. Whh'
was In the French capital ever,
nlace of amusement was closed ant
most of the restaurants and my hote
we're great. empty caverns. My onl,
amusement after supper was to go 4
little nickle-in-the-slot parlo
where could hear phonograpl
music. suppose the crowd OF news
naner fellows still in Paris ar
spendinR their evenings In that wa
and watching O. nights for Zeppelin'
Rut Berlin was different. I went Z
two theatres. / attended one OF IN
famous Sunday noon concerts OF IN
Nilxish Orchestra. I found no res
taurants closed or hotels empty
Al last the Germans complete
their task of sending new soldiers Z
France and the train service betwee
Berlin and Vienna was resumed.
took the first train. | expected I
fnd Vienna a place of misery wit
fugitives camping in the streets an
with cholera rampant I was disaI
nointed. True, there we're fugitive!
hut they came from this country {
Galicia, where l am now wriung. an
they lined up in orderly hundred
every morning TO receive none
which was given 10 them by the Au'
trian government l didn't mn
cholera There is a hospital in Vienu
which contains 1000 men who al
ouarantined for dysentery, but dysel
terry isn't cholera.
PARIS, Now 10.-(By Mail to Ne
York; Although regimental stal
dards are no longer carried IN n
forefront of the battle, modern met
DDS of warfare have not altogeth'
eliminated those picturesque "hgh
for the flag" dear TO the heart OF q
novelist and painter. Most OF Il
French and German regiments carr
their colors with them and thel
have been several desperate fgh
for these silken trophies. the fierce
recorded being that for the standal
of the Sixth Pomeranian Regimen
which now hangs in the chapel
the Invalides for the inspection
French sightseers. The story Of
capture is told by French Dragoo
whose regiment brought back 4
trophy.
- Under a heavy shell fire." he sa
- "our guns supporting the Dragoo
had to move to another position a
the enemy. thinking that we were