The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-09-29
WORD PICTURES OF
The EUROPEAN WAR
Writers Tell Of Scenes and
Conditions in Battle Zone.

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Mrs. C. Mitchell Depew, formerly
Miss Julia Catlin, of this town, and
who, since her marriage to Mr.. De-
pew, has had home near Compiegne
France, writes to her sister, Mrs.
Stowe Phelps, the following
"The Cottage"
Hursley Park,
Winchester,
England
my dear Edith We are rested
and existing from day to day after
our escape from Annel 1t seems SO
selfish to be SO comfortable and doing
nothing while such horrors are going
on but at present We can do nothing.
1--WE have not heard about Annel,
beyond that the Germans passed
through Compiegne but without do
ing amy damage. We hope soon to be
able to send someone over to the
chateau and if it is intact we will
return and open it for a hospital. If
not, have offered ourselves for an
bother base hospital with volunteer
staff, surgeons and nurses waiting
our word to start.
"The news is better to-day, but you
on the other side cannot realize the
misery of all sorts that goes on here
daily. Women dry-eyed, but showing
the great strain, and who look at the
Honor Roll every morning to learn
who is missing The men, resolute
and stern, going to the front, the
brave young men recruiting full of
enthusiasm, not knowing what lies
before them, the wounded coming in
to Southampton with cheeriness that
makes us ashamed of having COM
planned of trifling aches and pains,
these sights We see daily. Every
thing you read in the newspapers is
without exaggeration. | passed four
most awful days at Compiegne talk
ing each day with the English sol
diers, who are known for their lack
of Imagination, and when you read
the following notes of atrocities the
men told me they had witnessed, you
will not wonder that we Americans
here are at loss to understand the
passive attitude of Americans at home.
"A surgeon saw French surgeon
STOPPING over a wounded man in the
field, German deliberately shot the
French surgeon, in the same battle
an English surgeon had both arms
cut off by German. Four nurses
in hospital tent with thirty five
wounded blown up by the Germans.
In Paris, in a private hospital, one
hundred young girls, (some very
young) had been violated by Germans
These are only few of the MANY
cases l know of. / spent last night
at the Rudyard Kipldng's, they are
also very much aroused, went to Sc
/ Mr.. Page who says he appreciates it
all and begs me to appeal personally
to every one ! can, so | pass 1t on
to you and otherAmericans. Germany
has outraged every condition of civil.
ization and a protest should be made
! by the only big neutral power. I"
Now will you get to work and see
what money you can raise, and use
/ your influence in trying to make
everyone protest against what Ger
many is doing.
"Now about funds; there are many
funds but if | can have cooperation
with my work, which as you know is
the equipment of fifty beds which |
myself look out for. If we learn next
week that we have consent from the
war office to return to the chateau,
/ we have offered it to start another
/ hospital, not for English alone but the
allies, and with it hope to run dis
pensary to help the poor people around
us, it may be either destroyed or too
near the firing line, in this event we
shall have to locate elsewhere.
! have a staff of volunteer surgeons and
nurses Ton half pay) with accoutre-
ment to go on with the work, also
/ looking out for the very poor whose
very living mot to speak of homes)
have been lost or destroyed. All money
sent to me will be strictly accounted
for, or it may be sent to Morgan,
Grenfen, London, for the "war fund.-
"There is a cry Of humanity going
/ ZIP that has never been heard before
i'm histcSy and you who are safe
should hear it, even three Thousand
miles away, and try to help. We all
knit and sew, warm clothes of every
| kind will be needed. The English
army lis superb, sad it is that so many
splendid men are sacrificed
JULIA"
Mrs Stowe Phelps, No. 161 East
z4th street, New York, will receive
and forward any donations for the
war fund.-
Geneva, Switzerland.
September, 5th, 1914.