The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-07
Saw NueIhnusen Fighting.

Vance Thompson, the writer VINO mas
been living In Paris. was the principal
authority for the statement regarding tho
Russians Mr. Thompson also had
story to tell Of German Crueltes in
Alssce-Lorraine and OF the extreme
measures OF German officers In hunting
for spies on trains. He saw some OF the
lighting at Muelhausen.
ION August % 26 and 81" said MI.
Thompson, the train service in England,
especially across the country. was sus-
pended while forty-eight trainioads Of
Russians. believed TO number about 10000
men. were despatched across TO Dover and
Southampton They had come around by
Archangel and down TO Newcastle and
Aberdeen. Then they We're brought 10
Liverpool and from there carried In the
impromptu troop trains to the southeast
coast. The Red star liner Lapland was
used as the first transport for the troops
and took / believe. some thousands across
the Channel to Calais. Nearly all the
Russians were mounted Cossacks
About So 600 OF them went over from
Southampton to Havre and when the big
battle OF to-day or tomorrow IL fought
the Germans will find themselves oppos-
ing 100000 Russians in the allies lines.
All the correspond, nts knew OF this troop
movement 20 strengthen the allies, but
the censorship was so rigid that the news
did not leak through.
~ understand. too. that 100000 soldiers
NJ the East Indian Sikh regiments have
been ordered to France TO help in the de-
fence of Paris The Russians will Join
the second line Of defence. In all the
allies will have In their lines. besides the
French forces and the East Indians. l0O,-
600 English and $50. 900 Russians. as near
as we can get the correct figures.
"I saw some of the fighting in Alsace-
Lorraine and also German cruelties which
YOU cannot describe. Muelhausen. where
7 was at the time. was taken by 1000
Frenchmen after Altkirch fell. and the
inhabitants of the towns and villages well
coined them with flags and cheering. The
Germans, however. retook Muelhausen
with 1000 men and to revenge themselves
on the people for receiving the French
they sent out punitive expeditions of fifty
VThlans without officers These men
treated them as traitors, they burned
villages abused women and children,
slashcd people and burned houses with a
special new kind Of shell which envelops a
building In flames an instant after II Is
exploded
shot Priests, He Says.
'.They drove the women and children
out OF the churches and shot two priests
who forbade them entering churches where
women and children had taken refuge
The Germans can dlsavoW these things
because no commissioned officers were with
the expeditions" but they sent them. Just
the same. and you can't exacgerate the
reign OF terror which existed In those re-
taken villages. The Germans took their
revenge out Of thc women and children.
Two English girls were rescued by
Mr. Thompson. They thought German
officer was merely "A trainman when ne
asked for their passports They admitted
that they were insolent. hut the officer
took them on the train, Mr.. Thompson
said, stripped them In the presence OF
privates and other officers and then
passed the word along so that the abuse
was repeated at every station to Basle.
Mr. Thompson had the two women, one 90,
the other IS. cared for at "A hotel in Lau-
Same. He said a Chicago man was
coming back with a similar story OF treat
mcnt OF American girls and viii make a
protest to Washington
with MIR Thompson was his father. the
Rev g. f.. Thompson Of East orange,
who was "A delegate to the Church Peace
Conference at Constance, 1t was ad-
journed 10 London and finally discon-
tnucd with the determination to work
more zealuusly and ardcntly than ever for
international peace. Mr. and Mrs Frank
f. Williams of Buffalo, also passengers.
attended the conference
Among the other passengers was Il. II
Grswo'd, Jr. banker ~ Baltimore, who
with MS wife and four children and two
maids lost his automobile at Aix-la-
thaprlle and passed through Liege In "A
train ten hours before the lighting began.
They could see the Germans on one side
and the Begians on the other AS they
passed through. When Mr. Griswold got
10 London he received a letter across
the Dutch border from American
Consul Edgar Thompson at AK. saying
that the Consuls wife had just been ar
rested as a spy.
TTDInrhilI - EltDira 90
ana Mrs, r J SwayZe Of New Jersey.
Miss Charlotte Rudyard, James y, Rcy-
rods former Assistant District Attorney
and once President Roosevclt's special
meat investigator, and Mrs Reynolds.
who said they regretted the apparent
anti-German scntimen; in this country,
were passengers also.
Miss Rudyard mad tho experience OF
living on 20 cents day for two weeks