The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-09-07
RUSSIANS PROBABLY NOW
At REAR OF GERMAN ARMY
American Writer Says 100000 Cos.
sacks Already Have Passed
Through England.
THOUSANDS MORE on WAY
returning Americans Report ENcit-
ing Experiences While Trying 10
Escape From War Zone-Wo,nen
Suffer Terrible Iudignitics
special 10 Tho Timcs Dispa tch

NEW YORK, September s.--one hun
drcd aud nifty thousand Russian troops
passed through England and are al
;hc rear of the German army in France
according 10 Vance Thompson, AN
american writer, who arrived here TO.
dan on tho Rod Star liner Kroouland
from Liverpool ON August .6. MIR
Thompson said, nc saw dctachmcnts Of
Cossacks on their way to Channel ports,
and learned that the British govern
ncnt had suspended regular train ser
vice to give tho Russians tho right OF
WAY. lie added that he could say from
reliable authority that 10000 Russians
already had crossed, and now probably
were attacking the German rear. while
II was understood thousands moro were
oil their way from Archansel by tho
Arctic Ocean route to England.
Passengers on several steamers from
England recently have reported II move
incnt OF RUSSIAN troops through the
British Isles to tho Continent
The movement OF ljo.oc0 Russian
troops through Eng OF August -,
- aud IS prevented l2a American fuci-
,ivcs FROM reaching here to-day on the
Red star liner kroonland which sailed
from Liverpool on August IS. Tho
kroonland carried in All 3S1 Americans
The other passengers were stalled on =,
/ boat train that was detained in 4 sid
ing whilc the troop trains, fortv-cight
In number, went through
FOUND AMERICAN WOMEN
DESTITUTE: ~ WAR ZONE
u. H. GrisWold, IL. "A banker Of BAL
tlmorc. accompanied by his VITO and
four children and four American NO
men whom lio had found destitute IN
the Oor Souc. had several exciting cX.
pcricnces,
lilo was motoring through Germany
when tho mobilization Of tho kaiscr's
army commenced on July 50. Armed
soldiers sprane IN everywhere. and
his auto Was held up aud searched nu-
mcrous times lie made hie WAY to
Cologne, and finally TO Aachcn whore
the influence of the American consul
enVcd HIS automobile from seizure. The
roads had been torn UP by the spiked
wheels Of artillery wagons. and Mr.,
.;risMold abandoned the car.
Mr., Griswold said that when lie
reached London no received letter
from tho American consul at Aacheu,
Robert IL. Thompson, stating that Mrs.
Thompson had been taken prisoner az
u spy. Mrs. Thompson. the letter said
was held for several hours and was
only released when tho consul made
the most emphatic protests as "A rep
rescntative Of the American govern
ment.
Vance Thompson and his father, the
Rev. G. l.. Thompson, were on the Con
tincnt during the FIRST part Of the war
Nh Thompson was An eyewitness to
tho atrocious conduct OF young Ger
man officer at Stuttgart, who ordered
two English women stripped and
searched.
Il Was boarding train at Stuttgart
for Basel, switzerland" said Mr.
Thompson. when heard young Ger
man officer demand the passports of
two young English women Although
he was In uniform the women mistook
him for porter and answered him
sneeringly. lie seemed to lose his
temper and cXcIaiming: ri show Won
that German officers are not 10 he
trined with ordered them strlpped on
the platform and submitted to other
indisnities.
SUFFER- INDIGNITIES
At EVERY STOP OF TRAIN
Then they were pushed on board the
train. and word WAS photographed to
the guards at all tho stations en- route
that those two women had insultcd n
German officer ana were to be stripped
and mistrcated at every stop the train
made
The order Was carried out and some
times tho women were strippcd on
the platform. and al other times i'm
the baggage-room, soldiers being pres.
| ent and enjoying the distress and dis.
comfiture OF their victims Immensely.
The train stopped seven times. and BY
the time VIC reached Basel the women
were Frustrated aud almost out OF their
minds.
They were members Of one Of the
best families in England and do not
care TO make public their names From
Basel took them Ia 81 Ludwig and
thence TO Luccrnc
Mr.. Thompson said that the town
OF Muolhausen was taken by 1900
French troops, and was retaleen By the
Germans with $1,000 men.
The French received a warm vel.