The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-14
A Woman Writes From France

Mrs. w A chenoweth now in North Carolina, received a letter from her sis ter, Mrs. Conrow, dated Paris, August 22, which in part is as follows:
 We are beginning to get big news from the front. But the French papers. as 1 suppose is the case in other countries publish only enemies losses and reverses; they make but little of their successes, even when the Germans arrived in Brus- sels. They say the allies left the city for the Germans to come in-that it was "stragetic movement"-that the town was ''undefended." Two days before the same paper said Brussels is we'll pro- tected by the French troops.''
 In 1900 in a shop on a well known swell shoppers street here-a place where were sold many souvenirs from all over the world, Wilfred asked a man if he kept German flags. He wanted one. The man did not say much, but he took w. by the shoulders and put him out of the shop
 Mobilization is over, but the troops are struggling through. We go out to the station where the trains often stop over an hour or more This enables them to
 
 their destination they are ready for ac- tion
 Trying for German Sympathizers
 l must confess that it is very trying to be in a French atmosphere now, if one has the least liking or sympathy or interest in Germany; they are so bitter that nothing is too bad to be said. The government is protesting to the powers against the use of .dumdum bullets. It seems that the Kaiser himself signed the protest against their use at The Hague. Now they have been found in some of the soldiers equipment and in the wounded French. They are the kind that go in small bullet and go out an enormous hole, carrying the flesh as it goes You can't operate and take it out, and a friend here knew some Bulgarians who say they saw the result of them during their war. The Turks used them If one went into the leg it had to be ampu- tated always.
 If we dwelt on the horrors of the war or believed half of the cruelties reported think one would go mad. For I am going to tell you something that I heard jyesterday. The first refugees to the states were allowed to take no trunks, only hand luggage. A friend of a woman l know in Paris put all she could in her bags, and then wanting to take more, she put on first a yellow silk dress over that a soft brown wool dress. then a black and white one-then a short silk coat, over that a long wool evening wrap and inside this were pinned a couple of hats-pinned to her corset were stockings and in them were stuffed odds and ends which she could not get in her bag. This is no romance. but actual truth
 Paris Normal Again
 Paris is beginning to be fairly normal again. The first three days after war was declared there was much excitement people lost their heads, smashed shops belonging to Austrians and Germans etc.. and there was almost riot. Later almost three-fourths of the shops were closed Some people were frightened. but many have gone to the front. Now more shops are opening, and gradually the train serv- Ices will commence. Most people go on bicycles or on foot Almost all busses have gone to the front to be used for transportation A line of them passed here yesterday. They looked so odd In a little Belgium town at a. m. the peo- pie woke, heard a fearful noise approach ing and ran terrified only to find a refuge "The Germans are comingv' they cried as they ran.