Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-20

Berlin, Nov. ia lieutenant OF
Uhlans, Who took part in the siege OF
Antwerp. has sent home his diary of
(which a correspondent Of the Asso-
ciated Press has translated the most
interesting portions. 1t has not yet
appeared in the German press. After
describing his movements from Ant
werp till the army reached Aershot,
some ten miles to the northeast OF
Louvain, where the main body had
:biyouackel /on the night of September
&c, the diary continues, with some
important omissions, as follows:
"OW. horses were. stabbed in the bar
room of a tavern, some of them tied
fast to beer-taps-how idyllic!. The
town had been frightfully shot UP;
there was hardly q house unchanged,
September T--On the march at. 7
O'Clock. reaching the railway crossing
north Of Aershot, where the main body
remained, while the advance guard in
trenched itself two klometers further
on. We sent out two patrolling par
ties, each Of twenty horsemen, II in
Guiding K (the first lieutenant)
and me. We joined the brigade stall
and rode on unconcernedly. Suddenly
a terrific infantry fire began on our
front. Nobody could explain the mat
ter, as our advanced battery was 81.
lent. while only NJ infantry in, the
rear was firing. The enemy can't
drop from the sky; and where does
that m%achine-gun firing come from?'
we asked. Then everything was quiet
again. What had happened? A Bel
gian armored automobile, the terror
OF our, troops, had come roaring right
through. our advanced battalion at a
mad pace, before our men knew what
was happening. Then the automobile
reached our main body and could no
more turn back; SO it began to let its
mpurderous machine play upon us. We
should all have been lost but for a
fortunate, shot striking the chauffeur
in the head. w%hereupon the automo-
bile dashed into two ammunition
wagons and then toppled over into the
ditch at the side OF the road. The
officer commanding 1t and two Of his
men were killed; and two others badly
wounded.
Terrible, Machines. a,. Ct,
Il examined the automobile immedi.
ately. Il was double armored, with a
layer Of. asbestos between the two
plates. 1t had been struck by show
yers of cur infantry bullets, but none
Of these had penetrated the second
plate. The inmates would have been
perfectly safe but for the fact that
one Of our riflemen, firing from an
elevation, hit the: chauffeur in the
forehead, Thank God! We had cap
tured one of these dangerous things.
They are a frightful terror to all our
patrol1ing parties and have a most de-
moralizing effect upon them because
these automobiles can only be
knocked out by artillery, which can
never, get in it's work in time. We
had only two killed and several SCI
7verely wounded in this. encounter, but
we were saved from greater losses
only by accident. After a long dis
cussion Of the matter we returned TO
Aershot for bivouac:
Wild Trains Derailed. go
September 2S-Rendezvous again
1Hus morning al ,rthe railway crossing.
We had scarcely arrived when a e
trick was staged. The Belgians sent
out tworunmanled trains to collide
with our ammunition trains in Aer-
shot. They came on at a tearing
speed. one close behind the other.
Fortunately, the switch was set for a
side-track, SO the trains we're dashed
to pieces without doing any harm.
The brigade moved on to Heystop
den Berg (about nine miles northwest
OF Aershot, In the direction of Ant.
Werp). upon which our infantry had
been holly firing the previous evening.
In that action we had considerable
losses. Including my good friend, Cap.
tain F.. But the enemy at NIGHT
evacuated this place, which was OF
great Importance for our artillery, ~
fcats Lierre and kessel could be
slelled from it. We marched into the
place at noon, and soon after this our
Leavy guns began to speak. It was