The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-16
Placed Date of Battle About Middle Of
This Century and Has English
Defending the Meuse

which had rushed, II must be roman.
bered. through nearly incandescent can,
In the sea defences. and this vast I'm
rush OF vapor soon yelled the narin,
centres OF explosion altogether
THE waters came at last an nd
vancing cascade. IL was like a brad
roller sweeping across the countt,
They came with deep roaring soupd
| had expected a Niagara. but the io,ai
fall OF the front could not have boon
much more thai twelve feet Our
barge hesitated for moment, took
dose over her bows. and then llf,ad
I signalled for fun speed ahead ana
brought her head up stream, and hold
on like grim death to keep her there"
Morning found Barnet still anoa,
The bows of his barge had been h,diy
strained. and his men were pumping or
baling in relays. He got about a dove,
half drowned people aboard whose boa,
had capszed near him, and he ha1
three other boats in tow. He wa.
ahoat. and somewhere between Am,,er.
dam and Alkmaar. but he could not tel
where. 1t was a day that was sim
half night. Gray waters stretched In
every direction under a dark gray
sky, and out of the waves rose the
upper part OF houses, in many
cases ruined, the tops OF trees. wind.
mills. In fact the upper third " al
familiar Dutch scenery. and on n
there drifted dimly seen fiotilla n,
barges. small boats. many overturned.
furniture. RATS. 1imbering and mis-.
cellaneous objects.
The drowned were under water ,ha,
morning. Only here and there did
dead COW or n stiff figure still cllnginy
stoutly to box or chair or such lke
buoy hint at the hidden massacre II
was not till the Thursday that tho
dead came to the surface in any quan.
tity. The view was bounded on every
side by gray mist that closed over.
head in gray canopy. The air cleared
in the afternoon, and then, far away
to the west under great hanks o,
steam and dust the flaming red
eruption Of tho atomic bombs became
visible across the waste of wa'cr
They showed fiat and sullen through
the mist, like London sunsets. They
sat upon the sea-" says Barnet. like
trayed out water lilies of flame"
Barnet seems to have spent the
morning in rescue work along tho
track of the canal. in helping people
who were adrift. in picking up dcrect
boats, and In taking people ouj of i'm.
perilled houses. He found other min.
tary barges similarly employed, and il
was only az the day wore on and the
appeals for aid were satisfied
that he thought of food and drink
for his men and what course he had
better pursue. They had little
cheese but no water. Orders" that
mysterious direction, had at last al.
together disappeared. He perceived he
had now to act upon his OWE RESPONSE
bility.
Orders" made a temporary reap.
pearance late that evening In the
form of a megaphone hail from d
British torpedo boat announcing
truce. and giving the welcome infor.
NATION that food and water were being
hurried down the Rhine and were to he
found on the barge flotilla lying over
the old Rhine above Leiden.
We will not follow Barnet. however.
IN the description of his strange over.
land voyage among trees and houses
and churches by Zaandam and between
HARLEM and Amsterdam TO I.eiden.
II was a voyage in a red lit mist, In
world OF steamy silhouette. full az
strange voices and perplexity and with
every other sensation dominated by a
feverish thirst I'VE sat" no saws.
IN little huddled group, saying very
lttle, ana the men forward were mere
KNOTS OF silent endurance. Our only
continuing sound was the persistent
mewing OF cat one OF the men had
rescued from floating hayrick near
Zaandam. We kept southwark
curse by watch chain compass My.
fus had produced"
Already once in the history of man.
KIND, in America, before It's discovery
~ the whites, an organized civilization
nad given way to a mere cult of war;
are, specialized and cruel. and Il
seemed for n time to many a thought
'ul man as II the whole world was but
% repeat on larger scale this a,ren-
iency OF the warrior, this triumph NJ
ne destructive instincts OF the race
The subsequent chapters Of Barncts
narrative do hut supply body 10 mi.
ragic possibility. He gives a series 10,
'lgnettes OF civilization shattered. II
'eefned, almost irreparably. He found
ne belsian nils swarming with refi-
gees and desolated by cholera: the YES.
ises OF the contending armies keeping
'rder under truce without actual bat
les. Out with the cautious hostility Il
lahlt' and great absence of plan
Everywhere.
overhead aeroplanes went on rnvs,p.
lous errands, and there were rumors Z
annibal!sm and hysterlcal fanatlclsms
n the valley of the Semoy and The
crest region of the eastern Ar1cpra.
There was the report of an attack
lpon Russia by the Chinese AVID
Japanese and of some huge revolution.
ny outbreak in America. The weather
vas stormier than men had ever
,hown 1t in those regions. with much
hunder and lightning and wild cloud.
'ursts OF rain.