Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1914-10-03
BEAUTIFUL CITY
OF BRUSSELS IS A
CITY Of HOSPITALS
1t is Performing it's Great Work
Calmly and Efficient
ly.
BRUSSELS SEEMS LESS
AFFECTED THAN PARIS

the Hotels Because the Red Cross
Is In Every One-Fashionab
Homes Are Given Up to the Wound
ed.
LONDON, Sept. 2S.-Upon Belgium
the country whose peace was guar.
ant2ed by cOvenants-have fallen the
first blows Of the war, and no one will
deny that they have been heavy ones
Brussels is today a city of hospitals,
and every hour it's citizens see the
tell If suffering steadily mounting up.
But Brussels is also "a city of beauti-
1ui order. 1t IS performing it's great
work task Of relieving the agonies Of
the wounded calmly and efficiently.
"Outwardly,' says Miss J. L. Find
lay, young English lady who just
iCtrrued to London after a week s
visit to the Belgian capital, ''Brus-
sells seems less affected by the war
than Paris. The cafes are open, the
tramcars are running, and business is
boarded shop front recalls the tn
nult which drove German traders
away when the war began
The manner in which the city ha
organizer its hospitals" said Mis-.
Findland lis wonderful Practical,
every hotel has the red cross in it!
window. Guests are received no long
er. The beds are resel led for tn.
wounded. Fashionable people have
given up their houses, and there j
hardly a woman in the whole cit.
who is not doing something to help.
Il heard of one lady who had
hundred beds fitted up for soldiers i!
her own mansion. Provision ha
been made in one place and anothe
for $4,000 wounded" Miss Findlay
has many influential friends in the
city, was permitted to make a tour OF
the Hospital de Saint Jean, the larg,
est Of the Brussels hospitals, anG
also CT the Louvain Hospital, where
DR.. Leon Saroleo, brother Of the au,
thor Of the much discussed book on
the Anglo-German. problem is in
charge. She talked with some Of the
sldiers, and heard many vivid mar
ratives of the fighting around Liege
fro mtheir own lips.
'"The Belgian soldiers spoke with
great indignation Of the conduct Of
the Germans in bayOnett:ng Belgian
wounded,' said Miss Findlay zone
Germans capable Of this, but had wit
messed their barbarity with his own
eyes. He was one OF party Of 1880
who had been surrounded by Ger
mans at Waremme, quite near to
Liege.
"a small Belgian force found itself
suddenly confronted by large body
Of Germans, and when the order was
given to retire this company Of $50
men was cut off This man was
wounded and his leg was broken. AS
he lay on the ground he saw the Ger
mans bayonetting his comrades who
had fallen. He heard his command.
ing officer appeal for mercy for his
wounded men, but this was ignored
The officer himself was shot. When
expecting death every moment the sol
der was lifted to his horse by some
comrades who were escaping, and six
OF themt-he solye survivors Of $50
-galloed back to the fort,
II saw at Louvain one very pa,
thetc case. The man was a Belgian
advocate, who had been shot by a
sentry by mistake. The sentry called
to him to halt, and the advocate mis-
took the command for Pass, and went
on. He was instantly shot, and
was old he was dying"
Miss F'indlay elected from some
of the men on account of their sensa
ton when fighting.
s'The worst mOmen," said one, sis