The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-09-03
More About Paris.


this time, as the vessel she was to
leave in sailed from Havre last Sat-
urday. Miss Newbert did not get
away a day too soon, for the Ger
mans are almost at the gates of
Paris. 3
subjoined are a few excerpts from
letter received by Mrs. Rines from
Miss Newbert this week:
1--WE went down this morning and
stood two and one-half hours in line
in mob to get our papers from the
consul to walk in the streets. They
are just leading lot of horses by
now for war; they have their regi-
ment mark on them. Where we
stood several women tainted, among
them a. friend of ours-an old lady
and Elizabeth tainted also, so we had
two people to work over. We got
our papers and now we have to 60 in
another mob to get something else.
We saw terrible parting scenes this
morning-volunteers going to war and
all kinds of sights. Most all the
stores are closed and can't get any
milk, butter or sugar, but we can
always get bread and beer, so that
there is no danger of starving.
Three Of our party have gone out
scouting for food-they only give a
certain amount to each person-so
that we will have lot. 1t is SER
ious, but we are very fortunate.
There are millions worse off than
we are. You should have seen the
thousands of Americans gathered
together this morning where we
were, standing out in the street read
ing the Network Herald.
"Ne will leave France our first
opportunity and may come home on
an American transport. Who knows?
| wish I knew where we would be
in two weeks. We may 60 to Spain,
but if we do we would have to wait
until the war is over. We don't
know now what we will do.
x X
'Rah, Hurrah! Vive la France,
Well, we got up early this morning,
and went and stood in line for our
next permission to stay. We stood
all morning, nothing doing, SO came
home to lunch; went back and they
we're not opened up so we went for
a walk. We tried to buy New
York Herald and while doing so, we
learned that some Germans under pre-
tense Of French, having French flags
around their arms, etc., had gone to
st. Cloud bridge and had it all ready
to blow up, intending to cut Paris
off from the country supplies, etc.
Well, the French took them and
leading them down to a public
square, which was near our place,
shot them one by one.
"Now I must tell you what hap
pened to us. After we heard this we
thought we would go down to the
Seine river and look up and down to
see if we could see the St. Cloud
bridge and Eifel Tower, etc. Gladys
and I, because we knew we would
have lots of time to spare) took our
diaries, as we wanted to write in
them. So while we were standing
on the bridge, we looked around and
saw soldiers setting up cannon in
back of us; and we went over to look
at them. Miss Mack asked what
they we're. One policeman wouldn't
answer and another finally said
rapid firing guns. Gladys was in
the back ground writing in her diary :;
the gendarme seeing her, grabbed her
book and said what's this?' He
thought she was spying and learning
the Notifications and taking down
what the officer had told Miss Mack.
Well, he saw the word Germany be-
cause it just happened that she was
writing what German who was talk
ing to Miss Derby had said about
the German boats, viz: that they
would sail from Genoa instead of
France under an assumed name.
Now, believe me. we we're in a criti-
Cal situation we came near all being
arrested. We had crowd of French
men around us and Miss Mack had
to explain what the book was and
the officer looked all through it and
saw a picture of an actor and wanted
to know who he was, and finally af-
ter lot of talking, he was convinced
that we were Americans, and he
told Gladys to keep the book in her
pocket. We got away but we were
scared for few minutes. We went
back at 2 O'Clock and finally got our
papers at 80. He called my num-
Der and 1 had to be measured. I
must not have stood still because he
said: Stand still or I'll shoot you. ,
Well, l knew exactly what he said
but I pretended not to understand;