Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-09-17
WWomen Depict Suffering, and Soldiers Tell of Bat
 tie Experiences.
WOMEN SUFFER MOST
One Young Mother. Driven to Distrac. ton by Troubles, Becomes in- sane at Death of
 Babe.

of the war are now beins brought daily ct Paris by refugees and wound ed soldiers.
 Perhaps the largest of the refugee encampments in Paris is a big circus building, situated between the Inva- lides and the Eiffel tower. 1 When the ilnundation from the northern frontier began yesterday, and the impossibility of leaving such an emergency to be dealt with by prefect of police intervened. and over i 2000 of the unfortunates were gather ed together and conveyed to the Cirque de Paris.
 Instead of children's happy laughter over clownish jokes, the great rotunda is filled today with low ground swell of Punctuation, broken here and there by the sharp cries of babies
 The stalls and boxes, galleries and corr,dors, are full of this human jetsam from the tempest that has de- stroyed Southern Belgium during the past week. Most of them do not pos sess a penny.
 Says Women Were Shot. Their eyes are red with weeping, their faces drawn with fatigue. It IS impossible to speak too highly of the kindness with which they are being fed and cared for.
 My husband is with the Belgian army said a won m from Framery, near Mons, land I was left With my three babies in our cottage.
 "All was quiet until Monday, when the Germans came. They sacked and destroyed every house, and there re- mains nothing of our poor village but ruins.
 q saw one of these bandits strike one of my neighbors in the breast with his sword, and then flourish the bloody blade as tough proud of the feat. Some women, who had hidden in their cellars, were shot" Tears flowed down the poor wom- ans cheeks as she recalled these deviltries.
 A housekeeper from Chatlet warned on Sunday by the (here some words are deleted by the censor) to fly says she with her mother and five child ren had to walk for 70 miles forward and about before they could reach the train that brought them to Paris.
 Young Mother Becomes Insane.
 A woman from Peronne-le-Binche started out with one of her neighbors who carried young babe at her breast. Suddenly the mother per- ceived that the little one was dead.
 She could not bear this new shock and became mad. When she was helped out of the train on reaching over the body of her child.
 Smaller bodies "f refugees have been temporarily lodged in police stations and some of the lesser hotels of Montmartre.
 They are mostly women whose husbands are with the Antwerp gar rison or are asleep forever in the vast cemetery of the great plain of Elan ders. The stupor in which many of the refugees sit is merciful thing for none could dare to wish to live if they could see into the hungry and desolate years that are to come.
 Bodies in Piles.
 And let us not forget the German mothers. "Cimay is completely de- stroyed" said one woman "and in the streets the corpses of the Germans have been piled up to a reight of five yards. That is what they have paid. (Here ten lines of the message have been cut out by the censor) Each is at once boarded by a cool-headed nurse and officers of tine Red Cross. Many of the wounded are not grave ly injured, though effectively hors de combat. One shows a left hand mtil- ated by sword stroke, another has ball in his thigh. A young volunteer of the Dragons tells proudly how a patrol of eight men, of whom he was one put to flight last Friday two squads of Uhlands, making their lieutenant prisoner.
 Some Algerian and sengalese sold iers are leaning out of one of the end carriages of the train. Several have bandaged heads, others their arms bound up to their shoulders. Most of them seem to be smoking with a prodigious pride long porcelain pipes which were once the solac. of quiet evenings in some Rhineland village. Charging Gun.
 A swarthy gian, pulling hard at his pipe, evidently to cover the spasms Of pain from his wounded hand, tells in broken French, less eloquent than his burning eyes, how he and seven teen others of the black troops-of whom France is singularly proud l captured Mitriailleuse.
 They had been ordered, along with an infantry company, to hold road bordered by thicket.
 Suddenly column of German Drag l ons discovered them, and opened upon them with a quick fire at 400 yards distance. The eighteen Senegalese thereupon charged furiously with fixed bayonets, and cleared the pos ition.
 But we got some swordcuts, for Ii it is not easy to reach 'boch,' (slane for German cavalryman) when one is on foot" Il And he ended by explaining that h'