Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-12

ing No alcohol to be sold That di,
mot interfere with the German sol
diers, for they had plenty of lquo
to drink. Wherever they came across
a cellar filed with wine, they tool
| it. Many thousands of dollars worti
Of old wine went this way.
ION the nineteenth the soldiers wen
round and burned a lot of houses
where they said that people had sho
| It them. There were twenty-five peo
pie, citizens of the city, who were
killed that way. The soldiers woulo
, start a fire and then wait. AS the
l'Deople ran from their burning homes
| they were shot down.
lone day we walked out toward the
| forts, through the little places
! Travelled by the Germans on their way
to Liege. Through MicherouX ano
| Herve a distance of four and one
half kilometers, there were but foul
houses that remained whole. Here
before this, the houses, set very close
together and built of stone and
brick, were filled with people. Now
they stood stark and bare, just the
empty walls, and nothing more In
some places, where a shot had struck
he bricks, stones and mortar filled
the streets, making them almost i'm
passible.
Woman's Story.
AT Biene Heury we met a woman
and her daughter and had lunc.l
with them. She told us her story
Her husband conducted a private
school at st. Adelin. When the Ger
man army stopped in their place on
their way to Liege, number of Off
.ars assembled - their scaee W. Q
they were standing there, the woman
Of 4ha rhn11e, 10 Fort
fell in their midst and killed a num-
Der of the soldiers. Blaming the
teacher they shot him, hie Two Sons
boys of sixteen and eighteen, and
also killed his twenty-year-
daughter. Our guest at lunch also
said the Germans shot another
daughter, who was twenty-four years
old, and threw the bodies into a
ditch. The older girl was not killed,
but her arm was broken. She lay in
the ditch with her younger sister :
Body over her for three hours. At
the end of this time she heard the
last soldier depart, and extracting
herself got her mother and young
est sister, a child of five. Together
they concealed themselves in the
woods for three days. Later they
were picked up half starved"
The two Newark girls got out of
Liege finally, with the assistance Of
one of the local policemen. With the
exception of those in the American
consul's office, they were the only
two Americans in the city. It was
probably due to this that they were
kept there so long. One day their
uncle informed them that he had a
plan for their escape.
Ore morning. policeman. who
i. H. H.
nearest Dutch village and Liege to
uncle's house. They got in and drove
through the city. On the outskirts
German sentry stopped him and
asked him who he had in the wagon.
ooh. only a couple of Dutch women
on their way home" he replied.
And the young women did not need
any warning to make them hold their
peace. In this way they got out and
made for Rotterdam, where they re-
manned a week before the ship
sailed.
Lauds Boy Scouts.
Both the Misses VOLTS talked OF
the conduct of the Boy Scouts OF
Liege The little fellows We're splen-
did, according to the girls. They
did whatever they could to make life
| easier for not only the wounded. but
all with whom they came in contact
running their little legs off, day and
night.
Efforts to locate the Misses Wolfs
were made by the state department
at Washington. the matter being
! taken up by Joseph B. Tumu'ty. Sec
! rotary to the president Mr. Tumulty
succeeded in getting messages
/ through TO the American consul al
| BRUSSELS and other parts of the wal
| zone. The state department was
later informed that the Newark girls
were safe and every effort was being
made to see that they got home as
| soon as was possible