East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-10-02
MONTE CARLO IN WAR
TIME IS DESOLATE
PLAYGROUND OF EUROPE UN-
DER BLIGHT OF THE TER
RIFTC STRUGGLE.

PARIS, oct. Monte Carlo in
war time The playground OF Europe
and the worlds gambling rendezvous
is desolate. The one place where al.
ways was 10 be found wild dissipa-
ton, and bustling and hustling. today
Is under blight Of the greatest war
| In history. The following story was
sent TO a local newspaper by special
representative who was assigned 10
picture the little principallty in war
| time:
/ was astonished at the scene on
the top OF the hill For sheer. for
lorn desolatlon / have beheld nothing
10 compare with Monte Carlo in time
of war This buzzing hive. this CEN
ter Of wild. dissipation, this hackney
ed scene OF melodrama had acuired all
the silence and gloom Of Pompeii.
Outside the Casino ! was informed
by a placard on the closed shutters
that owing 10 the events" the build
! ing would not be opened till further
notice the reading room was trans
ferred to the Cafe de Paris; deposits
the Garerie Charles III.
In the big square there were -
wax figures arrayed on the benches.
/ am sure they were wax figures, for
they never spoke or moved: they
waited and waited-for nothing. A
big blackboard waited for war bull
letins, kilograms that never came.
There was lunch at a little coffee
house in the Condamine by the har-
bour Here | was siezed at once by
the nervous atmosphere Of the prin-
cipality. At the next table was a lady
who spoke with what seemed a vio-
lent German accent / watched her
suspiciously. for at Nice German
batting is the great sport Of the hour.
The soberest citizen rush suddenly
amuck and collect crowds to chase and
belabour a man who has the wrong
hat or the wrong cut Of beard. And
at Nice we mistrust Monaco.
We know that the Prince has sent
1000 pounds to the perfect Of the
Seine for the families Of French SOL
diers: we have read his highness'
stirring speech TO regiment at
Beausoleil; we have seen the red pro-
clamations on Monte Carlo walls or
dering off the enemy's subjects "for
reasons OF public order" But we
know he is a friend OF the kaiser, a
cousin OF the chief Of the German
staff. We suspect him OF tolerating
spies. We murmur of annexation.
So I watched my neighbor, and l
saw she resented it. The proprietor
addressed her sympathetically as Ma
dame la Comtesse. But that did not
soothe her.
Between the courses she threw up
her hands and screamed that such
things were unheard Of what
things?" / ventured TO inquire
Why, this infamous atmosphere Of
suspicion. CMy suspicion. perhaps? p
For days and days she had been
pushed about at police stations had
haunted the antechambers of con-
sulated, clamoured for papers that
We always deferred How was she to
get out Of this accursed country with |
out a permit?
Some people make their own
troubles, and l pointed out to her
that she had only to enter a train and
proceed to Italy. No one need worry
about papers down here just now.
least Of all worthy Dutchwoman who
only desired to depart
All the same. Monaco is certainly
suffering from a reaction against Ger.
mans. At first their expulsion was
the merest sham. Then the prince
proposed to provide them with a
special ship to take them away to
Italy.
"Ah!" said Nice. then YOU admit
you have been sheltering them: and
now you want to send them away in
luxury, with all the fruits Of their
one result is that high officials of
he Casino are now in Nice prisons
waiting to be tried as spies. An Ital-
an paper said one of them had been
shot, but this is contradicted.