Norwich bulletin., 1914-09-18
HOME FROM EUROPE.

HOME FROM EuRoPE-
 Miss Dorothy Jones and Miss Lucy Greenman Reach Norwich After
 Many Interesting Experiences. Miss Dorothy Jones and Miss Lucy
 Greenman of this city, who with Mrs. Allan T. Baer and her son Sterling
 were in Heidelberg, Germany, the day that the mobilization of the German Thursday evening. arriving in the city on the o'clock train from New
 York They had landed in New York
 Thursday morning from the steamer
 they had embarked fourteen days be- r. and Mrs. E oliin C. Jones of No. 6s Broad street met their daughter | upon her arrival in New York. where they had been waiting since Monday for the steamer from the Mediterra-
 mean port to get in. Miss Greenman
 was met by her brother; George Greenman, of Philadelphia. Because | of shortage of coal, the steamer took four days 'orser than usual for the trip and they also ran into bic for the better part of three days. In fact coal was not the only thing tha. was short aboard ship, for the spring water used for drinking ran out two days ago and on the next to the last
 day the jam ran out. As coffee, rolls and jam had been the principle com ponents of breakfast coming over. the loss of the jam was a calamity which
 the Norwich travellers felt for the
 meals On the boat were far from sat-
 isfactory anyway. although they were travelling first class. First and second class were all merged into one in view of the war situation.
 The Norwich people got out of Ger many with all speed. although with some difficulty. but found it harder to get from Lucerne, Switzerland than it had been to get away from which they fled from Heidelberg, ex- pecting that their stay in the Switzer- land city would be about a day and a half Tn reality they were there three weeks and two days.
 Informed at midnight by the land- | lord that the mobilization of the Ger man army was taking place, they | made plans to get away at once. The | train that was to start at 10 that morning was an hour late in leaving and they finally reached Lucerne at II 30 that night. On the way, after | passing Baden. they came to Mue1- | hausen and passed through it just three days before the battle ragged there.
 At the frontier between Germany and Switzerland there was nothing to | do but walk to get across into Switz- erfand and they covered three miles in a blazing hot sun with files of German soldiers on each side of the people from the train :.
 When they came to leave Switzer- l land they found they were almost tied l hand and foot with the intricacies of official red tape before they could
 move. and everything took time. Pass
 ports had to be secured and these '. fore they could leave Geneva to pass
 into France. their passports had to | be vised. This was accomplished and l they finally got into France and reached Marseilles. There was a ten
 day wait in Marseilles before they could get a boat and they found that 1 they had to get a permit to live in Marseilles.
 | Another straw added to the bur- | den was discovered when they were ! finally. informed they were to sail.
 three days before they were to de-
 part. had to have their pictures taken
 and answer a variety of questions to
 prove that they were bona tide Amer | jeans.
 | On the railroad train coming through France they could buy noth-
 ing to eat for no one was allowed to | approach the windows to sell any l thing lest this should furnish an op- l portunity for notes to be passed. They had some sandwiches to eat. made of
 army bread. for none of the private
 bakeries were working. From an out side crust of adamantine hardness | their experience showed them that
 army bread ran through all the stages i to sogginess in the middle.
 Everywhere there were signs of the war, for all the French stations are | filled with cots prepared for the ar- | rival of wounded French soldiers. | Whenever the people on the train
 were allowed to get off at a station.
 they were kept herded into barbed wire enclosures.
 One Of the interesting things at Marseilles was to see the arrival Of I the Algerian and Moroccan troops.
 They were coming in thousands. all
 in their picturesque native costumes
 and accompanied also by an aroma I that drove the Americans to the refuge
 of doorways for escape. The men
 in it's ranks seemed Euiltless of soap and water from the day of their birth l One amusing instance of the censor ship came when Miss Jones wanted | to cable to her paren8. Sailing on Patrie." She found 1t had to be vised
 by the chief of police in Marseilles.
 who couldn't read a word of English. l He was shown the telegram. written in English. was told in French what