The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-29

secret pact with France which would
have permitted French troops to pass
through Belgium to attack Germany,
and that Germany invaded Belgium
because she was aware of this Franco
Belgian understanding. McNutt also
predicts that in the end Germany will
drive Russia back into Asia, where, he
says, she belongs.
His letter follows:
He Sees Mobilization.
Il gladly take advantage of Scott
McNutts departure for America to
answer your letter of Aug. End, which
only reached me three days ago. Let
tiers from America are now very slow
In coming and, in fact, we get very few
from anywhere, owing to the interrupt
ed communications. Scott sails from
Naples for Boston on the 10th But
for the war. he would have remained
another two months with us. The
hope you expressed that the reports
OF universal war were mere rumors,
were not realized. Just here in our
neighborhoOd we see. thus far. nothing
OF the actual fighting. Within forty
eight hours after the declaration of
war. BriXen filled up with soldiers, as
1t is military post of the first class
I'VE had about twenty thousand
IL,
and during the three weeks of mobiliz-
alton, there were no trains, no tele-
graph nor telephone, while the scare
ity of provisions made itself felt. Just
below our hill lies the drill ground,
and from our windows we looked right
down upon it, while the bugles, music.
words of command were plainly
audible. AS soon as the troops were
drilled, equipped and ready for war.
they began to leave, and long trains
crawled up and down the valley for
days. Now Brixen seems comparative
ly deserted and life is normal once
more, save that the entire country
side is emptied of able-boded men
Take Men to Front.
1.-TWO of our men were taken, but
we still have four left, and have Sc
cured cripple who acts as coachman
We have Jared better than most
people, for we still have two horses.
our motorcars and chauffeur. We
are the only people hereabouts who
ours right and left to carry our less
fortunate neighbors about. Everybody
who has not gone to the front is en-
gagged in Red Cross work and every
available building is being converted
into a hospital We are too remote
from doctors to make this house a
possible hospital, but we have prepar-
ed four rooms and have offered to
receive four cOnvalescent officers We
have also given one of our motors for
Red Cross transport Yesterday, the
first trainloads of the wounded arriv-
ed, and from now on, we shall see
many sad sights.
America Misinformed.
Last week l motored to Vienna
where remained four days. The city
as many more people are in town than
would be the case, ordinarily, in
August. The feeling everywhere is
very good, the people are full of
courage and confidence Occasional
ed us after long delay, and from those
1 have seen. it is evident that Ameri-
can opinion is badly informed regard
ing this great conflict. The papers
publish the greatest possible nonsense.
Perhaps by now they may have learn
ed better and changed this tone since
the German armies are everywhere
victorious and by the time you get this
may actually be inside Paris.
'The original cause of this war lies
in the Russian intrigues for control of
the Balkan states, which border on
Austria. Servia, the least civilized Of
these states, is the one most subject
to Russian influence, and is honey
combed with secret societies and Rus
sian agents who use money to keep
the population in a constant ferment
against Austria. The Emperor has
been very g-suffering-too much SO,
for his patience has been misunder-
stood and only served to encourage
the plots against his country All
eliminated in the assassination of the
Crown Prince and his wife in Sera-
jevo. The evidence that this crime
was engineered from Belgrade is con-
elusive, and Austria was justified in
sending a punitive force into Servia.
Russia's Intervention followed because
the Russians felt bound in their own
interests to show themselves the pro-
tectors of the Slavs in the Balkans.
Censures the English.
There the matter should have
stopped, and the zone of the war re-
manned confined. Unhappily, France
was bound to Russia by an alliance
and most of all, holds millions of the
Russian debt, SO that Russia's defeat
would mean bankruptcy for France.
With France engaged, England most