Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-09-30
EVERY GERMAN
ALERT TO WORK
American Correspondents
Find Hotel Walters and
Chambermaids Spyings
.(By James o'ponnell Bennett. !

Aix-la-Chapelle, Germany, Sept. 80.
The head waiter at the Kaiserhof
hotel here regards himself as no con-
temptible strategist. He is especially
gracious on mornings when he can
follow. the waitress who brings the
bacon and eggs with tidings Of an
other German advance. On the morn.
ing when another advance in that
amazing. German descent into France
was reported he poised himself Judi
cially and said:
Three things have done it, gentle
men-good feet. good cannon. good
kitchens"
Blunderers Tongue Lashed.
have heard much and seen some
thing of the treatment German off,
GERS accord their men. Certainly to-
ward the laggard and the bIunderer
they are vitriolic. -
Terrific. as is the verbal onslaught
It has it's comic phase. Reproof
apGse. and question are mingled in
the torrent
The officers face becomes crimson.
He Is foaminE with excitement, but
all the time you suspect an undercur-
rent Of theatrical relish in the dem
onstration he is making.
Prince Salutes General.
An old general passed along the
railway platform at Liege a few days
ago. A group of officers sitting there
Instantly rose. brought themselves to
attention. with click Of the heels
and stood at form of salute. rigid as
statues The old general passed them
with a curt and abstracted salute.
In the group which had risen az
one man at his coming was Prince
august Wilhelm. a son Of the en-
peror.
United for Fatherland.
every man in Germany thinks i'm
perially.
Everybody is doing something for
the fatherland.
The young lieutenant in the field
1oyously tells you that he has not had
MS clothes off in two weeks. For four-
teen nights he has slept in his boots
Wnen the infrequent opportunity to
sleep came.
The chambermaid on floor two of
the kalserhof cannot do much. buf
she can at least tell the hall porter
tnat 1ne three strange gentlemen in
that they frequently refer to mans
and that they do not wear uniforms.
The hall porter cannot do much. but
ne can-and he does-make known
Tue matter of the maps to the officers
at police headquarters.
-, Police Visit is Result
his report tnsures the American n
correspondents another visit-the
SECOND IN two days-from an ex-
tremely polite detective in plain
VINO re1ers to another plain clothes
a ~ ths seIiuins ~ 1eet away at the end
For the second time The n,o;n
f1othes man goes over our PASSPORTS
ne suaveiy abstracts one which was
signed the night before by an officer
az military Headquarters here ana
Wn3ch permits each Of us to cross the
aoiland border to mail at the yillae 90
OF walls letters for England. We
never saw those Dutch passports
Waiter is Detective.
AT Nuillens hotel, too. thera 4. a.,
a,onormal a,o solicitude as to the activi.
ties OF American correspondents.
Let two or three of us 20 over f-or,
lhe halserhof to have q chat With
So9n =. McCutcheon and Irwin Cohh
ana somehow it happens that a wait.
81, not rapping. comes bouncing int
me room, surveys the group an in.
apologies for having mistaken s the
number the
u this kind Of thing happened onc.
VI eWice " would mean nothing. AZ
nerves. ~ 1s' On the
So much a waiter can do. No douht
Of service. OCCASIONALLY
Children Clean streers.
Durlng the month now melting ,r+,.
glorious autumn nor even schao,
ch1ldren whose parents are wall - ~
nave been able to 20 on vacation - W
BUT there still has been sonath1, y. -
tnem to do. Organized into 5,ttis ~.
pands, they are helping to rat n ~ :
harvest and clean streets. Hish schnn, .nS
uoys and girls have been e.nsct.I; ~,
aseful in this work.
No distinction Of rank or nron.-4,
IRE recognized In the formation ~ ny
oanda Ola age as well as youth Il
drawn into the work. A professor =, =
Az Az VINO y too old for military serv,c. ~
aas cheerfully gone into the hsrvs.s
9elds on the heights around the
slent city OF Charlemagne.
Omcer F0reaRhted.
met German oficer 80
s.s gaen wounded tn liis risht arm. He ia
\ was writing rapidly with his ieft \. "a "a
n ]. 0u are 90 fortunate an ia ~ =, ;.
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are q family Of officers. I .
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lnat what has happened mixht X =. -
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