Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-26
CAR LOSES 100000,
DROWNED IN TRAPS
! SET BY HTNDENBURG
Aged and Invalid General
Turns Tide of Victory in
East Prussia, Returned
Tourist Says.

4. NEW YORK, oct. ga tale Of ad-
was told yesterday by Henry Uihlein, Jr.,
who arrived from Europe Saturday on
the Rotterdam. Mr.. Uihlein said that he
d. hcd from Cologne in a military auto
mobile with German officers going to the
front He reached Jiege Just after it had
fallen, then went to Antwerp, but escaped
from the horrors Of the siege and finally
reached Holland and safety.
Americans, he said, will be thrilled
and horrihed when the full details of the
present struggle are made known.
while staying at hotel in Frankfurt
en-Main Mr. Uihlein was given the
protection Of Major General v. Brat of
the Seventeenth Army Corps, and from
him he learned that the Kaiser made his
buried fight from Metz to Eastern
Prussia in order to stem the tide of de-
feat that then threatened the German
armies.
1.-THE Kaiser placed General Won Hinden-
burg in supreme charge Of both the Ger
man and Austrian armies in the east"
said Mr.. Uihlein. although this general
Is old and is such helpless invalid that
he has to be carried about in chair
Germany's battle fortunes changed from
the hour of his appointment, until now
not another Russian Is left on German
territory. The Kaiser later visited EN-
peror Franz Joseph and had this appoint
nent, the greatest honor that has been
conferred in the present war, confirmed.
browns $4,000 RUSSIANS.
general Won Hindenburg's first achieve
ment was to drown 10000 Russians in
the swamps around Rastenburg and cap
ture 10000 prisoners. Troops were landed
at Koenigsberg and sent south; another
army forced It's way north from Posen,
until the invading Russians were caught
at BARREN. There a three-day battle was
fought, with the result that the Russians
were forced into swamps. They drowned
there by the thousands Reports later
described how the vast chorus of cries
OF the drowning soldiers filled the gloomy
countryside at night For this deed Gen.
eral Won Hindenburg was awarded the
honor pour la merite."
"All the deeds done by the Germans"
said Mr.. Uhlein, "were resorted to be-
cause of some military necessity. Every
man found in house from which shot
had been fred on the German victorious
troops was taken out and shot. In tho
little Belgian town of Diest, 120 Belgians
we're taken from one house, lined up IN
the street and 119 OF them Immediately
killed. One escaped. BY freak of fate
not a bullet hit him. II a condemned
soldier is not killed at the first volley
the Germans allow him to go free.
ANTWERP SIEGE "FEARFUL"
THE siege Of Antwerp was too fearful,
too awful to describe. AS I fed with
thousands Of others on the night before
Antwerp fell, like thousands OF others,
crouched along the sides of the buildings.
as one will during rain. to avoid. being
struck by the falling splinters of bursting
shells. Mono of the descriptions of that
awful night have been exaggerated. The
cries of sobbing. fainting women strug-
Cling in the boats rs they tried to cross
the Schelt wrung ones soul. They
drowned each other. I was prostrated
when finally reached Amsterdam In
box car"