The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1914-11-28

big German shell alight under the
gnarled roots of an enormous tree.
When the smoke cleared away TINS
tree was lodged in the top branches OF
some other trees close by. IL had
been torn up by the roots and shot
upward hundreds of feet with terrific
velocity.
The curious effect of these mon
strous shells passing close to ones
head is that they produce nervous COZ
lapse, deafness, numbness and ire
auent insanity. / personally helped TO
the rear a dozen soldiers thus al
fiicted. More dreadful sights / never
saw. Now there are two hospitals In
Petrograd and Moscow for such SOL
diers with more than one thousand pa
tients in each.
This frightful bombardment drove
me into the cellar of factory, where
| found two men and several wom-
en- and children, who had been there
three days, not daring to emerge even
to get a drink of water from the
pump only few yards from the open
ing of the cellar. They told me that
the bombardment had continued day
and night, and in proof Of their wis
dom in not venturing out they pointed
to the bodies of three men and child
lying in the factory yard.
Germans In Solid Mass.
When darkness fell / bolted out
again and soon took refuge again in
the house of Polish gentleman, who
invited me to sleep in his house for
the night. l slept on a sofa, but In
the small hours of the morning was
awakened by a shell which shook
every window frame in the house. My
host and his family soon appeared say
: ing that the servants had all fed.
decided to depart also, but was pre-
: vented by the sounds of firing ant
: Smelling in the adjacent village, and 81
| remained all day in the house. The
D next day the German troops rushed
a past the house, solid wall of mel
4 so close together that they obliter
e ated the flower garden and the adjoin
/ ing young shrubbery as completely al
l. if a steam roller had passed owe
both.
r cast hasty glance in the OPPOSITE
+ direction, specializing If even yet
could escape that way but at cross
roads near the house | saw four Hun
n garian hussars who sat motionless Il
e their saddles. They formed square
| q
1t a rifle unslung, the butt resting loos'
n ly against his bright red ridin
breeches, and with finger on trigge
n l realized that it would be ma
d. race down any of these roads and thu
lg a wild scamper through the adjaceI
d. fields would be bad for my health.
" Finds Himself at the Front.
I'd Turning again to look at the &c
he mans, l reflected with secret exult
ed ton that my most sanguine hopes ;
ne a war correspondent had been res
US lied. For a long time the wise
r. heads in the Russian foreign and W
offices prevented me from getting
lie the front. Now with a rush, like
tx Niagara, the front had come to' m
"a The Germans we're no beauties
he they aHAced in their "pickelhaube
as (helmS md grayish uniforms. loo
Ter ing as II they had not shaved
ip- washed for weeks. 1t was with no
es. binary curiosity that l gazed at tn
formidable host which had wrong
he devastation from Antwerp to Warsa
ms before whose cannon first-class 4
But tresses had gone down like houses
for cards, whose monstrous armies We
at measured not by miles but by
grees of latitude.
ore Meanwhile the tide of battle n
lad higher and higher around us. 1t "
of impossible to leave the house, whit
[or- walls were dashed by spray of shr
9th mel and rifle bullets. 1t was crack
18th in several places from the foundat
to the roof by the conclusion of
on gantic shells.
my Sees Battle Approach Warsaw.
ned / mounted to the roof and obser'
the the distant lights of Warsaw, VIII
nth were not lowered despite the ter
,us- of aeroplanes and Zeppelins. So
ven of Warsaw | saw a great irregu
my line of foam tipped shrapnel exl
the sions, the boiling edge of Teuto
sea of iron and blood.
At one point the line bent shar
mid outward and approached perilou
one close to the Polish capital. The
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