Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1914-12-22

By The United Press.
ON THE HUNGARIAN FRONTIER,
Nov. 6-(By Mail to New York)-Our
little newspaper party, numbed with the
cold. climbed out Of the car today and
were led by sentinel through a great
double door. into the muddy passageway,
of building. A side door opened ana
we entered a huge. long room, warm
and well -hghted with oil lamps. lhree
long tables ran the length OF the room
There were the remnants OF giant am
ncr ON thcni. which soldiers were clear
inc away A piano was banging a hese
man with Jolly face was singing Men
sat about the tables IN small groups
drinking beer and listening. IL was my
first introduction TO the Austra-iuh
narau press headquarters.
In this little town sixty newspaper
man are lodged. 1t required small
army of officers and soldiers TO care lr'
them. The town is set aside entirely
for the press and every soldier TO he
soon. over, horse, every enc Oi the scores
oi supply wagons. every aniomonii''
every officer an have as their duty on
purpose thc convenience oi the CORES.
rondcnts who arc mostly Austrians ANA
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which the writing men have, there are
two autohrsscs at their disposal which
make REGULAR trips between this little
town and headquarters And. ON the
rond vou often see a train of four OF
i've small wagons carry ING beer which
will be consumed in large part by the
ncwspapcrncn. The correspondents pay
1 for their beer hut their food is furnished
/ a. la. 4
/ ate my hot. belatcd supper the cores
pondents do a great deal of their writ
/ ing and here the consors. who are APP.
pointed TO deal m various languages,
/ talk over the copy of the journalists,
read ont news at mealtimc and give in
structions as to postal and telegraph ar
rangcncnts.
An auto was waiting for me and
was whskcd to q whitewashed house on
the outskirts of the town where a room
had been reserved for me. The
famil, was Polish. All about the walls
of tine little room were pictures of tho
Christ and the Virgin Mary. 1t was tn,
parlof. and three clocks were tickina
away merily. have been in scores OF
such houses in America. ! remembered
that one time in a Massachusetts town
during strike, | had slept for iouI
nights in Just such a Polish home wait
ing for the deputy sheriff TO come an,
put the family out into the street but
the sheriff had not come and | had miss
ed my story There had been two clocks
in my room in that house in America
Poles seem to run clocks I locked tw,
of the clocks in my yalise to muiile then
and went to bed. Il looked to me Just
as l WIS dropping Off into slumber as il
! had been p0cketed 10y the Austro
taunga ran war department Here
from the front and no way to get there
except by army trains and the Polisi
woman raped at my door TO tell ml
it was o'clock in the morning. A
breakfast time in the big room l foun'
that my status was absolutely military
received instructions that / was [,
90 to the headquarters town at O'Clock
] took long ride over the hills in
coach in the wintry sunshine. / me
Colonel Won lloen, who mas entire charg
of all the field forces of correspondent
and he had a pass ready for ire. 1
German it is known as a"legitimation.
It bears my photograph and my auto
graph and a careful description of m
personal appearance.
Tomorrow" Colonel Hoen told nu
you are to be started for the front, bt
first you will he received by Gener,
Count Won Hertbendorf, the chief {
staff"
This was far more than an Ameri