Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-10
CITES NOVELPLAN
TOAVOID BOMBS
Visitor to Newark Tells How
English Figure TO Deceive
Germans.

TalulnB herman alT1lleu WIN may -
to drop bombs by night on London
was told to a Star reporter by Miss
Vanite Godowsiy, who with her father
and other members of her family,
spent few days in Newark visiting
Herbert Sachs Hirsch, OF Is Astor
street.
The streets of London are kept
dark by night, but in all the parks
double rows of lights are placed at
intervals to give the appearance of
streets, If seen from above, the hope
being, of course. that the bombs will
be dropped in the parks and not on
the buildings. These lights are about
three feet from the ground, and each
evening the residents of the neigh
borhoods gather about them to read
and talk. over the news.
Miss Godowsky, who is the daugh-
ter of Leopold Godowsky, a pianist.
who Is head of the Masters School
in Vienna, also talked interestingly
of conditions In Ostend Just before
the Germans arrived there. as seen
by herself, and of conditions after
their arrival, as related by her faith
er. She also said that Eugen Ysaye,
the celebrated Belgian violinist. is
penniless and a refugee in London.
Miss Godowsky. said.
Foil Auto Requisition.
Fathers hobby is automobiling,
and just before the war broke out
he purchased a car in Austria. While
at our summer home the Belgian sol
diers tried to requisition the car for
army purposes, but through the wit
of the chauffeur they were foiied.
He took out some of the machinery,
and whenever the soldiers called to
look the car over they found it out
of order. Finally they gave up the
attempt to get the automobile and
we had the car taken apart and
stored In q corner aof the garage
where 1t was not noticed.
when we were safely quartered
In London father missed the car sc
much that he went all the way back
to Ostend again to see il he could
get 1t through to London. With
great difficulty he had 1t smuggled
on board the ship in sections, and
on arriving in England 1t was as
sembIed again, and we used 1t dur
ing our stay of three months in Lon
don. 1t was impossible, though, to
bring 1t to America"
In further relating her experiences
Miss Godowsky said that the family
met with considerable difficulty In
London in establishing their identity
with the officials. They only had
emergency passports. and every once
in while an official would call and
put them all through rigid ques-
tioning. She also remarked that be-
fore her father succeeded in return
ing to England with the automobile
he witnessed much of the war prep
arations in Belgium, heard the Ger
man guns at Liege and was in Os.
tend when the Germans first entered
at is interesting to note" said the
young woman, that the newspaper
accounts of the entry of the Germans
into Ostend Nare entirely different
from the story told by my father
who was present on the occasion. He
was in the city the day the first Ger
man troops came. A very small de
tachment of Uhlanss entered, the city
and met with no opposition from tht
inhabitants. Instead the whole city
turned out to see the soldiers take
formal possession.
Arrival of Germans.
1.-THE Germans took the resort on 9
date much earlier than that stated
in the newspaper reports, A few
days before the Germans entered al
the Belgian soldiers. who, by the
way. were quartered on the beach
there. left and joined the main body
of troops. All the big public build
ings we're used for hospital and Other
military uses. Father saw many
wounded German, French and Bel
gians while he was there.
zone day while out motoring thu
| Austrian marks on the auto attracted
attention in Brussels. through which
he was passing and crowd gathered
and all but mobbed the car. Som'
! officials saved father and his car from
the hands of the angry Belgians. Thi'
was before the city was captured b1
the Germans.
"As we have lived in Berlin and
| Vienna much OF our lives our part.
was looked upon with suspicion II
London. We dared not talk too freel.
and always had to guard our tongues
as It Is a known fact that government
agents were as thick as bees all owe
the city.
"The London people seemed mucl
| wrought up about a possible attacl
from Zeppelins The once Brilliant,
lighted thoroughfares are now Il
practical darkness, with only occa
sional lights In shop windows. Thi
is done by order of the city authori
ties In order to confuse any possibl
airmen who may fly overhead.
Being foreigners we were closet
watched during our stay in Londor
We had intended leaving for Americ
on September % and on four differ
ent occasions secured passage o
steamers which were later taken owe
by the government. We finally lei
on an Allan liner on October % an
arrived in Montreal ten days late
without any unusual happening.
EN- our party, in addition to Nj
Godowsky and myself. was Louis Sic
gel, of Rochester, violinist; my sis
!, ter, Miss Dagmar Godowsky, my tw
brothers, Guntram and Leopold Sax
Godowsky The latter was studyin
under Scevzik. the violinist, befol
,, the war. Father is q native of Rus
sia, but has been an American cit
a.