New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-09-24
Twenty-one Paraded Be-
fore Great Throngs in
German Capital.
PLACED AROUND
ROYAL PALACES
Kaiser's Army Automobiles
Know No Speed Laws and
Garry High Wire Cutters.
BY JOSEPH MEDlLL PATTERSON.

Sedan, or the capture OF Napoleon Ill
and 100000 of his troops, and of the
destruction Of the Second Empire.
Half or threc-quarters Of n million
Germans the guesses are various
gathered in Inter den Linden from the
Brandenburger Thor to the imperial
palace, distance of one mile. Inter
den Linden is one Of the widest streets
in the world, but it was filled COM
pietely, save for q narrow lane in the
middle kept open by the police. and all
the windows along the way were filled
too.
The crowd was waiting to see the
captured twenty-one Of them
French and Belgian-taken at Namur
Eighteen we're three-inch approx
mately) field pieces and three were ma
chine guns. The guns came in an hour
and half late, but the crowd was good
natured and always growing denser
There was no singing whatever, but
street barkers did plenty of business IN
"Schwarz, Weiss und Roth"-black
white and red German flags and badges
The guns were preceded by German
general and a horse nearly white
dapple gray. | believe it is traditional
for conquerors to ride white horses, but
| don't think this particular general
was the one who took the guns. lie
merely symbolized victorious general
ocracy.
No flowers were strewn anywhere, hut
the horses pulling the guns and sur
rounded by Berlin policemen had tiny
bouquets Of white and pink carnations
tied tightly to their headstalls.
Crowd Keeps Lid On.
The crowd was in no sense vehement
There is no doubt whatever, not a
shadow of it, that Germany is unani'
mously, profoundly, intensely, desper-
ately for the war and for victory. But
the people will not take the lids OIL
themselves. They do all their burning
inside.
So, though there was cheering and
plenty Of it from this half or three
quarter million Of Germans, it was far
less than on national election night
before any city newspaper ONCE IN
America.
The guns were placed around the
statue Of Frederick the Great. Sons
are in front Of the Crown Prince
palace. Others arc before the Imperial
Palace, and knots of people surround
them all day long. Mothers lift Their
children up to the muzzles TO gaze III
wonder down the shining rifing of the
barrels; old men wag their heads and
talk Of '70-71; girls press their lovers
hands more closely, especially II the
lover be in uniform.
In the evening Of Sedan Day soldier
in his war clothes of gray hobbled
about Bismarck's statue, before the
Reichstag building. His left leg was
entirely stiff-Dandsged, suppose. HIS
girl was with him; and how she adored
himl-fngers, hands and arms were
locked. ana her eyes never left her
hero's face.
He was we'll fed, pink checked. good
looking, and she was poor Judging
from her clothes), sallow, short and
shrunken looking. She ran over her
worn shoes badly, but how happy she
WAS in her adoration; how ecstatic!
He was her man; he was safe back
from the wars (for the PRESENT., and
he was a hero, wounded hero, who
twined his fingers with hers before the
statue of Victory in the Sieges Alice.
suppose that girl doesn't touch very
high spots in her life, but one she
surely touched on the afternoon OF
Sedan Day of 1914.
Visit to French Prisoners.
We were taken out to-day to sec
5000 French prisoners at Alter
Grabow, a man9uvre camp about 100
miles east of Berlin. There we're half
a dozen American correspondents and
a couple of our naval men under escort
of Lieutenant Baron Kurt Won Lers-
ner. formerly secretary of the en-
bassy at Washington.
We went in three automobiles be-
longing to the Imperial Volunteer
Automobile Corps, and we went the
hundred miles fast each way. There
are no speed regulations for army
automobiles, at least not in war times,
and the roads were marvels OF straight
smoothness.
There are 800 machines in this vol
unteer corps, all high powered and
driven BY their former owners, rank
ing as lieutenants, accompanied by thei'
former chauf'eurs, who know the
whims and fancies each Of his own
special car. They are painted war
gray. and carry pair OF cavalry car
bines and four extra tires apiece.
For carrying messages between
widely separated generals behind tn
firing line they make the gallopIng
touriers of old seem hideously $40"
and painfully shortwinded.
The Belgians, IT seems, learned 10
,trinp wires at night between trees at
proper points TO decapitate the drivers
and motors with headlesS chautfeurs
~ reported to have plunged into
bitches at eighty kilometres an hour.
So now the army autos of Germany are
rouipped with wire cutters, two steel
bcams set in front of the seats at an
.ngle of 70 degrees, with sharp edges
that will either cut the wires or lend
them above the heads of the occupants.
In the trip to Alien Grabow, where
the prisoners are, we saw cross Sec
ton of Germany at fifty miles an hour.
The harvest was going on, old men
boys and women doing the work. Hay
was being put up, potatoes sacked the
heets aren't ready yet.
Children Everywhere.
Children were everywhere along thu
road, cheering the army automobile
whizzing by. The women were gen
orally deep chested, broad hipped' pc"
! crfui-many of the farm women bare
footed, goinp with wooden rakes to IN
bav fields. They seldom waved at tn
cars as the children did, but the
! looked at the tall young Iieuteran
1SomfFsurs in gray sitting so gravei
Iii 81 their posts at their wheels an
So 80 co fast. as we might look a
S T'~i Germany is first of al
a mi and the army officers ar
of the aristocracy'
The neat villages OF stucco and re-
al and geese flashed by, the bugl
o VI. in plenty of time for every
S Sod,u 80 Get out of the way. The arm!
80 have three alarm signals, bugle
s aus and buzzer. but the bugle is tn
fsvorite. and is forbidden to civilians
W. we're stopped once and trai'