Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-16

to saying his passports were wrong,
 but it illustrated their extreme caution about spies. While re was under arrest
 he was allowed to write to the Amerl-
 can ambassador and also to telepgrapn
 to his mother advising her that 1T ne
 wasn's heard from in A hours to make a protest to the government.
 MT. Johnson left New York June Ith
 last to join his mother and grandmotn-
 CT at Pau, where they were making
 their homes, intending ot do work on
 the book he is writing upon his ex-
 plorations. Among the Holodytes.
 After war was declared no trains, eX-
 cept military trains, left Pau for eignt
 weeks, and after that the only tra1ns were trains made up of cattle cars. He
 could have gotten out sooner, but could
 not have his mother and his grand mother travel in such ACCOMMODATIONS.
 One possession whicch he was com
 pelled to leave behind was the hanu- some Arabian stallion presented to hlIn by a. Sheik in Africa, but it is with
 friends and he hopes some day to re-
 claim it and bring it over here. Whlle waiting for an opportunity to leave
 Pau he made numerous trips son nis ni
 horse into Spain, coming back with
 provisions for the village, which were
 secured in Spain and brought in on
 mules.
 For about ten days immediately aft CT the French mobilization order, the people in Pau were hard up for food.
 For a month they had no bread and
 hardly any sugar, as the government
 requisitioned the oats and other toodsl
 but in short time the FTeucn gov ernment to0l1 hold in a wonderful way all over the republic, portloned out all supplies so that everyone had an equa. amount, even if small. Everything hao to be raid for in cash. For two weeks there was a scarcity of salt, but things are now 0n a normal DaSlS.
 When they reached Bordeaux they could have sailed in a French liner, | but Mrs. Thomas wanted to sail under no flag but the Stars and Stripes, so they went across to Liverpool. AS soon as they landed at Liverpool they
 were asked what hotel they were to stop at and were told that he and his | mother must report in an hour and | half tc the chief of police. They were | advised that this must on no account | he neg. .ected. They had to get a per
 init to live in Liverpool and MT. John
 son had to tell who his grandfather and his grandfather's father we: . with other minute details of his family | history. Their thumb marks were also | taken and incorporated on their pass | ports and they advised to keep a sharI | eye on their passports, as German spies | were stealing them
 One of the circumstances that helped MT. Johnson particularly when he came | to get away from Pau was that he had | a war fund of $1, 800. He had fore seen this war coming, he said. twC years ago, and had started to lay by some money for the emergency. Il
 was a most fortunate thing that ht | did SO.
 | MT. Johnson says that the French showed a wonderful spirit of devotioT
 and are prepared to fight to the last 1 drop of their blood in a war that they | declare has been forced upon them b5 | Germany. They have plenty of am munition and their cOmmissariat i: | working admirably, while German | prisoners whom he has seen declare | that the German army is so poorly fed that in many cases the soldiers l say they have nearly starved to death