The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-04
MISS MORGAN, BACK,
TELLS OF ATROCITIES
Saw DesolatiOn After Battle
Heard Germans Burned
Wounded.
MISS KELLERMAN "BROKE"

The French liner France. with only 37s
passengers in all three classes, docked at Z |
o'clock last night after what will probably
be her last trip from Havre this season. |
No more sailings have been booked for |
the France and most of her crew expect |
to join the French army or navy on their |
return to Havre
Miss Anne T Morgan. daughter of the
late j. Pierpont Morgan, who was ma
rooned In the Haut- Savoie at the begin
ming of the war. returned on the France
! with Miss Elsie de Wolfe and Miss Elisa
beth Marbury. Miss Morgans horses, in
GLIDING valuable saddle horse. were COM
Wandered by the French army. J. Pier
pont Morgan and Mr.. and Mrs. Herbert
l. Satterlee met the France at the pier
/ Miss Morgan and Miss Marbury were In
! Brides-les- Balns in the Haul Savoie from
July 26 to August 20. cut off from news
OF the world and unable to get out. They
left there on August 90 and motored TO
| Biarritz. by way of bordeaux There
| they met Miss de Wolfe. who had come
| from Spain, and continued on to Paris.
Speaking OF the war Miss Morgan said
| Every one has heartsick feeling about
| II and longing desire to do something
1 II IL popular war in France. The
| spirit OF the French, men. women and
| children. II wonderful. Their inspiration
Is beyond words to describe. Why, we
| saw children and years old carrying
In hay and grain from the fields
Il freely gave my saddle horse for
Use in the army"
When they arrived in Paris. Miss Nor
| gan went to her house. the villa Trianon.
in Versailles. suburb OF Paris. The
villa Buissons, which was rented by Miss
Morgan. Miss Marbury, Miss De Wolfe
and Mrs. Paul Morton. was turned over
| to the French army as n hospital for con-
valcscents. There are now twenty
wounded soldiers there. Miss Morgan
said and twenty additional beds will be
added This villa Is near the one oc-
| cupie by Miss Morgan. and has two
| gardens.
| When Miss Morgan was asked about
| the alleged atrocities committed by tho
| German soldiers she told of an automobile
trip she took from Paris to the village of
| Courtacon with NJ. Lepine, former pre-
feet OF police in Paris, two weeks after
| the battle OF the Marine.
"Two-thlrds OF the village had been
burned TO the ground" said Miss Morgan.
| land the stories told by the villagers were
| terrible. one woman told ME that her
| twenty-year-old son was taken out and
| shot by the Germans before her eyes
simply because he was old enough to fight
| He was not a soldier, she told me. and
had done no act hostile to the Germans.
| I'VE heard that two wounded men in
Courtacon had been thrown into the public
drain and had drowned There were evil
dences OF German atrocities everywhere"
Miss Marbury said she talked with
French Lieutenant. who told her he. with
others. had laid twenty-four wounded men
on pile OF straw while waiting for the
ambulances near Louvoin. The Germans
came before the ambulances and set fire
to the straw. burning all of the wounded
There are two distinct classes of people
IN Germany. the ml'tarists and the do
mestics." said Miss Marbury. The people
in the interior OF Germany don't know the
truth about the war They know only
what the German Government tells them"
Miss Morgan brought Russian wolf
hound and Pomeranian with her
| Miss Annette Kellermann. In private life
Mrs Sullivan, was on the France with
her husband She had no engagement TO
fill in this country. she said. but wns
coming over TO go to work, az she was
"broke" All her savings were in a Paris
bank that was owned, at least in par,
by Germans. she said, and she doubted
whether she would ever be able to get
her money She said swimming was too
hard work and she would not do that
again unless she could find nothing else
Jockey John Reiff. who has been riding
in France, came over on the French liner
To buy horses In this country for the
French Government. he said.
The American liner st Louis with 426
cabin passengers and az IN the steerage,
locked yesterday at . 80 i. NJ. Among
her passengers wac Col Samuel Reber'
| head of the aviation corps or the Chlted
States army, who has been in France OBJ
serving the work Of ~" military aircraft
/ for the United states ,'Ir Department.
Col Reber was recalled by cable and
ca ught the ST. Louis just MS she left her
| pier lie does not know why lie Is wanted
in Washington. He said he did not be-
lieve the army aeroplane competition
> which Is scheduled TO take place in San
Diego In the middle of this month. would
. be postponSd on account of the war. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles was at the pier TO meet
Col. Reber
Capt Frazer Kammeyer of the German
. army arrived from Liverpool on the st.
Louis and inquired the way TO the German
Embassy He refused to talk until after
he had seen Count Won Bernstorff 1t was
said by other passengers that he was con-
nected with the German aviation corps
and had been paroled by the British Gov
eminent.
Three Chinese Catholic priests arrived
on the ST Louis on their way from London
! 10 Shanghai