Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-08-28
FRANTIC FLIGHT OF
TOURISTS DESCRIBED

hundred passengers were left behind
Where they are now heaven ODb
knows.
The train slowly proceeded towar
the frontier The district one Of th
richest and busiest in Russia, was 81
lent and deserted. Here and there N
wide field an old woman was seen
struggling to harvest the crops. Fac
tories were deserted. The workmS
had gone to war.
Baggage Left Behind
1t was not until nightfall, when The
train reached Nuremburg, that ths
passengers learned that two baggage
cars had been left behind. At ever
station from the Austrian frontier to
Holland, saw piles of trunks, mosly
belonging to Americans and English
men. The stories told by passengen
from Berlin, Hamburg and Paris d
countless thousands of pieces Of bag
gage piled at railroad stations stag
ger ones credulity.
Just as we crossed the border cams
the news that Germany had alreatl
begun to mobilize. Plans were hast
ly made and as hastily discarded Ep
cry one wanted to know what trains
were running, what frontiers wer
open and what steamers were sailing
There was no one to answer.
The train logged through the Sanf
sad scenes of desolation we beheld
Austria beautiful fields, crops rip
for harvest without a soul to reap
them. Factories were quiet. We
were sidetracked every little while 70
permit trains laden with soldiers
pass. At nightfall, without HAVING
eaten all day, our trainload arrived
at Nuremberg, where the station was
crowded with Americans, Englishmel
Belgians and Hollanders waiting 0i
hours for train.
The Nuremburg hotels were naa
with foreigners. Some were going %
Switzerland. Rumors came, hoWeVel
that Switzerland had formed an ap
ance with France and that the Gep
mans had stopped all trains
Rides in Baggage Car.
No one knew what truth there Va
in the rumors; no one knew any WI
of ascertaining the truth; all was cOr
fusion. Then came official Announce
ment that all railroad communicate
with the French frontier had OeS
suspended and that after "a hours "
further trains would be run in the Gsl
man empire.
The following morning nearly e'u'
foreigner in Nuremberg left, for W
West In two streams toward Do
GUM, the other toward Holland
chose Holland, and the memory
the ride will long abide with me H''
a nightmare.
At Bonn three army officers fouSn
through the crush and compelled y
occupants of a first-class compartm'.
to give up their seats. We were Nv
in the heart of German mobllzauvI
Every station was thronged win y
diers. We passed camp after csI'
and train after train laden WIN =
carriages, tents and provisions pa'''
US.
At every station the soldiers Gov
PEELED the passengers to close Gg~,
and windows. They were guafuS,
against bomb being thrown from
train. One man who did not elO'I
window fast enough was proddeo W.
a bayonet. !,
At the Dutch frontier the us
stopped and every passenger wv ~.
went rigid examination. NO
man was allowed to pass any iai'D'
~eooooo-o-o-o-oo-co-o-o-e.o-~c-o.o-o~o.''-"
Lady Cook pointed out that the W..
en- would be the logical DEFENDER
the country when the men are all S''
to the front.
Our women's army must Dc l'1,
to fight and to die for Britain.
going to arouse the women of Ensa'
SO they will, if the time should cu ~,
resist the invaders in fight for ~
homes and their honor. N
i believe English women VIII pS
good fighters. You know what Mp
says: The female of the spse's'
more deadly than the male.