New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-11
FprNcu Pe,sOueeS or WAR ARRIVING IN Berlin

special trains which brought US 20 neutral
country. "0h, we need the money was the
laconic reply. As for the German newspapers
the nice things they said about Us and the COM
pliments they paid us were altogether dinerent
from the days Of our Mexican troubles, when
President Wilson was "the Yankee Professor" and
william j. Bryan "der trauben saft man ("the
grape juice MANI, and every paper IN Berlin
was filled with abuse Of the United States and
everything in IT,
SOME SAD HAPPENINGS IN THE DAYS OF
HYSTERlA.
OF course there were days Of hysteris. !
watched them smash the windows Of the Engi'h
Embassy. from the upper windows Of which some
English men and women, insolently cool and I'M
nerturbable threw small coins to the Infatuated
mob below. II it had not been for the police,
aided by the soldiers, think they would have
massacred every one in the building.
Very sad were of the things which saw.
A Russian, who had had q row with his wife, IN
desperation rushed into the street, cursng and
muttering to himself in Russian he was imme-
diatey arrested, and not having his papers was
shot for a spy. young French goyerness, turned
out by her employers, was found wandering
through the streets OF Spandau. Spandau Is
most important military post, bristling with mill
tary secrets, and they shot her.
Another day we saw an aeroplane come from
the east Suddenly there was 8 volley Of ride
shots from the woods, then scattering shots aud
another volley. The aeroplane turned on its side.
sank slowly at first, then more quickly, and then
with a rush 1t crashed into the earth; 1t FELL
not more than twenty yards from where stooc
the aviator was a German officer.
It was wonderful sight watching the mobilizs-
ton It was done so quietly and in such an or
DERBY way. Very few troops were moved from
the city during the daytime; most of it was done
by night. have sat at my window from mid
night to o'clock in the morning. watching SOL
diers go by, an unending stream, ghostly in the
moonlight an army Of phantOms in the almost
Invisible gray-green uniforms. This time there
we're no bands, no fife and drum corps, no sing
ing From curb to curb they filled the great
street Of the army, infantry, cavalry, artillery,
marching in parallel columns.
A DEPARTING BAND OF FOUR HUNDRED
HAPPY AT LEAVING.
On Saturday, September 8, we left Berlin four
hundred strong, happy, bosterous band. Wha.
matters that most of us penniless? We
were going back to the land Of peace and plenty
We had seen enough of war, of misery, of suffer
ing. Berlin mad It's thirty thousand WouuuSu
Every hospital every vacant house and nearly
every vacant hotel was filled with them. Sentries
with loaded rifles were placed them TO see
that they did not talk of what they had seen.
Hanover, we found, had fifteen thousand. We
were halted there for hour and half, while
three trains, containing fifteen hundred more,
came in. Most of them were wounded In the feet
or the backs Of the legs. The enemys shrapnel
Cd 10 In he
trenches was the reason given. Unwashed, un-
shaven, clothes filthy, they presented a pitable
sight
With the exception of the soldiers of the Land
sturm, who we're guarding the railroad stations
and bridges, scarcely man to be oil
through our trip from Berlin TO the Holland
frontier Germany manless land These
same soldiers OF the Landsturm, by the way, were
rather a comic sight. They were mostly men of
forty years, clad in uniforms Of twenty years ago,
fat and Unweldy from too little exercise, and
their uniforms refused to meet in front
We found The Hague, Rotterdam, Amsterdam
and London overlooking with Belgans. Don't ex-
pect to harrow up your feelings | could not
find with such a small atrocity as \
black eye. The landlord OF the Passage Hotel az
The Hague told of one instance where German
soldiers had abused Belgium women. The cure
of the ylage complained to the German colonel
in command, and within half an hour fourteen Of
the guilty soldiers were shot.