El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-26
CORRESPONDENT
HAS CLOSE CALL
Two Get Into Both German
and French Armies and
Have Trouble.

Beauvias. France. Sept 26.-Despite
the strict orders Of England. France
and Belgium ard Germany that no war
correspondent be allowed at the front,
two Of them have Just arrived here
from the scene OF Ilsnl!Is- One or
them related their experiences Their
first adventure was TO be caught by a
Uhlan patrol near ClermonL
We We're in motor car, said the
ceres pondent ard When We turned a
corner sharply we saw the Germans
coming, IS of them
In the few seconds which passed
between our seeing Ilem ana their
coming up TO US, We dlu good deal
of hard thinking Luckily / had taken
~ -,-acs71tioD 70 hide all the masses
ard Recommendations that would iden-
tify me a n journalist IN my boot Our
safe conducts did not say VINO we were.
To all appearances we were Just ordi-
nary people with an eccentric fancy
for motoring in the danger zone
Germans I murmured WarnirEly
to my companions,
Rather he said, as II he had come
out on purpose TO meet mem
ducts and hoped for the best
FVos papiers' said the officer in
command. speaking French with a good
accent He studied them attentvely.
"'Oeffner' fOpen) demanded a gruff
corDoral on the other side Of the car,
Dointing to our bags He had a very
large revolver with which he COW
Effects Are Searched.
ont of nv bag the gruff corporal
tore some maps. The other contents
ne tossed contemptuously back Mr..
Noore's bag was passed. too. although
II had a khaki suit right at the top.
showed itself when our drivers valise
came TO be examined was a revolver
The corporal grunted with delight as
he pocketed it He glanced at the
officer as much as to say, What need
have we Of any further proof He
had a resentful, blood lustful look in
But the officer was a gentle.
thoughtful type Of man He took no
IRON where do you come? he in
e FROM BeauTais. monsieur
And you are going whereT
ITO Paris, monsieur
"'Ah, 10 Paris
He smiled reflectively, as If TO say.
I am going there. too
Then he studied our papers again
ard compared the atrociOus photo
graphs pasted on them with our sun
burn faces
Then the corporal was busy again.
He demanded a newspaper which the
driver had The driver thought he
net in front OF him He offered It
politely. 'Nein, nein, die Zeitung,' he
was told
"Den Sitz aufheben" Gift up the
seat, next ordered the corporal in Ger
man He did so. Nothing concealed
q" Give me those maps (the maps
by which we were traveling-) We
smiled as we handed them over
Everything in the car was turned over
Nothing discriminating turned up
Then came the matter OF the safe
conducts.
Those are no use the officer said.
still speaking in French.
we began TO explain that We had
gone through all needful fOrmalities,
but he quietly cut Us short
They are no use he repeated He
was evidently wondering what TO do
with US. and wondering, also. how far
off the French were.
Are Told to Go.
Then. all Of sudden, we found we
were discharged.
With a sharp word OF command the
other jerked his patrol into motion
An right ne said in fairly good Eng
walked their horses quickly away.
we did not lose any time. either.
To say we felt thankful would be like
saying of a man naked in a snOwstOrm,
that he felt chilly. Get on. We urged
cur driver Che was nothing loathD I
only gave him fOretaste of what I
COmbatants carrying arms
an and out OF small roads we turned
and twisted violently until we were
on the main road once more There
was no sign OF the troops. They had
evidently turned off. Their we thought
we might as well carry out our inten-
ton Of going to Clermont. which lay
eastward, whereas our friends. the
Jhlans, appeared 10 have come from
the north We asked at one or rTO
farms If all were well there. Yes.
yes we were told. So we boWled
along But just as we came to the
first house OF ClermOnt we saw two
OF three people running toward US
looking back over their shoulders.
Go back, go back they called out
to US. The streets are full Of Ger
mans
Plot Is Understood
Then we understood why the officer
in charge OF the patrol had let US 90.
He knew we were heading straight for
a place which had just been occupied
by Germans. He felt certain we would
fall into German hands again. It was
only by stroke Of luck that We did
not
Il have never seen a motor car turn
so quickly as ours did. The driver
seemed to swing it right around by
one furious pull at the wheel Back
we rushed Where had the French
army got to-
Here at all events. were four Of its
soldiers jogging along in a covered
var right into the enemy's lines. Hur-
riedly we explained TO them what had
happened In a few seconds they were
out OF their van and into our car and
we were tearing along again
Tt was dangerous, OF course, but we
could not leave the poor fellows there.
IF they catch US I said. we shall
say you took US prisoners. They won't
shoot YOU. anyway. That might get US
Off Fortunately they did not catch
US Turning off where we guessed the
troops must have turned. we soon saw
some cavalry ahead. Anxiously we
stopped and looked at II through our
field glasses. Was It friend OF foe2
They were the rear guard Of large
Franch force of infantry that was
marching under the broiling midday
sur
Accompany French Troops.
at was slow work and hot work