Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-12-06
families DIVIDED
AGAINST each OTHER
BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER
FIGHTING IN THE
VOSGES
FIGHTING BITTER THERE
$50 Six Inch Shells Were Thrown
Into One Town in Two
Months

(Correspondonce Of The Associated Press
THANH. Nov. 10 Elsewhere the
fighting has been as violent as mere
I'm the Vosges, but here, as nowhere
else. is the poignant distress of moth-
ers with French sympathies haVins
sons fighting in the Germ3n ranks
The two nations which shared the
Alsacian population after lo'O a't
now setting cousin against cousin, un-
Gle against nephew, and in many
other cases brother against broIher
one of the 6-inch shells that the
Germans were sending from Cerhay
over the Engelburg into TINS oIu
Alsacian town crashed through the
roof of modest dwelling on the Dank
of the Thur. column OF BLACK
smoke shot up through the hole ana
a cloud of dust and smoke poured ihto
me street through a big hole In tho
front wall The neghbors brought
Out woman covered with dust,
stained red by stream that floWej
from a cash in her scalp, She
clutched a piece of pasteboard in ono
baud While some of the rescuers
washed the red stained dust from heI
face she watched others bring out
her husbands lifeless body
"If Won could see what they have
done to your father" she cried plt,
tery. gazing at the cardboard ana
what has become of your home. you
turn your guns the other way. Nhat
she was looking at was photograph II
of her two sons In the UNIFORM ol
the Prussan infantry.
While those who adopted French
nationality have escaped all German
Influences, the younger generation on
the German side OF the frontier mas
unqucstionably become more lndlI-
ferent to the mother country The re,
suit is a situation which Is illustrated
by the foregoing incident.
The material suferings of AlSace'
from the Nosges to the valley OF the
Rhine. resulting from the alternate
occupation By Germans and French
have been briefly related In dis.
patches. The fighting around Thahn
was partic ularly severe; all the way
down the valley Of the thur. along
1s miles OF alternating ridges ana
eulleys. every inch of ground was
Stubbornlv contested; the possession
of it proved TO be costly for both
sides. The French are now installed
for the second time since August 10
They had pushed as far as Colmar
about tho time of the taking OF MuI-
hauesn, but were forced back again
when the occupying forces were
weakened TO reinforce the armies IN
the north. The Germans recaptured
Cernay. and then began systematic
incessant bombardment of this ancient
town.
In two months $50 6-inch shells
have been thrown into Thanh and 5OO
into the vineyards to the north. Sixty
houses have been entirely destroyed
and many others partially demolished
Many Of the streets are blocked by the
debris of crumblIng houses. Yet the
inhabitants have stuck to the town
occupying themselves with the aid oi
the French soldiers, In restoring such
houses as IT II possible to repair. The
cathedral of Saint Theobault-a real
level of architecture with some IA
nous stained glass of the Fifteenth
centi,ry-has thus far escaped dam
age. though dozen shells have fallen
psar it,
1t was little to the northwest OF
Thann. up the valley of the Thur
that the second battalion of chas-
seurs "a pied 0ight infantry accom-
.plished one of the heroic feats of the
war The story of II is told by Leon
Genton. veteran of the Moroccan
campaign with seven medals pinned
on his breast, who engaged as a vol
unteer at the outbreak OF the war.
The Germans had taken Blamon'
and Badonvieller and when the
chasseurs came through il was tc
hear the story Of the shooting of the
mayors of both these towns. The
seventeenth Chass 'urs from Luneville
had already chased them from these
positions and the second battalion