The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-11
Engli,hman Watched Death
Head Hussars Cut to
Pieces by Charge.
GERMANS FLED WHEN
COSSACKS APPEARED
Thrilling Scenes in War
Rent Country as Battles
Are Fought.
sp,cili ca6,e Despatch 10 THr sus.

Special fGbie DSSpdfch 70 I'VE Sun.
LONDON. September 10.
wR Ames. the manager OF a large
state near the big railway junction OF
Horschen in East Prussia, who has just
.s,urned To London, tells story OF the
srhting between the Russians and Ger
mans in that region, which Is an I'M
,ortant farming district for corn and
bee,.root
He SAYS that when the first rumors
4, the war reached that section on
Angus, the German count who owned
tho estate of which he was manager, as
,r,u az All the other land owners,
...r,ed for KceniGsberg. The rumors OF
.., coached them the same day as the
-.,o-,s Of Russian mobilization. Mr
Ames continues
"Rv virtue Of my post. which was
sir,lar 10 that Of a magistrate. all the
oacal papers in regard to mobilizatioh
q, ,he ,enantry and peasants came 20
NJ. Not only were the reserves caiieu
"A the colors but every man In the as
800, h.,u.en the ages OF II and 40 was
summoned to arms.
Volunteers over and under those ase'
who could ride bicycles or motoreyoie'
,o,. armed as franctireurs. a iarse
,,.sr ~ men over 45 years or age
..-s ordered 10 Koenigsberg TO dig
,,.nches. Nearly 10000 OF these OLD
,,borers were put to work at once d's-
rins trenches, especially on the seas'ue
,,,,or - the town. The work went
ao,. and night with feverish haste.
v..,.d Russia ms From Sea.
The military authorities expected the
russians TO land troops from TRANSPORTS
far an assault on the town. Every mo-
,or car and motorcycle in the district
xa, Communicated. This has been
done understand, throughout ter
many so that not a single privately
o,red car remains in the whole coun-
Try,
Almost every horse has also been
seized. A German deputy VISITS all
country districts every year and takes
a rigorous census of the horses and
marks each for special work to which ne
Il beg, suited. When mobilization
starts certain horses go TO the cavalry
others TO the artillery and still others
10 the transport service.
On August s. the day when mohiliza-
ton was completed in our district. only
women and children and some old men
remained in the ncighborhood.
About that time the news that Eng
and had declared war reached the dis
,r.ct and caused a great sensation.
Phlegmatic as the German people usu-
ally are. I am bound to say that the
news shook them badly. It caused great
alarm and for a time there was some
thing like a panic.
Feared BEING Lynch~d.
As an Englishman l was seriously
threatened and was in danger OF being
lynched ! appealed to the military au-
ihoritios for protection. especially In
View Of the official position which / had
held and which was connected with
mobilization duties. This request was
granted and they said nobody should
touch me. but at the same time they
ordered me not to leave the boundaries
Of the estate or would be shot.
With this restriction / went along
very quietly for the next two weeks
with the help of women only we gath
red most Of the harvest, but had great
difficulties in the matter of transport.
About this time there was report
circulated In the district that the Rus
Sans had been beaten at Eydtkuhnen'
about 100 miles away. This was an
Official statement. but about the same
Inc fugitives who reached us said the
Russians had burned villages on the
frontier.
AT this first sign of a war cloud even
't'' liN'h N'' Pt'PiS pS~s'''S
extremely anxious and wanted to flee.
went among them and tried 10 keep
mem quiet, telling them that even II
me Russians came they would not be
harmed II they did not modest the in
Iadcrs.
Peasantry I'm Flight.
The alarm grew, however. and on
august 20 the tenants on two neigh
"rlng estates packed all their belong
ngs that they could carry and fed to
me west as fast as they could go.
The following day rumors reached us
" big battle at Gumbinnen, during
which 1t was said the 12sth Infantry
from Danzig. had been annihilated by
The Russians.
Meanwhile the German papers Of the
district and OF the big towns further
west were still telling the people that
me Russians had not been able 10 cross
The frontier.
On tho morning of August 20 I tele'
phoned to the military commandant al
N'rSchen Junction, asking for an OFF,
Cal report on the situation. which wal