New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-01-17
I 600 MILES IN AUTO
AS GUEST OF KAISER
Tribune Correspondent with German Army lens Oh
Adventures-Prnce of Monacos Chateau On-
damaged Used as Hospital by Germans

, bv ten feet. but wrecking the organ.
,rd feU at the mailed feet OF sinai
statue Of Jeanne dare, without eNplod-
ing. a so-called "blindganger, nut me
NOUS villagers are convinced that La
Pucelle performed a miracle ana saved
their church. III.
Four miles from tho firing line. with
in sound OF the cannonadlng, you see
something quite incongruousS MlIIet
picture, French peasants working III
me fields. II becomes frequent sight
The countryside is dotted wherever you
co with well ordered stacks Of gram,
ali ready for the thrashing. You ride
between freshly ploughed fields sown
in winter wheat, and the extent o. the
/ acreage again under cultivation Is
/ thought provoking.
German General Directs Farming
The German Great General stan,
which Is overlooking no bets, you DIS
cover. has seen 20 it that the harvest
has been gathered in, and IS iurther
seeing TO il that there shall be a mar
vest next year. The corps commanders
have orders to induce the rural popu-
lation TO get on the job again and TN
/ the soil. and the sight of lighting
/ general like Won Emmich concerning
/ himself with farming strategy ana
BARNARD tactics was one Of the bright
comedy touches Of the war.
Among other measures, we are lena
[ ing our army horses 10 the farmers 10
get their ploughing DONE Won Emmlch
/ told The Tribune correspondent, point
+ ing out the fact that, since the french
/ strategic railways were again running
/ almost right up 70 the German trenches,
thousands Of horses that formerly
pulled transports were now ireed ior
/ held work Il isn't pure philantnropny;
/ however. The German Great General
/ staff is not primarily q RockeielIer
/ Foundation.
! The Bavarian General Zoellner, who
! is not only its specialist on Americana,
/ hut also one OF its ablest economic
strategists. said succinctly: Americans
are business men, and will readily un-
derstand that il is not 10 our interest
TO have starving population at our
/ backs. Both in France and Belgium we
arc taking energetic steps 20 put agtl-
culture on its feet again. We even pre-
scribe what shall be raised-no sugar
/ beets. for instance, but mostly bread
stufs." There was no hypocrisy about
/ purely humanitarian motive.
Mud Turned Into Macadam.
The idea evidently isn't to provide
work for the jobless, though II UNI
doubtedly serves 20 keep potential
Franc Tireurs out of mischief. You
! get a concrete example of the military
| importance Of IL when on good
| straight stretch you pass gray col
umn Of twenty-three five-ton motor
trucks racing al thirty miles an hour
/ toward the front The speed and
cheapness with which mud is being
turned into macadam here would be
nightmare to a Tammany contractor.
| You also take passing note OF a gang
/ of military surveyors laying out
new branch of railroad across the
fields, the line of telegraph poles, al
ready up. running straight as an arrow
toward the trenches.
Motoring to the front, you can always
/ tell when you are getting warm" by
the fact that long lines OF ammunition
trains and miscellaneous transports
nearly crowd you off the road.
! These "Kolonnen" are a revelation Of
system and order. Each gray wagon is
legibly steneilled in white with the
numbers Of the army and army corps to
which it belongs, together with its
! column" number and title.
, Each wagon also has a number OF its
own and they follow each other in Sc
rial order. If you see one numbered
4 10 YOU can be sure that No. 9 is i'm
mediately in front and No. j just be
hind. Canvas covers are fully num-
bered 10 match the wagons. The
draught horses look fresh and fat. They
are also numbered. The unknown eff
cheney expert Of the great German
General staff could earn a six figure
/ salary if he would emigrate 20 America.
Motoring on. you discover, il you did
not already know il, the psychological
secret Of the Germans so far success
full fight against odds. The "open Sc
cret" is German discipline and German
sentimentalty-a hard combination to
beat.
To the all-men created free-and- equal
America this discipline under war con-
ditions afield seems absurdly funny till
one reflects that it is all part Of the
game. the German trademark of perfect
teamwork. As your automobile is orna-
mented with high staff officer in ad-
dition to a Tribune correspondent, you
have a fine chance to see how it works
mile after mile.
Grimy teamsters OF transports
straighten up on the box seat and pre-
sent whips, eyes right or left, depend
ing on which way you're going). Hun
CRY Landsturm men stop eating soup
TO salute you. Swapping fellows stand
rigid by the roadside, although it
means being spattered with mud from
your speeding auto. Foraging dra-
goons and hussars sit their horses like
statues and don't become human be-
| ings again till you have passed the
regulation distance.
Ghost Expected TO Salute.
You recall that when, following the
precedent set by royalty. you visited
the hospitals in the field" the conva-
/ lescents clicked their heels together
/ and stood at attention, those in bed sat
up, those too far gone to move fol-
/ lowed you with their eyes. Even the
aphasia victims remembered their dis
/ cipline as you and your retinue of
staff officers and surgeon generals
passed down the row OF cots. At
/ night, you pass a lonely grave by the
wayside, a spiked helmet perched on
/ the wooden cross and you would not
/ be surprised were ghost 10 arise and
haunt you with rigid eyes.
The paradoXical strains of God
| Save the KING" from undeniably leu
| ton threats a mile from the front
seemed worth investigating. The APP
parent paradox was explained by the
fact that God Save the KING" goes
here under the alias Of Hell Dir i'm
Sieger's Kranz," and is a patriotic song
in perfectly good standing.
The trail Of sound led into a huge,
gloomy cavern in the side of the hill.
The cavern formerly served as sheep
shelter, but now sheltered a reserve
hastalfop oF IN Ga NJ Tbov mara lilo