The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-11-14
n. E. Gilcree lest Tells Inter.
esting Story Of the Trag-
10 edy 0f a German Spy !.

and every man has to pay for his
Nnk drinks under penalty of year Ia
Y prfson ana a $500 fine, life in London
p much as it.1wasI before the war. II
z p the only capital in the fighting
Countries which shows few noticeable
signsSof the great struggle"
Soi said DR.. Edgar " Gilcees, an
erican Red Cross surgeon, who had
Just returned after a years Sc .yice
az the front. during which he was
with British. French and Serbian
troops and also visited Italy. Having
acted as Red Cross surgeon with
the Serbs in the last Balkan war AMI
iafterward travelled considerably in Eu4
rope. DIR, Gilcreest was able to make
some interesting comparisons.
One thing that is very noticeaDle
~ all the warning capitals" he said
at the Hotel NlcAlpin, where he IS
staying, "is the extent to which women
have taken the places Of men. 1T was
curious, for instance, in all the big
hotels to find girls as reception clerks,
bell boys, walters, porters and even
elevator runners, and to see them
knitting away at soldiers socks every
free moment.
The various capitals differ cu.ions,
" I'M London all the theaters arc
running much as usual. Thsee are
concerts where, although the pro
grams consist largely Of German ,nu-
sic, no comment is made. Every who. e
in Italy, German and Austrian music
is tabooed, and one sees only the Em-
peror Francis Joseph in the cartonns.
III london IL is only the Kaiser W.T.
liam the cartoonists draw. :: j.
Pnris and Rome Denatured.
In Paris there is no Paris any
more. The old spirit Of the gay ely
IS gone entirely. One sees widows
everywhere and crippled soldiers.
There rs no life In the streets. Paris
is grim and determined. but it is sad,
gloomy, full OF tears. 800
Rome. too, can hardly be recos-
nized as Rome. There are no tourists
and no beggars. Who can imagine a
Rome like that? 1t is early morn MS
all day long. The streets are empty
and at all hours one feels that ore
hassgo up too soon or stayed up too
late. All the hotels have been taken
over by the army.
THE Roman beggars had. a terrible
time at first. Many OF them. how,ve.:,
had miracles. Severai noted blind;
ibeggars are now driving war autos;
when the pinch came they discovered
that they could see alright. Several
noted 'cripples for life are hel,t ,g
drag. war supplies up the Alps. Re-
Ginning on church doorsteps Is lrv.;
ing for none now.
Tin all the warning countries now a
! young. man not in. uniform Is an oS-
ject of curiosity. In England one sc >
them, and to watch them is inter ST
sing-or, would rather say, pa nfrl.
ALL the girls carry a little white rsatf:.
er, and when they meet a young ninu
on the street not in khaki they wave
that symbol OF cowardice in his FACE.
THE suffering in the trenches tits
winter will be nothing like so tcrri, q
as 1t, was last winter. All the trenches
have been drained, fioored with tim
hcr and otherwise protected ag unst
wet and cold. There ought to be iittls
Of the, frost bite which played .t.lth
havoc last winter, especially among
the first British reinforcenents. Froz-
en- feet were as frequent as wo1nis
then and often much more painful ana
serious. Many men lost foot and
some both feet. Some were lucky
enough to lose only toes.
(. Soldiers Of Fortune.
had many soldiers of fortune from
the United States among my patients
from the Canadian regiments. New
York and Ohio were well represented;
and also Tennessee and Nebraska.
Many Of them were only 81 years old.
When asked why they enlisted they
nearly all replied that it was the cali
of the blood.
zone was q lad from Nebraska an
orphan boy who had been raised by a
German couple. They had written
him, he said, telling him he would be
welcome home any time he returned.
He was a cheerful chap and keen to
get back to the firing line.
1t was remarkable how anxious all
the men were. to get back to the fight
ing. Long before they were we'll many
to discharge them as fit so they could
go and get another whack at EN- One
man who had terrible wound re-
marked, 1t takes the heart out of a
fellow when he thinks of it but I'd do
inc same tulnS over AGAIN.
Spy Dies Like Stole.
II saw several German spies caught.
One was a particularly interesting
case. He was caught in English khaki
in tree, signalling with white disk
to the German trenches. When court
martial was, called he said: Don't
waste time: I'm guiltyn He told all
about his work and was proud OF it
When asked If he wished to write any
letter he replied: I've no relatlves OF
perhaps l wouldn't volunteered for
this job. II L hadn't been caught all
would have been wellAbut it's all in
q life H
"while the German was digging his
own grave an English captain asked
! him II he would like cigar. He re-
piled simply: No, thanks; it would
last too. long perhaps and I'd be sorry
to sleavesit; but I'd like a cigaret.' The
captain set cigaret case open beside
him and the spy helped himself as he
worked When all was ready the Ger
man asked that he should not be blind.
folded and staining STRAIGHT nm he