The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-21
UL TlMATE FATE
 0F LUXE MBURC HOL LDS INTEREST
What Present War Means to Grand Duchy Is Still a
 Moot Question.

Tell upon the French stronghold of | Longwy Part of the interest is due f to the fa.ctst that it is through the ac- nuiescencee and with the assistance of f France that SwitzerIand is today pro- | Riding food for the population of the | Brand Duchy, pending the gathering | of the harvest; and part to the fact E that, for the first time, some of the details of the violation by Germany Df the neutrality of the tiny state are | just coming to light. Le Temps of Paris has reproduced | from the Nleuwe Rotterdamsehe l Courant the text of a proclamation, I printed in C6blenz, Germany. and 1 brought with the invading Prussian x troops to be posted up in the Grand | Duchy as a justidcation of the nlili- | tary occupation by Germany of al state whose neutrality Germany had guaranteed.
 The French, and even the Dutch papers, however, have been unable to recount more than small 6part of the story of what took place in Lux enbourg in the first days of last Aug-i ust. The German censorship on ey-t erythfng. ennanating from the Grand 1 Duchy has proved to be the strictest. I Much that has come out of Luxen-t bo1rg durng the last year has, conse- quently. borne the stamp of doubtful authorship.
 From official and semi offfcial sources tie Associated Press has,
 
 rount pf the Prussian occupation of | the little Grand Duchy. as well as Of certain we'll substantiated details off much that followed.
 On Aug Il, 1914, when the war cloud was lowering over Europe, Min ister of State Paul Elschen. president of the governmen of the Grand | puchy4of Lf1xembourg who since the estabHshnent of the independence of | the country has been virtually its first minister and real ruler asked zboths Germany. and France, officially. if, in the event of hestilities between the | two countries, the neutrality of the i Grand Duchy of Luxembourg would be respected. Before any reply could l be received from France, the reply l of Germany took the form of action. Alphonse Munchen, may of the city l of L.uxemboufg, isued proclama- ton to the population of the capital 1 announctng that the neutrality of the l Grand Duchy had been violated by Germany, through the occupation of the rafTway station of Trois vierges l by Prussian troops, and calling upon l the people of Ll1xen1bourg to remain 1 calm.
 The incident of the apprehension of the 2D-yearzo Id Grand Duchess,z Marie | AdeIheidssb the Germans and zher removal from ColInar=Berg to the Grand DucaT palace at Luxenbourgs where she was kept srr1oe CT guard. aI-sI ready has been published.
 Events moved with extraordinary rapi dity throughout the Grand Duchy on Sunday. Aug.2 At o'clock that morning German troops had alrea dy | entered Luxembo UTE and were nov l ing rapidly across to attack France, I whose modification had only been orr l dered at midnight. First there were scouts on motorcycles and bicycles. l Hard upon these came three n otors loaded with officers and soldiers. and then followed fast fve more motors which trayersed the little Grand Duchy at a mad speed from Treves towards Longwy Before 10 o'clock 4a the morning. three military trains had passed throngh the Grand Duchy into France and S0.OOO German troops were already on the march across neutral soil.
 But Premier Eyschen had given his whole fife to making and keeping the5I freedom of Luxembourg and he did not surrender easily. Reused out of bed at daybreak by the news of the first incursion of German troops. he telep11bhed the German minister to thesGrand Duchy his protest and them put it into writing.
 have just advised Your Isxcel-i 1eneys he wrote Minister von Buch. by telephone of the appearance oIlA Grand zDucaI territory of German off, ceFss and soldiers learn that a train sfransportfng troops is even now on its3 way tef Luxembourg, and that a great
 
 Wasser billing for Luxembourg. The Grand DucaI government energetic-# ally protests against this hagrant vfo-I 1ation of the neutrality of the country, while awaiting subsequent develop HrneTts-sI beg you to transmit tat this pro- test without delay to the government of the empire, 2,
 But he did not wait for the Gern1a ns minister 1o transmit th E protest. He sent d teJegrana of his own to I'm Ff73fszf land the Grand Duchess herself sent lone to her cousin. the German Ern-# Tleror. At the same time he sent Ma ior- van Dyck. of the Iuxenlbo oprg arny of .15o; soldiers. with a protest to }. be delivered to the commander of the invading troops. But Major van Dyck had no luck. He spent all day missing the advancing Frussians. and itHwas Lieutenant Wi1he1my, charged with similar mission who succeeded in registering a formal protest with she comnandant Of the German troops who had taken possession of fhe railway station of the city of Islixembourgs and Lieutenant Franelx, under like orders, who presented ill person Minister Eysch en's protest to Major von Baereensprung, command iEsg fhe German corps of occupa tion
 1t was towards evening that Minis tRr Eysehen received an answer to his telegram to Herr von gow-indeed he received two. one from the Ger s7aaT1F Fsorelgn A11EI1Ster ana the other from the Chancellor of the German Empire: The little Grand Duchess had =her reply from her Imperial cou- sin onz.A.ugusf g.. All were in the game tenor. yona Jagowss message sad The Imperial government gSssIra ntees I.uxernb bourg full compen- satfon for any sda mage done by us We have reliable infernation5 accord ing to which French forces are in march on Luxemb bourg., To this, Minister Eyschen replied by tele- graHh: aThere is not one single French soldier on IIIxenbolrg terri tory nor any sign whatsoever of any