The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-21

,sentinels stationed in the Place de Ia Constitution of the city of .Luxef11- bCurg thought they Saw a French aerop1ane over the city. and began firing at random.
 On Aug. 8, the Twenty ninth In fantry, the One Hundred and Sixty first regiment armed with machine guns and the. Forty-fourth Artillery, fell to hacking down trees, digging intrenchments and driving the inhab- itantss from ther homes in the district around Merl Minister Eyschen set forth these infractions of previous as surances. to the Parliament of Lux fembourg at its special meeting on Aug. A. The Grand Duchess was vinabie to attend her Parliament, not being permitted to leave her palace. But the German military authorities suggested to her that an isolated res idence in the country like sColmar- Berg was no place for her younger sisters and advised her to. send for the m.
 Why should they not be safe at Colmar- -Berg?''s the Grand Duchess asked. They have nothing to fear from nly. people. It is not fitting that my family give the signal for flight | to my distracted people" And they remained.
 On Aug. A., sLuxembourger, J. Thiesen. was arrested by the German military authorities for approaching the German lines. Minister Eyschen was at great pains to save his com as spy. This arrest was. followed by others.
 ''Surely.,,' said Minister Eyschen8 in protest, these arrests are not in Keeping with the assurances I have been given wills Imperial Majesty that the civil laws of the Grand Duchy will be respected.''
 I General TuIff von Tscheppe und Weidenbaoh on Aug. g demanded and was accorded audience with 1he | Grand Duchess. He repeated the as- surance already given that the Hb- carefully conserved. Imm ediately5 af- ter the interview he undertook to cen sor the news published in the jourials of the Grand Duchy. Arrests of civil ! ians charged with "approaching Ger man military works'1 continued and those arrested were shipped into Ger
 many.
 The entire public telephone service of the Grand eDuchy was suspended by the German military authorities on Aug. Il with the exception of the ser vice in the. city of Luxembourg | tSchenk wrote Minister Eyschen de- manding the exercise of rigid censor ship of all newspapers in Grand l Pucal territory. On the 14th, the | Independence. LuxennbourgoiSe, the leading daily of Luxembourg, yoIun- l tarily suspended publication after printing bitter announcement that 1t was impossible to give the news under the restrictions made by the invading military authorities.
 Meanwhile the people of the Grand .DuchyA feared that they were to be 1 left to starve. 'tI told the superior officer to whom I first spoke,' said Minister Eyschen to the Chamber of | Deputies. in giving his official Sccount i of what had passed, at the extraor- dinary meeting on Aug. 4, that Lux | embourg did not possess sufffci ent 1 victua1s to feed so many troops; that | we were accustomed to buy products in bulk from Antwerp, .. port which we are so to speak. the 'Hinterland' !; | that this port had been closed to us, and that I had addressed Belgium re- questing that other ports be opened l to us.s and that this was refused. You 1 know that the countries which sur I round us have closed their frontiers against any exportation to the Grand l DucT1y. I have applied to right and left for an exception in favor of Lux 1 embourg. but I have not succeeded-
 Gut off, wholly surrounded by Ger ! man troops and subject to their mili-