The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-12-03
GERMANY S TROOPS INEX.
HAUSTIBLE-HISToRY
is REPEATED.
Step From Scenes of Peace to
Those OF War-All Beyond
a Painter Power.
By JAMES o'OoNNELL BENNETT
War Correspondent Of the CHICAGO
Irlbune and Wheeling InteIIlarnccr

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GERMAN HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE. Nov. 5-Eirht times dur
ing the last year I have gone down
town toward midnight TO board a train
that takes one into the war zone IN
France or in Russia.
Always the picture IS the same ana
still II never ceases TO make the OBJ
server from abroad marvel. His FIRST
thought is. Where do they. where
can they. all come from-these train
loads ol men in gray streaming IN
from All parts of tho empire, and
how much longer can il last?"
in the first months of the war TINS
hourly spectacle was taken AS a msu-
ter of course. one felt that Germany
must be straining every muscle and
that this was the natural consequences
OF extraordinary effort But the er
tort continues and 10 H. no longer con
sidered extraordinary At the great
fredrichstrassc Bahnhof 20 the north
OF the Linden the trains are rolling
IN on both sides of the long concrete
platform. They are bound to Poland,
bound To Galicia. bound 10 Serbia.
over az the far larger Anhalter Balm
nor II Is the same hour after nour
trains leaving for France or for Bell
gium.
Just Like Excursion Days.
II is as II scores Of half fare excur-
sions were nightly cmptying lem
selves into Berlin then assem bling
themselves again and hurrying m.
There are hundreds of civilians IN
the station thronEs An old man stops
az the slot machine al the foot 5f mel
platform stairs and drops in Ills lOI
I.
that VIII admit him 20 the train plat
form. lie is going upstairs 10 say
goodbye 20 his grandson, who will ye
in the troop train due from Konigs-
berg In q few minutes 4 whole fam-
ly follows him-father. mother. ana
two girls and leo boys. Tnv nave
come 10 wave farewell To the Oldest
son of the house. who VIII board he
train. with his regiment and wave ms
farewell 90 them from tho window
OF the compartment TO which he Is
assigned
Bidding Farewell.
There is no confusion. no clamor
To is the stcadiness with which tha
stream moves forward that appalls
The people reach mp from the plat
form 20 shake hands with the men in
side the cars. There are brief admo"
niuons about coming back safe an.
sound a-ain Ckomm lesund wiedert"
and about not catching cold Wheu1
the mothers say these things the sol
dier- make respectful answers. when
their sisters say them they laugh
when their -wecthearts say them they
lean down and squeeze their hands.
There is lonr whistle. a cry O.
Fcruc, and the train begins TO move
There is some cheering. but "a rrea
deal more laughing Tears there are
but they are hidden Nobody likes I'D
make q scene. One woman. though
has broken down The man she cam,
10 say good by To- has disappeared
within the car A woman friend had
come with her. and now the friend ha
led her to one side Neither Of then
looks toward the car where the man is
The crieying woman is crying softly
half hiding her face against he
friend shoulder The friend is talk
ing quietly to her. Tho train disap
pears
That is an lf goes on every nigh
and far info The uirlf.
All Peace in the Country.
~pmctmcS We -O into France VII
Frankfort and Metz sometimes via Ko
hlcnZ Ir.Dr. where from the railws
station YOU can SEQ the ponderou
" alis of Tho ancient Roman theatre
(Coutinued on pago Seven