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New-York tribune., 1915-09-20

~ pI-pSr-ANCE OF AN ORDER OF
~ NHororsbie John p. Cohalan. Surrogate
Of The the County OF New York, 81 ,.,.o,.
Notice Is hereby EVfR s4ayton to al Ivds fiaa iats
haIIhs Cnunty c: New York. deceased. TO
OF t, tle me same with vouchers thereof TO
he subscrbers at Room t9t on st1se she hoI5 5
num-. '.l',s-h ~ ~ Manhattan. In The city OF
NE Nv DYiTI York; on or before the 2sth day OF
october, next: -. ,e,h 1av NJ Aprtl
1915. .r - ,,.vNADn
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HENRY V. POOR. Attorney for Executors.
81 wall St, Borough Of Manhattan.
PAuLINE-In pursuance Of

AITROCCHI PAULINE-1n pursuance OF
an order OF Hon. John p. Cohaian Sur
rogate OF the County Of New York, notice Il
hereby given 10 all persons having claims
against Pauline Altrocchl. late OF the City
of Florence. Italy deceased. 70 present the
same. with vouchers thereof. to the sub
scriber at his place OF transactlng business
az The offices OF Messrs. Miller. King, Lane
& Trafford No 80 Broadway. Borough or
Manhattan, City OF New York, on or oefors
:he llth day Of October next.
Dated New York. the l2th day OF April
1eIb HOFFMAN MILLER. Executor.
MILLER. KING. LANE & TRAFFORD. At
torneys for Executor. so Broadway. Bor-
ough OF Manhattan. New York city.
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WALTER r. MAYNARD.

TpmU0rary NuIIII. - =. -
Brayton Ives, deceased.
CHARLES II. JEWELL-n-PIuksluJAANI IlJ 70
an ,5eraes order 81 H21 of New York county notice
tne =, horsby given that all persons having
against the ths eoanty sotaS OF Of a1F;s Ne% York
yal.t yeNeiI, are required to exhibit the same
ogcsSb 49, Nouchers thereof 70 the under
signed executor Of said caHbte estate 3t, a. his
Chce; Ney York, on OF before the 3lst
daS OF ~ 32nd day OF April 1915.
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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE OR TOILET

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COUNTRY PROPERTY.

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or neutral-to buy any heavy spirits.
Only beer and mineral waters are to
be had. The number OF alterations
that so wise a regulation prevents in a
difficult situation you will comprehend.
In Chimay, also in Belgium and the
seat OF the Prince of that name-who,
by the way. had fled to Paris-we talked
with an innkeeper when no German
officers were by. We asked him how
affairs went in the town under the ad-
ministrat.on OF It's German command
ant. Van Schulemann. They go WELL"
he said, "for in all our difficulties we
know we will get justice from the
commandment"
In Maubeuge we heard a French
woman who was going to the market
to get from German sergeant her slip
of requisitlon for German flour say she
was glad her husband was prisoner
of the Germans for now she knew he
was safe and getting enough to eat,
In the same town another woman said
she was glad the Germans had come,
because IL meant that 1.-THE thieving,
filthy Tucos," as she called the black
colonial troops Of France, were out.
No man, however, who has crossed
the eastern and southern provinces OF
Belgium would be so absurd as 10 con-
tend for one instant that the German
operations in that kingdom have not
been bitter business for Belgium. Were
the traveller TO make such contention
a score OF desolated and deserted viii
lagos and towns would give him the
lie.
Nevertheless. there has been eXag-
geration almost as appalling as the
desolation In the statements concern
ing the extent OF the damage done.
The wife OF a Socialist member OF the
Belgian Ministry, for example. lectured
in Chicago a few days ago on behalf
OF the Belgian relief fund. and after
speaking OF the "murderous Germans"
and what they had done, she made.
among other sweeping remarks. the
statement that "Louvain can be spoken
of only In the past"
That II not true.
A liberal estimate as TO the part Of
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to the Belgian burgomaster ask the
German commandant OF the city, Major
Boyer, for 10000 sacks chat is ego
900 pounds) of -four for the poor.
heard the official stamp come crashing
down on the typewriter request which
the official also submitted, and | saw
the paper returned to the Belgian func-
tonary with a smile of acquiescence.
To go back TO Dinant, saw little
human tokens, like the words chalked
in German on the door OF poor Bel
gian house, Here lives grandmother
9S years old: keep out" and on the
door Of another Belgian house the
words, also in German, Here Is a new
baby. be quiet"
Within a stones throw ~ the first Of
the forts which the Germans took in
the fighting around Liege | saw in Oc-
;ober the grave of "A Belgian soldier.
1t was strewn with green boughs and
above II was "a wooden cross on which
had been lettcred in black paint Here
lies a Belgian soldier" The humble
but, as the times go, sufficient memo
rial was the work of German soldiers
now guarding the ruins Of fort
around which was some OF the hardest
fighting OF the war.
Such things, sir | have seen.
In your article in the Chronicle you
cite many instances Of atrocities, but
in not one statement do you give the
name OF either the acCuser or the ac-
cused.
In the citation of humane deeds |
can be more explicit than that. ! can
give you the name OF Mrs. Names
mann, who. struck to the heart by the
agonies OF French soldiers writing and
Jerking with tetanus in German super
intended hospitals at ii rSon and Laon,
undertook perilous and eXhausting
Journey back to Germany in order TO
purchase the serum for tetanus and
convey 1t back to France, She is the
wife Of one OF the brothers Names
mann Of the great German firm OF
MannesmanpM ulag,
Let me Also give you the name Of
Misc Bessie Sommerville, an English
governess In the family Of Baron Mumm
Won Schwartzensteln OF Aachen. That
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lady wrote a letter which was for
warded with letters written by English
prisoners Of war to their families in
England. and in II she said:
81 wish you would let the English
papers know OF the kindness and con-
Sideratton we English receive at all
times from the Germans II makes RE
furious and at the same time sad to
read the things that are being said Of
Germans In English papers. mean
how they treat their prisoners and so
forth. They are vile lies.
II have plenty OF opportunity OF
knowing how Belgian. French and Eng
lish prisoners are treated ! have heard
only OF kindness and courtesy and all
prisoners that have passed through
Aix-la-Chapelle must say the same. I
only hope the Germans will have tne
same to say when they return from
England. could write much more
but space doesn't allow"
Another little incident from AK:
Baron Mumm asked Capt. Lyster. an
English officer. who was a prisoner at
AK, what could be done TO make him
comfortable. Better than anything
else" the Captain replied. would like
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a briar pipe and some tobacco"-and he
named a favorte mixture. Baron
Mumm spent some time in seeking that
brand and when he returned the Cap
tain asked: How much do I owe you
for this?
Nothing at all, my dear fellow" said
the baron. in happier times you and
will have good dinner together at
the Carlton and this will be pleasant to
remember then"
May | give you another specific incl
dent with names and places? An Eng
glish woman OF prominence who is a
cousin OF Sir Edward Grey and il a
large landowner and president OF the
Red Cross In northern county was
nabled through the good offices OF
Robert J. Thompson, American Consul
at AK, to fulfil a MISSION which took
her TO a military prison in Germany.
She confessed that she came through
Belgium with fear and loathng OF the
Germans in her heart She returned
over the Dutch frontier with tears OF
gratitude for what she described as
the unfailing courtesy and kindness OF
German officers" who. she said, had
not only allowed her to visit a captive
English officer who was under sus-
piCiOn OF espionage but also had given
her opportunities to accomplish her mis-
sion in the fullest possible way.
Here Is another bit of testimony from
an English subject whom SANDER OF the
Germans has sickened He is Capt.
J. Il, George Of the Royal Irish Regi-
ment, and he wrote from Mons in Sep
TENDER:
81 had bad luck. ] was knocked out
in the first haf hour, was two
days in a German hospital They could
not have treated me better had | been
the Crown Prince, from the lowest or
derry to the senior medical officer.
hope you will tell this to any one who
Is running down the Germans"
Toward the close OF the second para
graph Of your article you state that in
the Peninsula campaign, to prevent the
destruction Of an ancient bridge, the
British promised not to use II on con-
dition that tho French would forego It's
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cies Of everyday existence I can suy
that there was not n room in a singh
French chateau where they were quar-
tered that the German officers WITH
whom / travelled for hundreds OF miles
did not leave In as good order as they
found It, And in several instances
know that they left the bathrooms more
tidy than they found them.
In the salons OF chateaus, notably
the chateau of the Prince Of Chmay
az Chimay, which had been occupied
Tor IA month by a laTpse stat OF Ger
man officers, the most fragile ornaments
were unframed, though many OF them
stood uncovered on mantelpieces and
marble tables.
The Germans are, as all the world
knows, drinking but not a drunken
people. In war time this decent mod
Grafton Is not abandoned In al my
,ravels ] have observed the soldiers
loosely and | have found them neither
profane nor drunken. On the contrary.
| have time and again-at Laon and az
Charleville in France and at Metz and
AK In Gtrmany--scen them kneeling in
prayer before the high affairs OF. the
athedrals
Inc stately etiquette observed at the
tan dinners which | have attended
may be worth word Of mention be-
tause 1t w. assist you to dfferentiat.
he German officers from Mr.. KiplinR',
Huns That forma lty and courtli-
ness l have noted at the table of Won
Iwohl. which was laid in a grove m
he firing line; OF the venerable ana
benevolent Won Heerlngen. OF the suays
DElsa and OF the unassuming and
friendly Won Gebsattel
At not one of these dinners Though
ne wine went round freely have I svor
heard an oath or an .ndecorous tale
Nay. ! must modify that statement n
little. An old captain who was riding
with us one day did tell us a racv
story, but 1t was not vile and IL had a
very funny point to extenuate its
Coarseness. -
one other fact as to the morale n,
the army. Constantly the Young Name
christian Association is following the
troops and no sooner is a Belgian or a
french town garrisoned than the ASSOC
citation establishes in that town reading
and writing and dining and visiting
rooms for the soldiers.
The Germans are not liars. They are.
so loyal to the truth that their LOYALTY,
sometimes Iapses into gross bluntness
OF speech. They call a spade a spade.
ana their bluntness sometimes leads
them to use crude word when another
would do as well. They consider a ia
not clever but ignominious, and their
point or view was given with beautiful
terseness one day by Capt. Alfred Man
nesmann, who was storming about some
peculiarly hideous Islander which had
appeared In an English journal which
the Germans call the Daily Liar"
That statement" said the Captain
is not true. We Germans have ex-
plicitly denied It more than once. and
we are not liars. We hate lies. Nv
father used to say to me and nv broth
ers; You must be too proud to lle.' He
Drought us up on that saying. You
must be too proud to lie"
tCopytoht, 1916, Jy james oDonu,u
Bennett)
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Correspondent Who Was in War Zone
Cites Incidents of Germans Kind :
illness Toward Belgians

man assistance, is making good prog
ress In clearing away the wreckage.
In the daytime the people move freely
through the streets and do not seem
terrorized The street vendors. for ex-
ample, drive brisk and good natured
trade In picture postcards with German
soldiers
German officers and officials with
whom / have talked have never spoken
lightly Of the suffcrings Of Belgium.
and they are sorry for Belgium you
have been in u nant." said the Secre-
tary of the German Foreign Oflee Won
Jagow to me. 80 have J." he added.
and it Ia terrible. but war is war. aud
It Is tenfold more dreadful when the
civil population takes a hand in IT,"
And when 1t comes TO the kind Of re-
ristance OF reprlsal--one cannot call IL
war-which the franctireur makes. you
Sir Arthur. know what the Walloons Of
eastern Belgium are. Turbulent. trucu-
lent, and unschooled they hght-no
one cannot say fight but fire-from
cellars, from attics and from behind
hedges, using the while the protection
civilian garb confcrs on verltahle nom
comhatants but not accepting the hon
~ p'A' aNNH AllsAA Ep VIII inc UNIFORM
OF veritable soldier The adJcctives
which mank nd has applied to the lower
orders Of this Walloon population, and
the facts Of their annals. are to he
found in any guidebook or school his
tory. Brave in a lawless way they
certainly are but often devious and
sometimes treacherous
The event proved how justified were
the lpprehens!ons of the Belgian Gov
eminent regarding the sense Of the r
obligations as civilians which was en-
tertained by the humble fox ~ the
countryside and Of the mining villages
Hundreds OF misguided persons were
shot and thousands Of dwell ngs were
burned And yet widespread as il the
ruin ! have witnessed. ] was amazed at
the discrimination the enemy displayed
in melting out punishment.
In Dinant. for example. the second
and the fifth house in a long terrace Of
say. ten houses would be DESTROYED
All the rest would he intact. Mani
testify the houses from which francs
tireurs had been taken had been burned
The rest had been spared When you
consider that this discrimination was
exercised during the terrible hours Of
street fighting you VIII realize that
though the Germans, God knows. had
been severe, they had not been ruth
less
And in view OF the fact that the Ger
mans had almost begged the French
not to Use the towers OF the cathedral
at Rheims as points for signalling to
their batteries I thought It rather a
splendid thing that in spite OF the re-
fusal the Germans did not demoli.h
the towers.
As to the minor matters OF caretak-
ing and the observance OF the decen-
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destruction-"an agreement" you add,
faithfully kept upon either side"
And then you ask:
Gould one imagine Germans making
war in such a spirit as this7 Think OF
that old French bridge ana then think
of the University Of Louvain and the
Cathedral OF Rheims. What q gap be-
tween them-the gap that separates
civilization from the savage"
Now may ask a question or two?
Why not think Of the exquisite Hotel
de Vile at Louvain. which was saved
from destruction by fire solely through
the herolsm. energy and ingenuity OF
Geman officers who. though comrades
OF theirs had been shot in the back by
civilians firing from attics and from
cellar windows. worked to save one
OF the most precious memorials of an
Client times, and worked to such good
purpose that to-day the superb struc-
ture stands unframed? I have seen It..
Why not think OF the choir stalls,
the paintings and the silver ornaments
which German officers removed from
the Cathedral OF st. Peter at Louyain
and entrusted to the present burgo-
master Of Louvain. who in turn de-
posted them in the Hotel de Vile across
the way7
Why not think Of the art commits
sion headed by a German privy coun-
cillor and head OF an imperial mu-
scum in Berlin which Germany sent
through Belgium from Liege to Mons
to tabulate works OF art in churches
and converts within the zone of dam
ger and to remove them to places OF
ea1ety. not places OF safety in Ger
many but places OF safety in the Rue
Royale In Brussels7 And these treas
ures when delivered there were placed
under the control, not OF German. but
Of Belgian curators.
Why not think of the fact that ono
on the treasures they removed from
possible peril was Van Dyck's st. Mar
tin Dividing HIS Cloak" a masterpiece
which merely on the basest grounds. is
calculated to make an eppea! to the
cupdfty OF an invader. for It's money
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French Artists Idea Of the Marseillaise

value. so experts say, is not less than
$4,000?
In your fifth paragraph you say:
AS to the treatment OF Belgium,
what has II been but murder. murder,
all the way" and you add that at is
said that more civilians than soldiers
have fallen in Belgium"
should not be surprised n that sec
ond statement were true. There is
reason why II should be. II would not
have been so, am confident, had the
population OF Liege, OF Louvain and
OF towns and villages lying between
Lego and Louva.n kept their obliga-
lions as civilians, or, DOMINIC uniforms,
gone into the army as soldiers. My
observations in September and again in
October in northern France convinced
me that the civil population OF Bel
GUM and not the Belgian army was
the principal cause OF Belgium's woes.
For in France the German army en-
countered very few francstireurs, with
the result that there were few instances
OF reprisal against citizens. Village
after village | passed through in the
track OF the German army and moth
ing at all was destroyed. In scores OF
inn parlors I have sat while German
officers and prlvates ate. The landlady
and her daughters would go busily and
politely about the serving Of food, and
al the end OF the meal not only was the
food scrupulously paid for but the girls
would receive really handsome tips
This | saw so often that I came
take II as a matter OF course, as 4
truth, II was.
And always when the officers left
there were courteous adieus and wishes
for a pleasant journey on the one hand
and on the other laughing assurances
from the soldiers that they hoped they
might come back to so good an inn
"ln happier times"
In Belgium. too, I witnessed numer-
Gus enforced and genuinely obligng ex-
changes Of clvilltes between the {nvad-
ers and the invaded.
may add, as indicating the kind OF
discipline the German authorities have
laid on Belgium. that in Huy II is I'M
possible for anybody-aelgtan. German
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studied the method by which the Ger
man army Ia daily providing 600 desti-
tute families of the town with bread
meat and coffee, charging them alb
solutely nothing, while families which
can pay obtain food at cost. Meat is
delivered TO the local butchers, and
German sergeants stand by in the shops
to see that the people are not over
charged.
In Brussels had heard an assistant
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MARSEILLAISE

Ye sons of freedom, wake to gloryi
Harki bark what myriads bid you rise
Your children, wives and grandsires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
Shall hateful tyrants mischief breeding,
With hireling hosts, ruffian band,
Alright and desolate the land
While peace and liberty lie bleeding7
To arms to arms, we brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe;
March on March on all hearts resolved
On victory or death.
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James O'Donnell Bennett Replies to
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Accusations
Against the KaiSer's Forces

following defence of the conduct Of the German army
rum
accusations made by the latter author
lanes Bennett. the
including Cobb authorities
cLsIum and taken to Aix. where they released
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Louvain that lies IN ruins Is one-sev-
enth. More conservative observers are
Of the opinion that one-tenth OF the
entire city is destroyed. | am inclined
to accept the larger estimate. Far from
being IA city of the past Louvain Is
coming out of the heavy bewilderment
which its sorrows laid upon II, and.
under German auspices and with Ger
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-31

February 6. For a few days before and after this time it may be seen low in the southwest for about one and one-half hours after sunset. This Is. however, a very unfavorabIe elongation of the planet. because it happens to occur when Mer- cury is at that point of it's path which it's orbit Mercury will reach the point at M. Figure 3. on February 6; at this time the angle s E M, the angle as seen from the earth between Mercury and the sun, will be the greatest. But as the planet will reach the point A about three days later. it is evident that this angle will be an unusually small one at this time.
 Mercury will reach the position and so pass to the right of the sun and be- come morning star on February 21. On the evening of February it will be very near the bright planet Jupiter; it will then lie to the right and above this planet, being separated from 1t by distance about equal to the moons apparent di- ameter The two bright objects will then form most interesting sky figure; but, unfortunately, they will be very low in the southwest and will set soon after sum set at this time.
 Venus is still a most brilliant object in the morning. skl. It reaches its great. est distance west of the sun of Febru- ary 6. rising at this time about three hours before sunrise. It Is now far be- low the equator and must therefore be looked for well toward the south of the east point of the horizon.
 Both Mars and Jupiter arc too near
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the sun to be satisfactorily observed during this month. The former is in the morning sky, rising but few minutes before sunrise on February ], which time is increased to 45 minutes by February 2S The latter toward the beginning of the month sets far toward the Southwest, one and one-half hours after sunset, but 1t is steadily drawing nearer the sun and will pass to the west of that body and become a morning star on February A. s
 Saturn rules the evening skies, and will at once be detected shining out brightly high in the heavens, almost on the border line between Taurus and Gcmini. The planet is in excellent posi- tion for observations; the rings are widely opened out and, in fact, of all objects now in the sky. this is the ono of most general interest.
 Uranus passes to the west of the sun and becomes morning star on February I; it will remain lost in the
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suns rays throughout the month. Nep- tune is in the western part of Cancer, in the position shown in Figure l.,
 An interesting occultation will oc cur on February 27 at about a. m when the moon will be seen to pass over the remarkable cluster of stars at R. Figure 1. This cluster, known as the "Behive," is composed of about 15o scattered stars from the sixth to the tenth magnitures, and these will be rapidly hidden, one after another, as the disc of the moon moves in front of them. Unfortunately, however, the moon on this date will be within two days of full, and therefore so bright that the dis appearance of the stars can only te satisfactorily viewed in the larger tele- scopes.
 The Eclipse of the Sun
 On February 13 there will occur the first of the only two eclipses of the year, both of which will be wholly in- visible to us. The black disc of the moon will first be seen to touch the edge of tho sun from the point A, Figure 4, o,, February 13, at s hours 42 minutes n m. (eastern standard time): the last trace of the eclipse will be seen from F on February 14. at 9 hours 25 minutes af m. Observers within the limits ol M N R will see the moon move partly on to the sun; those within the narrow strip V W will see the moons disc en- tirely within the disc of the sun; but even from here the sun will not bs en-