Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-13
FRENCH CAPITAL.
ALWAYS IS CALM
Unlike Berlin When News of
Victory for It's Army
Is Received.
CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS
Parisians Believe Father Joffre"
Will Steadily Drive En-
envy Back.
CONFIDENT OF SUCCESS

"HicH covers ltSclf Win bunting Dy
order of the Kaiser whenever VIC
tory is announced Paris has received
the news Of all recent French successes
with absolute cquanimity. Parisians do
not expect decisive victories on a large
scale anywhere along the front, but
they are firmly convinced that nothing
can go wrong. and that Father
Jofre" will steadily drive the Germans
back with as small loss Of French lives
as possible.
The German prisoners arriving here
in large numbers every day all express
satisfaction at their escape from the
horrors of the trenches. and do not
conceal that the conviction is spread
ing among the German troops that they
are fighting for a hopeless cause.
A tall. ir-headed and bearded ser
geant OF the Prussian Guards with
whom had a long talk at the Paris
railroad station where German prisoners
arrive said TO me:
The only satisfaction that appears
to be left to us now is that the world
Is bound to acknowledge that we have
fought we'll. and that no other army
In the world could have accomplished
what ours has. For many weeks there
mas not been A man among us who did
not feel that we were doomed TO ulti-
4iIdtc ucltdt, Dut we snail go down
lighting to the last.
CRIPPLED ny Dreadful.
LOSS OF OFFICERS
1t is the dreadful loss of officers
which has crippled us. We have prac-
tically none of'our old officers left: they
are dead or wounded. and the men who
have been sent 10 replace them are of
a different order They are equally
brave. / admit "a ,Io
commissioned officers and men with far
more consideration than the old did,
but they lack experience
Things do not run with the clock
work-iike precision we have always
been used TO. supplies OF food and
ammunition do not reach us regularly
and this is bound TO depress soldiers
and make them fc"- that some day they
Will be left helpless at the mercy Of
the enemy perhaps ~ the critical mo-
ment.
The French artillery is marvellous:
our guns are hopelessly outclassed as
, are our av!ators, and once the seventy
hvers get the range of trench we
might as well leave II right away. Our
machine guns are better than the
French. but very often we have none
left when the French artillery ceases
firing and the infantry attacks. and
those we still have left do compare
lively little harm. because he French
always advance in open order. and are
masters In taking cover. II is an art
that we have never learned"
The sergeant told me that he had
been exceedingly we'll treated from the
moment nc was taken prisoner He
also greatly delighted because he
had immediately been permitted 10 com
: municate with his wife and children in
Berlin via Switzerland
GERMANY HAS MORE
YOU Nc MEN THAN FRANCE
In a very interesting article in a Paris
paper. NJ. Andre Honnorat n member
of the French chamber. shows that.
compared to Germany. France is a
country OF old people. In Germany
there are only seventy-four individuals
above sixty years of age among every
1000. while in France there are lo5.
For this reason Germany is able 10
send greater number of young men
to the front and for the same reason
she will recover more quickly from the
effects of the war. If The war ends be-
fore she has sent all her youths to the
front. even if her losses in killed are
far greater than the French
She has now reached the point. how
ever, W mere even neF SChOolhoNS
being prepared to be sent forward. and
her statisticians are we'll aware OF the
danger that threatens her
a neutral Journalist sends some in
teresting particulars of life in Brussels
to Information He saws that for 2
journalist who wandcrs through the
streets OF Brussels there are numerous
subjects for articles The inha bitants
of the city do not convey the idea that
they are conscious of German soldiers
in the streets, for them the German SOL
dicrs do not exist. In n tram car the
soldier rubs shoulders with a passen-
ger. The passenger rubs the part OF
his garment which has come in contact
with the German. The German apolo-
gizes. but the passenger takes no no
tice.
A German officer enters the first-class
compartment of a tram car, and i'm
mediately all the other passengers
make for the platform
France will never forget what
America has done for her during the
present war. And. indeed. everywhere
in Paris as we'll as in the provinces
and at the front you see evidence of
Americas generosity. which has deep-
~ touched French hearts. through
out the country. from the Mediter-
ranean to the channel. from the from
b tier OF Alsace to the sea. thousands Of
French soldiers who have been nursed
back to health in American hospitals
or transported from the battle fields in
those wonderful American automobile
ambulances. are blessing Americas
name.
COMMITTEE ORGANIZED TO
FOUND MODEL HOSPITAL
the outbreak OF war. an American COM
mittec was formed to found model
hospital here. and met with immediate
success. thanks to the splendid efforts
Of the American amba ssador, Myron r.
Herrick, and the American colony in