The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-10-23

PARIS. Oct. when one knows
why TO live, how to live is of very
little importance, yet it was a great
relief to my nerves to get out from
behind German prison bars" said
Madame Carton de Wharf, wife o.
the Belgian minister of justice. in
spite of my interest n prison re-
FORMS" she added, ut was by no
favor that I was released. l had
served out the sentence of the court
martial, three and a half months
imprisonment. and it was only on
being released that / Learned I was
also condemned to exile. They want
ed to keep me in Germany but by the
efforts of the Spanish ambassador I
was allowed to go to Switzerland,
where my husband joined me. Every
thing was arbitrary in the proceed.
ings against me and the after
thought of exile was purely a mill
tary expedient to keep me cut of
my country
What | managed to do, all the
m of Belgium did as far as their
situation enabled them to do, that
was to help the millions of BalHiana
who remained in their country to &c.
news from the fathers. sons AMI HIS
bands who have been fighting for
many days; it was an act Of Gle
mentary humanity hat every man
with heart must approve. Thoss
yhO live far away from the furnace
of wal are perhaps not always able
to comprehend the situation oe the
mothers, wives and children of the
Orcupiel regions of Belgium and
northern France, in whose minds is
repeated each day since the ongin-
ming, the agOnizing question wheth'
er a cherished one las not been
killed or wounded or is not waiting
in direst distress n last word from
home. 1 have with i great many
others done what l could to alleviate
such suffering, especially among the
-four people.
with the Belgian Cover nment
retired to Antwerp l remained in
BRUSSELS with my children tie
youngest of whom was only a year
old. Being the wife of the Belgian
minister of Justice 7 continued 10
occupy the apartments at the minis
try that are set apart for the minis
ter's family.
1.-The Germans ordered me out
they required the premises
90 Al.:. z11l.~. no ctf1II
considering Belgium an independent
country. The declared they would
send soldiers to be quartered there
Notwithstanding. For months the
troops of the guard occupied the
ministry at night AMI during all that
time no visitor could gain access to
my apartments without being cEal-
lenged, questioned and showing pa
pers."
E~ndeavoring to keep up the juven-
lie courts instituted in Belgium by
a law introduced by her husband.
and organized after the plan of the
Juvenile courts of Denver and 9TH
err American cities. Mrs. de Wait
travelled about a great deal all
through Belgium. Her activity
awakened the suspicious of the kOm-
m%andatur.
"They forced their way into my
apartments, o~stensibly seeking evi-
dence of a plot aaginst the German
government, Selling a waste paper
basket and spending hours in match
80 Norfsnr nm car0nd
of torn letters, envelopes and 9TH
err papers AT all they found h
most compromising in their eyes
were two priests cassocks. copies OF
Cardinal Mercier's pastoral letter
papers containing a speech delivered
by Mr.. de Wharf in Paris, Dec. ~
1914, and a letter addressed to the
kommandatur, torn up instead OF be-
ing delivered.