El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-29
By HORACE GREEN.


| Special Correspondent of the New York
! Evening POST
. n HAVE Just returned from trips to
Bucharest and Sofia, where / have
gained information in talks with
{ leaders in both capitals, and with Amer
lean officials who cannot be mentioned;
during nine days of continuous lOcOmo-
ton. almost too slow to be called travel
( ing, and, better yet, during midnight and
early morning conversations with sol
diers. nurses, and civilians, in wagons.
/ hotel Hobbies. and native homes under
conditions where people are likely to
speak from the heart, and not for pub
LEGATION.
The Trip to Bucharest.
Five hours after leaving Vienna We
were in Budapest, and the same evening,
after exchanging Austrian kronen for
Rumanian lei, we started the long trip
for Bucharest and Sofia. For four days
and three nights Exclusive of stops at
Bucharest and Rutschuckl We didn't
have our clothes off. At 6 o'clock the
evening of the second dav, after a night
sitting up in a second class coach, with
crackers, chocolate and schweek 1.-THE ma
tive Hungarian drink to satisfy the
inner man, we piled out at KTOnstadt.
on the north side OF the Hungarian
Rumanian frontier. This Is the Austrian
searching station. which. although in
Austrian territory. Is, like the greater
part of Pennsylvania, peopled by Ruman-
ian subjects
Ny baggage was 0. KID quickly At
that moment l CHANGED not 10 be wear
ing my money belt. and my Roumanian
Gepacktrager had already thrown my
baggage. containing all my money. on
the southbound train
was arrested as a spy because my
papers contained card with the num-
bers of German regiments and figures
of German losses for a month written
on the back. Figures are fatal evidence.
and had carelessly overlooked these
for which. as a roadside acquaintance
remarked later. should have been shot
as a fool il not as SPY.
What is that?" the officer roared' as
I climbed into my clothes after the
searching.
ROOseTeits Letter Ineriminates.
..N-n-nothing a-at-t all" was the fee
BILE answer. "Y-y-you can tear IL up.
sir"
The officer did. He tore up my Wis
iting cards. also those of my wife.
whom 7 had eventually succeeded i'm
persuading to stay behind in Vienna: he
tore up 4 card of ambassador Penfield
at Vienna which I happened TO have in
my pocket: he tore off the back pages
of letters from Col Roosevelt from the
German foreign office. and from nell
trail diplomat, and destroyed two other
letters altogether
"Cest la guerre," he remarked. as il
that explained al kinds of robbery.
spent most of the night on the sta
ton floor. cooped up with a couple Of
score garlicky- smelling peasants. and
between my sentries who dozed with
one foot laid across each OF mine so
that I could not move without giving
them warning. In the early morning an
officer who had studied what was left
of nv papers said that 7 was free-on
condition that I came back for exam
ination before leaving
The train, socalled. to PredeaI was
supposed to leave at a. m: therefore
I was to be searched again at 4:s0
Passport Is Taken.
At Predeal. in Rumania- there was
another searching. short for me. I had
lost my baggage; there was nothing
left TO search except my passport. I got
my first glimpse OF the Rumanian Dor
der police. distinct from the mobile
army. They have fine big. dark
skinned Roman faces. and are well fed Z
and slothful looking. Like the mobile /
army. the uniform is of blush green. (
adopted from the French horizon blue. |
but they wear the German helmet under
a brass plate with a Rumanian crest /
The first one ! saw asked for nv mass I
port. looked at it. and put il in his
pocket. At the same time he handed me !
a slip Of yellow paper decorated with 4
printed matter. II is 4