The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-05-28
md in the balkans at the time Of the

ana III the IbaIkanS at the time or tn
big German drive. On the whole the.
usually arrived during a lull Of hos
%tllities. The book therefore is n de
scription Of the moro normal life q
the Eastern nations. The autho
rightly says that in the excitemen
of sudden invasion. desperate resist
ance, capture and destruction of cite
men lose their personal and racia
flavor. In quletcr times one * MOI,
likely to know them as persons an,
as nations.
The general orders hat no CORE
%spondents should lie allowed neat tn,
front constantly hampered MIR. Zee,
In his work. bu; az IL was he manage,
To arrive repeatedly where lie was no
allowed TO be. Coming up from IN,
south. where the authorities did no
fnow what To do with him. he wa.
sent north: he travelled behind tn,
Russian front through Bukowina
Galicia and Poland. Finally he went =,
Petrograd. as he says, nut Of the fry
ing pan into the fire. at seems" h,
writes. that by this time the powert
that he had made up their minds t,
uhoot us The American Embass,
washed its hands OF mo: but Robinson
Il Canadian by birth. went TO til,
British Embassy. and the British En-
bassy finally freed us both ard got II,
out of Russia" This point Is in
teresting because SO many traveller,
c,,p,,.in ~ IN, d~.t,cbr,en, md in.
.e,,ia,o, 80 ~. A,or,., r~s..,,,,
-. So,
'NtS ao!ouo' whereas '"e E"s'iS'
aTnpassauors ana consuis seem per
fectly able to protect their Fellow
citizens.
Back In Bucharest. Mr.. Reed has.
,o,cd IN Ccr,tap,,non,o which he
uu.s ~,.,.- ...J 80. 49,,
'"s'' e, GU" 49, ,na
ever ihueeu' MI tteeus CHIEF u''n-
Guilty seemed To be with passports. III
Turkey he was told to depart. as he
had been seen talking too much Ia
>-meniaps nj the Bulgarian frontier
u. ,., ,,r,.a h,,, ,o,,,.o hi, amaze
.' 49, g II.
po'' voc " p'ofe'" ~ WV
the train Tor Soha puiled out tne cor
respondent Jumped aboard, riding the
rods. the blind baggage and the train
ton and esoapinv into the fields vhen
d., ,,ntn r... s,,,n,J I, pu,b,r.s,
~ -. -. 60. -. a..
agar" ne s'a,'e" LOT 'Io,"' "".e' Nv
discovered tnat MS eariier art'cleS
about Scribe had been read and dis
threatened The correspond.Cts wen;
,n s.l,nico and finding LITTLE of in
- -. =. 49,. Ill. 60 49,.
800 e."'e v" "' ~ ~
MT iNetu sa!s'
As 7 look back on 4, all ~ seems 20 me
that the most important thing to kno"
about the war IL how the different peoples
I've. their ervironmsnt. tradition and ihe
revealing thing they do and say. In
tme ., pe"es m'ns human a'a wv y.
49,. p.,.,'. ,n, On ~. o,,., h,ra
,,uch n, n.,so,al and racial quality 1,
In tim. Of great public stress
Anl In this hook Robinson and I have si;n.
ply tried to give our Impressions of human
beins. as We found them IN the countries
of eastern Eu-ope from April to october.
1915.
r.,., uso,o Nr po.,,s ,oo,
-. -. -.
II i'"'e ao"'n VI '"'e' '""'' '''"
oi war IN the present Elu' vi war
literature that II on the whole a thing
to he thankful for. The author de-
scribes yividly. and in n q,
90 no yiyes yoi as lively aud iipDres-
.,.. ., .s >s. poh,r.or r,..s
~. f..
!" MS !" Va
\ city Of no nations and Of all nations
a hundred cities. each with It's separate
race. customs, ana languages. Hair way mp
tn. steep hill lie tho tcrtuous streets and
overhangins latticed balconies II the
Turkish Gown. northwest Is the tumble
quarter 81 the Bulgarians; the Ru.
live below. ami the Serbs nearer