The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-23
HIS FRENCH CHATEAU LOOTED BY GERMANS

An Atlantic Port. Sept. 20-Among the passengers who arrived yester- day from Europe was Prince Louis Poniatowski, the Paris banker and heir to the throne of 1land. He was enthusiastic over the progress made by the Allies since August, and said the situation in France was very different from what it was when he arrived last May. There is no longer any doubt in the minds of the French people as to the outcome of the war
 ''The arrival of the American army in France" he continued, "has acted q like a tonic on the hearts of the French soldiers They have the same spirit now that they had first in 1914, and are enthusiastic over the recent 70 victories made by the Allies French soldiers are so keen on beating the Huns that they will not leave the front to go on their ten days furlough, for fear they may miss something"
 When asked about his chateau, on the Vesle, near Basoche, which was taken by the enemy last May while he was on the Atlantic, Prince Pom latowski said:
 "The chateau itself is standing, and that was all the French soldiers found when they recaptured it recently. All the pictures had been cut clean out of their frames and the old tapestries silver, bronze, copper and other valu- able objects of art had all been loot ed.
 "What antique furniture they could not take with them the Huns piled on the lawn, poured petroleum on it, and set it on fire. This was not the work of the rabble of the German army, because the Colonel commanding the regiment which drove the enemy out found a card pinned on my bedroom door, inscribed Due de Wurttemburg. There were sixteen prize Jersey and Irish COWS in the shed when the Huns captured the chateau, and they were promptly killed and canned by the expert canners who follow the German army. To use an American ism, the Huns canned my furniture and paintings the same as they can ned the cows.
 Prince Poniatowski was pleased to hear that President Wilson had sent such a prompt reply rejecting the Austrian peace conference proposal. He said 1t was expected when he left
 
 nearly a month that a peace note would be sent through one of the neutral powers. The French army is so intent upon victory now he added that they would not stop until Ger many is beaten.
 French officials on the ship ex- pressed their belief that the war would continue until next fall unless some f,1 1,f meantime. When 1t does, the col lapse of the Central Powers will be a: sudden, they said, as that of a banl constantly being pounded by the sea whichc rumbles to pieces one day without any warning.
 A. H. King of Texas, who has beer doing Red Cross work with the Amer ican Army in Lorraine. brought bacl the following message from the sol diers to Americans at home: 'We'l do the fighting if the people will dt the feeding"
 Another passenger was Nicholas G Van Sant, 72 years old, a civil wa veteran, who Is a banker in Sterling III. He went to France to work fo the Salvation Army. He said thu work of the Salvation Army girls wa wonderful He had seen them unde fire and liable to gas attacks any min ute making pies and doughnuts tt serve with coffee to the soldiers a they came out of the trenches
 As a sample of the spirit of tn soldiers. MT. Van Sant said he spok to two young fellows in camp bacl of the lines who were under arrest. H asked the reason and was told tha they had run away from a trainin camp near the coast to get in:o tn front line trenches.
 Comparing the present war with hi experiences as a cavalryman in tn Civil War. he said that was at gen . tleman's war. Men shot each othe down, but they behaved like gentle men.