Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-12
OFFICERS ARE KICKED
OUT BY CHAUFEEURS
Then the Automobiles Are Of
fcred for Sale for Only a
Few Marks Each.
AyIATORS SELL THEIR PLANES
Wines. Linens and Silk. Com
Wandered, Sold Back
TO Populace.
h, HOBEnT wELLEs nrrcmIE.

MAASTRICHT. HOLLAND. January
ii.-Somc or the features OF The great
German retreat through LieGc JUS,
south %: this snug Dutch city. and
across the narrow strip OF Dutch Lin
bourG. - few miles north would make
a cori>ins curtain climax for amy ma
steal comedy Oh broadway. Gu, OF the
IRA ScdtrE that have marked the pass
beaten and Soviet mad German armies
-Mnoiesa.a Iootns OF the peasants.
murders when resistance was offered
ana a few instances OF unspcakabie
norrorS-ccrtain gems of roaring farce
hcverihc.css can be discovered.
y rev OF these Instances of values
trrcs;.
ncers, authority by the revolution Iii
rectcd from Hamburg and Berlin and
,n. dheS an ii;, 81 the retreat home
iirsi care was TO provide himself with
little money against his return to
i 10. barren and hungry hearth. SO he
eve; OF value he could lay hands on
.NiueEily acting on the theory that
Whai had been the property OF The
imperial German government was now
LACk or GAS FORCES
SALE or AUTOMOBILES
Automobiles were the first TO go-for
aEe eooa re'son that through lack
anyway. The lucky soIdfrr-chauncur
who for a matter of months or wears
hSh been the dumb driven dog Of his
oincrr master promptly. tied red rag
around his left arm. Kicked his officer
OUT OF the tonneau and trundled his
f GI 20 market: In Licse. in Louvain.
bilcs were. offered for sums that would
make a Broadway car salesman turn
In I.iesc talked with a BELGIAN in
surancc man who had bought Il closed
limousine with leather upholstery. cleo
tic lights and tidy little electric
Va American at the before; he-war
raie). ! rode in the. car. Nothing
wrong with II except il badly needed
new tires. The new owner maid two
marks extra for the rcservoirful of gas
n mn@n mat Is gone he'll have 10 put his
rev months until gas comes again on
the market.
I'll say he Got :, bargain. And the
tgrned neat penny
,o 80 man man OF these cars have been
many thrifty Dutchrnan arc cliubi i,a = !
over the frontier to do a little sneou
iatinE in war autos, One may predict
weeks. 'uf'Hs me next few
have heard rumors Of aeropla mes
Seihg sold for 200 and 300 marks. hui
stance ""H III :
CoMMANDEER GOODS
THEN SELL. THEM RAtIS
Communicated wines. bed linen, silks
ara ,s pericS. brass and copper WORK
winch were tahen from the Beloians
under order from the kommandantur
81 ms ana that city. have been sold
paoh Inc civilian population al abb
ssutu reductlonS. In the Pare d'Avrov
uaE oefore yesterday ! saw n German
solder standing by a hand-cart fiI.d
r wr.n rare old BurGandies. champa sne
coS M c ana Benedictine, vending his
precious wares at extemporized anr-
non. His customers were mixed.
telsian sent!eman in 81 turbine over.
coat ovefbid wharf worker wearing
Woodsn shoes for bottle of "Fin''-a
yer! hGry coSnnc greatly favored over
mere. ne sum he paid was, so fas as
, could catch The passing OF money over
the heads OF the crowd 3 or marks
the soldier auctioncer was a SiiIdv
Stubbly red beard of weeks crowth
had turned his features into a hria >.
held: His hands were large az
G.ichcrs INIT. But. as they saw on
broadway. The boy was there when IL
came 70 making dishonest pfsnnic.
$40 ia Flemish peasant. near Turn
honi bought l0.5 field gun for q
marks. When | saw him he was Iif,o
Ing the gan. which he evidentiv iid
moi want. from the carriacn nv h,o..ti
and tackle. The gun CARRIAGE ana
Whee.S were he valuehle part OF thar
. marks worth 10 him. ] suppose he'll
ma some use for the ugly tube OF
steel itself: Flemish peasant wastes
ie; us trust the council OF aI;i.s =,
Versailles will never come TO d;snu,c
me posses sion of that cannon. NuI-
body who'll buy field gun deserves
10 Keep il, ''S