Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-19
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ALLIED BANNERS
FLOAT IN L|EGE
Emblems Are Flauntcd in Faces
of Germans Flooding vss
Through Streets.
PRUSSlANS TAKE TO GUTTER
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rysKe5t
Spectacle Never to Be Forgotten
Is Viewed From Hotel
Window. ma
PRUssIANs TAKE TO GUTTER
by ROBERT wELLEs RrrcHIE.s

LIEGE, BELGIUM. January. Ia
Look with me out of this window4of
tdcle never TO be duplicated. in all rea-
sonhbie cnance. durin. your lifetime
are streaming homcward through the
Rue Eamai down to the Place du s
the broad road along the Meuse whith
leads to Cologne. Sisssa
md, hike me Germans. whom tho
Caesars conquered, these beaten Teu- Z.
TONS are ma. cninS 'unucr the yoke"
Tor from house 10 house across all tho
central streets OF Liese stretch thick
Not store front tnat does not display
heavy loids OF me rcd, sod and black
hand on the facades OF all the ancient
pnoiic buildings that is not glowing
Win the. Stars and Stripes. tho tri-
co'ors Of France ana itaiy and the
regal banner of Britain. Evcn from the
sp.re Zip OF the Church OF st. Paul.
.oI feet aloft flashes like beacon tho
"i.it>h: a DIRTY, TIDE" 80,
to feel the dr ts smiling SMITH hand Of
the Germans that fateful first week aot
souiless machine washes forward thix
1aorough[ares once blasted by its misht
forest foliage of 'conquerinE flags over
and il, quarter hour cali to the con-
Tuered thousands below TO remember
lieSe and the great cathedral at
Rheims anu all the other ancient fanea
of the Christian faith which, their pas
You and i, looking down on these ss,
Struggling. nalf-crazed regiments sport
ing lneir red rags of Bolshevikisn, ON
fortuitously salved remnants from the
Great Slaughter, piodding homeward to
! +, land desoiated and gaunt with FAM
l. n N n All r-Ar
"Ns ,n Is mine. saith the Lord.
passing or the German hosts. The The
had babe been pounded ~ ne British and
ca south of Client in the whirlwind
or o., onensives OF September and October,
three convergins roads and Tp tie
ward the Thine; And since the first
WaAoons that the great war 'machfne
~ N.Y. ,h Sap,tniaied at spa the Sullen eye
GERMANS START, HACK
WHEN BUGLE SOUNDS,
ca stabbed through the gray dark
men men from somewhere down the dim
ser street IN. harsh orders were barked. Afs5
monotone OF thousands of booted feet
on, on the eobbies. Rumble of cart wheels.
-
Band m m0rSes heslgh then
WI Win an excess OF tuba throbs. Out Of
looked down upon a siow-movi Es
6 SiIn n.y. s r mass, like heavy autono.
dark, which filed the street from cnrS
70 curb and WAS clottcd into scabbeous
ea aGies , Whsse The eamouilaged tops
The. band music truly was scantS
SUBSTITUTE Tor breakfast mess asd tot
1 The rum M YET IT. braSed with a note Of
thNt national air of the German em:s
pLre which the English use for thar
have ' set ! she ains, and to which We
Win his unrevolutionary music the
s gro light revealed the tricolorS
d d,ea. Was carried al the head Of each
hhtteaehmGnt; nor was there a red en-
LiEGE WTrNisssnnD' s sCENE'
q mNIiL LoNG AFTER DARK
nm 80 "a new days migratory host was
Lee i-nsse would witness the daily comedv
,.aa "a tragic spectacle, too, If one
dow. as from Il theater hox we ~
Chem inc sr,m pantomme. which Soma
Ha .roa prooucer might label .The
Shoff. shon., shor. That was nor n.
i ms thr nmuf ny numbering feet stamp
cndiess stream Tour years back Than
we neat-heat OF boot heels on an ;ua
lred e snni.n,s street was the meas-
,Tr,u.i crushing engine. high geared. 10
y cor Nnih!nG slipshed then~not
irsy OF scientific destruction. sBi.
HoUT Or nEEEAT PROVES
DlFI'ICULT FOR SOInrERs
honsicss Stumbling along the rni,tS
bootsd s fcet mar on Is fs the mea an
thousands OF grccn.grav a,,I ne
h here fo npst In haphazard formatione
iwos Viii With ' hpnns there Struggling by
sid" for assistance. Amb9lances har
lac i.rs WAGONS. wheeled kitchens. artii-
the moving stream OF men Yes 1nytsy
u nra.a cows stolen from some BerEisS
i",imina. back Tonder and wagons Con.
the line anu caves arc in
p,un nd r nn,shins touch 70 this army OF
ppage OF eiviian vteihcnsSs IN Inc i, hodEs
a,iavs Is an Old faslioned barouche. is
kna Ss ,ntsF'or rd hiied to the top watss
blanket rolls. There. beb TaSks ard
mrtSSSed COW trundies cabriolet atuma5
whose Mo- "I dic,j !, :. monocied German major,
bend 10 the occasion. sits hes,d duHs
rasi. piTT aS'sn who drives DONKEY
ed above his mud spiashed bo onhso orm
with The eye OF a despot trunSis.,sa h nS
~, s"sS before him in a PEASANTS NINA
SaIi' we even see a score of nerSn.f
i" nahh,SrsMand what. a dirty theff:ls.
'oIpe" WIN soldiers truck sss..g,
Snn,y VI Vt'in Ia in Holland to review sthis
REDS MAHTIAL DISPLAY
:, LIKE CIRCUS SIDE,SFtnxp
Is noteworthy that only in the az
,,i,, I'm WHICH display red fiaesIand
cnSse s,! are In the majority---is this sir.
Gus saofShow OF out-at- tn heels min.
i'r!Sin evident. Two diyisinns nau.ls
IhromEh Liegee whose officers w.Ts
mr or,l,a,i on sleek horses and whSss
lorna LIONS were In strict military ss
cord The infan,rymen ali csrrisd
t ,cHis rihes and full c1uipment. marched
representatives OF that German ann.
Wn,ch a few months ago crushed IFS
that these divisions carried tho German
eagle stPrnped on al, its wagons and
not the banner OF tho revolution. I sI'sps s
While the Gcrn,ans are passIne oh 5
serve tho strange contradictions eiT-S
c umSlhncoS have wrought on tdA
atrcets. nore strolling care Krnn arc5. rs