The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-03-19
American General Is Only Con-
stituted Authority in
Luxembourg.
LIKE Bit OF FAIRY TALE
Yankee Division Living Amid KaIeIdo-
scope Of international Spies,
RevoIutIonists, conspIrators
and Beautiful PrIncesses.
BY CAPT. ROBERT J. CASEY,
In the Chicago Journal.

Gosseldange, Luxembourg. = Geners
Bell is president of Graustark now.
His division-to which we have f1nal
ly become attached-is living amid
kaleidoscope Of International spies
mysterious men with black boards
revolutionists, conspirators, counter
c~onspirators and beautiful %princesses
All day long the white highways ar
filed with dashing couriers. All nigh
long vigilance committees lie awak,
trying to figure out what new plan o.
government to start off the next day
with. It is certainly a strange situation
for a poor, guileless lot Of infantry
and artillery.
1t isn't officially set down In the rec
ords that the general Is the last WORD
hereabouts, but no one-even the most
ardent revolutionary leader-fails to
admit that his is the only constituted
authority. So long as he continues to
sit in state at die kirche the plotters
don't get much Of q chance to raise q
disturbance.
The Storm Breaks.
The storm broke in the teapot the
day Battery F, 124th field artillery,
arrived here after the long march from
tNe Mouse.
We were just turning across the
River Alzette when a purple limousine
all trimmed with gold and displaying
a brace Of silver braided admirals in
the front seat came down the Luxem-
bourg City highway and frightened the
guidon's mule into Mysteries. The bat
terry was called to attention and sa-
lutes were exchanged before it was
realized that the beautiful Marie AIDE
laide, grand duchess of Luxembourg and
royal princess by her own right, had
just passed. Not knowing anything
about local politics we couldn't guess
that something had gone wrong.
That night, however, a bulletin was
tackled to the door Of the schoolhouse
annex-now doing service as a battery
kitchen-stating in French and Ger
that Marie Adelaide had abdicated
in favor of her sister, Charlotte, and
that If the populace would try to keep
calm, the government would try to con-
doing business at the old stand.
The story of the revolt, when trans
Iated out of two or three mixed Ian
is a Grimm's Fairy Tale sort of
hing. The beautiful Adelaide, 1t
seems, had been something Of a popu-
ar idol in Luxembourg prior to the war.
There is a legend connected with her
attitude toward the advancing Prus-
that once vas current and cred
ted in all parts of the duchy. Accord
ng to this story, the grand duchess
vas shocked when the Germans re-
used to respect the neutrality of her
ountry. Luxemburg's army on paper
onsisted Of $50 men and actually mus
cred some 70 sturdy troopers.
The minister Of war naturally hg-
red that he didn't have much Of a
nance in opposing Germany, so the
undertook moral suasion. She
rove out to the border and lay down
cross the road and uttered the SEN
snce famous for a time throughout
he duchy "You dare not pass"
Duchess Was Misinformed.
But, alas for the proper climax Of
lie story, the beautiful Adelaide had
cen misinformed. They did dare to
ass.
A couple of brawny hussars picked
princess up, deposited her along
de the road and executed a neat for
ard march. That night the invading
dined at the princess palace
Colmar-Verg.
There is no way Of determining what
the political persuasion Of the
during the four years that T,
llowed. Luxembourg seems to have :
favored at the hands Of the Hun :
that is, so far as Hun hands ever :
vored anybody but the Hun. There :
Is little of the CONSUMPTION Of food !
ifs and farming materials as prac- :
ed in Belgium and France. Luxem- 4
was preserved rs a market in +
Itch the rich folk Of the kaiser's en- u
e might purchase the delicacies that
If regulation had deprived them of h
home. a
However gently the willy Hun may b
treated Luxembourg on his first a
. into France, pro-Germanism is an F
popular vice in this county just now. Il
body loves a loser. Hence the grand "
chess, who had become engaged to a Il
rman noble during the war, sud- Il
lily found herself an object of sus- 8,
ion. After a parley with some com q
tees another throne was vacant. We is
IT know how long the Princess VI
remained in possession, but ht
stepped down, too, and the affairs CO
passed into the hands of the In
olutionists. r
his country is a piece OF a fairy 70
1t is called, truthfully enough, tn
tile Switzerland" and is peaceful, Or
! kept, clean and simple. WI
at fowl and fat babies play about pa
cobbled door yards. al
almost impossible to imagine pr
h a country after having been con- du
med to the battered villages of the Sc
1T for six months as we WERE.