The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1919-05-17
would have 10 put II In his oWn bunk
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Sweet Adstine.'
shortly after leaving 81 Quentin
II VAS discovered that two Of the party
had been icf, behind cine Of these was
the author Of Sweet Adeline, aud
he had the nerve Of a brass monkey
The ether was South Side Chicago
Irishman The skipper allowed that Il
wasn't his fault that he was over.
crowded as II was, and that the A W
@ Is could 30 plumb to the devil
That night al Mons the red board was
turned against us When the skipper
investigated he found that Sweet Ade.
line had sent telegram To the effect
that two American officers had been
lsft behind and TO hold the train va
~ they arrived The chef de Ia care
MAS holding the train all right aud II
took a whole package Of cigarettes
and some profanity TO Eet started
ea1tn Sweet AdelIne ana Miekie march
''.f way into Warsaw five days
after oar train reached there and had
some wonderful tales to tell Later
We checked up on them and got onto
some of their performances which
were no credit to the 4 T. f.
Leaving 81 Quentin the day was
spent in n succession Of battle grounds
and ruined towns II II hard to describe
the destruction that had taken place
Namur Liege, Ala Ia Ghapelle and
other former headline towns 1ere pass
ed ou the succeeding day Ia this
stretch Ne crossed one OF the German
lines Of retreat They destroyed every
thing that II was possible To- destroy
hand grenade had been placed at
each rail joint go that before the
French could rebuild the road they
fret had TO tear up an old one
seaateous Belgium
In Belgium | saw some OF the prett
lest country have ever seen The
country IL semi-mountainouS. and for
miles the railroad runs along the
Meuse river Before the war Belgium
WaB the most densely populated Flu
ropean country The green fields. and
retty homes. against their high back
ground made most beautiful scenes
In Belgium | saw the sort of wIndmills
which the school Biographies attri-
which the school Biographies atlrih
ate TO Holland There were also many
Of them in Germany aud Poland
Cologne vas reached about o'clock
In the afternoon However We did
not Know when We were To leave. so
die not venture fr from the station
The cathedral vas about ali Sc saw of
interest there al Germans in uni
form there saluted us punctlIously
and they were very pleasant In the
interior they were not 80 courteous
until they learned that We were not
British, then they thawed Immediately
Stood Watch on the Rhine"
went on guard at Cologne standing
the watch on the Rhine a. Il we're.
Time prevents my giving detailed
account Of the trip all the way 10
Warsaw, and shall have to coafne
myself to generalities
There is NO mistakins the fact that
the German people are hungry, as We
saw too many evidences OF this to
doubt u Al one station We threw
Fome bread crusts from the car. only
10 see numbers Of TIE train crew seize
upon them and eat them gFecdily They
said II vas the first white bread they
had seen in nearly FIVE years This ia
rot an isolated case of food conditions
In Germany II is but typical
Every available Inch of ground In
Germany seems to be under eultiya-
ton and the people aeem 20 be pre-.
pairing to pay the enormous war debt
that will surely be imposed upon them
However there is great unrest among
the people and there II no telling what
may happen.
Coming back We crossed the Rhine
near Dusseldorf big strike vac on
and all sorts of trouble The Bel
gains were threatening 10 cross the
river aud take hand aud the Germans
had rushed tSa divisions To the city
Passing Through Berlin
II took ua nearly tVo hours 10 work
cur Way through the railroad yards Of
Berlin and there vas not much Of IN.
terest that We could see though We
did see scars ON numerous buildings
made by machine gun bullets drning
the spartacist revolution OF three