The New York herald., 1921-12-04

HERALD
CopyiOht, 1921, by THE New YORK HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Nov. 20.
~ y leave From Flanders | fled into
the mountains on leave, and as
cended steep, painless hills. Blue
air: Alpine flowers in the afternoon sun.
Higher up. In the distance, rising through
hazy mists, the snowfelds of the Oetztaler,
and on the horizon the giants Venedger
and Grossglockner, Even here,
regularly recurring. hollow booms of cannon
from the Tyroese front! War even here.
Soon the sun has sunk-red CLEAN the
rocks. throwing black shadows, That
right ceased to remember that the earth
was Inhabited
Riga hos been taken. How fearful the
Kasputin t, agedy and fate of the Car and
his family. Weird Russia, Food grows
scarcei i'll Germany from day to day!
Off to REnaaian Front
In September of 1917
September 1.--Tfansplanted into Ru-
mania. From Gotha nine days journey!
Speed. thirteen kilometers an hour! Pass
Vienna and Budapest. When we get beyond
Arad the people in their colored embroid-
cred costumes and the country with its
primitive roads and means of locomotion
assume an unaccustomed and foreign as
pect for us.
September 6.-In the evening we pass the
1ransyfvanian frontier. On the horizon
the first hills promising cooling breeze
after the few last tropical hot days Forty
degrees Celsius amid the ceaseless buzzing
of flies! Here and there a gibbet shows out
on the prairies. How we need mosquito
nets! The water supply is nearly ex-
hausted.
Via Hermannstadt up into the noun
tains in great curves: the temperature
drops rapidly and soon we are shaking
with cold. Three engines drag the train
up the Red Tower Pass through very steep
rocky walls. Next day descend into the
plains, dust and tropic heat again!
Piatre to Ploesti, the centre of the
petroleum district, ruined by the enemy.
The town is filthy with dark looking peo-
pie and lots of taverns. Gypsies lounging
in the fields around open fires. cooking
maize.
short excursion to Bucharest. One in
stinctively thinks of Mexico,
September 1S-We take up very serious
cases at Focsani and are to transport these
poor sufferers for more than nine days to
Munich. Nevertheless the soldiers smile
when they hear of going home to Ba-
varian soil. Day and night on duty with
out an hours sleep! At the small way
side stations lively trade by barter
springs up. For one cigarette we get two
or three fresh eggs from the peasants and
that means feudal breakfast for us for
some days! For one bottle of spirit or
brandy we might have got live pig! But
how were we to house It in our train? 1?
Nevertheless turkeys, geese and hens en-.
liven the long journey with their melodious
cackles
Near Szolnok the roof of a crowded sani-
tary car caught fire and was only ex.
tngushed with great difficulty
October, 1917-Repairing in Munich.
Princess Arnulf of Bavaria comes to visit
the staff and the train. A sad reminiscence
for her; "S-2" being only just back from
Ru.nania, where in the mountains her only
son had been struck mortally by a bulletl
Ordered to Flanders Again;
Bad Weather and Accidents
December 2S. Nurnberg-Take in coal
and water here. Once more toward the
south But in different direction.
"Salzburg" | heard them calling out in the