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The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Victim of German Gas
When Cylinders Break

May 12-Loison-We are to take in our
wounded here. While preparing gas
attack the troops we're transporting a car
Ct gas cylinders, and some of these fell and
broke, driving up a dense cloud of gas to
ward me- With red and burning eyes
struggling for breath, just managed to
escape from the region of the sulphurous
poison. Enormously high above us an
airplane is lowering, drawing nearer In It's
course toward the German captive balloon.
II attacks; the defending guns answer
Tiny white clouds spring into being.
Soon we reach the station OF Lens, which
is lying under fire. The noise Is diabolic.
as IL four heavy thunderstorms were crash
Ing one on another. The train stands shell
tered by q HILL for we are In the fire line.
Only last night shells burst on the rails.
I climb the hill and stand gazing as in
tently as my gas burnt eyes will permit.
About three hundred PAGES before me lies
the first heavy battery, little further on
the black, leafless trees of an avenue lying
in the fire of the English artillery; behind
me is ruined church tower. Gray desc
lation; every creature has fledl Whizzing
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

Duty begins. The laundering roar grows
louder and louder The shells burst around
us. A night like pitch. Lightning flashes
through the air. They are attacking with
gas-and advancing on Ypres
May "a fresh tour takes us again
through these endless tunnels of Liege, to
the army this time. Tonight we get on
very slowly, with blinded lights. Next
morning we arrive at Douai. Nervous ex
cltement at the station there. MANY
wounded and ten killed by an airplane a.
tack Hostile airplanes have thrown
twenty-one bombs on the town. This was
the reason why we could not run into the
station. Ugly scenes, where such lombard
ments have Just taken place.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
o Countess sOenhon
attendant tgh war

church to witness the ceremonies which
were very interesting.
The scenery is very picturesque here. and
one might have lovely gallops IL the turf
were less crumbling. On the whole, I am
most pleased 10 be in the Balkans. loving
uncivilized countries as / do I never felt
homeeickness except in Flanders. where
never saw n mountain.
Field letter from Prince Henry of Ba
saria at Stip:
In Constantnople we went to the
Sultan. who was most amiable. though
the whole audience had to be man
aged by the Lord Chamberlain, Djenani
Bey, who acted as an interpreter. We ex-
changed all kinds of Oriental "poltesses
and at the end Of the interview he said he
hoped l should not expose myself too much
at the front, whereupon said "Dieu me
prote0era car nous combdttons pour une
cause sainte ct j'tste !" whereupon Djenani
Bey answered IS w. T. priera pour
V. A. r."
This gentleman. like all the other cham
berains looked quite as European as ours
all the more quaint, therefore are the elab-
orate bows and salaams they make before
tho Sultan. Djenani is a great wagnerian,
and has attended our festivals several
times.
also made the acquaintance OF Enver
Pasha This immensely powerful man is
only 35 He speaks both French andeGer-
man. and is OF the genre "moin de fer dams
un odnt dc rolours." He reminds one of a
very graceful but exceedingly sharp rapier
There are also sephardms or Spaniols here,
the Spanish Jews. who after being driven
out of spain in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries settled down in the north OF Sa-
lon<i.
was very sorry not TO meet either OF
their Majesties at Sofia, as the Car is one
of the most interesting and witty men. I
ever met
May live are sent to Douai with th
greater part of the train. where Crow
Prince Rupprecht Of Bavaria inspects us
going through all the cars, speaking vE.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
German Transport System
Begins to Break Down

From Arras heavy English artillery is
booming day and night, airplane alarm
begin to loathe it. Why can't it end when
every leaf every blossom is promising re-
pose and peace?
Our train is victualled from the Etappes.
The provisioning is very difficult from
here Tin Douai), as the heavy bags have
to be transported on goods trains for quite
a distance. While waiting we attend lee
lures in the operation car besides doing a
IT of scrubbing and cleaning. Our next
unloading depot will be at the sea-
On tour-Yesterday loading behind the
front: aviators attack on railway. Some
people killed not far from us, natives of the
place-civilians. Airplanes were aiming at
the railway bridge near the station. Ter
rifle noise it made me and my soldiers
tremble. Nothing left to us but to stand
there as a target without being able to
defend ourselvesl house was demolished.
We are sent up to Hamburg with our
load. What JOY after hard work to see
bit of the beloved sea again! Just as
summer is near,
August D. 1917, evening-We took up the
wounded yesterday, left the front late last
night. Thunderous cannonade going on The
lHudDllduIS are III lllEHl. Inc rdllS Close
&c us are torn up by shells wagons (rail-
road cars all shattered. The English
scatter their bombs over the railway line;
one explodes a few yards in front of our
engine. When and where will the next one
burst? The wounded are nervous listening
TO that internal noise. II is night and we
are to take up three cars full of soldiers
without any lights. That makes the work
more difficult and gloomy. Everything
within twenty kilometers distance is
trembling I'VE have gazed into
hell-and carry that terrific spectacle in
our hearts all our lives"
And these human beings, brothers all,
Children of one heavenly Father. lying
there mangled and bleeding shrieking and
groaning, or dead on the battlefield one
close to the other, illuminated palely by the
same moon. and over them whfrl
clumps Of iron. shot into the afr auto
matically crossing each other in waves Of
ether day and night Spirits
stand before YOU and beckon. Eter-
nity is so fearfully near. I thought saw
the stars tremble!
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Her Heart Aches at Sight
Of Wrecked City of Louvain

Louvain-A sight that makes ones heart
ache a chaos of gaunt roofless walls and
gables, of black and smoking ruins, often
amidst absolutely intact houses. Finger
costs to point out where the calm and sen
sible and where the madly frantic have
been.
May 3-Onward toward Client. The
train has reached its destination All is
hustle within the cars. We fetch the sheets
from the laundry car and prepare the beds.
Sunday-Mass is being said in the opera
tion car, where our little altar has been ar
ranged
The unceasing roar of cannon from the
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Alloy for Watches
Cuts Down Errors

A DISCOVERY described as being ca
~ pable Of revolutionizing the watch
making industry has just been an
uounced by c. T. Guillaume director Of the
international Bureau Of Weights and Meas
utcs. a successful method Of regulation
remedying tho varia tions i'm time of a watch
due 10 the expansion and contraction OF its
parts caused by variations of temperature
is the result of Mr.. Guillaume's invention.
This so-callcd secondary error" always
has been one Of the great obstacles in the
attainment Of perfection and precision i---the
matchmaking industry
The chief feature Of Mr. Guillaume's new
process is a change in the alloy used in the
compensating parts The minimum expan-
sion OF nicSeled steel was found TO be in
creased BY the addition OF IL per cent. Of
chrome we'll a small quantity of tung
sten. manganese or carbon. BY mounting a
spiral Of this steel-nickel-chrome alloy in
the watch. according to Mr.. Guillaume's an
nouncemcnt. tho problem Of compensation
has been solved and the secondary error
removed.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

distance makes our train vibrate. Another
hospital train arrives from the front
packed with wounded in blood soaked
bandages from Ypres that fire hell. The
English had fired $4,000 shells; the day
before a German forty-two FOUNDER had
scattered an enemy division whose ad-
vance the aeronauts had noted
Can you hold the position on the canal?'
the seadogs of our marine division were
continually asked. 1T will be heidi" A
fearful task; fire being poured into their
tanks And each mutilated man arriving,
with bandaged head and limbs, salutes
Eyes right!"-wonderfull disciplined!
Finally we move ON through Bruges,
Thourout to Roulers; and further; we
draw up two miles before Ypres. The
railway rampant is crowded with wounded
On account of the attacks from airships
we load at night. Searchlights sweep the
darkness, rafting motor cars bring us the
severely wounded from the field hospitals.
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
TILED GERMAN WOMANS DIARY OF GREAT WAR
Graphic Word Pictures Painted of Battles and
Civilian Suffering on All the Fighting
Fronts-Personal Reaction Expressed

kindly to the wounded and the ambulance
staff. In the name OF the army he thanked
me for all the work done. We were very
happy to greet him, l especially, as the
only Bavarian particularist on a Prussian
train.
The Countess then permits a gap of
year to occur and resumes with letter
from Prince Henry of Bavaria dated BE
fore yerdun May, 1916:
wonder if reasonable Frenchmen be-
ieve the revolving and at the same time
ridiculous news of the Figaro, article
'LInfame Berceau," that soldiers of the
German Crown Princes army dedicated
to his baby daughter hand carved cradle
on which written: Stained with
French blood :" Are they all mad there?
Then comes another letter from Prince
Henry of Bavaria dated August s, 1916.
Here in the TyroI have got an Aus
trian and a Hungarian battalion to lead.
The other day a lot of italian prisoners
were brought in, very gay. and on our ask
them. they said they were comtentissimi,
and loudly shrieked "Finita Ia guerra"
The mother of the Duchesse Hedwige
dAremberg, the Princess Ligne, nee Con
tardt- t-Biron was extremely good to two
OF our officerS VINO would otherWlse GER
tainy have been badly treated
Again comes a gap in the diary OF the
Countess, the record being resumed in
January, 1917, with the hospital train off
again.
January, 1917-Will the submarine war
be really intensified? If the blockade
Gordon be tightened round the throats OF
cur helpless women and children there is
no other way out of its sitting embrace.
The Emperor seems to be easily influ'
enced.
January 27-Travelling again. Darn
stadt left behind On our train this damp
cold is anything but pleasant. To save
Goals they heat but scantily. Result
frozen pipes and explosions, making my
ambulance car useless. On the platforms
the snow gathers in heaps and balls, the
fetching of food grows more difficult and
tiresome. the doors are jammed and the
crossing of the icy, slippery platforms re
Guires the fine balance of a mountaineer
on a glacier, especially with those unex-
pected jolts of the Belgian rails!
We overcome these climatic influences
by studying travels through the tropics In
free hours How marvellous to cross India
or make voyage through the Torres
strait, passing Samboanga in the night,
when the sky glitters like diamonds and
the sea stands on fire! And here so cold
and dark so that every one Is freezing,
inwardly as well as outwardly. Icicles and
frozen roofs Dead days! Where is the
sun?
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Moving Human Document Written by Louise,
Countess Schoenborn Who Served on the
Knights of Malta Hospital Train

YORK HERALD able herewith of
moving Germany
the diary Countess
Bayschze Oberbyern Bavaria who has consented
English friend of the Countess
diary upon
which close They reveal that back of
did this side and who sad and happy the
happy in mil of English, American
Henry
in
concluding graphic
in exKaisers
sister Meiningen,
and
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

rom Bujanovce, January 16.
We are here near vranje and kumanovo
in a little town. mendlng the road, so that
we may go on marching when the mud is
less deep. We are in the former Turkish
part OF Serbia, and a great part of the
inhabitants are Mussulmans. 1 rode over
to look at a Turkish village some days ago
The officers had told the village people
that sultan Germani was coming So
when I arrived they came to look at me
admirlng my Turkish decorations and pull
ing at them. Happily | did not catch any
fleas and otherwise the good people were
such jolly persons. shaking hands with me
and 'salaaming"
The Macedonians are very pro-German
To-day there was an orthodox marriage in
wealthy peasant family We went u
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

ferred to Belgium or conveyed through
Switzerland to another part of France.
Scanty furniture is being brought up to
the train, bundles of washing and old
clothes. The people don't seem unhappy
at leaving; the bursting shells have been
threatening their homes for weeks. They
seem rather TO look forward to a change
it can hardly be worse
Spring, 1917-Spring laden with snowy
blossoms marches triumphantly through
the land. Who could believe that a few
weeks ago it was burdened with snow? In
the mountains at home the gentian is in
flower-dark blue as the sky overhead.
1t is the season which always reminds
me of the few weeks spent in England
seven years ago. | had just left school.
A wonderfully radiant time; | am just
glancing at my jottings about my visit.
"The Kaiser races mailboat from Flush
ing to Port Victoria His Majesty's op-
ponent is the Dutch mailboat Prins Hen
drik-on which we are standing and watch
ing. We start almost level and just at the
first we shoot ahead-the Dutch boat puts
on every ounce of steam. But the Kaiser
has no intention of getting beaten The
royal yacht is gaining on us, and passes
us finally by the West Hinder Lightship.
The Kaiser is on deck, seemingly enjoying
the race immensely. She's certain to reach
Port Victoria first!
AT $50 the first gun announces the
Hohenzollern's arrival, and two minutes
later, to the roar of artillery from ships
and forts. she steams into sight-a mag
nificent white vision. On the bridge the
Emperor is standing at the salute.
ho I'm cb nd I'm chi
the German standard. 1t is a marvellous
sight at the unveiling of the Victoria Me-
mortal The two most powerful monarchs
of Europe present, and great display OF
Indian troops and bluejackets.
I'VE lunehed at the Duke of Norfolk's.
He and the Duchess were both very kind.
Next day House of Lords, debating the
home rule bill and Canada affairs. Naval
tournament - Oxford - Arundel Castle
Windsor"-this is not the place to revel in
such delightful memories! A short spring
dream amidst the terrors of the war of
nations
The New York herald., 1921-11-27

special Correspondence to THE New York
HERALD.
Copyright, 1921 By THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London, Nov. 49,
r ToPEs and fears of the German aris-
ri tocracy during the late war are
presented first hand to-day for the
first time in the accompanying leaves from
the diary of Louise, Countess Schoenborn,
who as Sister Louise served for four years
Grating under the German Red Cross The
train was officially known as "S-2" and
was commissioned in December, 1914. After
inspection by the late Kaiserin and the
mission of American surgeons at Wildpark
Station. Berlin, it was sent to the Polish
front.
with the exception of the two surgeons
and the military transport officer" wrote
the Countess, "the whole staff of the hos
pital train consisted of monks and nuns
| had been trained in hospital at home
till the spring of 1915 and, in spite of my
not having reached the required age had
tiers on board, whose families had neces
sarily to belong to the knights of the Order
OF Malta"
Countess Louise of Schoenborn is now
busy woman of affairs in Bavaria. She
is about to publish a Christmas book of
pantomimes and short stories entitled
'Yussum, the Wooden Fetish" illustrated
ha TN of
Bavaria in special subscription edition
of $50 copies.
Diary Begins May I, 1915,
Train on Way to Ypres
The first leaf from the diary of the
Countess is of May L. 1915, just before
the hospital train started for the front near
Ypres. She writes:
May 1, 1915-Warm. sunshiny, spring
weather, and we are leaving tomorrow for
the West! There, near the Rhine, stands
the imposing hospital train of the Rhenish
Westphalian Order of Malta, combining
with the Red Cross on white field the
arms of the order-the figure of the
Blessed Virgin. More than half mile In
length, the train Is made up Of twenty-five
ambulance cars, two kitchen cars. an op-
Grafton car a laundry car and cars for the
staff and stores
In each ambulance car is Brother OF st.
Camillus and one of us lay sisters, whose
work 1t is to look after the twelve beds day
and night, to fetch the meals, carrying the
food over the unsteady rocking platforms
through thirteen cars, often six days and
nights at a stretch, on the journey from
the field to the base hospital. The kitchen,
laundry and operation car work falls to the
share of the eight nuns.
Our train, at the disposal of the Fourth
Army, leaves Crefeld in the direction OF
Roulers, passes Aix-la- -Chapelle, through
unknown regions to Belgium, the land
which is on every ones lips. New forms,
fresh trees greet us in the bright sunshine
of May. And soon Liege rises before us,
the mighty fortress, and still the train
throbs on through verviers Tirlemont
Malines to Louvain.
Is Il possible that a land over whick
whole armies have rolled can smile so
gayly flower so beautifully and the green
corn stand so high? Here and there
iabyrinths of barbed wire, charred fac
tories, solitary soldiers graves mark the
fields Bavarian Landsturm men guard
the railway-they wave their hands, we
let newspapers flutter out of the windows
toward them.
The Russian cattle from Courand are
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Countess Prays for Peace
And Speaks of Panic Fear

St Quentin, February, 1917-Here, In
face of the huge, tragic struggle, one grows
quieter and more thoughtful, whilst in the
distant towns one often is seized with
panic fear as before something huge and
intangible amidst the confusion. But the
time is near when the moon will be tinged
with blood and the stars will fight In
their coursesl" Soon the lofty dome will
he nothing but a reminiscence
st. Quentinus, pray for u.s.
Pray for peace!
February, 1917.-Our train is standing
at Magdeburg. Depth of winter again;
great blocks of ice are floating down the
Elbe. Snow is falling silently in masses.
To get across the ice covered connecting
platforms of the cars we have to struggle
and wrestle with the doors, which won't
Weld. and when once wrenched open can
scarcely be shut in the teeth of the stiff
gale.
AS soon as the last of the wounded are
detrained fall into the deep and dream
less sleep of exhaustion have not been out
O? my clothes for five days and six nights,
only occasionally snatching a half hours
doze in the night. Each car is full of dan
gerous cases, and the spectre Of mortal
combat and bloodshed drives the whole
some sleep from ones eyelids.
At 6 o'clock in the morning, unrefreshed,
with hot eyes and creeping feeling OF
numbness ulling all my senses, | balance
myself through more than dozen coaches
to fetch the general coffeepot, fighting with
obstinate doors and giddily rocking plat
form bridges before can get hold Of pail
of hot water for washing up and cleaning.
Then the patients get their medicaments
drugs or tonics: their temperature is
taken: the doctors visit follows, wounds
are dressed; all this interrupted by the
jolting and shocks of the train and the
frequent recurrence of tunnels!
What relief it is when the train is
standing still and one can jump out with
the dinner pail and run to fetch the meals
only the initiated can tell! The men like
our food
We are on duty sometimes more than
hundred hours at a stretch. Add to the
fatigue rain and cold, smoke and SCOT.
Tells of Deportations
From Northern France
fhe kitchen sisters have hard life of it
in the very narrow kitchen car. where
cooking Is done for more than 300 persons
Even when the train is empty work never
ceases: stocks OF linen to be mended,
scrubbing, window cleaning, and very often
cleansing with lysol TO get rid of these
impudent lice, Joltings, shakings, sudden
halts I'm which all the movable things
come tumbling on our heads These little
irrepressble jokes have been going on now
for months; for most of us for years.
They subdue you and keep you from be
coming too "beany."
Ocun Sunday, March Is, Northern
France The transportation Of the civil
inhabitants from the war zone is being
carried out they arc either to be trans
The New York herald., 1921-11-27
Letters From Prince Henry
Written From Serbian Front

Two letters from Prince Henry of Ba
varia received from our poste restante at
Aix.la- -Chapelle. One from Stip and one
from Bujanovce, January 16:
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-12-09

Francisco there be assured hope that the flag United
VIII be should be
accept fundamental that national prosperity based continuity Of
employment at consonant with American standards of living
When SURPRISES accumulate dmoad and employment
ends until the has been consumed
AS long America had virgin empire explore and develop the
reed generally for world markets SURPRISES pressing
In beginning with 13 states strip eleng the Atlantic
afarng nation and Immediately after the War of 1872 under
wise protective laws the American flag ad poudes c all the
Beginning with the period of 1849 the opportunity for wealth
arted and undeveped central and empire challenged mag
nation Of YOUTH and the lure salt
call Of the unclaimed riches that awaited overland emigran
But America conaned sucient while conquering
empire magic wealth. finds itself approaching the
urpuses which the lands the world
of
prices to exist We not foreign bottoms carry this
plus for the foreign bottoms necessarily owned by those nations which
have the foreign tad and when they find competition pressing the
will conditions
necessary carry
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-12-09
FESTIVITIES OF OLD TIMES
tionary at Yuletide Celebrations
Of the Long Ago.

T HE Lord Of Misrule was an impor-
W tant functionary at the Christmas
festivities of those long ago
times. An account of this important
parsonage has been preserved by the
historian and antiquary, John Stow,
who lived during the reign of Queen
Elizabeth and during the first year of
the reign Of King Charles /, and was,
therefore, contemporary OF Shake
speare.
"In the feast Of Christmas" writes
Stow. there was In the kings house,
wherever he lodged, Lord of Misrule
or Master Of Merry Deports, and the
like had ye In The house of every no
bleman Of honor or good worship,
were he spiritual or temporal. The
mayor of London, and either OF the
sheriffs. had their several Lords Of
Misrule."
At Cambridge university the Lord of
Misrule was master Of art, elected
to superintend the REPRESENTATION
Of Latin plays by the students, besides
taking charge OF their games and d.
versions during the Christmas season.
A similar Master OF Revels was chosen
at Oxford.
In the Inns of Courts In London,
where the barristers had their offices
and belongings, Lord of Misrule
reigAed with great splendor, "belng
surrounded with all the parade and
ceremony of royalty, his guard of hon.
or, and even his two chaplins who
preached before him IN the Temple
church"
On the Twelfth day he abdlcated his
sovereignty, and we are informed that
in the year 1885, this mock-representa
tive OF royalty expended in the exer-
else of his office about two thousand
pounds from his own purse, and ~
the conclusion of his reign was
knighted by King Charles | at White
hail.
Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-12-09
Saving the Leftovers.

Instead of always frying up any left
over potatoes, why not use them for
hot tea soonest They only take a
few minutes to make. 70 half a
pound Of cold potatoes add ewO ounces
of flour and a teaspoonful each Of
salt and baking powder. Knead them
all together then add just enough
mllk-sour milk II you like-to make a
stlff dough. Roll out and cut into
either squares or rounds with pastry
cutter or tumber and bake on tin
In quick oven.