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SAW GERMANS TORTURE SOME
W1'OUNDER ENGLISf.
Heartrending »ese,ript.ion of (butte
rage on Station Platform
In lielgiltttt.
From the Tijd, the leading Re-
iman Catholic Dutch paper, is taken
the following fetter from its. Belgian
war correspondent, dated October
14 :---
I travelled on a train containing
more than two hundred wounded
soldier`s, in itself a terrible thing
because of the- often unbearable
smell of the open wounds. With me
was a, girl sof nine, the little daugh-
ter of Mr. de Bruin, of Amsterdam,
whom I had taken from a convent
in Louvain to conduct safely across
the border to Maastricht. A•sliitle
as possible I stood with my
• protege on the balcony of our ear,
where we had some fresh air at
least.
We arrived in ',widen, a little
village between Thienen and War-
ernme. Here we had to"' stop for
some forty minutes in order to give
the wounded soldiers a heal. Out
of a big wash basin every one got a
plate of soup, and I and my tittle
companion also were provided with
one. Having eaten -I trod the rail-
way platform up and clown to get
some movement for my stiff limbs,
for we had a frill day's journey still
before us.
No Hood for Five Bays.
All of a sudden 1 noticed a huge
gathering'in front of one of the last
ears. I went there, and whatl saw
I won't forget all my life. Oh that
1 never had seen it! Between some
wounded Frenchmen three severely
• wounded • English soldiers lay on
their beetles upon some straw. They
looked miserable and completely
. worn out. Upon information 1 was
told that, these Hien had had no food
for five eontinuuus days. .Before
the open doors of the luggage
stood between two and three hun-
dred German soldiers partly be-
longing to the slightly wounded pas-
sengers, partly to the garrison of
the village, the latter evidently b e-
ing ordered to give out the foo
And these two or threehundred
soldiers stood there yelling and
crying ,levering and swearing at
these tree badly wounded English-
men who lay there utterly helpless
on the small heaps of dirty straw, •
not having eaten for five days ! Then
the bowls with hot soup were
brought under their very noses and
the Germans cried :—"You want to
eat'! Swine, you dirty swine ? Beat
them to death; murder them 1 Death
is all they can get!"
And, saying this, they drew their
rifles upon the hungry, helpless and
bleeding human beings. Others
spat upon their clothes and in their
faces, and their. general behavior
was that of lunatics, to say nothing
worse. With broken eyes, indicat-
ing the aproach of death, one Eng-
lishmen alternately looked upon
his
tormentors and the soup. unable
utter a word any more, though his
eyes still asked .for pity and implor-
ed for mercy with Lis terrible suf•
fe rings.
R¢e
Our Nevy':; tote -Aircraft Armament. a Gun on Utgh Att{;le-Mew:titles, Pointing Seyww=crit.
to kuuwv from an illustration such as this, that i.'.• Navy is Eters alive ]lot the
mace
1•t is reassuring and
bum theair. This very interesting photograph was taken in Southtin.atA'h e;target wets a kite. This was
tests en board a British warship with a gun on high -angle moon 1- 1.
an gunn?rs on land have had
months before there was arty prospet the , airhipsrandSince
oaptw Lalloons. Sir John Jellicoe's flag-
ship
experiena:e in firing at aeroplanes,
ship "The Iron Duke" carries two 12 -pounder guns for use against .h::er•a£t,
THE GERMAN MACHINE.
How Will It Stand Up Uneer Pose
ethic Defeat.
Whatever may be the ontconse of
the war, and whatever opinions we
may hold of the effecitiveness of the
German army as a body of 4h:0ng
men., there is no quetetion that in
the field of preparation Mid mobili-
zeti,on the Gentian maehine worked
with all the moodiness and taecur-
acy that its admirers had expected
it to serves*, The Nation, in describ-
ing that triumph of organization,
At the end of the firsit' week of
mobilization, the dhi•ef ofstaff, Gen-
eral von Moltke, announced that
not .a single hitch had occurred—
not a request for further laetrile
-
tions or a cienpiaint had been re-
ceived. For some days a peaceful
nation had been transforming itself
into a nation in arms; four millions
of men had been turning soldiers,
and it did not appear that in the
slightest detail had anything gone
wrong. At the end caf the second
week, the record was the same, and
mobilization was template. leech
man had gut his <�rdea pieked 1
his kit. and 'gone to his gela-ee at the
f rant.
• In all history there is nothing to
surp•a•cs that triumph of- plannixig
and organization. The Preach went
to war in theiL familiar red trous-
ers ; the Germans appeared in Their
gray khaki un'tff+l,nis, the very exist-
enee cel which was hardily known
abroad. Eath eoldier had new
shetes, and new •underclothing, had
written instructions what train to
take. what 'eat tin c e npy. Food for
the journey wae handed him; et cer-
tain .stations hot drinks were hand-
ed hien. lie had no thinking to do
—only to read his order, There was
not the slightest eenfestiin, in spite
of the dislocation of every relation
of ordinary life and the crowded
shout ands who presented them-
selves to be tranpot•ted to the few
great mobilization points, Trains,
telephones, telegraphs were at once
taken over by the army; factories
ceased to work instantly on civilian
eontraet•s, and began. to labor ex-
clusively for the general staff, mak-
ing, biscuits, clothing, ,shoes, ammu-
nition, ,and so forth. Every pound
of copper was seized at once, every
beaten back these cowards with one
hand and with the other would have
brought the invigorating soup to
the trembling lips of these exhaust-
ed and most miserable of men.
No One Made Protest.
What struck me most was the
fact that between these two or three
hundred soldiers in. front of this
martyr pit there was not one human
being who tried to put a stop to the
hellish scene or who would take the
part of the starving "enemies.':
Not one—nay, not one. I am per-
fectly aware of the terrible accuse many years, on account of sow-
very
;ince the United States experienced . to the neare>,t; army supply depot.
tion I write down in these words,very unusual features, says.tlie l�Tew t as little disturbances a•t the equinox 'For ,them• as fo.r •everything else, the
but I am willing to take the most York American i • d • e 1 as wvta:i experienced this year. No government gatd to as
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solemn oath that nothing in my de- Lver1,ind cstang_.p4_ntg,tttn fa;{ totmts rrf any -degree•=r appeared The result rlf_ t} is inevitably
s••erintioai is uixtitte; that ;iio o>,*e and beautiful Autumn, wine- ' along the North Pacific Coast.
In this part of tate world the lows
and highs, as we are need to speak-
ing of the relative atmospheric con-
ditions, which move across the
resuntry`, producing the e'hanges in
our weather, were moving slowly
as at any ether time of the year,
which is different from the usual
condition at the period of the
equinox. •
Larvaes of insects are deeper in
the earth, field mice and ether bur-
rowing animals are nesting deeper,
and bark on new wood is much
thicker where roots will need pro- in bha earr�stn out of munee e
tection. All these indicate severe plans of campaign, asked more of.
freezing. the machine than its human ele
In almost every section of the menta are capable. of ? That, is
country where there was a short- t this war is to daoide.
age of rainfall during the Summer i
months, Autumn rains have repien- ,
ished running springs, and if cold
weather does come back live stock
will not suffer for want of water.
Rainy Autumns are pretty cer-
tain indications of severe freezing
during the Winter, while dry Au-
tumn months often foretell a mild,
open Winter.
Autumn leaves tinted with frost
indicate early Winter, but when the
leaves die and fall eff without frost
the Winter will hold off late, but
be more than ordinarily cold.
Corn husks and the chaff on
grain were heavier this season than
common, and weed seed are retain-
ed in heavier coverings than are
usually noticed.
Our weather ie the. result of a
cause and if we only get at the
eause we can easily- foretell the re-
sult. Watch and see haw these
predictions compare with the ve-
nal results.
miamOnneelif
SEVERE WINTER I ltt.'t itt thee. onth ete.portioth sf
s'eiions of our country. while the
'l�.RATI'1'tES LOW J`:li'`wi -; t.t,ki rill be intense in the more
l northerrh portions. and all through.
t1I3I' Alvl) FI�I$ILLtrill':L. ; , tee northern part of North Ameri-
t a the temperature will range far
Great Thaws and Floods 41111 Il= den of our 'Winter period.
FROM ME!MY.
NEWS BY MAIL A
BULL AND P
the
will
i modify the weather in the southern
TEM
"below normal during a great por-
t It has been many years since the
Followed By Backward ! vernal equinox was un the 2nd Of serviceable home to the 'country
Spring.
The coming• winter promises to lei
Severe Freezing. u • y
Occurrences In The 'Land
Reigns Supreme in the' C`
ntereial World.
More than 20,000 postal serve
are now serving in the naval
military forces.
Over 400 beds and htankets h
been forwarded to Nt*tley Hostel
for the use of wounded Ind.
troops.
Inspector Oliver Orenheell
Bradford, 'has been appointed
perintendent of the D hnc aster
lice Force.
Upwards of 200nckfitional e:
sial eonetables For airy, tette- of l:e
don, have been eeto•rn in at t
Guild Hall.
London firnta •nr1 working
and night to carry htt:t, orders
nester lorriee pl 7.•:.?•j wee/ them
Russian agents
The aneielht a,it•n, i :;•er's 1'a
London. is new .r perfe s Gy equipp
hospital for eee t•io tee wound
from the fronts,
The King i,:a, sent. ;I, ?.resent
game to w uunoµa s e' r i is now
,; t Norfc
cher treatment in Weet, ,lk
Lynn Hosp:eel.
= Septtember• !
was bought, kr the government ae-
a k t all had a record o f every animal
that was fit fes its use, and the
one that will be remembered foei It has been more than a century owners had to bring them at once
cash.
efficient organization was <• rapid
advance through Belgium and
northern France that almost reach-
ed the walls of Paris within a
month. There it met its greatest
test. It remains to be teen how this
greatest of human •naohines will
stand up under '•epuls-e and possible
defeat. Will the defects of its qual-
ities lead to its undoing? Hee the
very perfection of the organization
made the German soldier less vers.
atile and adaptable than these of
other nations.? Has the • general
staff, in thinking of its men as
pawns to be moved back and forth
The three ah., " on which
Bank of linefeed :rt tits• have
remark -Abele eeltes .,,c �::5.0110-,110+}
the lowest ,? to t -t .
Dr. Frede i : dee-4,n '.rew
w• ho has been ,i *siert , f t.he City
London peliee farce fee see pot
years. has r•> tr +l.
Residenteof t! etiir.n ,Devoe. 't
supplying the ,pi stet !ell
the towrh wee a %,:e:," , r
teas en Sunda:z.
The Kavir z td a settee's , f 1;gsl,
district have ereteesto es the i x+
eminent slant' epee .i . h;?
13ritislh troop
The palatead !ti r r at
Georges Hal. eel!: leech @
bridge, has beton; treneferesed Tile,
hospital unto tt>_eider-hot e,,
mend,
Among the nese teseepe that
Northampt,•. reseelttiv, were
two sons of Me• letesel George, A
went with their" r ewe seti':t'
meets.
•The ?tdmr,oe` tla t°:l.:ttwed
decisive veto tOon 1:hit .i e et'
private wirelase :1,-ig:rrrmtne what:
even thrtitugh we h> : fJ.0 ted Kir
dom.
A revival :!•..rzcd,e, rte' Aso t
capture of trade are illitetrated
the new acct it..V itt en [ the e
est of Eng is•.t axle, r.' +trtilir:
Bower indtt t ; .
B3' ceannarte ef the Kele all hie
kets belongiti r e, the i' ,+ai ;