The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1914, Page 3

EYE WITNESS DESCRIBES HORROR OF BATTLE AROUND LIEGE AS PRETEXT TO FIX RECORD PRICES ON FOOD AND GOODS Egg Market Beyond All Bounds, Meat Advanced Again, Flour Up 20 Per. Cent.— People Appeal to Congress. Despite’ reports from Chicago that the meat packers, alarmed by’ nation-wide protests against the increase in the cost of meats and threats of @ boycott, have reduced the price of pork, beef and mutton, the price of fresh meats in New York at retail is from two to four cents a pound higer than the price a week ago, and ham and bacon are up a cent a pound. 2 ‘The local packers and meat distrib- utors insist that there is a shortage in beef and pork. Chicago despatches| ginning last Monday and for the say that the receipts of hogs and ek, commencing July 13. With the cattle at the stock yards are above : normal, due to the efforts of atock| sito 20s round, Mise, Ise robe raisers to take advantage of the de- mand and to the falling off in orders from butchers who are seeking to cut down their supplies. ‘The cost of living in general is going ‘up by leaps and bounds “on account of the war.” Sugar, flour and eggs are becoming precious when judged by price standards and clothing, shoes, woollens, silks and, staple cloths appear to be on the way to a new high price record. cattle less than the same period last Yet, with the exception of a few| year and something like a million leas products, it is admitted on every/than in the corresponding period of bend that there is no natural reason| }{l2, We can't get the beef on and the assertion that great for any increase in price. The sud-| quantities are stored here is absurd. den rise in price has been called to| “Argentine beef is coming in con- the attention of Congress by com- echt ebiraet and do ot look to e ces KO er, what- country demanding a Federal inves: | ver RePpens you can depend “on tt tigation, and in this seems now to lie that the war has nothing to do with it, id any retailer who offers the only hope that prices may be|excuse for high prices is simply from exceeding all former limits.}ing to gouge his customers.” @ exceptions in which price ad- vances are to be expected are-those Strangely enough the price of live Poultry, vegetables and fruits has product: which are manufactured abroad or which get their raw m dropped almost universally, beans terial om countries now at war. being the only vegetable to show and MEN. AND WOMER’S 8UITS DEARER, ‘0. and Armour & Co. gave their price lasts to-day for the week ac., 1444. Pork has risen In the last two weeks about two cents a pound, but accord- ing to the packers the top point prob- ably has been reached in all meat stuffs. “There is a natural shortage of bees this season, id @ representative of Switt & Co. to-day. ‘The war has nothing whatever to do with it. We haven't been shipping beef out of this country for two years and are not doing so now. So far this year our Purchases have been 1,000 head of guinea bens the only fowl. In the fruits only peaches have increased, To-day's quotations, followed by ‘Thus men’s and women's sults will ion last year, are: Broilers, 18c. be increased to & re Sone in 120. . ar rom orn \ -2c.; geese, 12 1-2c., 18 1-20. age of of; Sulneas, 65c. a pair, 56c.; pigeons, 30c, requisitions made on the manufactur- Pa 32 ers by their Government. One big ‘egetable quotations wei Pota- company here announced a/ toes, $1.75 barrel, $1.80 last week; 15 per cent. increase in its wholesale | weet potatoes, $1 barrel, $1.10 month rice to-day, and smaller companieh|®0; beans, 75 cents bag, 70 cents Jimpea as high as % per cent. Linens; month ago; peas, 60 cents to $1 ‘are expected to advance 50 per cent.,/ basket, same month ago; beets, $1 since much of the hundred bunches, $1.10 two weeks whil ks, already up ago; corn, $1.50 hundred ears, $1,’ are expected to jump another 2 per| month ago; tomatoes, 50 cents to 75 cent. within a few days. Satins, silk| cents ind box, 75 cents to $1.50 trimarngs d buttons will follow| month ago; turnips, 50 cents to $1 wuit is the belief of dealers in them.| barrel, 60 cents to $1.05 two weeks Cotton goods are fspgperr - B gaxod incipally because the export of raw Sitton hea been curtailed and this try is overstocked. Worsted dealers, too, are alarmed at the out- leok, for Engiand can no longer take their product. Reductions of 15 to| tected by the war, for some 7,000,000 25 per cent. are anticipated. | Of the supply of 18,000,000 tons com fo man can predict how high the! from countries involved in the Eur. price of leather and shoes will go,” pean confilct. This supply is not get. declared a big manufacturer this) ting out, so that the world su ply & probably’ will be little more than halt Three years ago ago. SUGAR GOING TO 15 CENTS A POUND. Sugar, according to dealers, is of the few foodstuffs logitimately at. its usual measure. a shortage of only 1,000,000 tons sent the wholesale price to 7% cents a pound, and brokers and dealers are agreed that the present shortage will lft sugar to 10 and perhaps 15 cents, The ter price hi commanded in Eng! cable reports. Flour is going up as rapidly as sugar. Standard brands reached wholesale mark yesterday of $6.40, which means a retail price of $6.90 a barrel. The jump within a week has been nearly 20 per cent. One result, according to Commis- sioner Joseph Hartigan of the De- Rartpent of Weights and Measur jas been the reduction in weight loaves of bread manufactui small bakers. “T have almost positive that this reduction ts being pra ticed id Mr. Hartigan to-day, ‘and I have sent out twenty inapect- ors on the east and went sides to make tests. Wholesale arrests under the Brooks law will covery of violation: ‘There is no law of a at jard loaf, but custom has made the five-cent loaf of about twelve ounces weight. ‘The bakers have not yet raised the price of bread, and two of the big- Fitty per cent. of the calfskin used im the manufacture of shoes comes ind the Balkan this country wow. How serious is the siuation was explained by one manufacturer, who called attention to the fact that the supply of raw leather had been inadequate for the last two or three Years, though the shoe trade, even » had fallen below normal. Dye makers are recovering con- fidence since t! lew England dye works, which have been working on half time for several years, opened with full forces, It is anticipated that they can take care of at least 50 per cent. of the wor formerly done abroa: Tt is in the prices of foodstuffs that the hand of the manipulator is \. With 10 cent, if not 15 cent, sugar threatened, flour showing an Increase of 20 per cent. and 6 soaring toward hitherto unhea of pric meats to-day jumped from two t cents @ pound over efices of | week. MEAT HAS FINALLY REACHED THE TOP. Here are meat pric quoted o-day ch Andesnel and Robert Streuneg, hington Market butchers, the first figures being those of last week, given now by comparison: gest dealers declared to-day that Rib roast, 26c.-28c. a pound, 28c.-| there was no immediate prospect of 30c.; porterhouse, 82c., 35c.; Delmon-| such a raise. xing the weight leo, 40c., 32c.; sirloin, 28¢.; same, | t ~~ foattiaiab sacs thet tam chops, 426: | PACKERS, UNDER STORM Bert stake ties tacsit pure che OF PUBLIC PROTESTS, hams, 20c., CUT PRICES OF MEATS, CHICAGO, Aug. 12.—It was ad- mitted at the stock yards that con- sumers agitating against high prices had considerable to do to-day with a fall of 40 to 50 cents per hundred weight in the price of hogs as com- pared with quotations twenty-four hours before. In some extreme cases the drop since Monday bagpbeen as much as a dollar, Threats of a general boycott against all kinds of pork had the effect of les- sening the demand from butchers. At the same time the receipts ef hogs here were greatly enlarged. The rivals to-day alone amounted to 40,000 as against 60,000 during the whole of last week, wher. the supply was the lowest in a quarter of a century, 19¢.-20c., 21¢.-22c.;, bacon, 23c.- 26c.-27c., and pork tenderloins, ham 2c, Bhc., Ife. "Thése increases are regarded reasonable and necessary by t packers, who declare that there is ortage of beef, but that it has For Constipation nothing to do with the war. Swift &| Nas | By follow the dis- J t THE EVENING WORLD, “WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1914, To-day’s prices for cattle, sheep and lambs were down 10 to 15 cents. Federal, State and \ city official to-day declared war on war-time food prices. United States District- Attorney James H. Wilkerson, apend- ing his vacation in Pentwood, Mich., sent word ‘here to-day that he will return to Chicago Friday and begin an immediate probe to learn why meat backers and wholesale food houses sud- denly boosted prices skyward. He in- timated that Federal investigation may be asked. —~—- U. S. RED CROSS TO AID WOUNDED IN FRANCE; SUPPLIES TO BE SENT. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—The fol- lowing announcement was made by the Red Cross to-day: The State Department to-day transmitted to the, American Red Cross headquarters an urgent re- quest from Ambassador Myron T. Herrick, at Paris, for a large quan- tity of hospital supplies for sick and wounded French sol The request was made for the Ameri- can Hospital in Paris, and called for 150,000 kilos of absorbent cot- ton, 150,000 kilos of ordinary cot- ton, 150,000 metres of soft gauze for dressings, 50,000 metres of starched gauze for plaster splints, and a large quantity of thin boxwood for splints, : Red Cross headquarters received directly from Mrs, Myron T. Her- rick, Mrs, Potter Palmer, Mra, Edith Wharton, the author, and Mra, Lucy Jay, for Red Cross work in France, a request by cable for medical supplies, including iodine, absorbent cotton, gauze, and other hospital necessities. reason why the House should not ‘The American Red Cross will sup-| pass a resolution asking for a report! ply these needs to the extent of|on what Secretary Redfield of the egpee it will have for them in the ship which will be chartered and sent abroad soon. Miss Mabel T. Boardman, Chairman of the Na- tional Relief Board, to-day cabled Am! dor Herrick that surgical supplies would be sent on the Red Cross shép, but that the full amount asked by him, requiring over 100,000 cubic feet of space, because of other shipments, and the necessity of carrying a large quantity of coal, could not be: provided at once. The Ambassador was asked inh this cablegram ‘to notify Mra. Herrick and the other ladies of the Red Cross plan: ee SBVERAL VESSELS SEE GERMAN CRUISERS NEAR SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR BAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aus. 2— ‘aptains of several vessels making port last night asserted positively they had seen both the German cruisers Leipzig and Nurnberg cruising in a radius of thirty miles of the Farallone Islands esterday. The Nurnberg was supposed obo In the Far Bai o miles captain sald. The captain of Henrietta also reported rnberg at the same time Capt, RE. Carey of the fishing tug Pedro Costa said he passed between the Nurnberg and the Leipzig at 6 P. M. suMciently near the Nurnberg to tread her name on the astern. At this time the Nurnberg and Letpatg were About thirty-five miles apart, the Nurn- berg being within five miles of the thirty-two miles cisco harbor th fishin t ¢ fishing tu, Hanting the Nu ond place. Ww lone: Farallones, which due west of San Fi psa «uae ITALIANS IN PARIS ASSURED BY MINISTER OF COUNTRY’S NEUTRALITY. PARIS, Aug. 12, 12.10 P. M.—Tommaso ‘Titton!, Italian Ambassador, issued and had posted at the Italian Embassy and in the Italian quarters Paris to-day igned notice stating: Italy claimed and will maintain the stri it neutrality. Therefore there is no need for Italians to be alarmed. They may continye to realde In France in full se- curity.” —— AMERICAN COLLEGE MAN, ARRESTED AS A SPY, IS SET FREE BY ENGLISH, HALIFAX, N. 8., Aug. 12.—John L. Ferguson, an American citizen, arrested &t Mahone Bay, N. &, yesterday, sua- pected of being a spy, has been released, It was sho’ European war hi prices.in the Un that to all warrini mi tena " companied by. hi Gonnul-Genera CONGRESS SEEKS LIGHT ON SUDDEN HGH FOOD PRICES Leaders, Including Underwood, Favor Inquiry—Blame Speculators. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Demanda| cruiser Suffolk, atill hovering about reached Congress to-day from every section of the country that an im- mediate ray of light be shed upon the) vie, of 9 situation which is producing record 4 breaking food prices in the face of the; biggest crops the country has bated seen. Leaders in Congress, whi of the jovi n that mously at public expense by taking advantage of the pretext that the rought about high tates alread; Five resolutions, all E the Representative Underwood, Department of Commerce knows of the reasons, if any exist, for high food, rices in the face of the record-break- ing crops and the reauced opportynity to sell abroad with ports closed and wentere at anchor to le prizes under the Representative Farr made a special note in his resolution of investigation that flour had jumped skyward al- moat over night. In his resolution introduced if the House to-day Representative How- ard called upon the Department of Justice to advise what steps are being taken to prosecute alleged combina- tion among dealers to advance the price of foodstuffs. The resolution also asked the Department.of Com- merce to advise regarding the quan- tity of foodstuffs, exported for the months preceding the European war and the quantity exported since the transatlantic fre escape being mi rules of war. beginning of the war. The preamble of the bill recites that the European war is being used by dealers as an excuse for boosting that such claims gre prices and false. Representative Kahn of California to-day said that he would offer a bill making it a penal offense for any two persons, firms or corporations to enter into an agreement to raise the price on articles of food. SCANDINAVIAN LINER, CROWDED TO THE LIMIT, OFF FOR COPENHAGEN ‘The Scandinavian-American line's big steamer Frederick VIII. sailed this ternoon for Copenhagen, crowded with She carried only Scandina- 4 Americans, refusing passage Dr. Morris ister to Den- ‘on ine ing F, Egan, United States Mii » who had been lecturinj e farming as followed in was one of the Passengers, He was a nited Btat 1 E. D, Winslow, at Ci his wife returned to ir was Counte nmark, ra fen, and pest ‘Another passen, lah Wachmeister. Admiral Count R. Cronstedt of the wedish navy returned to his command. had been here to | late for a new Swe Frederick VIII. aecioaiabeoiei CITY OF OTTAWA TO GIVE MOTOR TRUCK GUN BATTERY TO AID ENGLISH ARMY OTTAWA, Au with steel shields. It will en wih, iscuseed the skyward trend of flour and wheat to-day expressed themselves frankly, small array of demanding Secretary of Commerce should investigate the situation and make an immediate report, were in- troduced in the House by Rep: tives Farr, Moore, Kelly and Donohoe, all Pennsylvania members, and How- ard of Georgia, resenta- leader of the majority, said he could see no 12.—The city of Ot- tawa’s aid to England will be a ma- ehine-gun battery of four guns mount- ed on rapid motor trucks and equipped ee AGBRITISH FLEBT IN | MALT, [ENGLISH CRUISERS HOLD UP LINERS JUST OFF COAST Norwegian Tanker Halted by Both German and British Ships, encountered English and German cruisers within a short distance of New York. One, the Royal Mail liner Danube, blundered into the British the entrance of Ambrose Channel, after having passed within three erman cruiser further jown the coast. The Holland-Amer- ica line steamship Potedam plumped squarely into the glare of a cruiser’s searchlight, presumed to be from one of the British warships, off Nantucket last night. The Norwegian ofl tank steamer Conrade Mohr was success- ively held up by a German and a | British cruiser within three hours last night. The Norwegian ship's experience was the most vivid and indicated that the cruisers of the warring countries were near a clash. ‘»The Conrade Mobr is not equipped with wireless, and Capt. Boe had no idea that all the nations of the world were not at peace when at 10 o'clock last night, when he was off the east- ern end of Long Island, a swift war vessel approached from the south. Thinking it was @ United States \erulser bound for Newport Capt. Boe paid but scant attention. The cruiser came nearer and Capt. Boe saw that the strange veanel waa interested in him, Still he kept on |until a gun flashed and a shot whisred across his bows. He signalled to the engine room in a hurry and etopped. The war vessel came close along- side and Capt. Boe aaw that was German, but could not make out her name. An officer questioned him ask- ing the name of the ship and com- mander, what flag she flew, whith bound and what cargo. Capt. Boe’ answers were satisfactory and he was told he could proceed. The officer in- formed him that Germany was at war. For some time the cruiser steamed west in sight of the Mohr. Then she turned south and disappeared. Capt, Boe turned in, but was awakened at 1 o'clock by the first officer, who re- ported that another cruiser was ap- proaching from the south. This was a big vessel with three funnels, and. she also fired a shot across the tanker's bows and brought her to a’ stop. Capt. Boe was questioned again by an officer of the warship, which proved to be English, The tanker'n skipper was anxious for information, but all he could get from the English officer was that Engiand |s at war. Capt. Boe estimates that the Ger man and Englishman couldnt have been more than 2% or 30 miles apart at midnight. The English cruiser was in sight of the Mohr for an hour after the first encounter, steaming along south of the steamship lane | Harbor. ‘ The Royal Mail liner Danube, from Kingston and Cuban ports, came near | blundering straight into the cruiser Suffolk off Scotland lghtship at 1 o'clock this morning as she was rounding the light to enter Ambrose Channel. The Danube was-running without lights, as she had done every night since leaving the Jamaican port; the British crufser, which took two looks into New York harbor yester- day, was also without lights, Not until the Danube was almost upon the cruiser did ahe sheer off from the black mags in her path, As soon as she heard by wireless the identity of the sea policeman at m-| the harbor entrance the Danube un- masked ner ugbts. _Piun ket! D Capt. 8. W. i ? opee leading to the entrance to New York| of 10 o'clock li dropped anchor at Quarantine late: that he bad heard from his pilot tha: the Suffolk had been loafing on and the entrance to the Channel since The Danube had the unique experi- ecord ng to the word of several of her passengers, of having ast night. within three miles of a German cruiser on without being captured, ago she o' the way up from Jamaica Two days hauled the cruiser, Which was logging very few knots and sall- ing three miles or #0 to seaward. A: goon as t was made fm all At the o Gel seven sack: officers of Suffolk an ived there from Three ships in to-day report having| will be mado to get the mail out to one of the cruisers, now that she Suffolk, about the British st o identity of the cruiser out by the Danube's of- era the British fag was stowed and epeed was crowded on the engines in anticipation of a chi Mice of the British Consul- ‘al it was said to-day that six ane, 3 of mall for the men and the British crulsers Essex, 4 Berwick had been re- ¥ An effort resumably the ia hovering harbor, by an outgoing ——— GERMANY. 1S ANXIOUS TO HAV LEAVE COUNTRY AT ONCE. WASHINGTON, E ALL AMERICANS Aug. 12—Additional reassuring advices were received to-day by Secretary of War Garrison as to the situation of Americans in Germany. He had not been definitely advised that the Germ: an. Government had provide special trains to transpo! to v4 Amer- foans out of Germany, but he said other nations had done this and he would not be suprised if Germany took the same ‘Germany {se as anxidus to get Amer- tcans out of Germany as Americans are to get out,” Garrison said. ‘No country with a war on its hands wants to keep foreigners eating their food and getting in the way BRYAN TRYING TO PROTECT NAMUR generally. CONVENT, WITH ITS AMERICAN NOVITIATES WASHINGTON, Au of the Siaters of Notre Dame at Trin- ity College, steps be taken to protect the mother- house of the eisterhood at Namur, Belgium, where many American girls are novitia whero seri fears Mr. Bi stitution, * TROO co tion of his Mount Ath in religious In bis unitor ARCHER IN WASHIN | Huntington, Geographic |and well a lace this \/ASHIN' jthat the Ni England ts gold ships itt LONDON, Aus. military a response from Secretary of State ‘Namur ie one of the Belgian points PRIEST WOULD LEAD jonica, Father Bulatovitch purposes remaini: the crusading monks at the th rtar invasion of the thirte fourteenth centurt AND WIFE ARE SAFE urg, Germany, Word received from the Consul at that for Germany's move in were flashed to-day to the United States 12.—The ple near Washington, that ites, has met with a prompt jous fighting | xpected, far the motherhouse are felt by the nuna at Trinity Colle has promised to do every- ryan thing he can for the safety of the in- —~— PS IN UNIFORM VERED BY HIS COWL ST. PETERSBURG (via London), Aug. 12, 4 P. M.—Application for the reatora- commission in the Russian army has been made by Father Bulato- viteh, a former officer of the Guards, who is now su perion ‘of ®@ monastery on in the Peninsula of Ha- rders, and, in Imitation of of the th and will head his troops with his cowl, on FM CO} ear M. HUNTINGTON NUREMBURG HOTEL. |GTON, Aug. 12,—Areher M. . President of the American Boclety, and awife are safe t the Grand Hotel, Nurem- according to offict afternoon by Secretary . This was taken by the State Department to mean {x not now under previously reported. an |GOLD BEARING CRUISERS ARE WARNED BY WIRELESS NORTH SEA IS MINED. Huntington rrest @8 & spy as GTON, Aug. 12—Warnings jorth Sea is mined and thi planning mining to retalla @ open sea Tennessee and North Caro- we ry Aviators Killed. , Bkeen, » and his mechenician, HORRORS OF THE FIGHTING IN FRONT OF LIEGE FORTS, TOLD BY AN EYE-WITNE German Refugee Says Men Advance in Face of Rapid-Fire Guns . Until It Was a Sheer Im- possibility to Continue. A HARBOR. LONDON, Aug. 12.—The Standard to-day publishes berg, dated Maestricht, Au: “Fugitives from the German me details of the advance into the invaders’ point of view. and I understand they intend to grate to America. in which militarism is rampant. Js the story of the march on gent one: of which touch the frontier. We elled in open goods trucks, and th journey was like a triumphal the following de- spatch from Count Rudolf Bhren- 11: army operating against liege have given Bel- gium and the attack’ on Liege from They belonged to a detachment which was overpowered by Belgian cavalry and fled into Holland to escape capture. “They were disarmed by the Dutch soon after they crossed the frontier, They have bad enough of campaigning and a country Here Liege as related to me by the most intelll- “We went by train to Herbesthal, the last German town, the outskirts trav- prog- ress, everywhere acclaimed by the people. Old men came out to bless and women and girls, passed alongside us with kind worts and more substantial gifts of food and us, drink. “At Herbesthal we took to the cavalry scouts who preceded the body. JEFORE INFANTRY. towd of Limbur; cavalry before our arrival. Th habitants of Verviers watched withdrawing Into their houses peeping from bebind closed shut eutrs road and advanced into Belgian territory. On the frontier itself there waa abso- lutely no resistance, though | believe @ few stray shots were fired at our main CAVALRY HAD CLEARED WAY “after occupying the first Belgian where locomotives and rolling stock were found, we con- tinued our advance to Verviers, whic was cleared of Belgian troops by o e in- our march into the town with terror, and itters, evidently fearing we would commit on. thing of the kind happened and we marched to the offices of the munt- cipality and tore down the Bel, wian flag, which was replaced by @ German flag amid the cheers of our men. A procla- mation of the annexation of Verviers and the district was read in French outside the town hall and posted parta of the place. Mi id the residents man military authorities would be ished by summary execution, in all were pun- “A German ofMfcer took over the administration of the town and be; by requisitioning food and other es and various kinds of subsistenc for the German troops. “Among the reg ions gent was one compelling the to loroed speople to be within doors by sunset and not leave their houses before su! nrise, ‘They were forced to find quarters for our men and hand over the bread from the bakeries, also to yield stored meats, groceries and eatables of all kinds to such an extent that the Hel- giang themselves were left in a plight. the civilian inhabitants was st sorry Any kind of violence against rietly prohibited, except when we were at- tacked. Then we had orders to soot without hesitation in self-defens: THEN FOLLOWED THE ADVANCE ON LIEGE. rapidity the advance to Lie) first part of the journey being by train, but not far, Then followed with astonishing » the done a = NM, ———— ae nes ou! tacks on the Belgians Liege, and, th ards the sights Teeaw with dread. sale slaughter of our Agal given us by officers, running droppi: Ing again on our continuing to fire and advaneli more, alwaya lines of our enemy. reseed nearer, nearer “AS we bepame thinner an thinner, burst am ing, and sucl us, killing and wounds were far than death itself, while the rife of the Belgians mowed down our in dozens, scores, hundreds, SAYS OFFICERS WERE RECK: IN BRAVERY, “Have you ever been under Lj around you? Ever seen the effect’ modern artillery trained on hum together? fis co not Lei day and others by ni “Our officers, reckleas in their n be! inue tl imagine what we went soldiers you were ol to their sufferin, Ever seen of wounded all sd Ever heard the - ot in order ta }- battle? If not, you Some of our attacks were it. pein ery, led us, urged us, encou! to throw away our lives, was much unnecessar; Piece marched ight at the enemy’t and tow! mouths of tillery as if on manoeuvre in # with sham opponents. It was cent, but not wa conducted in thii structive weapons, ’ “It there were moments when we |) broke and ran, it was further becat ‘advance into the Saws, death w: the first) amsnults, with th a sheer Imposstouiy 2 Git ir trous endings, the spirit of the tackers was broken, The lack of thuslasm spread through all the and retarded success, it wil lentless discipline we ware . to hurl ourselves repeatedly which seemed unbreakable, “Then, when onl: pee Lang at tines: y a fraction of our, regiment survive: , we moved different part of the battlefield, wi fresh orpe were brought up to through ¢t It was common talk amon~ our © sane course of act that hundreds of wounded were for hours without any kind of ade- quate attention, for the simple it was impossible to reach them dle had stmilar things to relate. @ young German who told this tale of war was well and refined, a conscript from a midget, ¢ family. His companiona; The wholesale cremation of 4 of German soldiers fighting parere Liege also t scribed who have crossed the front tates Holland. ii Otficers explained to the men ki by German fugitives, oa it was necessary to burn the in order to pr n w ac no ‘ent them becot to the living and that @ thing disrespectful to who had died for their country thus x of thy