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IMAGINES WAR IN NEW YORK, WITH COUNTRYSIDE A WASTE, TO PICTURE Evening World BELGUM'S WOE Correspondent Reaches Malines When.Bursting Shells Shatter Church and Destroy Painting of Priceless Value. PATIENT PRIESTS, UNAFRAID, MOVE ABOUT IN WRECK. Terror Lies in An Everywhere and Shadows of Zeppelin Airships Near. mopyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). (Special Cable Despatch ANTWERP, Sept. 1—The German: this morning. the city than in the four days prece mobile while the shells were still burt the Brussels road was banging away station square, supported by a company of chasseurs, was intermittently replying. Did you ever hear shell fire at close range? No? At first it sounds Ike the mournful yowl of a chained- up hound. As It approaches it in- creases in volume until it resembles the wall of an automobile siren. ‘When it bursts in your vicinity you know what the San Francisco earth- quake was like. Two shells had burst in fifteenth century church of Notre Dame three minutes before we reached there. The dust had not yet settled. I entered the church with the cure and two Franciscan monks, whom German shell fire cannot drive | from their posts of duty. One shell had torn its way through the buttressed side of the church, Jeaving a gaping hole in the stone wall large enough to let in a load of ha: Another entered through a splendid stained glass window and burst above the altar, ruining that famous Rubens painting, ‘The Miraculous Draught of F' 5 ‘The beautifully carved confession- als were destroyed. Massive columns and statues of saints were shattered. On all this ruin and devastation @ carved figure of Christ above the altar looked sadly down. Another shell had completely de- molished the facade of a houso, ex- posing its internal arrangements. It Jooked Ike a house on the stage, ‘where you can see several rooms at the same time. In the bedroom the only undamaged thing was a baby's @rib. In the crib was a fussy Teddy bear. The local authorities in Antwerp provided us with a little extra excite- ment last night. On going out to take an after dinner stroll around we feund the hotel encircled by a solid hedge of soldiery. All foot and ve- Bicular traffic was stopped, There were the same precautions at staff headquarters and the royal palace. It seems that the secret police learned yesterday that a plot existed te terrorize Antwerp with bombs, four German spies dressed Red Cross nurses having been arrested Hence the extraordinary precautions VIEW OF MANHATTAN UNDER SAME CONDITIONS. No description, no matter how graphic, can bring home to Americans just what this war means to Belgians. The destruction wrought in the en- virons of Antwerp as part of the acheme of defense is in itself almost incredible, Imagine, if you ean, that an enemy entering the United States from Mexico had succeeded in driving the army and a considerable propor- tion of the population into New York City and its Immediate vicinity and bottling them up there. Imagine a military sone of ten city blocks in wid%h stretching across Manhattan from the Eust to the North River and every single building in this zone razed. * In © three-mile wide zone starting won, che Mudaon near Tarrytown and sweeping ia a great circle te New Rochetle, imagine every village razed, every palatic: country house dy- namite |, every tree cut down, Imagine un ordinarily populous countryside as deteric | ax the ruins of pompeil. Imagine every road leading to New York filled with fugitives carrying their most precious possessions on their backs, In baby carriages or in pushcarts, Imagine these poor, homeless fugutives overcominy fear sumMciontly to stop, kneel and mutter > hasty prayer before some roadside amtce ‘Chen, within the city, !mayine every strect car stopped, every street ght extinguished, every shop, res- | thi taurant, saloon closed at 8 and every ‘window in the town absolutely dark @ 10 o'clock, the only light coming ) : 5 In the course of a single hour they poured more shells into the: twerp, With Spies) to The Evening World.) 8 resumed the bombardment of Malines ding. I entered the city in my auto- ‘sting. A German battery a mile down steadily and a Belgian battery in the from stearchlights atop the skyscrap- bers sweeping the sky. Stretch your imagination to all the minute habits and details of dally lite interfered with—no private vehicles of any Kind permitted on the streets; millionaires obliged to ride in the sub- way or go afoot; commandeered auto- mobiles driven by soldiers tearing madly through streets regardless of speed laws; police with armed rifies and swords using them on the slight- est provocation; citizens halted at the entrances to railway stations, tele- graph offices, the post-offices, banks; a bayonet at your breast and a mill- tary pass bearing your picture de- manded before you can enter. Imagine Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston in the hands of the enemy; members of Congross and the Cabinet worried sick at the Wal- dorf with fear at what has befallen their families left in Washington. Imagine President Wilson living in the house of the Mayor, the State Department doing business 'n a ram- shackle school building; the Metro- | politan Museum, the University Cluo, Carnegie Hall and most of the the- atres converted into hospitals, while trains filled with soldiers, blood- stained and bandaged, pour into the Pennsylvania and Grand Central s tions, Imagine newspapers single sheets the size of a handke |chief; homeless, helpless, hopeless fugitives from country districts who must be fed and housed by the city itself; in a city without amusenieut without music, without lght, with- out laughter, Imagine going to bed at night expecting to be awakened by a bomb from a dirigible burst- ing in your bedroom. AUTOMOBILES TEAR MADLY THROUGH COUNTRY. If your imagination ts sufficiently elastic to picture such conditio1 ou will have a@ fairly accurate idea what war means to Antwerp, What the war means to the wretched inhabitants of the country occupied by the enemy no imagination can picture. For sheer excitement I recommend motoring in the country between the Belgian and German lines. Big game hunting is tame in comparison. I go out every morning with a military driver, who in peace times, is a young millionatre clubman in Brussels, but | now a private | nthe Grenadiers. | The country south of here {s not | unlike Long Island, except that it haa | huge windmills and many hedges. But} every hedge, every wall, every turn- ing in village streets has its perils, becauso you never know when you may-run into s patrol of Uhlans or of a squad of gentlemen in spiked helmets. So you tear through the deserted | countryside as though the Devil him- | elf were at the hind wheels, trusting » luck and speed. Yesterday I took Major I. I, Seaman of New York, who is here as @ volunteer for Red | Cross work, for a dash beyond the outposts. When we returned he re- marked: “If I have to make cholic between being captured by the Ger- | mans or riding with you, I choose the | Germans.” An attache of the American Con- sulate at Brussels has just reached here by automobile. He says all is quiet at the capital and evacuation | expected within a fortnight, a SAYS GERMAN SEAMEN THOUGHT BRITISH WOULD printed on LONDON, Sept. 1.—German seamen had been told by their officers that if they fell into the hands of the British they would be bound to the muzsiles of cannons and blown to pl according to a sailor belonging to a British de- | stroyer which was in the action off Heligoland, “When we brought our prisoners on deck for breakfast they held out their BLOW UP ALL PRISONERS, °°*" to the station, many bringing| ie a: heal, Sead ak A _ Ths wverme EVENING WORLD STAFF MAN TE ‘waist dah « a4 wom AY, SEPTEMBE RB 1,1 LLS OF SHELLING OF MALI BRITISH TROOPS NOW FIGHTING HARD AT THE FRONT TO.AL AMERICANS HRS HARRISON Widow of Former President, Returning on Liner Ryndam, Pays Them Tribute. “Americans will make a serious mistake if they adopt an attitude un- favorable to the Germans in thin great war for the preservation of the German national life. German cour- tesy and consideration for Americans everywhere within the empire have been too wonderful for words." So spoke Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, widow of the former President, when she came in to-day aboard the Hol- land-America line steamship Ryn- dam from Rotterdam. Mrs. Harri- son naid that in granting the first in- terview she had-ever given in her life she felt the Germans held her in thetr debt and the best she could say of them would not repay the cour- tesles they had extended to menand women who wore the Stars and Stripes in their buttonholes, Mrs. Phil Sheridan, the widow of the famous Gen, Sheridan; Mme. Ma- riska Aldrich, formerly a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and all the other of the Ryndam’s con- tingent’ of 1,072 Americans who were caught by the war in German terrl- tory bore out Mrs. Harrison's tribute. Mrs, Harrison, who was accom- panied by her daughter, Elizabeth, and Miss Mary Herod, of Indian- polls, were in Munich when the war camo. They left that city on Aug. 19 on one of the special trains arranged for by Ambassador Gerard and reached Rotterdam without Incident. The German Government, Mra, Har- rison sald, had arranged to send out three special trains a week to Hol-| land ports for the convenience of| Americans. The trains have every convenience for the comfort of travel- lers and are unhindered in their progress to the neutral ports. “When our train was about to leave Munich,” said President Harrison's the Obermeister of the city and a delegation of citizens came flowers and fruits for the American women who were leaving. The Ober- | meister took my hand in parting and| made a gracious speech wherein he} lauded Americans and told of hia| sorrow at our enforced departure. At various stations along the line the Villagers assembled and cheered us when they saw tho little American | flags we wore. In Munich men raised their hats to women who carried | the little badges of American colors.” Mrs, Harrison and the other two of | hands to be bound," said @ seaman, “That was wh ae ee cut their be a and why. others jumped Sreettiners toxre ther than ng fall into ir was her party paid a high tribute to the work being done in Munich by T. St. John Gaffney, the American Co) BEE EDDEF-1-96.04O96-4-5-0.449.46-60.06 PFD 6-G 6 DFT RORED Fevy ARTILLERY © AmiPRESSAS LONDON.—One British shell sent screaming after a German warship in the North Sea carried a verse written on it. It was tnacribed after an ex- change of courtesies between the British and German fleets shortly before the war, It goca: . “You gave us "bacca and you gave us beer, You made us happy while we were here; And in return we'll send you this, And hope to God It doesn’t miss.” LONDON.—An Italian organ grinder who was observed to be busy with pencil and paper near the West Hartlepool gas works was arrested as a pos- sible spy. The only document found on him was an unfinished love letter. LONDON.—The vicar of Ramsey Church, Isle of Man, is busy answering letters from indignant parishioners, During Sunday night services he of- fe.ed a prayer for “His Majesty's advisers.” He does not speak very dis- tinctly and most of the congregation thought he said is Majesty the Kaiser.” LONDON,—Sir Thomas Lipton ts paying half salartes tv wil his em- ployees who have gone to war, PARI ‘An old man of soldierly bearing applied to the chief recPulting officer at Vesoul for enlistment with his four stalwart, middle aged sons. The father had fought against the Germans in 1870 and begged to have another chance at them, He was seventy years old and the officer was compelled to refuse, The old man was overcome with grief and, touched by his disappoint- ment, the recruiting officer unpinned the Cross of the Legion of Honor from his own breast and fastened It upon that of the stout-hearted bid Frenchman, The four sons were accepted and left immediately for the front, A nightly spectacle tn the streets of London's West End ia English and French boys parading with German sausages impaled on swords, Lord Torrington and nine other gentlemen jockeys have enlisted as troopers in the British Nineteenth Hussars, In celebration of the Emperor of Japan's birthday yesterday large parties | of lantern bearers visited the British, French and Russian Embassies in| Tokio, The ovation was acknowledged by the Ambassadors of the countries concerned, Many German shells which made hits in the engagement off Hellgoland id not explode, according to British seamen, and at one time there were | five in the boiler of one of the destroyers, any one of which would have destroyed the ship had it burst. A sullor, asked what they did with them, | replied: “Oh, just shied them overboard. There was no room for such rubbish | aboard our yacht.” The German sailors showed equal grit. As one of the cruisers, decks aflame and mast and flag shot away, was alnking, the only man left in the forecastle hoisted the flag and then went down with the ship, Agan, and two children Meska and| Frod, accompanied her, travelled from | Berlin to Rotterdam on a “Gerard Irene and Loulse—all served as sten- ographers at the consulate to relieve the overworked staff. Ganere). Miss Harrison, her fri Appreciation for courtesies of the German people extended to Amert- cans was embodied In a statement drawn up and signed by Mrs, Har- rison and twenty-four other Am can refugees aboard. Stating it as a duty of the signers to set forth! the truth in the face of many false impressions, the memorial says in art: “From the time of the declaration of war until the time of departure nothing but kind treatment was a- corded us, no matter whethi were in the shops, on the streets or other public places, This spirit especially well shown, even ja the midst of thelr great sorrow, by a public meeting for Americans tn the Rathaus in Berlin, at which time the best wishes of the German na- tion were expressed to the American people, as well as sorrow, that the requirements of war were such that thousands of Americans must be de- tained in various parts of the em- pire. : “It {s not possible to enumerate all the various kindnesses accorded to Americans, It is enough to say that it would not be possible for any na- tion to be kinder to a foreign people in_times of war than was Soaenny” Mme, Aldrich, whose » Mrs, we) special,” making the trip without in- eldent or inconvenience. high time that the stores cir- culated by foreign newspapers con- cerning German atrocities und ‘bar- barities’ are contradicted,” sald the opera singer. “Il saw hundreds of Belgian and Russian prisoners in Ger- many, and they were as well treated as the peasants in the flelds. On the other hand, I heard from undoubted authority terrible tales of the Inhu- | manities practised upon German wounded by the ignorant peasants of Belgium, In Liege some peasants entered a house where a German wornan had just given birth to an in- fant, and they tossed the new-born babe out of the window to the street On the battlefields about Liege Bel- gian peasants, finding wounded Ger- mans, gouged their eyes out with blunt'sticks. Many Belgians dressed like Red Cross helpers killed German | wounded out of hand. | | “I was told by a German officer that | the German losses at Liege numbered | 11,000 In killed, wounded and cap- tured, and that the forts did not fall until after a Zeppelin passed over ©O098$0060060-000009006006 =] ————a hundreds of Ru in soldiers Were surrendered voluntarily because of starvation. They came into the German lines, pointing. to. thelr mouths and making signs that they needed food. Hundreds of cases of Russian canned foods had been found to contain nothing more palatable than sand. The Germans, she added, had put all their prisoners to work harvesting the crops throughout Ger- many. The harvest was now nearly all gathered and was plentiful. Andre Polah, Putch violiniet, who is making his first tour to this country, told of being arrested as a spy in Berlin. Things looked black for him, he said, because he had no proper identification papers; but he managed to send a message to the Princess Friederich Leopold, a sister of the Ka’ and she came to his rescue with an order for his release and passports. Walter R. Palm, of Cincinnati, voiced an opinion of German treat- ment of Americans at variance with those of Mrs. Harrison and Mme, Al- drich. He said: “In Berlin Americans were treated like dogs. They were followed every- where by crowds, sneered at and in- sulted. Because of the possibility of their being miataken for Englishmen Americans were warned not to speak anything but German on the street, and if they did not speak German they certainly were in difficulties. 1 saw the mob storm the British Em- bassy on tho night of Aug. 2, when the British Ambassador had to flee for his life out of a rear entrance.” Miss L. O, Ryckert, of Brooklyn, was with a party that spent many minutes of terror on the outskirts of Bremen, The troops tn their train began firing at hostile aeroplanes above the city with machine guns and rifles. ‘The civillan passengers feared any minute might bring the dropping of a bomb on thetr train. Miss Mary Henry, of Swarthmore, Pa, was arrested as a spy on the streeta of Dresden and searched in @ store, where the police took her to protect her againat a mob, She was smuggled out of a back entrance to save her from attack. W. V. Kellogg, @ lawyer of Water- town, N. ¥., was Jn Munich with his wife, son and daughter when tho rumors of war broke out. “We started on Saturday, July 31, said, “but got only as far court when we were ordered to leave the train, We had to hike it to le, thirty miles away, and we ere that night. My wife and daughter and son stood the long walk better than I did and made no complaint, At Luneville the French commandant put_us on a military train for Paris, The French soldiers were uniformly kind, but we had nothing to eat from Saturday after- noon until Monday morning, and, be- lieve me, is looked good to us.” Wiliam H. Carroll of Memphis, ‘Tenn., a lawyer and an old soldier who fought for the South, was ar- rested twice by the Germans as an English spy. Ho ts seventy-three years old and age is beginning to tell on him, He is partly deaf and the Impairment of his hearing added to the suspicions of the Gorman soldlors They took away his baggage, but spared him his money, he sald Georga,Spykerman, a deck steward on the Madam, completed his 216th trip across the Atlantic. He has heen twenty-five years in the ser- vice of the MHolland-American ling and knows thousands of the regular ocean travellers. He knew the prin- clpal passer son the Ryndam and was In constant demand on the voy- age. He has been twelve years on the Ryndam. Though the Ryndam was crowded to twiee her capacity, having 1,835 passengers In all, there was nothing but praise for the accommodations afforded the passengers, even in the steerage. All formal bars between them and troyed their defenses with heavy explosives.” Mme. Aldrich said she had been told thas em the geontier of Kast the three cabins were dropped as soon as the Ryndam sailed; stecrage pas- sengers w free to go anyw! on the ship. Outside of the Americans QLEGF-BLSEDIGS-84-20-3F525D OSG 249945 DIGODOHE ©6-94-625-2-00 28-97 00S OOOSOODE D2 FE DED Serer eer Ese ee ea OAT ATT ee FIRST BIG BATTLE IN AR MAY COME SOON GVER PAR ——_—___—. |Searchlights on Eiffel Tower Nightly Search SI | to Locate Zeppelins—No Decision Yet on Removal of Government. PARIS, Sept. 1 [United Press] —Although it is admitted that Fesults might follow a raid by the German aerial fleet over Paris, there no widespread alarm. The two aviators that have passed across the have done practically no damage, and if their intention was te throw city into @ panic they have utterly failed. The French aviators are prepa ing for a possible raid hy Zeppelins, and if one comes will go into the alr © and give them battle, 2 But it ts believed that no German aviator, fying across the city at great height they are forced to maintain to avoid the guns from the . Tower and other high structures, can gain any information regarding Gam ditions within the city that ts not area¢y known to Germany: Ase mnthar of fact there is no doubt in the minds of the chiefs of the War'0 3 the German spy system is in operation within the city and that every. gue le move ts promptly reported via secret channels to the German General Staff. ‘ Because of this the presence of the German aviators over Paris has | been minimised everywhere and no attempt has been made to give (hem {battle by the French aviators, although euch a , expected. The Cabinet questions of national defense were considered. In this connestion question of the removal of the seat of government to another centre, pr | from the theatre of hostilities, was touched on. No action was taken, > none will be until it 1s an absolute certainty that the city is to be bestaged, _ It was explained by the members of the Cabinet that every thovememt so far made has been of a precautionary nature. This is espectiily es is” the razing of the old buildings outside of the Paris fo?ts to give an uniae — terrupted sweep to the guns of the defense forts. The action taken was @ie | wise one of being prepared for any eventuality, but it ts known that. Gem. | Joffre told Minister of War Millerand that he did not believe that the Germans would ever get within fifty miles of Paris. To prevent any advantage to German aviators who might attemipt fly over the city at night the street lights will be extinguished. In tion the great searchlights on the Eiffel tower have been manned and nightly sweep the sky so that oncoming aeroplanes can be located, = The general in chief believes that the force of the German assault already beginning to show indications of being spent. The best of ¢ German troops were concentrated on the French left flank in a : effort to completely crush the combined British-French armies. o While the allies have given way under the force of overwhelming num! bers they have retreated very slowly and their defense has been extremely " stubborn, with the result that the German losses have far outnumbered | those of the allies. The War Minister told his colleagues that both Gen. Joffre aad Sir John French, the British commander-in-chief, agreed that German assaults were neither so deliberate nor so long continued as had been in the earlier engagements. Following the cabinet meeting M. Louls Malvy, the Minister of Interior, declared that conditions were improved. He stated that must be ready for anything that might happen and that this was the reason for all of the precautions that were being taken. “We are making many gacrifices and may have to make France will win in the end,” he said. “The nation is passing thi supreme crisis. We have everything prepared for a Jong war. we must be prepared to encounter reverwes as well as to win successes, But the spirit of the French people is unconquerable.” ' > In order to facilitate the removal of all of the people who desire 49 abandon Parts, the War Office to-day detalled for the use of the 7 Department fifty troop trains with a promise of twice that sumber ¢g morrow. ‘) ‘There was an enormous crush at the railway stations to-day, the use of all of the available police ¢o control the crowds and prevent serious accidents. The government is encouraging every no! ! voluntarily to leave the city eo that, should a siege actually come, the ber who will have to be fed will be the actual minimum. Of Four Rich Men Guarantee 4 Belgium $40,000,000 Fine” Copyright, 1914, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York Werld, (Special Cable Despatch to The Evening World.) LONDON, Sept. 1.—A despateh from The Hague correspondent | Daily Express says the four richest men in Belgium have . payment of the $40,000,000 war tax levied by the Germans on ‘The guarantors of the German demand are Ernest Solvay, the alkali Baron Lambert, Belgian representative of the Rothschilds; M. great mine owner, and Baron Empain, railway magnate, Their act was at the solicitation of the Burgomaster, or Mayer Brussels, The despatch asserts the correspondent's opinion to be that guarantee of the demand was all that saved Brussels from @ fate similar: to that meted out by the Germans to Louvain, : passenger list con- en of @ acore of! to Bollv-| }the Rynaam’ tained men and wor nationalith from Chine ] Heyond being stopped and boarded by a British boarding party from cruiser in the English Channel, the Ryndam came over unmolested. No warships were sighted In the At Male cayor’s Rollef Committee found thirty cases of destitution on the Ryndam and_ provided the unfortu- nates with transportation to thoir destinations, FRENCH DEPUTY SAYS | GERMAN TROOPS HAVE NOT OCCUPIED NORTHERN CITIES Sept. 1 (Asnoctated Press).—A despatch to the Reuter Tele gram Company says that a member of the French Chamber of Deputi one of the northern departm France has arrived at the Frenc’ cap- {tal and makes the declaration that there are no Germans at Lille, Roubalx or Turcoing W, W. ASTOR GIVES | $125,000 TO BRITISH | WAR RELIEF FUND. LONDON, Sept. 1, 12.10 P, M.—William Waldorf Astor has contributed $13,000 to the Prince of Wales Relief Fuad, HS AND &@] ‘ LONDON, Order funy’ from Nearest: Deaiea