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Show TELLS OF FLEEING FROM EUROPE'S WAR Salt Lake. Sept. 1 Though Eu-ropes Eu-ropes armies were prepared tor the swift advent of the war. the minds of the people, were not and the shock of it provoked a deep feeling of desolation deso-lation in the homes of the countries concerned, according to Miss Margaret MacVlclile, head of the commercial department of the Salt Lake high school, who arrived home from Europe Eu-rope yesterday Speaking briefh of her experience after war disturbed Kurope, Miss Mac-. Vichle said last night "Everywhere I was treated with the greatest courtesy Getting out of the country was made difficult by I the sudden monopolization of the railroad rail-road service by the government lor transportation of troops Within half an hour after war was declared, cavalry cav-alry was moving In Cologne., In an incredibly short time all trains were requisitioned and loaded with troops, with the result that tourists were unable un-able to leave. "I was most impressed by the sense of impending tragedy that seemed to grip the minds of the people. peo-ple. Homes were desolated by the leave-taking of fathers, sons and brothers with a suddenness that left no time for fortification of the emo! lions against the grief of parting. There was no gradual awakening of a I martial feeling born of a spirit ot patriotism, only the shock of the sudden setting in motion of a great machine of national defense and of- fense, before dancer had been sensed. It stripped the departure or the sol-diefB sol-diefB for the front of the element of valorous sacrifice and gave but a t-enso of submission to the Imniut able. "More than anything else, the ro-lentless ro-lentless threat of h i man life sacrificed sacri-ficed and human happiness blighted, i 1 med to fill the minds or the people. peo-ple. Never were farewells to departing depart-ing warriors productive of sorrow 01 more inconsolable nature in the hearts of those who saw them no forth to battle "Because of the inconveniences ot travel, almost Insurmountable at times, the trip home was wearying, but it Is good to be here once more. Had the coming of the war been less sudden, many of the tourists from America would have been gone from the counrry. As it was, I do not know that any suffered from ill treat mrnt, though many did from inconvenience." incon-venience." oo |