Show Under the an een By BRAND i All An through the night the field gray an undulatinG undulating undulating un un- hosts wound through the tho t o city bayonets and helmets hel- hel of stream awoke to find on and Brussels mets t In French ench Its walls great teat white Sixt b General signed and German reprisals If 11 threatening S von Arnim hostility occurred demanding de- de act ot of overt of contribution manding In addition a a. c wen well as immense Immen francs as quantities of oC supplies and to deliver up Brabant province of the the 1st of or Sep Sep- francs b by three and For three days stream flowed loed b by and nights the gray gra crushed b by the sorrow sorro B Bru Brussels was humiliation of an alien and phenomenon of phenomenon Thero was tho the same there were no the tho brilliant sun though longer any Belgian flags s to catch its wonderful light in their folds Those burning In hi the the were cook stoves at ati Grand Grand' place an and the were 1 their their sentinel sentinel- sentinel posts posts posts' There Thero were no i iI to trains trains It was said were I 1 stop there were no horses suddenly no I automobiles ex except except except ex- ex no taxis no officers those in which German Gelman soldier on the box raced about town a n. his knees There with a rifle across were no telegraphs and no telephones of ot all and strongest phenomenon It was as there were no newspapers though we had suddenly been plunged I I into the dark for however Inaccurate have served as a newspapers would It clearing house fo for the time wild and fearful fearful such a It tide as s I rumors that set in hi on might overwhelm Q one one Staid persons ns the flash lash of ot had heard firing tiring and seen I searchlights sweeping the cannons and I eastern skies sIdes at at night or the Germans I at Mo 1 10 1 ln the cemetery were mere fortifying 1 outside the torn tov or the they lembeek just St. St had mounted cannons at Jette 1 Pierre In order to horn bombard bard Brussels raised were not if it the tribute money by Sunday Sunda morning The emperor of Austria was dead England had de- de m and the United Glared elated war on Holland States on Germany and everybody I j came to the legation to learn if the rumors were true The flood of them mounting all the day seemed to be at nt full tide in the somber hour of twi twi- light Of OC a piece cf cr them were those sill silly billy tales ces blag cs those humbugs s of or my activities tales that by their currency were to plague me for so man many weeks The first of those l S I 1 melodramatic tales Hues assigning assigning- to iu LJ m Jill me a i role role for which I was never In an any iso I designed was to the lie effect that I had tad g- g gone gone n out to the east of oC town to meet the German army and had told the tho commanding officer with I know not not what theatrical flourish that If ono one stone of Brussels was touched AmerIca America America Amer Amer- ica would declare war on Germany German The The- ridiculous tale was spread about I in Brussels and in Belgium and over I the seas sens to be published and wafted abroad to no purpose other than to Af pf- Afford ford one more superfluous proof of ot the place the cinema has lias in the affections of ot mankind and of ot that Inveterate vice of ot reporters who foolishly think that they can Imagine ine something that ismore is Imore I Imore more Interesting than the truth At the lc legation atlon there were numerous numerous numer- numer numer-I numer j ous callers Americans English Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian Alan each ach with his peculiar personal r problem his little worry WOrlY his desire for comfort and reassurance and we were bedeviled all day with the difficulties of ot getting off ort dispatches The Germane Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans mane had been most kind bowed smiled smiled smiled smil smil- ed saluted even and assured us the they could go but go-but but they never went and when we want to learn the reason wh why we were sent from pillar to post and from Peter to Paul with protestations explanations apologies even But the dispatches remained On Saturday morning at half halt past 7 o'clock I was awakened out of a n. deep sleep and there was Gustave ver very white and shaken In a breathless breathless breathless breath breath- less voice Les Allemands sont la Deux genereaux genereaux gen gen- en- en ereaux The Germans are there Two generals generals' I put on a a. dressin dressing gown and went down and there in m my office was General General Gen Gen- eral oral von Jarotsky and arid a nice looking young youn ade de camp politely come to return my mr call Je ne Buis pas encore en I am not yet et In uniform I said offering of offering or- or 1 fering m my excuses for tor m my attire and andi i the general laughed slapping his yellow yellow yellow yel yel- yel- yel low puttees with a little silver-headed silver riding crop He expressed his regret g that the telegrams had not been sent Rent but he had arranged all with the director director tor of or tele telegraphs and I could now send them to the bureau When hen the long lonh da day having 81 slowly owl declined toward 10 1030 30 a. a m m. m came came and r I could Dive ive him the tho good lood goodnews news flows about our dispatches we Voe drove to the bureau of ot telegraphs but the noncommissioned officer was patient J. J i stolid and unmoved unmoved and and the dis dis- dispatches r patches were not sent It was useless s and nd we gave up and drove away to the Hotel de Ville We Ve found M M. Max In j his hia bureau explained the situation and b he sent for General von yon Jarotsky who e a appeared bowing Bm smiling nS' nS clicking his i s spurs urs It was very strange he said let Jet them bring In the des es r telegrapher Immediately before him land and he would issue instructions that should bo be final One Ono could not help j feeling sorry Borry for the det dett te- te 1 In view of ot what was about Tto to happen to him t Then the general and the burgomaster burs ter wr discussed the he conditions of ot tho the city t Owing hourly more desperate M. M Max fax ax explained there was no food toad no forage foras-e for tor tho the horses and finally re reserving re- re 8 serving the worst for the last lost that there was no mone money in the he banks banks so so that hat he could not pa pay the le levy ex explaining ex- ex g that the treasure In ht the Banque upon which the hole Whole of ot the tho financial system of Bel- Bel gt turn Slum is based had all been transferred to Antwerp They did wron wrong It was not correct thau g said Bald jd the gen general ral growing red M. M Max shrugged ed his shoulders and fion on general reflected Finally he ho s said Jd that at he would accept checks check notes or orsome some ome written evidence of or Indebtedness and nd then he went away wa and left us Ug And when ho had gone one M. M Max fax ex- ex that he had taken advantage of or our presence to mention to the general I 4 L THE MY ENE-MY STILL COMES 0 h T D P on 1 a 7 I c r. r I I Ut 11 1 f y t o o I. I 14 l I I. 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J J z lU v s1 J M rJ j r r ar c cf r f of l ff S t tI I r etS ri lre e 0 of e rs v G e ct gin m o 5 Mar 1 r o rUs r s. s G Q- Q n 77 P Soro y Y Pa Ja J a y orr tor that t difficult point about the I francs he was glad of our company and countenance as he broke the news new I to the peppery pepper little man Th The Tho eP expecting expecting- x someone some someone someone I one asked us to wait in the Salle du Colle College e. e where the aldermen aldermen aldermen alder alder- men In the room with the great oa oaK table and the high backed chairs and the tapestries of ot the time timo of ot Charles V their various coats of mums arms all open to asked asked us with many apologies apologies apologies apolo apolo- I gies for tor It had been turned into a chamber for him and it was given Iven a a- somewhat more modern and contemporary contemporary contempo contempo- note by the little Iron cot where the brave burgomaster slept those troubled troubled troubled trou trou- bled nights and nl nights and and a n. valise and toilet case kith a a. little mirror ort oil a table and anda a chan change e of ot clothes hung over a chair Finally the des tele came a miserable little man with th the dismal air all of one ono In Sunday blacks s atypical atypical a atypical typical rond Fond de cuir who could ac accumulate accumulate accumulate ac- ac cumulate difficulties and find excuses like functionaries the world over oer whether at or Babylon whether at Brussels or Toledo who are arc much more fertile In reasons why a n. given s-iven thing cannot bo ho done than in expedients to get it accomplished When the came in ho wrote out an or order er designed to overcome overcome overcome over over- come the official reluctance of the dl- dl dl went out and returned presently presently pres pres- flourishing the order triumphantly triumphantly for tor it had the generals general's sig sig- nature OUR DIFFICULT POSITION As Count Costa ha had said sald the morning me toe Germans entered Brussels Brus Brus- Brussels sels our position there was delicate Diplomatic representatives accredited to the king of ot the Belgians our place was near the court and the government government govern govern- ment which had retired to Antwerp I realized this fact of course and had discussed and settled seWed the point of etiQuette etiquette etiquette eti eti- quette with Monsieur Davignon the Belgian minister r for or foreign affairs The situation was unprecedented Never before beCore save wh when n the Germans German entered Paris In 1870 ha had diplomats remained when a n. court and government government government govern govern- ment had gone gono and the cases were not precisely on all fours as the In lawyers say 1 Tho Germans had shown us personally personally per per- every courtesy courtes and yet we wc were not In communication with our governments between us and tho the telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph wires In Antwerp were hostile armies and It was not difficult to imagine Imagine Imagine Im Im- agine that there might be uneasiness In those four capitals where governments governments govern overn- ments were waiting waiting- for tor word from us And then on that Sun Sunday ay a day of dull dun and rainy rainy- skies as If the fine weather were wear weary at last a n. man mans s somehow got through the lines from Ghent Glent riding as though he had been in tn Brownings Browning's s 's poem with a letter from our consul Mr Johnson bearing hearing two telegrams for tor me from front Washington ton one approving m my cour course e and mind the other raising the question of whether the le legation le- le gation should not be removed remo to Antwerp Antwerp Antwerp Ant Ant- to keep In communication with the Belgian government I had a feeling and it was only a feeling that m my place was In Brussels Indeed d. d on Sunday Sunda morning after the entry of or the Germans the Count CountS S S- S an official of ot the tho foreign n office of office office of- of fice had come to the legation formally formal formal- ly to express gratitude on behalf of the king and his people and of our attitude toward Belgium In having advised the burgomaster I not to offer after resistance to the German arm army he ho was generous I enough to say that our action had saved the elt city I had no vision of or what was coming coming coming com com- ing of ot course but I ha had a strong im impression impression impression im- im that for fOI the moment there was work to bo be done dono there There were people In trouble the they wore wore coming to the legation at all hours I of ot the cia day and ni night ht and while in inmost inmost inmost most cases sympathy was all ono one could give Ive them It seemed in many of at those cases to be what the they most needed and desired There were Americans and American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican Interests to be bo looked after atter and andI I had assumed al also o the protection of ot British inter Interests In the land And then the mere presence presen e of ot diplomatic representatives of neutral powers was Itself a kind of restraint and especially especially espe espe- clan the presence of representatives of ot America whoso whose public opinion almost al almost almost al- al most Immediately became the jury jur before be before before be- be fore which the world tried its great grent cause Y But we must get into communication tion with Vas Washington and with civilization civilization civili chilI again and since our dispatches would not be forwarded from Brussels Brus Brus- sels the sels-the the never sent one of oC them them and and since the nearest rest telegraph telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph station was Antwerp it was necessary to go to Antwerp For this service Gibson volunteered and Mr l Blount an American volunteered to drive drive him In his car I found m my general g with an aide and anel an orderly just dismounted from I sweating steeds on the steps stops of or the in the court of oC the I Hotel de e Ville bran brandishing his riding rid rid- 11 rid riding 1 ing crop ve very red shouting to a group of or BIu Brussels sels come to I present their bons for commandeered I goods and Imploring payment One after the other the general snatched the little papers from tho uplifted suppliant suppliant suppliant sup sup- pliant han hands s and ono one by hy ono one returned them with a gruff g gut an anthen and then seeing me rushed forward smiling smiling smil smil- ing with outstretched hands and a welcoming Ah Alt mon ministre We Ve went up through the noble nohle halls haUs al already already already al- al ready transformed b by sl signs ns that had been put up for tor the convenience of ot the Brussels people having having- dealings there although with some somo lack of ot Imagination imagination imagination im im- the they were nl all In German and antI with a a. smile he gave me mc a CL lais- lais ser passer permitting Gibson and Blount to pass through h the lines Jines to Antwerp and to return and after luncheon they started on their dangerous danger dang ous mission lon with the cipher telegrams I ha had prepared for tor Washington There was nothing then but to wait walt and I could not not resist the temptation to remain out of ot doors all the afternoon afternoon afternoon after after- noon In the sweet airs air's anodyne to drive in the Bois Bols once more though somewhat to In my dismay I our motor with Its little flag attracted at attracted attracted at- at an an attention that was apt to prove provo embarrassing The crowds as- as as assembled uncovered as Rt the tiny flag went fluttering b by and cried Vive 1 lAmerique Long live America I Brussels t showed after all few outward outward outward out out- ward signs of change chang save Savo an occasional occasional occasional occa occa- body of ot tired d soldiers marching along now and then a motor filled I with officers whizzing by an and 1 the folded vans of the making I There were few vehicles Inthe in inthe inthe the street and life was as dead ead there were sadness and |