Show I ONE HUN ARMY TASTES MISERY Von Mackensen's Men fen Reach Home Starving and Nearly Naked Berne M March 1 Seldom Seldom has a 3 victorious victorious vic vic- army come to so miserable an end as that of or the tho Germans commanded by Field Marshal von on Mackensen who driven out of or Rumania after t the e signing nin of ot the ar ar- On their way home through Hungary Hungar Hungary Hun Hun- gar gary the redoubtable divisions which had accompanied Von Yon M In triumphal march through Transylvania anla and Rumania lost sold or were vere robbed of or virtually all their belongings One division tho the which had hall fought victoriously In Poland and Lithuania escaped into Germany without as much muchas I as 09 a n. horseshoe nail of or Its property and clad in ridiculous disguises of or shabbiest civilian clothing and Austrian Austrian Aus Aus- trian uniforms sold to them at Raab they said at mo monstrous I prices The story of or their inglorious homeward Journey as told by a member of ot one of or the German divisions to tho the ischo Ische follows Orders had been given that shed should be avoided so tho the victors I of or and turned their faces toward Hun Hungary ar and leaving leav leav- leaving ing Ing- incalculable supplies of or flour sugar wine hospital stores and agricultural agricultural agri agri- cultural Implements behind them thorn made m their Wl way pursued by the Rumanians over the thc wintry There wore were no Hungarian n troops waiting wollIng to intern the German Cerman legions and the few entente soldiers in Budapest did not count Vc Ye were told that the entente rn- rn tente would Impose still harder conditions conditions condi condi- in tho the west so wo we were ordered to allow ourselves to be bo disarmed by a Do ridiculous minority Then be began an a second march over o I the snowy steppes Thousands of old men did not not- taco face this trial I and were taken prisoners by the Wal Wal- who sent them back over tho the mountains Into Rumania Several di divisions dl- dl visions succeeded in bu buying ln locomotives tives cars and coals nt at and md thus finished their Journey by train A groat t mass of or material was WOos sold sod Hundreds of or transport and other wagons ons were simply left in the road or broken brokon up for firewood The trains were allowed to go 10 to Raab whence by order of or the entente the Hungarian government sent them to the old internment camp for tor Russian prisoners at Papa Small things of or value volu that we wo had saved were taken from us b by Magyars l on the tho way from Raab to Vienna With ith tho the divisional mone money chest plundered of ot Its contents by Magyars f the thc Infantry division reached rel German Aus trian soil through the last remaining gap near which the Czechs closed a few fen days dl's later undoubted undoubtedly I at nt tho the behest of the tho entente |