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Show ITSHTllIl i MOTES Churches Blown Up in Villages; Vil-lages; Germans Fight Among Themselves. Hatred of War Rapidly - Growing Among Soldiers Sol-diers of Kaiser. By PHILIP QIEBS. (New York Thnes-Chh aso Tribune Ca'oie. Copyright.) :. a R r o r i ; e ? r o n i 1 1 ; n t ? ' 1 1 1 : a n - (H'ARTER?, Oct. 0. The enemy is vvorkine; feverishly behind his line upon new plans which he hopes will stave on a decisive defeat in the field for some months at least. I am afraid there is no doubt now he will destroy every village. j :-n his wake and every town if he has rime to do so. -There are already many villages tnirn-inp; tnirn-inp; opposite onr fifth army and elsewhere, else-where, and the prisoners and civilians who escape to our linos' brine: tales of demolition on a big scale and enormous looting. Several churches, such as those aT Harnes. llenin. Lietsrd and Cour-celles. Cour-celles. north of Douai, have been blown up during the last few days, probably to prevent our observation when we enter : hat territory, and I suppose we shall soon be wandering through another track of wilderness such as t hat lyine: beyond Bapaume and Feronne when first we went up that way nearly two years aco. I lve already a : hided to the scenes of looting in Cam bra l during the recent cays. From further information piven us bv prisoners and captured documents, they seem to have been ery disorderly and reveal the iow stale of discipline. They began on September t, when all civilians were given two hdurs' notice to leave the city. As they were only allowed al-lowed to take lOit kilos of hiirsrasre. a vast amount o: valuable property was left behind, be-hind, and this was seized on by the officers offi-cers and men. They foucht among themselves them-selves for the plunder. In a riot between Prussian and Ta-arian Ta-arian soldiers, one officer and fifteen Prussians were killed, the officer being t hrown from the third floor of a house, and his neck was broken. Easy to Get Passes. The state of things became so bad that the German command put the town out of bounds to all troops except the defending de-fending garrison, bin it seems to have been easy for German soldiers to get a special pass giving them permission to isit Canibrai to get "souvenirs." .One man obtained the sum of 14''"" marks as the price of brass he was able t'l bring back, and everything was plundered, plun-dered, irw -hiding the consecrated vessels of the churches in Carnhrai. So far there cxips not seem to have been any deliberate delib-erate attempt to fire the whole city, and the fires which I reported, and whose smoke I have seen, are 1 so. a ted in certain cer-tain quarters, such as one large and two small blocks of buildings between the theater and Place d'Armes. A It h ou g h m a n y G e r m a n s o -1 i e rs a re fghting bravely and maintaining a stun-bo"i stun-bo"i resistance in rear guard actions and counter-a: iacks. there s certain proof that there is among the mass of them a." growing sense of the hatred of war ?.nd despair, which is sharpened because they are en raced against their leaders fro have brought them to this plight. irT,3 n prisone rs tell us T ! inde? i niirn ad -rirpcigf) (he Seventh ravairy division at Ta mi Hies, in the northern suburbs of Ga mbrai. August 2f . and when, .it the end of his address, he called for rhera fo- ihe kaiser, only the officers rerd-ul. men keeping silent: and acain. when H'.ndenburs appeared amorip them, only one word greeted Their former hro. - Lack of Loyalty. Jt was 'he word hunce", t)-p mst terrible word in t'e mouths of a mob. Tn a German order jpsud to the Fifty-first Fifty-first rcimenr of ih"1 Eleventh division it :s written: "That the number of cases in t h-.-Yi nen hive disregarded thir oatii of allegiance inread considerably of 1st." The document goes on to say ior, apnrt from tiie crirnes of bad rhur-acTers. rhur-acTers. "th.Te is a noticeable iack of rriiitary loyal 'y among t ' nn." Tim 1 due. it is said, to to rel"iM ji-tion o! runishmen's and to the d-lav ' roijrt martial. " "ow.i rds a r.d men w ; ;- o u t r-ai riorum await thir "-ial i;-u.jdv for a ic p"ri'"" .-mfortabie rfiarl'r? out of ranc-1 of hostile fire " I; propose? T' rmd" this t'ate of trnr? by form ins rvid punihmnt on-ri'-K-, who to he made to work within with-in rme of tho British cups, ranving up a tt u-uni t ion. wiring tren-'hs and m-n-lin; md. A bo v ail, avp this do uniert .".Fvry effort irn?' ho made to ri ..rovf 'riT i tf who hang a ou t our r.1 i 1 wa ".' Fts'ions at home and attempt U prsuaJ 0 ; r n p n not fo rrMrn lo the f ro r. t " Large numbers of tir to German j cnidie:? f'im people at home refer to ti" i wr as "the grfH' ?w;p. !)-," a d nil thi j ;: evider- e not only of d Kill udo: TTf-nl and war w m i i n" s-. hut of e r r -i r Ion I with lb1 ruiTs of G"unHiv. who prnm-ijr-i Their pop j. 'orv yv-.r .ift-T ys: and on that promis haw drr. md 'o j r.'e of t'S "nir-o-i niul I; f trnpv t'ed.a with crav a n.d noa, hae m tn tiir-m of clff-at. Heavy Reckoning. TY'tc will 'f a l.f.ivy TP' koning f--r, -'.-.!'! hv v. ho Kv.-p trf-n too on. uup''d. Mf-i !i white, our m,;i ar1 hurc.r.i t; f.y t ' r,:-.-- ,,f a 'I'd -k . r' f vii ! f.r-'. and ;hur fpi-'is rin.iiu l.ich. t'ui'j u. an a'r. ti e fr''"-; r-oo;..q in ("ran-". s;.l! f--:;t; Tn;:-ht'.' nnn - , r 'lvl lo A-.v of tho-.,-. wrn rn-ir-d il.e r.rnl"l:r" 1 ft " ! 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