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Show Former Lelii Resilient Returns Form Germany .Imrux II. OIIkoh Ti'lN of Interexllnir' llvperlences jhtil lu (.'filing Out of Kiiniifiiu War Zone. Angus II Gibson returned this week , fioni Germany, where ho went to lu-j stall some crtitrlfiifcal evneuators lu the Get man sugar factories, and invention in-vention perfected by hlmseir mid Kiigeiif Roberts while they wero employed em-ployed lu the Lehl factory. The two men have been In nil parts of the world Installing' their machines. "As soon as the war broko out every man In the migar factory was taken lor army service," said Mr. Gibson Gib-son Oils morning. "I was put lu an automobile and started for Cologne. Seven miles out of Cologne I met German army otllcers who needed the machine. They took It away from mo and I had to walk Into Cologne. That was on Friday, July 31. Saturday Sat-urday I was unable to see the American Am-erican consul uud could not got my passport until Monday. "1 lived in a hotel In Cologne owned own-ed by a German army olllcor, whom I eiiino to know very well. The diry 1 left he was In uniform, ready to leave for tho Trout, lie told me that Germany then had an army of 4,500, 000 men In the Held. Ho said that when all the reserves were culled out . Germany would havo an army of 14,000,000 trained roldlers. "Troop movement begun on July 28. lletwoen thou and tho day I -left , Cologne, Monday, August 3, I saw 4,000,000 soldiers pass through Co- '. logne on tho way to tho front. It was the most wonderful thing I have ever witnessed. "Every train, track, engine mid other piece of railroad equipment, was taken over Tor transportation ot the army. All commercial tra(uc was sus- ' ponded. And in those six days 1,000,000 men, with alt equipment, ur-tiitery ur-tiitery and everything else, went nirough Cologne 1 never sa.v anything any-thing Hko It. it opened my eyes to the .... ..iiwccamzaltaiiuf thuQer-mun thuQer-mun army, i.utcr, in Kiigisuu, wo saw part of tho mobilization opera-nous opera-nous of the Kugilbh army. It was u Joke compared to the Gorman organization, or-ganization, lu comparison It looked like the gathering of u lot of uoys, or ot tin soldiers. we lett Cologne, bound for Antwerp Ant-werp by the wny of Hrussels. At mtuulght on August f, wo reached the outskirts of tliu besieged city cf Liege. There was a baltlo lino thcro twenty miles long. Tho beautiful city was lu llnmes. It was an awful sight, one uover to bo forgotten. "Our train was halted and wo woro lockul lu the oiatlon for four hours. Then we were loaded Into cattle cars and turned around. On account of tho lighting we woro not allowed to puss through Llegu and on to Hrue- sols. Wo were soui back and through liolinnd to Rotterdam, whero wo nr- ilved August C. VAt 5; 45 o'clock that evening I was oi u.iue enough to bo ouo of those to lVivo on the steamer llnttervlor for .omVii, There was sixty-t;oveu of us w ho ad no other bed on board than p.ic8 ropes on tho deck. Hut wo considered ourcelvos mighty fortunate got .Yen those uccouiodatlons. ''UolngXup the Kngllsh channel, wo met oUtefn of the br.ttle ships of tho ! gllsli i.aV Oao of tho liattlo ships mnilo U3 ui and run up our Dutch dng. OfPtvA came aboard and tore away the eiiW wireless apparatus jf the ship, Bti,t It could send no wireless mtssaYs nt0 tho nlr to In- ortere with tlitX wireless operations 3f tho English FrW "I arrlv d In lndoii on Friday. i-pist i, and fiiV, Liverpool, nr- 1 Ing there SntiirdiV 'I was fortunate eWn t0 Ket llc. oommourrlo.'is on tlm :1co"Ih s-illlnu rem l.lvirpool Hint ovX.iu.r ' i, llm, lG00onlmd. 1 fcccomoC tlons bolng for 1200. There woro Am-orlctui Am-orlctui mllllonulrs In tho Eteorase, gird to got oviyt that passage." .in. Uibaon said that ho received most courteous treatment In formally, ue said (hero was no trotiblo for Ani-iiicans Ani-iiicans lu getting out of tho country 11 thoy carried tholr pussporls. |
