| Show CONTRAST IN UNIfORM OF F FRENCH ENGH AND GERMAN TROOPS T Correspondence of tho the A Associated Tress press BEAU BEAUMONT Belgium Sept SoPt 30 When When French regiments paraded through h Gem Gem- a ripple of or admiration ran through tho the almost hysterical l Belgian populace who ho had waited d eo so Ion long for or tho promised promIsed promised prom prom- support of ot France With their bright blue and red uniforms their gaiety J 0 t glitter glitter glit- glit ter cr and song they made a 11 colorful entry which quite Quito fulfilled ones one's conception of the h romantic spirit of war van But But It It was wan noticeable that they did not march maich In particularly good bood order and the doors of or orthe the he wagons in their baA baggage o train flapped and banged bam When tho the Germans appeared out on ho tho outskirts of ot Brussels they might havo hao b been f cn en mistaken for a 0 cloud clou of or low mist gray green breen uniforms molting against a neutral background The entry was not theatric but ut it throbbed with power and efficiency In place of tho the romantic French god od of or war thorn there was way a a. silent gray colored machine ma- ma chino chine which was complete complete- to the last de- de de de- ad Wagon agon doors Instead of had iad patented locks and bat bars For Ivor three d days ys tho the green gray soldiers marched through h Brussels BrussoK part of or an army of or moro more than a n. million and a halt hair that hat pushed Its way through Belgium In n completeness of or equipment t it was like a 3 traveling city It had Its postal service erv- erv servIce Ice cc its telegraph corps corp and Its provision trains ruins mules miles in in length length which provided tor or the soldiers a h menu as ag satisfactory as 08 s that which they could have obtained in n a first-class first restaurant Six cal caissons ons with ammunition each drawn by six IJo horses rollow followed d each M beta a an gun n and there were Proc processions s of them two wo miles long Ions There Thero were In n addition many truck and traction engines for the I heavy siege slee guns And In all this colossal colossal colos colos- sal sat train not a wheel squeaked not an accident delayed tho the forward progress I The Tho efficiency of or the Red Cross d dc- dc I Is best besL Indicated by tho the fact that liat in fn rollo following th the tho German army ormy for rora fora a hundred miles over o battlefields at al times Imes only a few hours behind the t fishing fishi ht- ht ng none of or the small group croup of correspondents correspondents corre- corre discovered a a. wounded German soldier for or any d dead d Tho speed of oC the army I Is attested b by bythe ho tho fact that correspondents correspondent with T bi bicycles bl- bl ides cycles and carriages found round It difficult to keep cep up with the tho German advance anco Dall Daily marches of or fifty kilometers TV were ere the usual thIn and nt at tittles times the they greatly exceeded exceed exceed- ed d that distance At the end of oC one o of these exhausting marches I spent the evening In a barrack room oom with German soldiers For three hours ours the they enn sung sang and danced without a agn sign of fatigue An officer said he had marched night nu and day for three days das but jut he seemed fresh and anxious anxious' to go 10 on n. n The Tho physical stamina of or tho the men is extraordinary At Beaumont a a. gas gna S lighting system as effective as electricity wa was established hours houis after aCtor the tho German entry Into ito the tho town and not lon long after their own wn trains were running on the tracts tracks to o Minor evidences of their thoroughness was as seen In the equipment of oC each sol- sol dier lor who carried with him not only ov- ov cry necessary ery-necessary ry necessary of ot war but food rood enough to o su sustain him if tr ho he were separated from the lie provision pro trains It was interesting to o noto note that even en his trousers carried an tra o set of or buttons in n case caso one set gave o avo way 3 No Xo detail was small enough to o have escaped Gorman Corman st dy and prep- prep ration At Zone Zono on the way a from to o Aix la Alx la-Chapelle la a man lying bin In at full length In tho the station yard ard suddenly extracted extracted ex- ex a a. telephone Instrument from a a. flower lower bed and began a conversation on Uon with headquarters Thero Is 11 no hint of the fulfillment of the thc he prophecies uttered by Y French writers writers writers writ writ- ers that the German soldiers were vie Ic tiros of or an inflexible system of or rules which wore were not adaptable to emergencies that emergencies that I theIr heir success was pre predicated on a n. given sot set of f These e German rules in the wor words s of ot a German officer Go into tho the brain of the fOld soldier I er and he is 13 not merely the unthinking unthinking- reflex Tho German soldier cannot retreat t or 01 turn back said an orderly d during a barrack barrack barrack bar bar- rack room dl discussion at t If It ho goes forward and ands s Is' is' is killed then there are others who will t. t take e his place but butIn butin butin in tho the vocabulary of oC the German soldier there is no such w word ord as retreat |
