Show berk G E R M ra S DESERT ARMY in DROVES story from holland says uhland were sent to shoot them down BEG FOOD AT DUTCH BORDER weary of war and depressed by hun ger they no longer believe in german victory but ari ara eager for peace by W J L K KIEHL I 1 E H L special correspondence ot of the chicago dally daily news tile tho hague holland Ho llana on tho the southern border fron from the lie german annly occur on oa a large settle scale nowadays at first it was only a single soldier here and there then they came by threes and lives later inter in groups of ten and twenty but now ns as ninny us its seventy and eighty come la in of nt a time A few days ago a little army tried to desert some to GOO COO nien men mostly fusi leers marcues and lond land mers tile the dutch report says that they attempted to cross crosa near Cad kadsand sand but tho thil german military authorities got wind of it t and uhland with two machine guns guna were dispatched from bruges to liend head them back A formal battle raged between tho the two forces it who was viewed from holland tho the machine guns got lit in their deadly work and almost nil all ilio file would be deserters were either killed or captured only eight wounded men succeeded lit in reaching dutch soil mid and safety every fresh arrival deserter or escaped prisoner tells tile tho ame story of famine conditions in belgium and germany and depression among tho the soldiers who dread being sent to tile the front they no longer believe in german victory but ore are eager for pence peace only one escaped prisoner had a different story to tell and that man was a russian Ilus Blan general who arrived in Man maastricht accompanied by two german flight lieutenants who had escaped with him this general believed the germans can am never be reduced by hunger hanger they will cat grass or the he dust from tho the street rather i than surrender on tho the lilies fillies terms he sald gilld ile ho told how bild bad the trent treatment ment and the food was lu in tho the german prison p alson bamps lie ho hod had been ory in n seven so lie he could judge after every attempt to escape lie ho had been transferred to a different camp but everywhere the prisoners were treated brutally tile the officers ns as well ns as the men how lie had tit at last succeeded in getting away with his two companions lie he preferred not to say because lie ho feared that would make inake escape more difficult for ills his com comrades rafts still in captivity lie he did however say that what made escape very difficult wits waa that it caused great surprise to people in ill tolua and till n to seo see able bodied moll men wai walking king about and lie ho tin and his companions lind been obliged to invent all sorts of tales about having been wounded and being now low on leave to account for their absence from tile tho front german soldiers frankly beg for food on the dutch border the officer dant ko go quite as far ns that there Is it a sort of neutral zone along tile the frontier whore where germans and hollanders con can meet where there tho the german officers often congregate and make overtures oi of comradeship rade ship to their colleagues on the other side bide friendly relations exist and when the luncheon hur conics comes and tho the netherlanders Nether landera landers seo see what poor P provisions ro vIsions the Gertr inns have hav e they in v alto ito the Ger germans millis to lunch A picnic la Is held nod the germans consume incredible c quantities of rolls sausages or ham bain sandwiches and loudly praise the coffee the orderlies of their dutch comrades serve they say they never got get good coffee coffe enny anny more although the dutch officer often meets hla his german colleagues it must not be supposed he fie always agrees nerces with their methods method of discipline toward their own men both officers and soldiers in holland by far the greater number of them tit at least strongly disapprove of the brutal anil and heartless way lit in which most german officers treat their men tile the younger officers show allow this by chaffing the germans about nebout it merchant ranks over noble how the lie spirit of caste still rules in the german ranks Is instanced by a little anecdote told tile me by a dutch officer ile he had come on friendly coffee with n Gerin german tin officer von S the personification to the very illo monocle nocle of those lieuten ants often lampooned in Ger germany ninny one loy day yon S to lunch bubbling over with indignation for a simple bourgeois n former berlin raer merchant cliant lind had been given tile the post of captain in n his regiment aud and lie he blui himself self was first arat lieutenant Dp benken riken mo sich Namer tid 11 ho be exclaimed achl tell I 1 yon von S unter einem nus berlin harlin I 1 lie he felt fel t disgraced nut but officers are beginning to lo get con in Get germany ninny so the reserve officers who ibo have acquitted themselves cr have to be tim promoted to they would never tiny linao nt at tolled IT pence peace times |