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Show ELDER IWRELl TELLS OF EXPERIENGE WHILE IN PARIS LAST MONTH Returned to Logan Monday Night Is Glad to be Home with Relatives and Friends. Says Missionaries in Europe will be Taken Care of. Saw the Mobil-zation Mobil-zation of French Troops. Elder T. H. Morrell, son of Mrs. Margaret Morrell of this city, and brother of J. W. Morrell, tho clothing cloth-ing merchant, returned to Logan on Monaay night from a three year's mission m Germany and Switzerland. He left Paris on tho 6th of August, having fledto that place from Hamburg Ham-burg where' he left all his baggage and possessions. Elder Morrell loft Germany tho day before tho war broko out. He had expected to set sail for America from an English port on a German vessel the day before, tho war was declared when flll the German ships wero recalled. While in Paris Mr. Morroll had a most thrilling experience. He was there during tho tlmo tho mobilization mobiliza-tion of troops took place. He saw husbands bid, good byo to their wives and sonB say farowo'll (o tholr mothers. moth-ers. This ho says, was a most thrill-lug thrill-lug experience, although It Is astonishing aston-ishing tho amount of patriotism that was exhibited by tho French people. Many, of course, broko down In tears and wept, but many parted tlth their loved ones with expressions of Joy that they had somo ono to fight for their country. They would admonish ad-monish the soldiers to do tliejr best, whip tho Germans In a hurry and ro-turn ro-turn homo. Demonstrations in Paris Tho demonstrations In Paris wero experiences that will never bo for-gotten. for-gotten. At least two hundred German stores and Cafes wero wrecked by tho French. Persons would climb on Improvised rostrums and make patriotic patri-otic speeches and then rushes would bo made on the German stores and in a fow mlnuntcs they would bo nothing noth-ing but ruin. Stranded Americans Thero wero thousands and thous-ans thous-ans of Americans In Paris who wanted want-ed to got away from the European continent but It was impossible. The trains wero practlcnlly all taken for transporting tho soldiers, says Mr. Morroll, and but ono or two trains a. day would leave tbo French capital. It wns by luck that Mr. Monoll nnO. his companion, I-cwls Brlggs, of Drlggs, Idaho, got away. They skirmished skirm-ished about for a couple of days and finally decided to get on board the train some way Instead of entering the crowds which wero almost ready to stampede in order to get transportation. trans-portation. They met one of tho officials of-ficials and after making him believe, they were Englishmen who wanted to go to England to Join tho army, they secured transportation. The trip took thirty-six hours whero it ordinarily should not have taken more than soven and a halt hours. On the trip they were Intercepted on several sever-al occasions and their passports were examined. It was a great experlenco on the boat crossing the ocean. There wore . perhaps S00 millionaires on tho boat, I and perhaps 1000 section hands or Immigrants. Soveral doctors were aboaru' returning frqm the North American Am-erican Clinical Congress. Tho ship took to tho south to avoid meeting German cruisers. However, when a fow hundred miles oft tho Now York port they spied a cruiser persuing tb em nnd those on board wero almost panic stricken. Tho cruiser turned out to bo an English vessel. Companion In Prison Mr. Morrell relates nn interesting experience of bis companion, Mr. Lewis Drlggs, of Driggs, Idaho. On the German frontier ho was taken into custody by tho French and kept in prison for four days ns a spy. He spoko good Gerpian and as a consequence conse-quence tho French wero suspjclous. Ho finally mot with an officer whq spoko English and after a brief conversation con-versation ho was released. Tho night before tho war was do-clarod, do-clarod, it was an amusing Incident to" see a French officer and his swoet-heart swoet-heart out together on tho streets ot Paris. Tho next day Mr. Morroll saw tho couple as they bid each other oth-er goodbye. It was heart rending. Many ot the French soldiers were marshaled to tho front without uniforms. uni-forms. It seemed that tho French wero almost wholly unprepared for tho struggle which Is now on. All tho Americans on tho continent havo organized and tho rich aro contributing lihornlly of their funds to help thoso out who are not so fortunate When arriving in Paris, tho missionaries, mis-sionaries, Morroll and Drlggs, had $200 In Germnn currency, but they did not daro to display It for fear they would be taken for Gormans. It was through tho good graces of tho church authorities that they wero ablo to procuro funds with which to liberate themselves. Elder Morroll nays thero Is no need ot parents becoming alarmed for the wolfaro of tho missionaries abroad. Thoy will all lo taken cr.ro ot. In England tho I.ognn man mot and conversed with threo Cacho Val. ley boys, George Allon, Leon Pond and Marrlner Hendricks. Theso three young men had slmlllnr experiences experi-ences to those of Mr. Morrell In reaching tho British shore. |
