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Show DUCHESS SAW II enemy It mm (Special Cable by London Daily Telegraph Tele-graph London. Oct SB. Mlllcent. duchess Df Sutherland, half-sister of Lady Warwick, has written a book on her experiences in Belgium as the head of an ambulance corps She was rsnt at the siege of Naraur and. describing the entry of the Germans, says : "Xow the German troops are fair-y fair-y marching in. I hear them singing is they march They sing with dif-iculty dif-iculty It seems almost cowardly to ivrite this, but for a few minutes there vaa relief to see them coming and "eel that the awful firing would soon :ease. "On they marched, fine, well-set-up uen. with gray uniforms. They have topped now I see them streaming nto the market place. A lot of trem-ding trem-ding artillery has just galloped with 3t. lpjan guns. "It is too terrible What can these brave little people do against this mighty force? Some of the Germans have fallen out and are talking to persons In ther streets. These are so utterly relieved at the cessation of the bombardment that in their fear they actually are welcoming the Ger mans I saw some women press forward for-ward and wave handkerchiefs." Very lifelike are some of the circumstances cir-cumstances she relates concerning the German invaders. She went to the hotel to see the commander. "I sent a message in to say I wished wish-ed to speak to the commander. He came out from the dining room with an aide de camp. " 'I must apologize, 'duchess,' said tho aide de camp in English, 'for the growth of my beard I felt very in different about his beard, but asked him why he did not get shaved by a Belgian. He exclaimed, 'Why, he could cut my throat.' " The duchess of Sutherland had many opportunities of seeing the German Ger-man soldiers and her opinion is interesting in-teresting ' The first line of the German army Is Impressive, brave. I should say, and fierce, conveyed all the moral effect to be gentlemen that the Germans intended. After the first line the ph6ique of the men is inferior The seem to have no heart for war and would always be coming up to me to speak of their wives, their home3 and work "They respected the Red Cross In those early day3. They said they would far rather work than fight, but Germany was winning so easily that the war would not take long They did not know why they were fighting fight-ing and brought forward the most ridiculous reasons. "During one of our halts a station 1 master wanted to talk to me about pie war. I told him the Red Cross made a rule never to talk about war. But he persisted and said it was ! dreadful we were fighting against the 1 Germans and were allied with the Ruf slans ' I pointed out to him that which ever way the warm went, whether j you win or we win, England was fighting for the righteous cause, protection pro-tection of some countrleu and to give people, whether German or English, a chance of self-expression freed from military despotism. "'In spito of this I do not see,' he grumbled, 'why I should be exiled here when my wife is expecting her sixth child in a month.' "But when he turned away a Ger man non-commissioned officer, who had been writing at a table and listening lis-tening to my democratic enunciations, enuncia-tions, leaned forward and said in a low voice, 'You are quite right, fraulein; you are quite right'" All of the proceeds from the sale of the book go to the duchess ambulance am-bulance corps. |