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ITORISI SEESBAmEExperience of Mrs. Kendallin Alsace—EnlistvS as aNurse to Escaixj.Mr, and Mrs. I..ynmn B. Krndall, foriiirrly uf Hainork had tlu' rare cx-fllPiTient uf wilncc.^iri'; a hatlli^ huUlu Allies and the (iernmns in Alace,She writes:* \Vo were niotnrinK IhrouKh fJer-many, and had roarlnMl (’arlshad, wU*‘n news earne that the Kaiaer had i*rdered all troops to tlie colors, W’e were allowed to ^^o to Nnreniberp:, wliero our machine was commander-ed.“By advice of pollee nfflclalH we took the train for ruris, Atignsi 1. The advice wa'’ bad. At tlie little frontier town of Avricourt we were ordered to dinembark,“Although the town' was fBlefI with (Jernmn soldiers we were per mitted to start across the fnnUer on fiM)t. lt;-arryinR our trunks. On the French side we Kot a wheelbarrow and pushed on to Blaniont. Kipht other Americans were there, hut they all set out to walk to laineville, 3ti miles away. We never heard of them.‘'IBamont was In a panic and no one would take us Indooni. althouKh It rained. We spent the nli:ht shiv eriuK on our trunks.“In the morning, the Mayor of the villaKc took us to his chateau and triiMi to find some way to us to a railway station, but all ItorHOH iiad t)cen cominandeerfMl for the army.*’On the moniiuK of AuruhI ^ we saw' inovins? tfiliiKs like grey Kveen rHtert)i!i;irs creeping out of tiie woods to tile north. ITesently they nifdted into lonir, thin lines and began to move toward. Then, on the opposite idde of the cliateau, we saw' similar lines, taking fioHitJons In the same way, f*n!y these were bbie and mncli more conspicuous. Tlien, from the woods beliiud, came wliiie pugs of smoke and seconds lafefr thereports of cannon from the (lerman«t
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Hagerstown Mail
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Fri, Sep 18, 1914
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