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**lt;n thfi moniinK of AuscuhI -i wo Haw innvi!jK thtiiKH liko groy grron ratorj)iIlarH crocping o%\{ of f ho wfHdn to tho north, ProHonfly tlioy rnotto^l into lonxr, thin llnon and began to movp toward. Then, on tho opposite Bido of tho rhatoau, wo KHW similar linos, taking fmsttJons In tho sanio way, only those wore b!«o and mnrh more consplruonH. Thou, from the woods bohind, caino white pngH of smoke and soronds latotr the reports of cannon from tlie (#ormanlinos.“Wo had horn so fasrfnatod that we hadn't realized our own fHisitidn, lull we roalizod those reports lt;^mo frofn (lerman artillery opening lire and the %vbl(e bails of smoke were shrafinel burKts. Afi. the Krerirh guns ropbod we Itegiin to lose Inter* esf in the Kpeotaclc. We went down in a cellar.“Wo remained In I lie cellar n'osi of four days. Tliore were only the five of us, for tlie servants had runaway. The wife pcrsuadfsl her bus-baiHi, tho Mayor to fico, as he hadgot the personal enmity of sevo^’ul ttcrman ollicrrs. He rode away in the night on a bicycle. ^“Thar same evening, three w^omen and one man of our party were at the table when a crasli of glass ranie and we saw tlie lu*ad of a Ihil-an*R lance, which he had thrust fbrongh I be window by way of a doorbell, Wo opened the d«mr, and in trwpod Hovoral cavalrymen, fol lowed by ofhcors. “I volunteered as p nurse In the field hospllHl. flutwe found ourselves once more boIw'oen the firing lines. That wa a ilrcadful Journey. I don't think I’ll ever forgot the wdilne of (he shrapnel and tho ‘whitwhli’ of buUets over head, or tiu' shell torn bodies tiiai lay here and there bealde the roa*l.“After Wf* arrived at Hupals I went into the hospital. 1 did what I
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Hagerstown Mail
Hagerstown, Maryland, US
Fri, Sep 18, 1914
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