The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915Various
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The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915
Various
World War, 1914-1918
I sat down to a supper, which I had not expected to eat. There was a
strange excitement in my body, which trembled a little after the day's
adventures. It seemed very strange to be sitting down to table with
cheerful faces about me, but some of the faces were not cheerful. Those
of us who knew of the disappearance of de Broqueville sat silently over
our soup.
Then suddenly Lady Dorothie Feilding gave a little cry of joy, and
Lieut. de Broqueville came walking briskly forward. It seemed a miracle;
it was hardly less than that. For several hours after our departure from
Dixmude he had remained in that inferno. He had missed us when he went
down into the cellar to haul out another wounded man, forgetting that he
had given us the order to start. There he had remained, with buildings
crashing all around him until the German fire had died down a little. He
succeeded in rescuing his wounded man, for whom he found room in a
Belgian ambulance outside the town and walked back along the road to
Furnes.
We clasped hands and were thankful for his escape. This morning he has
gone again to what is left of Dixmude with a flying column. Dr. Munro
and Mr. Gleeson, with Lady Dorothie Feilding and her friends, are in the
party, although in Dixmude German infantry have taken possession of the
outer ruins.
The courage of this English field ambulance under the Belgian Red Cross
is one of those splendid things which shine through this devil's work of
war.
*At the Kaiser's Headquarters*
By Cyril Brown of The New York Times.
GERMAN GREAT HEADQUARTERS IN FRANCE, Oct. 20.--The most vulnerable,
vital spot of the whole German Empire is, paradoxically, in France--the
small city on the Meuse where the Grosses Hauptquartier, the brains of
the whole German fighting organism, has been located for the last few
weeks. After a lucky dash through the forbidden zone of France held by
the Germans I managed to pay a surprise visit to the Great Headquarters,
where, among other interesting sights, I have already seen the Kaiser,
the King of Saxony, the Crown Prince, Major Langhorne, the American
Military Attache; Field Marshal von Moltke, and shoals of lesser
celebrities with which the town is overrun. My stay is of indeterminate
length, and only until the polite but insistent pressure which the
Kaiser's secret police and the General Staff are bringing to bear on
their unbidden guest to leave becomes irresistible.
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