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Monday and Wednesday, This Week THE WORLD'S GREATEST TRIP TO THE TOP OF EASTERN AMERICA
THE SUNDAY CITIZEN, A8HEVILLE, N. a, MAT 20, 1917.
VUitors to Wettern North Carolina Have an Opportunity Twice Thi Week of Taking a Trip That Can Be Enjoyed Nowhere Else on the Globe, Recognized a the World's
Greatest Mountain Scenic Trip Over the
MOUNT MITCHELL RAILROAD
The Scenic Marvel, the Road of Mountain Magnificence, Going to the Crest of the Land of the Sky, Above the Clouds Mount Mitchell, 6,711 Feet Altitude
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Springs Supreme Splendor of Scenic Surroundings of Mountain Magnificence and Flora Profunda
PRESENTING A PERFECT PEERLESS PANORAMA
of mammoth mountains and mountain magnificence, scenic splendor that rivals and sur
passes any trip on the globe.
LONGEST AND MOST WONDERFUL SCENIC RAILROAD IN THE
WORLD
World travelers have called attention to the wonders of the-Mount Mitchell trip and of
the many, many thousands that have taken ft, all, declare it to surpass any trip previously
taken bv world travelers of fame.
MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK
Special trip Monday will be operated for the visitors of the Baraca-Philatheas and others
in the city. The committee from the Baraca-Philatheas is anxjous that the citizens from
Asheville, and visitors, will join in making Monday's trip a great success.
CONNECTIONS FOR THOSE GOiNG EAST
Arrangements have been made whereby parties going to the eastern part of the state will
make connection at Black Mountain with train No. 16, arriving there at 4:15 Monday.
HOT MEAL ON MOUNTAIN
At Camp Alice, the terminus of the Mount Mitchell Railroad, hot lunch and meals will be
srrved in the big dining hall of the Mount Mitchell Itailroad.
Train leaves at eight-fifty, connecting with train No. 21, Southern Railroad.
MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY THIS WEEK
$2.50 ROUND TRIP
From Mount Mitchell Station, Southern Railway, One Mile East of Black Mountain, to Mitchell Ridge and Return to Mitchell Station, Southern Railway.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION APPLY AT SOUTHERN RAILWAY TICKET OFFICES-or SANDFORD H. COHEN, G. P. A.,
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TRAITORS CAUSED ROMANIA'S FALL
(By Carl W. Ai kernian.)
Copyright, 1917. The Tribute associa
tion. Registered In accordance with the
copyright act. Canada, 1917. The
Tribune association.
Koumania was the fifth victim of
'Gorman Invasion In this war because
she was unprepared and because
there were traitors in her army. I
traveled for three weeks with the at
tacking forces of General von Falken
hivn, from the Transylvania Alps to
""lho Argusu river, where the decisive
battle for Bucharest was fought. In
the mountain passes the famous Red
Tower Dans, for example the Rou
man Inn defenses were so simple and so
well exposed to the enemy that Ger
man officers remarked to the corre
spondents: "This Is child's play. These
people have learned nothing during
two years of fighting'
ft was "child's play" ror tne invaa
er, too, because, as one general boast
orl-
"We have an army of spies back of
the Roumanian lines. Any non-com-missioned
officer." he added, "will
fflve us all the Information we ask
end then for a few francs he will go
hack to his army and bring as any
thins- we want!"
Although I had been at the Tarlous
German fronts nine times before, I
had never heard such bragging. And
were it not for the incident I observ
ed before Roumanlas capital reu .
would have hesitated to take the gen
eral's remarks seriously.
Plans Were Delivered.
On the evning of December 1, Mr.
(Trillin M. Powers, of Boston, two cor
respondents from Stockholm and
Madrid and myself were Invited to
dine at the headquarters of the for
mer chief of the Bavarian general
staff, Krafft von Delmlngslngen. There
were about forty German, Austrian
and Hungarian officers there. Mr.
Powers Bat next to the place reserv
ed for the chief of staff. I sat op
posite "ExcefTenz." About 9 o'clock
he colonel entered, saluted the gen
eral, called him from the table and
read a typewritten document. Ten
minutes later von Delmlngslngen re
turned to the table, handed tne aocu
nwnt to an Austrian captain and ex
liilned that the chief of staff had
Just received a copy of the order of
the Roumanian general staff for the
battle which was to begin December
to decide the fate or Bucnaresx.
The document was dated December
1 at the headquarters of the kins; of
Roumanla, north of the capital. It
was four typewritten pages and gave
the complete and detailed plana for
the Roumanian attacK againsr von
Mackensen's forces which were then
within sixteen kilometres of the city.
The captain, who was a former
police lieutenant In Hermannstadt
Hungary, translated the orders into
German and the officers sat there with
oniet smiles of delight on their faces.
They had In their hands the enemy's
most Important orders. That night
the fate of Bucharest was sealed. The
contents of this document were tele
graphed Immediately to the head
quarters of every German army corps.
Field Marshall von Mackensen and
von Falkenhayn prepared Immediate
ly for the attack by making three
pockets" around Bucharest to "bot
tle up" the Roumanian forces. The
Germans knew the exact strength of
the enemy's forces, the number of
cannon and amount of artjllery. The
Roumanian general staff had urged
"every soldier to die" for the sake
of his country's chief city and the
poor soldiers charged in reckless files
I- an attempt to save Bucharest. But
they died In vain, because some traitor
had given the Germans the most val
uable Information in possession of the
cor-rv.
Roumanian Morale Shattered.
Bucharest fell on December f. The
morale of the Roumanian forces was
completely shattered. Von Mackensen
entered the capital. in triumph. One
disloyal Roumanian at; the king's
headquarters was responsible.
This incident was only the begin
ning of many thrilling hours I spent
there. One day I watched the
man batteries 'shell Blatina, and
twenty-four hours later I was enter
ing the burning city with the inva
ders. That night we slept in an aban
doned hospital, which had been hit
tr three shelisThe rooms were filled
with broken beds, torn and bloody
jlnan, old clothes, medietas and. empty ,
champagne bottles. In one room
sixteen such flasks were found on a
bare table surrounded by overturn
ed chairs grim evidence of a gay
party on the eve of the evacuation.
When we awoke the next morning
at 4:80 o'clock the flames which tne
night before were at the outskirts
of the city were scarcely seventy-five
feet from the hospital. From the
balcony there had been two, but a
shell had destroyed one of them we
watched the remaining citizens drag
household goods from adjoining build
ings. The flames could not he ex
tinguished, because the retreating
Roumanian 'army had destroyed the
water system. There was no Water
In the city except what the Rouman
ians carried by bucket from the Alt
river.
Boy "Found" Valuables.
We had little food and were hun
gry. The captain who was our eecort
hunted abQut the city until he found
a woman who could speak German,
and then ordered her, "In the name
of the Imperial German general
staff," to get breakfast. We went to
the kitchen, stood around, the brick
stove and drank her black ooffee un
der protest, because the kitchen was
In much the same condition as the
hospital. A shell had exploded In the
courtyard, killing or wounding some
one, because there was spattered
blood everywhere.
While, we were standing beside the
kitchen stove a small boy. aged about
seven, came running In with a gold
necklace, 'set with fine stones. It was
his booty. lie "found" it, he said. In a
Jewelry shop. His mother jerked it
away anj threw it into the cupboard
excitedly and told him to get out
which he did. Evidently he under
stood what she meant, for a few min
utes later 'he returned wearing a new
pair of shoes and stockings. He
"found" those In a drygoods store!
Turks Choked Woman.
One evening we entered Alexandria.
a large Roumanian city about fifty
kilometre? from Bucharest and an
equal distance from the Bulgarian
border. We had no place to sleep. We
were hungry and tired. At first Pow
ers and I were taken to the same
house where a Roumanian woman,
her two children and white-haired
old father lived. The husband was
In the Roumanian army. German,
Turkish nd Bulgarian troops had
been there for the first time the night
before. This woman had not slept
the whole night She was frighten
ed to the point of death and could
not speak German. She knew some
French, so. Powers explained to her
that we we're Americana and that we
expected to pay for our lodging and
breakfast: that while we were travel
ing with the German army we were
representing American newspapers
and she was not obliged to provfde
for us as "enemies." Convinced tat
we were not. going to harm her, she
told about the way the Turks behav
ed the night before. She said they
tried to choke an old woman across
the street to d"eath alter she had pro
vided lodging and food for them, and
that as they left that morning they
destroyed all her household furni
ture. Powers told a Turkish officer
what he heard afeout the terribleness
ortne Turns ana asicea as a. personal
favor that the Turkish staff do some-
Nation Was Made a Second Belgium When Germans, in Possession of Every Detail of
Their Enemy's Plans, Were Able to Sweep Over Defenses, Burning and Pillaging
Villages and Insulting Women, in the Usual German Fashion, as They Advanced
Commandeered Everything Eatable and Left a Pitiful Wreck of a Country Behind
Them on Their Victorious March Across the Land.
O
thing to protect the home where he
had stayed. He said he feared the
poor woman would die of fright if
she was not protected. ' That night
seven sentinels were sent to guard ner
home, but they misunderstood the ad
dress and guarded the home next
door, which was occupied only by
German officers!
Early the next morning we walked
about the city. Every store and home
had been looted. Windows and doors
were smashed, shelves were broken
down, articles were trampled on the
floors and sidewalks were littered. Out
of a jewelry shop we saw two Bul
garian cavalrymen ride, holding sli
ver dishes which they had taken.
Invaders' Terrible Acts.
For three weeks we traveled about
Roumanla. We heard frightful stories
and saw terrible scenes. We were
fired at by snipers In an bandoned
railroad station. We rode to the edge
of progressing battles and past bat
tlefields, where wounded were still
moaning and crying. It was like a
frightful 'nTgRtmart, We saw a Ger
man officer take a fins saddle horse
away from a Roumanian peasant at
the pistol point We saw a non-com-mlssloned
officer whip a peasant wo
man until she screamed and begged
for mercy. We saw drunken officers
and drunken soldiers wining and din
ing the prostitutes of Craiova. We saw
them walk out of cafes and hotels and '
refuse to- pay their bills.
For three weeks we saw this sort
of thing, and wa were glad when the
time rame for us to leave. Our cap
tain guide wanted us to stay longer
and return to Bucharest but we were
so disgusted that we refused. .. For
declining to stay with him on this'
war joy ride,. which he was enjoying
because he was drinking heavily, he
kept us at the Hungarian-Roumanian
border Three days.
- When we returned to Berlin we
wrote our stories of the invasion of
Roumanla, but they never reached (he
United States.
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