The Log of a Noncombatant

by Horace Green
Staff Correspondent of the New York Evening Post Special Correspondent of the Boston Journal
1915
Preface
In the following pages the ego is thickly spread. Their publication is the result of persuasion from many sources that, before returning to the war zone, I should put into connected form my personal experiences as correspondent during the first year of the War of Nations. A few of these adventures were mentioned in news letters from the Continent, where I limited myself so far as possible to descriptions of armies at war and peoples in time of stress; but the greater part of them were merely jotted down from time to time for my own benefit in The Log of a Noncombatant.
Contents
I. From Broadway To Ghent II. The Second Bombardment Of Termonde III. Captive IV. A Clog Dance On The Scheldt V. The Bombardment Of Antwerp VI. The Surrender Of Antwerp VII. Spying On Spies VIII. The Sorrow Of The People
Appendix: Atrocities
The Log Of A Noncombatant
From Broadway To Ghent
When the war broke out in August, 1914, I was at work in the City Room of the New York Evening Post. One morning, during the first week of activities, the copy boy handed me a telegram which was signed Luther, Boston, and contained the rather cryptic message: — How about this fight?
It was some moments before I could recall the time, more than two years before, when I had last seen the writer, Willard B. Luther, Boston lawyer, devotee of some, and critic of many kinds of sport.