The New York Times/1918/11/11/Travel from Holland to Paris by Auto
TRAVEL FROM HOLLAND TO PARIS BY AUTO
Americans Find German Electric Barrier Destroyed and Vast Stores Abandoned.
By CHARLES H. GRASTY.
Copyright, 1918, by The New York Times Company.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
PARIS, Nov. 10.—An automobile journey overland from Holland to Paris has just been completed by Gilman Paul, Secretary, and Captain Robert Goelet, Assistant Military Attaché of the American Legation at The Hague. They left there a little over a week ago and made their way from The Hague to Flushing and ferried across the Scheldt to Breskens, where they were met by a French military motor.
Crossing the Dutch frontier at Sluis, they were compelled to make a detour via Zeebrugge to Bruges, the direct road having been blown up by the Germans.
The actual time occupied was two days, but several days were spent on the way taking observations.
Paul and Goelet say that the electric fence which the Germans maintained between Holland and Germany, with its 4,000 volts of current, has been destroyed and that work is progressing on road repairs, so that within a few days an auto trip from Paris to Holland can be completed in twenty-four hours.
They saw mountains of material that had been abandoned by the German Army in the retreat.
Mr. Paul and Captain Goelet came to Paris to prepare for a weekly courier service overland between Paris and The Hague.