The Detroit times., 1914-09-08
Hard Pun For Many Reserv-
Iots' Families in Kaiser's War
Ridden Domain
children PLAY UNDER
4 SHADOW OF INVASION
Smiling Prussian Villages May
Soon Be Ravaged by ;Advanc-
ing Cossacks
By W. 4. NEvlsoN.

0poctal correspondence VIA oWit<er-
& BERLIN, Sept. 7.--Up and down
the pavements and the central gar
4 dan avenue the Berlin people now
pace all day and some OF the night.
They are intensely excited-"exalt-
/. ods-but they do not shout or clamor
and no one makes speech.
Every now and then a band OF
young students and girls goes singing
down the street. waving flags, and
pushing through the crowd. -
They sing Germany's great nation
~ songs. "Die Wacht am Rhein"
+ md Deutschland. Deutschland uber
Alleo" are far the favorites. but some
timeS one hears the Butcher song Of
Tho Old Field Marshal and other
och6es OF the War OF Liberation
lust & century ago.
FOR 4 while the crowd runs after
them cheering. But another excite
ment carries them away. A taxi or
ran drives rapidly through, and men
stand In Il finging out single sheets,
printed In large type. with the latest
fumor or fact. These are the "Extra-
Slater" of the various newspapers.
they arc thrown out gratis.
And then squadron OF Uhians
Domes, their white pennons wrapped
slosely round the top OF their lances,
a0t showing the black skull that
ltands for death or Glory"
NJ Like all the army, they wear the
aoW uniforms Of dull gray. said to be
sInvisible at q short distance, though
II doubt II It Is so good as greenish
Rhaki. They have gray covers care
r{ul1y drawn over their helmets to
govont them shining.
The infantry wear them, too, and
: - their backs both horse and foot
6oar the brown overcoat tied In q
5|xcle round the knapsack Of brown
Behind each infantry regiment on
E ~ march follow the machine guns,
Z Ind then the train" pontoons, field
HlkchensA baggage wagons, ammuni-
\ Hon wagons, ambulances and stores.
q xQu may Judge how they are cheered
1o they start for the front. Finely
&1uft and well-trained fellows they
E'nro. Of = stock 30 much like our own
E1t IT. best.
You folks In America talk about
|5uGering suffering from high prices.
Z y Berlin they suffer more. It Ii not
orely that In nearly every family
1omo man has gone out to serve, and
<0hen the full levy OF all between 20
End 80 n complete they estimate
<&Dout nine million will have gone.
Prices are rushing up fast. The
oyerument has tried to flx the price
re and wheat fiour, of maize and
11t; but still the cost Of living IN
oubled.
me families Of the reseryists have
I'D i've somehow. The government
- Issued forms under Which pow
Ek(yIetricken wife cam apply for an
Dowance, with something extra for
yefy child under Is. Hut It IL q hard
Before mobilization besen ON Aug.
al trains were crowded>to burst.
~. Every well-to-do family was
AWAY on holidays, and came hurrying
< Ioek. All registered baggage was
Ut. AT every station trunks and
f )ofchels stand piled up In enormous
1oopaI The main Friedrich-strasse
+ otio0 n stf1l 30 crammed that the
)0xgage has overlooked into the
q )Cuare and Hes exposed to man and
Germany believes she Is fighting
B ~ existence, and probably she Is
1Eht- AZ travel through the coun-
+ ~ and see the wellbuilt houses, the
M Culttv1ted fields, the churches
m4 the woods. cannot but remem-
~ ~ that Germany had done for
~ Wor1d--her orderly life, her
GnG6fful litoraturo. her patient
1olnrship and adventurous science.