Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-18
'pERFIDIOUS ALBION
10 BLAME FOR WAR,
SAYS GERMAN WOMAN
ponular Resentment Cher
ished Against Dishonest
Policy" of Englan d,
Which Must Be Humili-
ated.
toNpoN. Sept. IS (by maiD.

LONDON, Sept. IS (by maiD.
cen,on view of the war and of Eng
,ond,s part In 1t is shown In letter
rit,en bv German woman In Aix-la-
Cbapelle, to friends In ENGLAND, winch Is
sr,nted by the Morning Post.
THE writer says she is convinced that
.n educated and intelligent Bnglishmen
r,ust condemn the war, for which only
,ha british Government and Its policy are
rnsponslble. She continues:
1--WE know that we are fighting for our
.v,stence. as our adversaries, who could
not overcome our superiority, now desire
,lmply to kill us in order TO be relieved of
our competition. Embitterment OF
eourse, prevails everywhere, but also
lncompa rable self-sacrince. During the
nast three weeks 1,250,000 men have Of
sered themselves for military service vol
untarily, so that the lists had to be
closed
"The soldiers who passed through AK
ia Ia-Chapelle looked magnificent. And what
terrible things are being said in France
about the poor fellowsl They are ac-
eused of committing all the outrages
perpetrated by the Belglans on them.
1--WE naturally rejoice over our VIC
tories. The Belgian newspapers now ap-
near in the German language, the postal
and railway systems are In the hands
of tho Germans, and. as the French have
been so badly beaten in Lorraine, and
rs Namur and Liege are In our possess
sion, we can hope that the war will not
last long. Woe. then, to those who origi-
mated the war.
II am sorry to say that It Is with Eng
land that Germany Is most angry, be-
cause her policy Is so extraordinarily dis
honest. And England herself Is a Ger
manic country. 1t is therefore compre-
hancih1e that np1y uyic tg ol,a
here. that England may finally be so
deeply Inundated that she will leave us
in peace for a very long time, and will
try to conquer us only with intellectual
weapons.
"The harvest. which was exceedingly
good. has almost all been gathered partly
by the school children. Germany Is much
richer than we imagined and the price of
provisions has either not gone up at all
or has gone up only little. Every care
is being taken of the unemployed and also
of the wives and children of the men in
the field. Business Is hardly affected here.
I'VE are gradually becoming very in
dsnant about the great tolerance shown
by our Government to all foreigners-Bel-
gans, Russians, Frenchmen and English
men-whom 1t permits to remain here.
Collections are even being made for the
poor among them.
"A brief report arrived Yesterday NJ nm
immense victory for the Germans in Bel
glum, and In the evening of a victory
over the French at st. Quentin. Our
troops are now not far from Paris. Zeppe-
Inns do wonders over the fortresses, and
we can contemplate the future with
equanimity We are greatly amused
when We read in foreign newspapers that
We are barbarians. The poor degenerated
French people, however. know no better.
we are very sad about ha Iopo 80
our four small cruisers, but the misfor-
tune Is small in comparison with our
huge victories, and 1t is only the second
reverse in this war. We have again taken |
1900 Russian prisoners, who are glad to |
nave a good meal in Germany"