Bisbee daily review., 1914-11-22
CASTE SPIRIT AMONG GERMANS SOFTENED
 BY WARS ORDEALS
Officers and PrivateS Show Dis position to Get Together on a Better Footing Then Has Ever ExciSted Before.

BERLIN, Nov. 21.-The German army is a very human institutiCa just now. The iron discipline of the bar
 racks and the caste spirit which di vides the officer from the rank and file are not so much in evidence. In one of the better restaurants of Berlin sat two officers of the line. |The worn look of the deld-5ray uni
 form of one showed that he had seen ! |cervice. That the other had been at l the front was made clear by a band 1 age over his head.
 Following an animated recital the officer in the worn uniform picked up
 a bundle which had la.n beside him
 on the table and proceeded to unwrap
 six mouth organs,
 You sec" he said to his convales-
 cent companion. life in the trenches
 and there will be much of it. ] fear
 -is rather slow There are several
 men in my company who can play
 these things and | am taking these
 back to them A little music helps
 them pass the time and keeps them
 in good humor'
 'l gave my captain five boiled po- tatoes and the half of a salt herring
 the other day and he told me he ap.
 preciated it," said a private when
 asked to explain to what extent life
 in the barracks resembled life in the [ firing line
 To the remark that hunger come. v to all men regardless of station ir D. lie, the private commented. e That is so, of course. but the off 3 cer did not have to thank me for it. r. It would have served no purpose t, y argue this point with the man SO an D. other question was asked h. This is the time when everybod e. must do his duty" replied the mar st and then added slowly and with en le phasis, and that duty seems to | 'n the same for all alike - everybod le within his place, of course The o ts hcer is as likely to be shot. as we ar,
 and sometimes more so and tha .s- l believe evens things up conside s ably.
 m A sort of democracy of death" SUI h. gested the interviewer.
 us But the word democracy" is in Ge ly many principally associated with th ks social democrats"- German soc d. alist party. For that reason the pr he yate had nothing more to say. es It is as difficult to interview a Ge ys man private as it is to get inform in ton from one of the few officers wi TO nhabit the large rambling Gener les Staff building across the Reichsta lg- building. It seems to be as mu, en the duty of the soldier 10 be silent
 to fight
 no There is no doubt that the Germi nd army in the field is a more liberal i ks sututiou than the German army nd the barracks One reads almost dai he Iof men carrying their officers to tl Ias dressing station behind the trench ra. firing line and of officers who aft ,rt. the fighting is over make frantic
 fort to succor their wounded me i've Letters which speak of officers diyi as ing their parcels from home wi In their men have ceased to be no .ad city.
 by On the whole it is a rare thing md a German private to get the ir oc. cross of the second and first class -iu together So far there are thr .n, cases. infantrist Maurer Silber,
 Quefurth, Reserve Corporal MuellD ,.t of Geestemuende the latter also eal .ta ing promotion to sergeant t.I Mueller serves with a machine-g a, section. In a recent engagement t os crew of the section was shot dow ,I Mueller along escaping. lnste of seeking cover Mueller C ,- ried his wounded corporal into a sa ar place behind the firing line, and tn sa returned to the machine gun, whi so he had begun to work with such .-n hciency that within a few moments 'to had killed and wounded nearly all ,',, men in two of the enemy's uenche