The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-10

' with his wife and two daughters, the Misses Florence and Mary, returned from Europe Monday, on the Rotter- dam having been abroad since Feb ruary.
 ssThe. general feeling throughout Germany" continued MT. Lacher. 'fs against the war Nobody wants it.. Why even the Kaiser didn't want il and when it was declared he came out before his people with tears in his eyes and said:
 'tI'm sorry we are going to war. I didn't want war and I've tried to keep peace but the Russians and French have been mobihzing and when asked them their intentions, their replies were unsa csfactory, so I was compelled to do what I have dohe.'
 .sThe reports that some of his own people are turning against the Kaiser ara all English manufactured lies It has been said that the Social demo- crats were revolutioni7ing in Berlin That's absurd Why all the young men that is, those between the ages of IS and 45 are in the war, and who else would want to revolutionize?
 esI never thought to see Germany as united as it is at present, no. mat ter what the Kaiser were to ask for now, he would get it, his people are so thoroughly with him.
 England says that it will fight un- til it's last penny is gone but Germany will fight until its last drop of blood is gone! It will never give in now. The Germans are a peace-1oving peo- pie and while they didn't want the war they feel that they are defend ing their homes, their children and their country, and nothing will stop them. T
 'The feeling in Germany is strongest against the English for they feel that they are the real cause of the war Soldiers who have been on the battlefield, have told me that when they see a groupto tor French sol diers and a group. of English they always leave the French and direct their attentions against the English, so bitter is their hatred for them
 Germany has had a very pros porous year Many of the farmers with whom I talked told me that they never before had seen such crops The apples and other fruits the wheat, corn and hay crops have been wonderful and most of them have now been harvested so that there is no fear of a dearth of pro- visions.
 .As for the Russians" continued MT. Lacher, tt.the Germans don't think much about them. There is nothing to be gained by invading their country as the land is very poor, the people are ignorant and there is little money. They will not fight the Russians much unless they begin to invade German territory.
 America should do something to stop the war! It is awful to think of all those splendid young people being slaughtered, not only of Ger many but of all the countries. Ger many needs her young people, France needs her young people, Austria, Bel giurn, England, Russia and the, whole ..I-I1 to think of what is happening. '"The Germans have been accused of barbarous practices. It is all a, lie have seen two train1oads of wounded pass my fathers house where we were staying, within an hour. Each carried some 12 or 1 5 covered freight trains filled with Ger man and French wounded. The f1rst conveyed the more frightfully wound ed and the second those whose injur- ies were slighter. They all lay on several inches of straw on the floors ever, the French wounded were well cared for and their injuries were treated.
 | Of course, the Germans. are at tended to first but that is natural. I asked one poor Frenchman who could how many children he had and he held up two fingers. lie had two bullets, too.
 "No one in Germany can even guess how long the war will last, although some of them feel that we will have peace by Christmas time.
 Why even the German bullets are not nearly so cruel as the French. The French are much longer and are bound with copper so that they often infect the wound. The Herman ones are made entirely of steel
 MT. Lacher was much amused by the reports of German reverses which he has read in the American papers since he arrived.
 They are all colored by the Eng l lish,'' he said. why, the English have had the Imperial Guard annihilated a half a dozen times when in reality it hast been within a hundred miles of ] the battles. It IS the same with the sea reports. There has been no naval battle and still the English have re- ported the German vessels sunk twen- l ty times at least Germany will keep Belgium. AL tready she has a military governor over the part which she has taken, and only German newspapers are al 1 lowed to be printed. Belgium will be | taken off the map and will be made l into German provence.
 | "The Germans are working day and night on their Zeppelins, the wonder ful instruments of destruction which have never before been tried in actual warfare. They are covering them with arnor which is something entirely new 1 The Zeppelins hover high over a city. | One man with bomb is let down by | a wire cable until he is about 300 feet | above the place where he wishes the | bomb to strike. In this way only one man is sacrificed, as the great air
 ship itself is high above the reach o1
 bullets, and often he is saved It is
 necessary to come@so close to the city
 as the bomb would explode in the aii | if thrown a greater distance" l MT. Lacher was wearing a tiny American flag boutonniere which he | had purchased in Frankfort and which | was a way in which the Americans ''showed their coIors.'' AG present, ac- cording to MT. Lacher, there are some