Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21

~ iS 'ACSlp W hS-Ne NS.v
Won Kessel, commandant in the Mark.
declared the maximum price of flour
to be not more than 80 pfennigs u
pound. Another rascal in our quarter
frightened h-ousekeepers into buying
faour at ITO pfennings Il pound. A Char
lany shot himself. The locksmith,
Adolf Henckel also of Charlottenburg,
was sent to force the locks in the house
of an officer newly arrived in Berlin.
He carried Off the silver spoons. He
was arrested and shot. Order was
good; this is the only case 1 know of
shooting for other causes than espion-
timidity nave their humorous features.
A frightened English governess asked
the British embassy to have the war
postponed for half a day. She wanted
to get to Frankfort on the Oder. /
have written elsewhere of the apothe-
cary of N%ollendorf Platz. He is his
toric. General Won kessels billposters
pasted their blood red mobilization pla-
cards over his advertisements of q cos
metic. He implored the general TO bid
the billposters in future TO leave his
advertisements in Dcace.
Berlin army officers behaved we'll.
The war transformed and transtigured
The stif Herr Lieutenant. Often the
officer in peace is a bit-well. Zabern
enough. When danger drew nigh,
these officers behaved with courage and
calm. They were heroes of Il war pop
ulace. yet ~unSpoiled. In the Bayeris-
chetplatZ district where L live are many
officers and many Englishlmen and
Americans. After the automobiles dis
appeared, I Travelled daily many times
on the underground in trains crowded
with officers. There was no pose, no
pathos, no advertised heroism. The Of
ficers looked well. They were already
wearing the new gray green field uni
form, with light colored straps. The
Pickelhaube helmet, including the
spike, is covered with a nightcap OF
uniform material. This is to prevent
the glittering metal parts presenting a
target to sharp shooters. In some cases
the cap did not entirely conceal the
spike. and brass nickel parts showed
through the openings.
Most persons in these trains knew 1
was an Englishman. An officer even
asked to look at a copy of my paper,
the Westminster Gazette. That was
on Wednesday,, after England nae de-
clared a He read an article not
too friendly to Germany and returned
the paper with thanks. The conduct OF
officers strongly contrasted with hat
of the police and of some civilians, who
roughly arrested and some times mis-
handled British subjects. My. con
clusion is that Germany in the hour of
perily showed the vast national adj
vantage of drill, of discipline. of class
codes of honor, even when these codes
(as in all militarist ~states) are per-
verified or exaggerated.
Human, all too human, were the
plumbers of suspicious soldiers, police
men and civilians. On August 1 the
war ministry issued a request that
Germans should watch out for spies
and take preventive measures against
Tho fHrNyxyirp nf hornIs from fpoiroo ON
to bridges. An hour later / saw the in
side of a train at Friedrichsstrasse sta
ton ~placarded with bright red notices
.rehearsing this request. The public
with ultra human zeal set to work to
help the authorities. They seized or
demanded papers from every Russian.
Later they arrested Englishmen. Amer
leans who spoke English i'm public
places shared the same fate. The pop
ulace seized suspicious looking Ger
mans and did not stop until several
officers in uniform, on the way to fight
for their fatherland, were under arrest
as spies. A reserve officer, who APP
and a new tunic, was seized by a mob
that asked him if he was 1.-The French
man who poisoned the wells at Metz"
In peace time the offlced would have
sliced off the amateur detectives arms,
and a courtmartial would have ac-
uullIcu III Liz liz GU SGIIIlc
~. laughed at the crowd, and allowed
himself to be taken to the police sta
ton.
once at least the bitter was bit.
Among the crowd hunting spies in the
CharlottenstraSse was a Jealous CASH
Ter who was bringing a wad of money
to pay laborers on the Tempelhof field.
After periodically helping to appre-
bend a spy" he made off. Five min
utes later he himself was arrested. He
protested:
My German accent proves I'm no
foreigner"
"It proves you're a spy. Spies al
ways speak good German"
Here the crowd began q search. No
money was found. He's certainly a
spy" shouted the chief amateur de-
~tective. He hasn't got a pfennig on
him.
Not a pfennig?" roared the mob.
Here a searcher unearthed 1000
marks in small notes.
THAT proves he's a spy" bawled
the crowd. He got it from France in
small notes so as to bride u brave
soldiers. Who gave you the money!
And having with true German punc-
tiliOusness counted the money, made a
memorandum and given the spy q re-
ceipt, they proceeded to beat him. A
policeman ended the comedy. My old
friend, Samuel Beach Conger, Assoc
ciated Press correspondent, was seized
at Gumbinnen as a Russian spy. As
he lay in jail, Berlin newspapers re-
ported that Is Russian grand duke had
arrested at Gumbinnen." Only
war tr~ansfigures mere newspaper men
into grand dukes.
Color Of Army Horses.
From the Army and Navy Journal.
The color line is being drawn by the
army in the purchase OF horses. It has
not been drawn in favor of white or
light colored horses, but against them.
and in favor of s~orrels, browns, bays
and blacks. Because of their visibility
white and gray horses are not consid-
cred desirable for mounts. In the field
they are n mark for sharpshooters. and