Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1914-09-24
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FUKGElS FAN lies
German newspapers reaching here
today with news from August IL to
August "a, contain detained accounts
OF heavy German and Austrian VIC
tories.
The Berliner Tageblatt of August II.
told OF the departure Of the German
kaiser for the headquarters of h
great general staff. in the direction Of
Mafnz, and contained the kaiser's fare
well message to his people. This read
as follows:
eompels me to change my h~eadquarters
from Berlin. 1t Is a necessity of my heart
Z, @ ten the people Of Berlin together with
the proofs of their love and affection.
which have experienced in all these
great days so heavy with fate. | trust
and navy, and the unshakeable unanimity
OF the German people in the hours Of dan
feFf c vietory will not fail HJ, to crown our
Berlin. in. the palace. August is. 1914.
The same number of the Berliner
Iageblatt contains the following notice
under the caption N More Parties:
From today on the vorwaerts will be
ootainable at all depots and at all ele-
III runway SldIlOIS. IL pIO1l1pl-
ton of it's sale has been lifted"
This would indicate that the So
eaallst paper had been suppressed be-
cause of utterances that were con
sidered opposed to the official policy.
German Women Too Kind.
Bitter censure is expressed in sew
eral issues of the German newspapers
upon what is called "undignifed" de-
pertinent Of German women toward
prisoners of war who were brought to
Germany. AT Stuttgart, on August Is,
the military authorities Of the Wurt-
temburg army corps issued the follow
Ing official announcement:
The undignified and shameless scenes
which, We're enacted on the arrival OF
French prisoners of war, in particular on
the part of women, led the military COM
male persons who thrust themselves for
ward in u%ndignifled manner toward war
prisoners are to be apprshended by the
their names are to be reported to the
military commander for publication in
the newspapers.
Commenting on the events that
the Tageblett said:
The scenes referred to in this order took
piace last Thursday at the station IN
crowded close to the prisoners in order to
give them love gifts and flowers. The
next morning other ladies" inquired by
"a / LILO IcStINc lOSplIdl lAC
the Frenchmen were harbored. asking If
It would be permitted them to bring
chocolates and roses for the Frenchmen;
has evoked disgust throughout Stuttgart
and it's press. The unwounded French
prisoners were removed to the number OF
ABOUT $50 to a former fortress, where they
will be strictly guarded.
A later issue say that the Red Cross
nurses We're thenceforward to wear
only the plainest garb and to approach
prisoners only when the latter were
wounded.
The war prisoners are in charge of
the militSrJ authorities" it explains,
and they are to receive no d%elicacies
or tobacco from the public. The und
ed war prisoners, on the other hand,
are to be treated the same as German
prisoners. Undignified conduct on the
part of women (of the Red CROSSE at
the l~ilway stations will be punishable
by election and by Withdrawals Of their
credentials"
Denies North Sea is Mined.
Another issue Of the Tageblatt con-
tanned an article officially announcing
that there was no danger to neutral
shipping in the North sea. The notice
read:
No harbor is blockaded and there is
nothing in the way of m between
Germany and neutral states. The report,
North sea has been strewn with mines, is
untrue. Neutral shipping bound for the
north German coast must, by day, steer
for a point 10 %nautical miles northwest of
Heligoland. There provision has been
made by the German authorities for pilots
who will guide the ships to the German
tic seaports. There are pilots before every
harbor.
Official notice was made in the
Tageblatt Of August Is, that charges of
cruelty on the part Of Belgians were
being investigated and sworn testl-
mony of all who had personally wit
messed such cruelty from the Belgials
was solicited.
OF interest in view Of the tremendous
number Of women wearing mourning in
On the part of Capt. Rudolf Herring:
well understood by all of us! But please
mourn only in your hearts: Put on the
black garb Of mourning only later, after
a victorious peace. At present you make
uneasy. through your dark garb, many
Fellow citizens and lead to much depres-
sion among other people.
tended by your brave dead. Combat the
outward signs of your grief. Dress now as
always. Thus you will do a great service
for the fatherland.
In view of the large number of I'M
employed, made greater by difficulties
illadvisedly put in the way Of many
employees after they had reported them
selves ready to serve in the Landstrum,
the authorities Of Berlin have estab-
lished meals for 2h cents at monday
In public eating halls.