Evening star., 1914-12-13
GERMANY'S HATRED
OF THINGS ENGLISH
Extends Even to Names of
Hotels and of the Dishes
They Serve.
BY HERBERT COREY.
Copyright. 1914, 10y Herbert Oorey

Melba I'm Germany. There are peaches,
of course. and ice cream. and the other e
ingredients. But Peach Melba is q
thing not to be ordered in my restau-
rant Peach Melba has been for
sworn
But | want Peach Melba." I told
the waiter.
Il can bring you." said he in his SLOW.
precise English. "a fresh peach on
vanilla ice with strawberry and
cream
But that is Peach Melba"
1t is" said he. "a peach on vanilla
Ice with straw berry and cream"
II was so ordered. The explanation
is that Peach Melba is a name that has
come to Germany from hated Albion
All Germany hates England. GERMANY
hates all England's works. She will nou
use an English name il she can help
herself She feels rather kindly to-
ward Russia One hears fairly pleasant ,
comment upon France. But IL Germany
can arrange it she Will take the BRIT
ish empire apart to the last wheel She
Is perfectly frank about it,
We are stopping at the Bristol
Hotel, we said to an American friend
here. He smiled.
Pardon me-" said he. You are stop
ping at Conrad THIS Hotel Bristol
Sure enough. That is the new name.
The sign has been taken down FROM
over the hotel door. All the stationery
has been reprinted, in order that the
Teutonism of Conrad This name may
tai Ike the curse off the Britishness Of
Bristol. The Windsor and Carlton
hotels have erased their names from
every visible sign They prefer am
honorable anonymity to be tarred by
the English stick. Every other hotel
in Berlin which bore an English name
has made similar alteration. with one
exception. That is the Hotel Cumber-
land.
why not the Hotel Cumberland" we
asked.
The explanation was easy. The Duke
of Cumberland is the father of the
kaiser's son-in-law. He is also the
hereditary claimant of the crown of
Hanover, and while on this account he
has declined to swear allegiance to the
kaiser, it still makes him German
enough to be respectable in Berlin.
The fact that he is English born and
bred is being overlooked on this ac-
count.
Does the Sun Shine on Foes.
Berlin watchmakers have a fondness
for a sort of octuple clock in their
front windows. On the various dials
Of these clocks the differing times of
various capitals were displayed in
times past. The central dial carried
the time OF Berlin. On the other dials
were the time of Paris and London and
Washington and the other world capi-
tails. These clocks are still in the win
dows throughout the city. But papers
have been pasted over the faces of the
enemy dials. Strive as one may, one
may now only discover what the time
Is In Peking, Constantinople and Wash
ington No loyal German will admit
that the solar processes are available
to a foe.
There is an American luncheon club
in Berlin, which meets at regular In
tervals at the Hotel Adlon. one of the
members of this club recently met a,
professor of the University of Berlin
The American talked what little Ger
German in an overpowering 4 ood. BY
and by the American threw up his
hands.
Enough said he. "genuch- habe
nix Deutsch to sprechen."
Well" said the professor. with a
deep sigh, then / will speak English.
l lived in America for five years. But
I detest the necessity 1 loathe the
English and their language.
For ten years the English wife of an
Englishman in Hamburg has been
close chum of the German wife OF
German officer. They took tea together
maker. They played bridge nightly.
Their likes and dislikes and their oc-
cupations and their friends were iden
tical. Shortly after war was declared
the English woman called on the Ger
man woman. Her chum came to the
door.
You are an enemy" said she. coldly.
Il can never receive you again.
One hears now and then of pathetic
things because of this intensity of
hatred. Many Englishmen resident in
Germany have married German women
The men are now interned in one OF
the various prison camps for civilians.
Their wives are suspected by their
former friends. Having become English
by their marriage, they are no longer
German. They are afraid to go 10 Eng
land. for the feeling there against
Germans is quite as bitter. Arres,
might be their lot. SO they stay at
home and weep.
The Case of MI. Justice.
In Hamburg lived man named Jus
tice. He was born German of a Ger
man family. Thirty years ago he went
to England. At the time he thought II
likely that he would make his home
there. Therefore he became natural
ized. Five years later he returned to
Germany and has never been out Of
Germany since. He has three sons in
the army Two of them have been
decorated for bravery at the front.
Justice had forgotten that English in
cident in his life. But the German po-
lice had not.
Come" they said to him one day.
you are under arrest. You are an
Englishman."
Justice protested angrily. He WAS
not an Engiishman. he said. But they
produced the records. They had the
goods on him. Mr.. Justice was living
in the prison camp at Ruhleben at last
accounts with the other interned En-
glishmen. Ruhleben is the trotting
race course OF Berlin and the English
internes live in the box stalls at the
stables. four to q stall. He VIII psoba-
bly, live there until the war is over
Being a German, il is not likely that
he resents the governments action. \
rule is a rule War is conducted on
the most practical lines.
AT the same time, il should he point
ed out that the Germans insist that
they did not take these extreme meas
ures against English civilians until
the German hand had been forced by
the anti-GerInan agitation in England.
1t was not until weeks after the Eng
lish had rounded up thousands Of Ger
mans that the arrest of all English
resident in Germany was ordered.
When the order came, however. it was
executed with n German thoroughness.
The police knew precisely where each
Englishman lived. and each English
man knew il. When the order was is
sued the police called on the English
men.
Zach man had his clothes packed"
said my informant. They We're pre-
pared TO go.
Bitter as the feeling against the
En- nelish undoubtedly is. my personal
without undue harshness i'm most cases.
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