Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-09-16
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FTa0Z HO6SSleT, HTSl VICE pi OoiuOhe
of the Roessler & Hasslacher Cheml-
cal Company, returned to his desk IN
the Office building of the company at
High and Fayette streets this morn
ing after an absence or about ten
weeks, during most Of which time ne
spent in the heart of the war zone
visiting p Germany. Mr.. Roessler
and his two sons, Hans and Fritz,
came home on the Potsdam from
Rotterdam, which docked yesterday
morning. When seen at his office this
morning by a NEWS representative,
Mr.. Roessler was asked If the war
had retarded or increased the busl-
ness of the company. He declared
that since the outbreak of the war
there had been an improvement in
business, especially in certain chem
ical compounds, whose export from
Europe had been cut off. The ma
iority of the corporation's trade Is
in the United States and the war, by
eliminating competition in supplying
certain articles from Europe, has aid
ed in the prosperity of the company;
Contradictory to many reports or
returning war refugees Mr.. Roess-
Ter emphasized the fact that the Ger
mans were most courteous to tourists
marooned by the upheaval of the ma
tions and said that he and his two
sons were never arrested or humlH-
ated as their American passports
served to identify them in any part
of Germany.
THE people of Germany were very
optimistic as to the success OF their
arms said Mr. Roessler. Every man
able to bear a musket wanted to en-
list it seemed to him. He said by
the governments order, however, ev-
cry man able to fight between the
years of seventeen and forty-hve,
was called to the army.
Mr.. Roessler and his two sons left
here June 27 on the Prince Frederick
Wilhelm, and stopped for short
time in England from that country
thew went to Frankfort, where they
had relatives, and then to konlgsteln.
Before the war broke out they Wis
tied in Switzerland, but had return
ed to Konigstein, Germany, when
that country declared war on France.
Excitement prevailed and even the
German boys wanted to enlist. Strict
orders were issued as to foreigners,
but Mr.. Roessler says that those OF
neutral countries having passports
we're not troubled after they showed
their papers. Mr. Roessler and his
sons stayed in Konigstein for four
weeks, and went to Frankfort to
book passage home, but had to wait
there for a month before they could
secure accommodations. When they
did book first class passage on the
Potsdam from Rotterdam, there
were SO many others booking that
they were crowded like herring.
In going by train from Frankfort
to Rotterdam, to take passage On the
Potsdam, which sailed september b,
Mr.. Roessler saw train loads OF
wounded soldiers, and prisoners COM
ing from the zone of the fighting
and the trains were delayed by the
enormous traffic In transporting
fresh soldiers to the frontier, and
wounded soldiers and prisoners TO
the rear. He saw the Holland army
mobilizing as he passed through that
country to Rotterdam, and every
place in that neutral country assum-
ed a war-like appearance, as If that
nation too were mixed in the Euro
pean catyclism.
The Potsdam was not stopped on
its voyage to this country, except
that two English naval officers board
ed the vessel off the coast of Dover,
and the passengers thought they
made an inspection of the cargo OF
the ship.
Mr.. Roessler, as did other tour
lists was unable to get letter of cred
it on an English exchange cashed, but
replepished his funds without trou-
Bile from another source. He said
that Americans had no trouble IN Sc
curing monetary aid from the United
States refugee ships were sent to
the ports of the warning countries.
The Prince Frederick Wilhelm on
which the Roesslers left here in June,
following the outbreak of the war,
on returning from the north cape,
stopped at a Norway port, and has
been held up there ever since.