Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-20
NINE. SCHUMANN-HEINK
DEFENDS GERMAN CAUSE
Hopes to Be Able to Send a Lot
of Money to Fatherland
and Aid Widows.

BERLIN (via London. Nov. g.
Nine. Schumann-H eink has made /
clear that she is strongly pro-Ger
man. The following letter has beer
received by the Der liner 1Tageblatt
which paper publishes it over hel
SIGNATURE. The letter. dated Chicago
sentember 20, is as follows:
sThere are in New York alone lO0,-
D00 Irishmen ready to grasp the first
abportunity to go over to Germany
md help. As TO Chicago you can SET
fof Yourself. clippings from news
napers telling of pro-German mani
fkstations on the part of lrishmen
liking in Chicago are inelosed in the
letterl, -,
."Thousands upon thousands would
ave to go over and fight for Ger
MANY But. YOU see, the Britishers
Inspect every ship.
~ sing and talk and do everything
can to let the people know the
duth. and they believe me, because
hey know [ can't tell a lie me
foar Belgian delegates do all they
IAN to agitate sentiment. against
Qer1nany-but they have got moral
Whipping. -.
"There are many Germans IN 1ne
States who would vii ingly go over.
lut the consuls tell them not TO- Tor Tor
English warships inspect all the
ships. and everybody who looks only
half German is captured. on, those
Establishment. those-LA number OF
stronp words follow which the Tage-
bstt saws are withheld purposelyl.
Nv season opens on october .,
twenty concerts in twenty-five days.
"Oh, [ SO hope that | do ire
nendous business, So ] can send lot
81 money to the dear old fatherland!
I'm the second week of November
shall send over a friend with Ger
man money to be used in such way
as 10 let the unfortunate widows,
mothers and orphans in the smaller
niaces have a little something from
dear old santa Claus.
sHOh. God, if I could only do little
toward lessening the misery! Ny
heart bleeds, tears roll down my
cheeks as 1 am writing this. Our fine.
brave Germans and Austrians! God
be merciful to them.
f"Carnegie has made good and in in
terviews has sung a song of infinite
praise for the Kaiser. Well, he Ger
iainly has reason to do that! !!
CThe three exclamation points are
Nine. Schumann- Heink's; they are
Interpreted here as meaning that Mr..
Carnegie has ample reason to be
grateful to the Kaiser)
t"How one loves the old fatherlandi
Willingly one would shed the very
heart blood. if it only did any good.
fLoyal unto death, and prepared for
any sacrificed
"E. SCHUAGANN-H ETNK."
NEW YORK. Nov. 20.-Just after
Nine Schumann-H eink's song recital
ut the Academy of Music, in Brook
lyn, last night, she was asked about
he letter to the Tageblatt.
Yes, isn't it just right" she said.
"Of course [ wrote it. And woul dn't
you do the same thing for the father
land?"
There was tremendous warmth Of
lee4lng as she said this. The refer
phce 10 the situation abroad recalled
her her own suffering from it and
that Of the fatherland as a whole
Nine Schumann-Heink told how she
c9re ~ write that letter.
II have been here sixteen years
and am a loyal American she said.
Ut was you in America who, though
i.Iad met with success at home, gave
ne the financial reward which al
Owed me to provide for my family
md do the best for myself So my
feelings for America are the strong
st.
tsYes. 1 am neutral too; but blood is
thicker than water; but half my
femily has already fallen IN this war
Il am a daughter Of military house
fold. My father was an officer in
fhe Austrian army, and those of my
relatives who are vet alive are still