Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-05
GERMANY SPIRIT
SHOWN IN LETTER
MlsslVe Received by Newark
Druggist from Sister Demon
strates Teuton Patriotism.

A letter received by George ]. KEEL
Ter a druggist, of 191 Avon avenue,
this city, written his sister by Mrs.
Adelaide Beck, wife of a chemist liv
ing in Frankfort, Germany, discloses
the patriotic sentiment and confidence
in the outcome of the present war felt
by the people of that country. Mrs.
Beck, writing on September 49, speaks
with enthusiasm of the presence Of
the German army on Belgian soil and
of the results of the work of the Az
centimetre guns on the fortresses
there
The 42-centimetre gun discharges a
shell Approximately fifteen inches in
diameter. The letter says that in
Berlin newspaper had picture of
the effect of one shot from this gun
on one of the forts surrounding Lou
vain. 1t was the first time that the
public were made acquainted with the
power of the projectile. 1t was shown
TO have made the fort, one of the
strongest in modern times, heap of
ruins.
The embrasures of the fort, consist
Ing of reinforced concrete and steel.
were entirely destroyed by one shot,
becoming a mass of ruins. One shot
from this gun costs 10000 marks, or
about 1000.
The letter also points out the pre-
paredness of Germany for the war.
Near Muelhausen there was Ger
man aeroplane factory in which were
stored about fifty machines, ready for
assembling, and a great deal of ex-
pensive machinery, the letter reads.
On the day of the declaration of the
war the superintendent of the factory
received this laconic message: your
factory will be transferred to the
other side of the Rhine tonight
That night fifty railroad cars were
brought to the factory, loaded with
It's product and tools and conveyed to
the other side of the Rhine, where
another building, complete in every
detail, had been built by the govern
ment in times of peace and without
the knowledge of anybody except it's
builders. When the French arrived,
intending to capture the aeroplanes
and the factory they found but the
bare walls. |
I'VE have now been six weeks in
the war and we have 1850 men in
prison and $50 officers" says the let
ter. I'VE do not know of the dead.
80 far. everything goes we'll in the
empire, and we are in the best of
spirits. Only official news is imnart-
ed to us. The news coming from
every foreign country is considered
as false Financially we are situated
excellently. We are so well off that
the families of the soldiers in the field
receive allowances from the State!'
The letter speaks of the field gray
uniform of the German soldiers as
1.-The terror of the enemy, as it can
not be seen in the field
In one part the letter says: The
military government has closed up
several business houses the owners OF
which charged exorbitant prices for
food and other necessities. The gov
eminent then took charge Of the
stores and sold the goods. There is
no famine and the prices of only a
sew things have been raised. In these
cases the increase has been but a few
pennies.
Seven million soldiers are in the
field for Germany and all are per-
fectly equipped Each man received
four pairs of shoes at the very begin
ming.
But since the war began the Rus
slams have been frequently defeated
and their troops driven into the sea-
Ten thousand Russians have been
made prisoners, a great many cannon
captured and in almost every battle
their forces have been crippled. The
Zeppelin airships have been of great
aid to us, and not one has been dam
aged.
There is one Germany only. fight
ing for its existence There is only
one party now The Social Demo-
Gratis here have handed over their en-
tire treasury and their clubhouse for
military purposes. 1t was said that
in Alsace we would find the entire
country against us. And yet, on the
very first day of the war 100000
men volunteered for service in the
army.
THE completeness of our prepara-
ton and the absolute outside
ignorance of what was being done
showed that German men had given
the best that was in them. Every
workman had been pledged to secrecy
and had maintained that pledge
through a sense of duty. They re-
fused to disclose secrets, because they
knew that at some time Germany
would be compelled to stand as one
man and fight for existence ..t.