Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-07

country which Is in a death struggle
with a world of foes.
These identical conditions 7 found
in Berlin, in Vienna and Budapest, in
Munich, in Frankfort and in all of the
cities whittier l went In Germany,
Austria or Hungary. Positively no
shortage of food and instead OF high
prices many of the articles are
cheaper now than they were before
the war, with the exception of coffee,
tea and sugar, which commodities are
a trihe higher than they were before.
Coupled with this I found such a
wonderful buoyant spirit among men,
women and children that in compar-
ing 1t with what I have seen in Eng
land l said to myself a people IKE
the Germans cannot possibly be
downed, even If they have to fight
against more enemies than they are
fighting now.
Streets Are Gay at Night.
"Let me point out another condition
by which Austria, Hungary and Ger
many shine favorably in oaQtradls-
tinctlon to England. The streets are
CAV and at night illuminated as usual.
There is no fear OF spies and foreign
ers are treated with the greatest
ciyility and when fling 4 message
you are not held up to such ridiculous
rules as are established by the Brit
ish censorship. OF course, you have
TO use plain language, but you can use
registered addresses and code sigma
lures; all that Is required wren send
ing message is to give your ad-
dress, and in Austria when you nVe
In hotel you have to show your
passport.
Incoming mail from abroad is de-
livered unopened and promptly. he
strictions exist only for outgoing
mail, which has to be sent open ana
in order to accelerate ii in the Ger
man language; if written in Engllsn
or French language or any other Tor
eign language, take it to the foreign
office in Berlin and have 1t stamped by
the censor. The sending OF tele-
graphic messages in English or
French are admissible, whereas in
England German messages even Tor
the interior are not permissible. In
short, conditions in Austria, Hungary
and Germany are almost normal ex-
cept for the fact that you see many
outbursts of patriotism, tagging of
buildings and playing of patriotic airs
by the numerous orcheStraS in public
coffee houses and restaurants as well
as the presenting of patriotic plays
in the theatres Through the cour-
tesy of the German and the Austro-
Hungarian authorities, 1 was enabled
to visit many prisoners camps and
hospitals, where their own wounded
as well as the wounded prisoners are
well cared for. | spoke to English,
French, Belgian and Russian prison
ers of war as well as to their wounded
and received from the latter nothing
but universal assurance that they are
being treated absolutely in the same
manner as the wounded of the Ger
man, Austrian and Hungarian armies.
Il failed to find any traces of the
atrocities and barbarism complained
of, committed by the Germans, but
did find and spoke personally to a
number of wounded Germans who
have been mutilated by civilians, In
some instances in such a horrible
fashion that it cannot be described In /
print. and, strange as it may seem. !
most Of this mutilating was commit !
ted by Belgian and Servian women !
and children. I visited also parts of
Eastern Prussia, where the Russians
had invaded toward the end of
August and learned there Of cases of
committed by Cossacks, 4
which are so horrible that in describ-
ing them they would defy the pen of
a Macaulay. In view of the fact that
several correspondents of some of our
greatest dailies were in these regions
some of whose reports l brought over
myself, shall refrain from going
into details, but / wish to state that
so far have failed to find more than /
4 few lines in the American newspa-
pers about 1t, while the alleged Ger
man and Austrian atrocities were so
strongly exploited in our American
press; hence, | can understand the ,
justified indignation, pain and shock
Of such distinguished Englishmen as
Prince Arthur, of Schleswig Holstein,
and there are undoubtedly many more
who feel like Prince A rfh1ir" 1