The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-12-10

Al Istsessting Stssy FFso Germany
Written BY Judge Adaos' Daughter
Nov. 9th. 1914.
Ritter st. las.
Hamburg, Germany
My Dear Father. Bob and Bess. and
Mary and Everett:
am going to address you again in
one letter l thank you Bob and father
both for your Eice letters. and l can
tell you certainly do appreciate hav-
ing letters from home. l don't know
whether l owe you, Everett and Mary
letter or not, but IL do, hope you
will allow me to answer you In this
one too. Hans has to take every let
ter to the Censur and let it be read be-
fore sending away-if 1t was German
written. 1t would not be necessary.
but on account of the English.
received the two papers where you
had my letters printed. Mrs. Crewd-
sen was especially pleased to see
that In print about her little girl. and
she begged very much for one OF the
copies as she wanted to show It to
her English friends. She left for Eng
land on the fourth of this month with
her children. The women, children,
ministers. and Doctors are still al
lowed to leave Germany. You know
England is treating the Germans who
were living in England very badly.
Seventeen are reported to have died.
on sccount of the bad treatment. There
are many thousand Germans In Eng
land. and the men between the ages
of seventeen and fifty-five have been
made Prisoners of War. The labor
ers and the better class Of people all
being locked up in the Racing barns,
and six to eight people are forced to
sleep in = stall whsse one horse had
beea kept Germany gave England an
ultinatum until the nth of this niDasla
thst she ahsalAs 0lss1 slIIill ~ iicoISi
~ at leest bettef treatment or that
the English living people would be
made prisoners of war. England did
not even answer. And SO on the 5th of
this month, or the 9Th, the English
men between the ages of II and IS
were taken first on board a ship, and
yesterday in the vicinity of Berlin.
England and Germany had come to an
understanding that the Doctors and
Ministers as well as the women and
children were allowed to return to
their own lands If they wanted to do
so; and DR.. Jens said though this
was not true of different doctors that
were Prisoners In England, that they
had made prisoners out of II doctors,
and they should at least be allowed to
return, according to the agreement.
Mr.. Crewdsen has been ON the bum
mel nearly ever since the beginning
Of the war, of course owing to the
fact that he had no business and too
much spare time. Mrs. Crewdsen came
around one morning last week, cry
ing that they had not slept a wink
Mr.. Crewdsen saw animals and thought
the police were after him, and hid
himself under the bed, and all 9TH
er things imaginable. OF course it
was the beginning of delerium tremons
She said they had terrible life and
she thought 1t might be his salvation
If he was locked up. write this be-
cause you know Crewdsens, father,
The English say themselves here that
the fault is up to England, that they
had always been treated SO nice here.
and if England had not begun that,
everything would have gone on peace
able as before.
Lucy wrote me that many things
had gone up in price in New York and
asked about the prices over here, and
said she had heard that food was very
scarce over here and that food was e.
normously dear. You will understand
how scarce food is, when 1 tell you
that meat is even cheaper than it ever
was; and here as in fact as in all parts
of Germany the cost of living has not
been increased. The Government has
issued maximum price lists for various
districts and the only food that is real
ly dearer is beans and dried peas.
There is no foundation at all that
food is scarce
don't know whether you have read
1t in the papers over there or not, but
at the time Antwerp was taken papers
were found which showed that Bel
gium had always intended going in
League with England; and this State
ment Is based upon Reports found in
the Archives of the Belgium Govern
nent at Brussels. One of them is a
1aDOrt In the Relpjuu, Hf;p;,%,, ~>s w.