South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-10-10
SOUTH BEND NEWS-TINGES
Kaiser is SaddeSt Man IN
World Today, Says Miss Kirby,
Back Home From Germany

VIII not be content until II mas It's
southern port at Trieste; so the Ger
mans reasoned-and justly il seemed
TO me-that if they were 10 be forced
into war with two stronger nations
IL had better be when she was pre-
pared and they were not.
Tried to Avert War.
"As a matter OF fact. too. Russia
was mobiliZing days before war was
declared. The kaiser telegraphed
time and time again to the car beg
ging him not to mobilize until some
effort was made TO come to an under
standing. OF course there will prob
ably be no way Of proving this until
wears after. but I had a friend who
was caught IN Russia 1t took him a
month 10 get out by sailbOat, freight
and carriage, and he said that the
Russians were modifying as early as
July %.
"The courtesy with which Ameri-
cans and tourists in general were
treated in Germany should be en-
phasiZed Nine special trains were
sent out Of Munich with sleeping cars,
dining cars and every convenience
that the traveller could ask, 10 con-
vey tourists TO Holland, and this at a
great loss 10 themselves, for every one
of those long trains came back empty.
I left on the last of these. The burgO-
train off and his little granddaughter,
dressed in white. and with a wreath
Of pink flowers about her head, pass
ed through the train carrying huge
basket of flowers with a bOquet for
each woman passenger. tt was real
~ very sad. and the Americans left
weeping.
Take NOrtherly Route.
From there on we had no diff
l. h. III
route to avoid German cruisers / sup
pose. but the most exciting thing we
met was a huge iceberg, the largest
any traveller or officer on the boat had
ever seen 1t took us most OF the day
to pass the great mountains of ice,
and the ship slowed down for eight
hours that night for fear Of meeting
others. The captain did not sleep
nights at all all the way across. The
passengers We're all like one big fam
lily, for they had all had war expert
ences and one was eager to hear that
of another"
Miss Kirby with an elderly woman
as her companion, was in Baireuth,
Bavaria, attending the performances
OF "Parsifal" and 1.-The Flying Dutch
man" when mobilization was ordered.
"Parsifal" was the last operate per-
Torrance in the little theater. for on
the Friday afternoon when it was
given the theater was closed. The
news came as a great shock TO the
people and the strangers within their
gates, but the swiftness with which
the orders from the military head
quarters was carried out was marvel
Gus.
Germans Are Orderly.
The German people are the most
orderly and systematic people I ever
came in contact with anyway" said
Miss Kirby, but I never had it i'm
pressed on me so forcibly before. The
order came on Friday and by the next
day we were making our way through
thousands of marching men and every
! railway was transporting train after
| train in which the men were so thick
ly crowded that they couldn't sit
down, and every railway track was
guarded by soldiers at every few
yards.
Every bridge was especially guard
ed and soldiers sprang out with bay
! onetS at each one and demanded our
identification papers In the little
town of Erlangen we were arrested
| and our papers demanded. OF course
we had not anticipated any such state
! of affairs when we left Munich for
/ Ba1reuth, so we had no official papers.
/ While we were treated very courteous
4 ~ We Wei = LOlCtu 10 80 10 the ponce
| station where it finally occurred TO me
| that 1 had with me my German
| travelling club pass while my com
| paniOn, a dear harmless old lady,
came near being held up for days
| until we remembered that she had her
American Express CO. checks. My
! chauffeur was German, SO he wasn't
questioned.
POpulaoe is Excited.
i 1.-THE uOnul2pa caar,1ad axoffaI ont
| OF all proportion at our arrest. They
| followed us TO the police station and
| there stood on each others shoulders
in the effort TO see into the windows
! We did not find out until we got
further along that a bridge in a near
! by town had been blown up by two
| trenchmen in wOmen's clothing and
we were the suspects.
After we left there we had no
| great trouoble until our gasoline gave
| out We were unable to procure any
| more because it had all been reQu-
| sluoned by the German government
and we couldn't get it from any
| source. Our chauffeur tried To get it
| on the plea that il would aid him to
set more quickly to his post in the
! Fletger division, for he is an aerOnaut
! and belongs to that department of the
army. But all TO no effect So we
| LETT the car in the garage of a little
! hotel and went on by train. We
waited two hours in the little station
and in that time eight military trains
/ Went by, each one blocks long and
crowded 20 the limit with soldiers.
| We had no further trouble and it
| was with the greatest regret that
| left Munich, for we were quite safe
there and We all felt 50 intensely for
/ the German people. 1t seems too bad
/ that the nations should resent so in
! tensely Germany's military policy.
| Her large army has been forced upon
+, her because of the nature Of her 10
! cation-just as her large navy has
| been forced upon England. The mill
/ itary training of her men has been a
! fine thing in raising the physical
| standards Of the German race and SO
! long as militarism is the best thing
! for German and she is content under
/ it, why should we complaint"
LAST JEWEL IN
BELGIUM'S CROWN
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