Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-31
CANNOT BELIEVE WAR
 REPORTS RECEIVED HERE.
Dr.. c. A. Wright, Just Returned From Europe, Says ReportsAare All Color ed

ed.
 Dr. Charles A. Wright of Delevan,
 Wis, who with his brother, Rev. F. C..
 Wright, of Philadelphia, are at pres
 ent guests of Col. and Mrs. Charles w.
 Gale at Pinehurst. was one of the
 hosts of Americans caught in Europe at the eutbreaking of the war. He left
 the 18th, and Rotterdam on the 18th. A passage of II 1-2 days from Rotter-
 dam on the freight steamer Noorder-
 dyke of the Holland American line
 brought him to New York.
 In speaking of the war situation on
 Sunday evening, Dr. Wright expressed
 his profound disbelief in all the war despatches that are coming from across the water and referred especial ly to- the reports of four German ves- sells sunk in an engagement with the British, who, according to reports, suf- fered but very slight damage.
 Dr. Wright said 1t was unbelievable that such could be the case. In the first place. all these despatches come
 through anti-German lands and are colored in the passage, and then the
 German war fleet, he says. are all in the harbor of Hamburg, which is mined, and it is against the German
 policy to risk 8 dash out to meet the English, since they recognize the naval
 superiority of their foes. They intend
 to wait behind their mine fields and
 make the English come in after them. Dr. Wright went abroad in June for special medical studies in Vienna and
 at Freiburg. and he declared that his observations enable him to declare positively that reports that the Aus
 trians are unpatriotic as regards this war are untrue. They are in the war
 to fight it. out and the Germans like
 wise, every man, woman and child are
 full of patriotic sfervor for the war. We will win or we'll smash every | thlng, they say. If I heard that once, I heard it dozen times" said Dr. Wright
 will be question of starving Ger
 many out, in his opinion. and he can see nothing but defeat for Germany
 and Austria on that score. But fifteen | million men can flight a long time
 and do an appalling amount of de-
 many can put into the field from
 twelve to fifteen million men and | Austria three to four million more The Germans are all trained and equipped and ready for war and are
 backing their ruler with devoted spirit The Americans hardly understand the situation. he said.
 Dr. Wrights own departure from
 the war center was aided by the fact that he had funds at command. Wher
 he was in Vienna the American am.
 bassador told him that Aug. 5th was the limit on which to get out of the country. He left on the 3rd for Ber- | lin and arrived there after 32 hours | a. trip that ordinarily takes but a few l hours. Since all the trains are taker for military operations. travel is al.
 most impossible and is subject to al
 sorts of delays. He could not get out Of Berlin until the 1SNh and would mol | have gotten away then if the Amer. | ican ambassador had made up a trair to go to Rotterdam. Only government trains cross the boundaries between countries. He knew of one man of 2 party who walked nine miles to gel l across a boundary after the train had lift its passengers as near as it could
 bring them to the boundary line 4 little American push helped him
 to passage when he reached Rotter- dam. When the steamship officials l answered their application by saying | that they could not do anything for
 pr. Wright and three men who were with him, the four went around and
 got in through back door of the of flee building. They just waited and ! in abount an hour and a half an ofi-
 places on a freighter if they would | sign up as members of the crew. This was to avoid the regulation | which did not allow him to carry pas | Sengers. Dr. Wright and h1s friends agreed, signed the papers and in 2;
 hours from the time they reached Rot
 terdam were embarked for their home land. On board the, boat the orTicers
 gave up their staterooms to them and they did not have to do any work as crew members
 | The thing that is embarrassins
 mericans abroad is that the majority
 have credits that they cannot realize
 on. Dr. Wright knew of one mar
 who had a credit for S5.0O0 upor
 which he could not get a mark. Peo. pie in Berlin are going to the Amer. ican ambassador and getting marks | GAS cents) per day. which is what they have to live on- The Cooks tour | ist agencies. an English firm, have Jeff the country, for their money would | have been confiscated by the Ger
 mans and all those with Cook credits are consequently stranded