Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-07
GERMANS LETTER TO HIS MOTHER TELLS
 OF ENGLISH HATRED
Reserve Officer Writes That Bit ter Feeling Against British Is Universal And They Need Not Expect Mercy In War

ROTTERDAM. Oct 6.-The follow ing letter of a reserve officer to his mother, throws an Illuminating light on subsistence condition in the Ger man forces now in France 1t is in- structive also in number of other 
 "It is hot morning, the men are busy digging trenches, and now the crash of artillery which kept up all morning is no longer heard. l am sit ting under a tree, reading again and again your dear letter and the re- maihder of my mail, Indeed dear mother. if it could be done ] would telegraph you every day But that is impossible, SO now while l have the time, l will write you as long let ter as possible One never knows what the future will bring
 "This is very idyllis spot I am disturbed now and then in a most agreeable manner Ripe piums fall from the tree most conscientiously eat them l have breakfastbd well, and the company barber gave me shave-which was needed badly. In addition l have managed Go get some washing done, and now l feel again like a gentleman.
 As I already told you the commis- sary officer of our battalion and l went to the same college. ! have been obliged to pay for this happy coin cidence with many a bite I needed myself. But yesterday he told me that he had managed to get two hon est-to-goodnoss, real and otherwise bonahde hams, lost no time accept ing my share-it was inc and will last until tonight To the great sur prise of the captain managed to get 1-8 pound of butter from a farm Com misary bread ham and butter-what a Luscullan feast had last night. But there is nothing to smoke. Kindly send me a few cigarettes and some pipe tobacco.
 The owner of the farm where l got the tobacco is a woman; thirty-two years old and rather wealthy. She left the place. not because she feared the Germans, but the French, as her manager told me. l wish these peo- pie had sense enough to remain on their farms. We do them no injury and pay for everything We take, while the property of those who run away is naturally without owner and thus not protected,
 There is no evidence here of 'Volkskrieg Cwar carried on by the population. as in Be,gium) The pco- pie are rather afraid and do every thing to get along with us. Every thing is upside down nowadays, dear mother. master alone is the soldier. right and wrong are matters which be rules on, all power and responsi. bility has been placed on him. thank God that our hands are clean and that our officers conduct is be- yond criticism. In - asked a woman whether she had complaint to mako against our soldiers, and she said: No the German soldiers are good lads"
 But with this the burning of vii
 lages has nothing to do Most O.
 them are set adre by artillery shells
 and when they are burned down pun
 posely 1t is done because the inhab
 itants have fired upon our soldiers
 rH
 stone remained in place. Some O
 our hussurs entercd them and wer'
 trcacherously shot down. We re gretted that We had to do it, an'
 now that the people have beeI
 brought to their senses, further meas .ures of that sort have been prohibited Tn the village of - l saw al
 old man sit in a house which ha' been destroyed. In front of his stooD a venerable gray. old man-the pries who surveyed the remnant of hi congregation with sorrow. ] entere'
 the village at the head of two bat
 ailiOn5, and when the old priest say me he looked at mo in a way cha cut into my very soul Then wit
 the sudden motion of fear he took of
 his hat and held it in his hand, ur 'il the last man had passed him. think he feared that refusal to gree 3 us would be taken as an OilensC , What went on in the mind of the ol priest would be interesting to know
 But this is war, and we did not wan n the indescribable misery which 1t ha .. brought on.
 Last night at roll call we hear e the news Of the German victory oVe e tho ngllsh. French and Belgians W 5 especially appreciated the news col
 ceming the ngnsh Our hate tC '- these perndious follows is univorsi Il and much greater than our feelin q. against tho French yerybody wan
 chance Co get at them, and G1 p have mercy on them should they g r. before our nfles--from us they ne'
 expect none.
 "At seven in the evening we heal ' the news of the Russian defeat n hope that the good tGings will if confirmed We are advancing ever
 where.