Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-12-01
PERIL PREDICTED
As An Az 7ERMATH
COE COLLEGE EDUCATOR JUST
BACK FROM WAR ZONE SEES
GREAT SUFFERING TO COME.
WAS IN MIDST OF 1T
Cedar Rapids Woman Delayed in Ar.
irving Home on Account Of Her
Boat Striking Mine Putting
1t Out Of Commission.

Cedar Rapids, Nov. 7e.-Conditions
Will be frightful in Europe when the
war is over, according to Miss Anna
Heyberger, member of Coe College
faculty, who has just arrived in Cedar
Rapids. Leaving here last June Miss
Heyberger has spent much of the
time since in travelling through Aus
tria. She was in Vienna when the
war broke out and witnessed many
stirring incidents. She declares the
preparations that had been made for
war are marvellous and says that there
is no prospect of a famine in Austria
Or Germany but that the hardships
will come when the war is ended.
The boat on which the Coe instruc-
tor was to have sailed struck mine
putting it out of commission, and it
was necessary for her to go from Ber-
lin to Norway. More hard luck await
ed her for the Norwegian boat was
taken by the English as contraband
Of war Finally the "Bygnsfjold," on
which Miss Heyberger sailed, togeth-
er with 1000 Norwegians who were
returning to America, was sent on a
northerly route in order to avoid the
mines in the North Sea, and in sailing
close to the shores of New Foundland-
land and only few miles south OF
Iceland, bitter cold weather was ex-
perienced. More than twenty Scandi-
navian and Danish boats have been
blown up in the North Sea within the
last few weeks.
Appropriate Opera Glasses.
Sweden and Norway are what |
call neutral" declared Miss Heyber-
ger ''That is more than I can say
about the United States. don't think
this country u.s. The newspapers in
those two neutral countries simply
print the English statements of the
war and the German official dis
patches and make absolutely no COM
ment. I think in the United States
the newspapers are strongly in sympa-
thy with the English Sweden and
Norway are in a state of excitement,
fearing they will be forced into the
fight by the pressure brought to bear
from England, and that they will just
have to fight to stand up for their
rights. On the Swedish frontier the
officers searched my grips, appropriate
ed my letters, fearing might be a
spy, but promised to forward them in
case nothing of a damaging nature
were found in them. Opera glasses
are not permitted to be carried. ex.
planned that I was returning to Ameri-
ca and would not again use them in
their country. After much dickering
they finally gave them back to me on
promise that I leave within three
days"
Saw Many Wounded Soldiers.
Before l left Vienna" continued
Miss Heyberger, ''there were $4,000
wounded soldiers, 5000 being brought
in one Sunday afternoon. 1t was a
terrible sight and when the first Of the
wounded arrived the Austrians, who
are very sensitive, wept bitterly, men
and women crying in the streets.
Many of the palaces of the wealthy in
Vienna were given up and converted
into hospitals. When the soldiers
went to war. the whole city was in
mourning and this was incontrast to
the manner in which the Germans
took leave of their soldiers. The Ger
man mothers and wives gave up their
boys and. husbands with no shedding
of tears. but with a stolid determine
IlOn tndL never WOulu nave Deieyeu
possible
Brother May Go to War.
Miss Heyberger has a brother who
teaches in college in Bohemia who
was not compelled to go to war at the
outbreak, it being necessary to keep
some Of the colleges going. However,
he expects that by Christmas time his
country will have need of him and that
he then will have to shoulder arms.
It would be difficult to tell when
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