The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-10-08

/ thought the girls might treat her bad
| ly. but sent her for her books after
her arms. and went with her before
the class and asked the girls if thCy
! would not like to have Joyce back a.
gain. and they all cried with one
voicc ''yes''. There is hardly ever a
day that some EnElishman. French
man or Jap. writes card Of thanks
in the newspaper. thanking the Ham
| burgers for the kind treatment
Hans read in an English paper 'yc9-
torday. which was in the Club that
Hamburg was burning. suppose yor
have read that in the American papers
too. and think you will be quite on
cited. Well | wish you could sec us
here how peaciblc everything is To
see the City, you would never guess
that war was so near us. There is
great excitement though. But the
worst of all is these bullets that the
French are using They explode after
being shot and tear the wound open
We thought it quite n joke that the
English papers had an account of the
death of the King here and even wrote
| the details Of the funeral. The King
is very much alive. has even taken part
in two battles, and all six Of his sons
are in the war. Some Of relations have
heer killed though. An article was in
the paper this morning that Germany
would never be satisfied until the Eng
lish were licked, too. There is a bat
tie going on now at Paris
The English people who are here
mostly side with Germany: different
ones went the first day to be natural
lied. One Englishman that | know is
married to German lady. and she
told me the other day that they very
often have quarrel: she said that her
husband sided with Germany too, but
that he said she was too hard against
England. They are mostly cross be
cause England are in with the Japs
and Russia. and because they have
brought the blacks from the South in
to France against Germany.
| was certainly quite surprised to
hear that the war had affected Amer
. lean trade so; just :: few days ago.
was trying to argue how Independent
America was from other countries, |
said if it was necessary we could &c;
along without the other countries. that
we had everything in our country that
/ we needed. And Just few days later
received your letter saying that even
| the Stock Exchange was closed Eng
land and Japan are simply taking the
lands that were in possession of Ger
many, which were in the South; so
! America Tor | mean the United States)
might take possession of Canada. and
! then we'd have something out of this
robbing and numbering. too.
am enclosing a clipping from the
telegram sent by the Kaiser to Presi-
dent Wilson. The feeling is here that
this telegram would be stopped by the
| English. or did You read it in the pa
| DerS over there. By-the-way. | have
written some different letters to you
rs well as to father but as we have
| heard that the mail has been stopped
by England. l am in doubt whether
you have received them all When you
/ write if you ever get this oneI tell
us how many you have received: also
the last United States mail here has
been stopped. so | don't know when
shall even here from you again We
We're SO glad to receive your letter.
and we had too few days previously
received a letter from Bob and from
father They all wrote that we should
come over. Hans was anxious that |
should go with the children, and then
he would so as volunteer: but I would
not think of such thing. even il |
was able TO go.