Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-09-25
GERMAN WAR NEWS
ALTOGETHER FALSE,
ONE FUGITIVE SAYS
Revolt in London, German
Warships in Thames and
Barbarities of Allies AL
legged by eutonic Press, Is
Woman's Story.
LONDON. Sept. 25.

LONDON, Sept %.
An English woman, who arrived yester-
| day at Tolkstone from Bremen gives a
| graphic description OF some of the scenes
| she witnessed i'm some OF the northern
| cities of Germany, and describes the state
| of the people as panicky. She brought
| with her a batch of German newspapers
which show how the German people are
being deceived as to the real progress Of
the war.
The papers In Bremen" she says,
were placarded daily with such headlines
as Victory on Victory and told of great
British military disasters, of how British
warships had been destroyed and even
that a German cruiser had entered the
Thames and blown UP a British cruiser.
London. we are told was in state OF
semi-revolution, the English people were
clamorins against the war, half the Cabi-
net had resigned, trade was at a stand
still. and food was at famine prices"
All sorts of stories giving the terrible
barbarities of the Allies were publshe d
In these papers. The eyes of the German
wounded had been forced out and their
hands cut off by the French and Bclgians.
and IL was to this fact was due the meth
DDS of retaliation adopted by the Ger
man troops. In the first days of the war
news came freely to these German cities
from the front but later on news became
scarce with the result that feeling verg-
ing on panic was created
There Ia a rigid censorship in the
cities" the woman fugitive said. land one
had to be exceedingly careful about what
he or she said in public. I had to guard
against speaking in English. for, although
as a rule the English are only treated
cooly, some Englishmen, during the first
few days, were brutally beaten In the
streets
Two weeks ago when every one was
on edge with rumors of naval engage
mcnt with the British fleet outside the
canal the city was suddenly thrown into
the widest chaos. 1t was about o'clock
in the evening and suddenly volley after
voley of heavy rife firing rang out.
Immediately the streets were filled
with scurrying people, shouting and
screaming with excitement. To the
bridge! they yelled. English airships
over The Old Town dropping bombs!
II ran with the rest from the New
Town to the Kaiser bridge. Soldiers
were running at the double from side
streets and here and there were squads
of men kneelng in the cutters firing
at a bank of cloud. On the bridge
company of men were lined up doing the
same
This firing went on heavily from s |
until 1890 o'clock.and then continued at |
htful intervals until 1:30. 7 never saw a |
sign of an aeroplane, but from innumer- !
able sources the next day I heard that |
the hF' SedpldIeS ntiu peei seen us
tinctly at n great height, and that they |
had hovered over the city for about an
hour, passed on, and had returned about
two hours later"
The price OF food in Bremen, the woman
said, had not risen much. except in the
cafes, which are alwas thronEed. Trade
she added, was paralyzed In Bremen and
So far as she asCertained throughout |
the country generally. The main hatred
of the Germans, until England declared
war, was" she said, directed against
Russia, which country was said to have
deceived the Kaiser, but now the whole
IF their revilings is again England. OF
Sir Edward Grey nothing too bad can
oe said by the German press. The foul
'st of epithots have been hurled against
lin; he is a 'fend a devil incanate,
Who with the smiling face of a peace
making friend, has really been the true
ause of the war and so on"