The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1915-05-07
HOW Berlin
APPEARS At WAR
Looks Very Much Like Mil
itary Barracks.
People Refuse To Consider The
Possibility Of De.
feat.

Berlin, May 6.-Berlin gives you
the impression of an immense mill
ltary barrack.' Everywhere you meet
soldiers of every rank and every
age.
| On the other side, you see fewer
wounded here than in any other
city in Germany. for these are sys-
tematically sent elsewhere, so as to
avoid adding to the anxiety Of the
Berliners and keep up the spirit in
the capital to the uttermost.
In front of the royal palace stands
seven big guns captured from the
Russians and Frederick the Greats
statute is surrounded by Belgian can
mons.
The doors of the Ruhmeshalle
(Hall of Glory in Inter den Linden
are kept open at all hours that peo-
| pie who are down hearted may re-
vive their spirits by looking at the
many trophies exhibited inside.
visits Hospital Daily.
Twice have seen the Empress
drive past on her way to the military
hospital. where she is a frequent,
almost daily visitor. No ovations
greet her. but the respect that every
body feels for the kind hearted and
sorely-tried woman is seen on every
face and every head is respectfully
uncovered as she passes.
/ 4 have talked to people of all
classes during the last week and
altho they really admit that the stu
ton 1t serious. nobody believes that
Germany will be defeated on her
own soil.
"Our country is menaced on all
Sides" they say, powerful enemies
have plotted to bring about our ruin,
but just wait and see. The world
does not know us yet. when the
hour comes to defend our country
against an invasion, we will fight as
no people ever fought before, fight
to the last man. the last pfennig. and
the last bag of flour
Vary in Views.
The tone of leading papers is con-
tinually swinging between firm con-
fidence, and admissions of serious
misgivings.
Koelnische Zeitung writes:
"We must face the unpleasant
truth that in spite of all our vicories
the situation is exceedingly grave.
The question before us is whether we
must lose or be able to defend our
.Kultur, our political unity our free
dom or whether we are to return to
the miseries of the Thirty Years
War.
I'm the East we are threatened by
the Slavs, in the west we are fight
ing against the lust of revenge of the
French. but even more against the
diabolic politics Of England. against
which country the entire German peo-
pie Justly concentrate their hatred"
Almost simultaneously the Kreuz-
zeitung writes of the war in 1870:
Reached Every Goal.
Bismarck reached every goal he
set himself. He did not believe in
or want preventive wars. but this did
not stop him from giving the Ems
dispatch a form which made war in
evitable. He did this because the
other side wanted war and he desired
to avoid a first humiliation. There
are those who hold that he acted
wrongly, but we are grateful to him
for what he did and are convinced
that his act was justifable before the
Almighty. May God always give
Germany statemen who take up their
task as seriously and intelligently as
did Bismarck"
In the Muenchener Medizin Wo-
chenschrift Munich Medical Week
iy). Sound an article signed by the
famous Prof. Guapp. Of Teubingen.
an expert on mental diseases, on in
sanity in the German army, from
which l quote:
AT the beginning of the war the
state of health of the German troops
especially as regards nervous dis
eases. was splendid, but the awful
conditions under which this war is
being carried on has brought In many