Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-07-22
zEPPELTN'S NIECE TELLS
or GERMANY'S AIM

Disgusted at the attitude OF the AIner-
lean press In regard to the great war
and ct what she characterises as the
"unneutraln attitude Of this country,
Mrs. APPEL declared emphatieally that
Germans were beginning to believe that
this country as an open and declared
enemy would be less harmful TO germany
than as the so-calied neutral she has
constituted herself
The picture that she painted OF whet
would happen should the United states
join the Allies was anything but COM
forting to q pacihst.
You would have all you could do to
take care Of yourself over here" she said
with conviction. ~ know for certainty
that there are 100000 Irishmen alone who
have already pledged themselves to Ger
many in anticipation Of such an event.
Ireland almost to a man, is with the
Fatherland because we believe that Ire
land should be a country by itself, free
from the dominion OF England.
BITTER FEELING IN BERLIN.
Americans because of their blind ac-
ceptance Of the news which reaches them,
have become very unpopular In Germany.
I doubt II President Wilson would be safe
in Berlin, so antagonistio Is the feeling
there toward him. The last ball that my
sister the Frel-Frau Won Gauslyn, gave in
Berlin she had to notify her American
friends, of whom there were a great many,
that because OF this attitude It would be
impossible for her to invite them and thus
subject them to the insult that would
suerlH be offered them by her German
guests"
Despite the 70 years Mrs. APPEL has been
In this country she speaks with broad
German accent, and often II is with diff
ficulty that she can find the right Eng
lish word to express her meaning. Her
father, the late Count Carl Dagenfeld, of
wurtemberg. knew the Kaiser personally
when he was the Crown Prince and she
herself met him on the occasion of one of
his visits to Geisingen in the vicinity OF
which her fathers seven castles were 10
Gated.
Much of her childhood was spent in the
workshop of her uncle, Count Zeppelin,
and II In the early period OF his struggle
for recognition the renowned dlrigible in
ventor had received the encoura cement
from the Government that he is now get
ting the Zeppeins would have by this
time played a more spectacular and more
effective part in the present war, she de-
clared
ZEPPELIN'S NEW MARVELS.
by October 1, at the very latest" she
said knowingly, lie will be ready for
them. Five months ago he went to Eng
land to try out some of his experiments.
One of them is device which he drops
from the airship and which enables him
to hear what is being said in the vicinity
over which he is lowering. Another is an
instrument which when let down regis
ters heat degrees By the means of this
my uncle, If he sights battleship, will be
able to locate the smokestack and from
that knowledge will be able to drop bombs
where they can do the most damage"
According to the aged aviators niece,
Count Zeppelin has not yet personally
Cnn6nptaH n Of fha rnide an Unu nd
When CO. he says, the world will
stop to listen
"The majority of the German airships."
Mrs. APPEL continued. have been with
drawn from service and are being remod-
eled at the "a factories in Germany. When
these are ready, then you will see some
thing.
"Then you will see whether the German
navy is bottled up. England will see by
October /, according to the last word l
had The navy will come out, guarded
by the zeppelins. and soon after that the
whole world will be crying for peace.
The perfection of the submarines, too"
Mrs. APPEL went on, has been completed
There are 20 of them now in the German
submarine navy which could come to the
New York harbor and stay there for two
Asked II any of them had actually been
here, Mrs, APPEL said they had not, but
that they could go 5000 miles away from
their base and not have to return before
two months.
GERMAN SPIES EVERYWHERE.
The ease with which German spies
operating in this country travel back and
forth from here to the fatherland is, ac-
cording to her, undreamed of by Amer |
leans.
"Only three weeks ago." she said, "a |
certain man came to see me; he married |
the daughter of a Milwaukee millionaire |
and has become an American citizen He |
Is of a titled aristocratic family and is |
for Germany now. He has been |
back to Germany three times since the |
war II is easy for German spies to go |
to England, too. The German system is |
perfect"
According to the advices which Mrs.
APPEL receives from her country, the strain
on the women whose sons, husbands and |
fathers are at the front is sometimes al
most more than they can bear. Despite
The fact however, that they believe the
war the most awful catastrophe that
could have overtaken their prosperous
they do not for an instant think
I Is Of their nations making, nor have
hey the slightest doubt as to who the
winners will be.
'The wonderful power OF Germany is
not fully known" she said; I'VE have
money, and the Germau-Americans are
sending more over and this year we have
he biggest crop yield we have ever had
The 100000 prisoners that we have
AIKEN have been put TO work in the
ields and IN the ammunition factories.
Ours woodlands have all been cut down
ind the wood serves to make a substitute
cotton for the ammunition and then the
ground is titled. If the German people
themselves were starving you wouldn't
Ind those prisoners so well fed"
scoRN FOR BELGIAN QUEEN.
After launching a diatribe OF scorn at
he Queen OF Belgium for what she desig-
lated as her treachery to her own people
md for which, she declared. Grown
Prince Rudolph OF Bavaria, the Queens
'rother, has sworn TO kill her, Mrs.
Apel said that the real truth about Ger
many could not be known until after the
var when the full Nervousness OF the
Ally soldiers and their brutality to the
ierman women, particularly that of the
cossaeks in East Prussia and Galicla.
Then. she said. the United States would
% brought to a full realization OF their
Injustice In not withholding judgment un-
III accusations had been substantlated