The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-12-26
DANES MEETING WITH
NEW AFR ONTS NOW
FROM THE GERMANS
Which Are Bitterly Resented
Since Great Number Have
Fought with Bravery.

tcorrespondence OF tho Associated Press. {,
COPENHAGEN. Dec. 25.-Remark-
able reports are In circulation here
In the Danish capital regarding the
treatment Of the Danish population
in the north Of Schleswig-ioIstein.
the German province which borders
on Denmark and which was formerly
Danish territory. There are still over
a hundred thousand inhabitants Of
Danish extraction and OF Danish
tongue, commonly known as South
Jutlanders, in this German territory
and ever since they came under Prus-
sian rule there have been charges
that the Danes suffered persecution.
although for some years before the
outbreak OF the European war the
trouble had nearly ceased. 1t is now
charged that the Danes are meeting
with new afronts, which are bitter
ly resented since a great number of
the Danes have fought with great
bravery and distinction as part Of the
German army in the present war. It
is said that German commanders have
been drawing up certain black, lists
OF the Danish South Jutlanders, and
that these persons are being punished
with severity out of proportion to
the offenses committed.
When war began, South Jutland, or
the north Of the province of Schlcs-
wig-Holstein, was placed under mill
tary rule which superseded the au-
thority Of the high bailiff. One Of the
first measures taken by this military
command was to send 800 South Jut-
landers to prison. 1t is charged that
many OF these persons were awak-
ened In the middle of the night and
rushed OFF to the Jail scantily clad.
II is declared that the arrests were
made on tenous and imaginative EVIL
dence. such as the fact they possessed
boats in which It was thought that
men eligible for military service
would try to escape. Many Of these
fishermen were over seventy years
old, and one Of these cid men, who
has four. sons and three sons-in-law
serving in the Germany army, COM
plains that he was kept for six days
in prison cell on most meager pris-
on fare. Most Of the prisoners taken
at this time were kept in Jail for
month.
Danish newspapers in the province
are subjected to the most rigid CEN
sorship and one of these papers,
"Heindal" was suppressed for eight
days because it failed to mention the
birthday OF the German empress, ac-
cording to the editors, who added that
their protests that the empress had
expressed the desire to pass the day
quietly did not serve to move the au-
liberties from their stand in the mat
ter. The censor's work is also seen in
the fact that they deleted an item in
one of the papers which referred to
the. Italian crown princes celebration
of his eleventh birthday.
Innumerable reports Of such curtail-
ment Of privileges are current in
Copenhagen, some Of them well au-
thenticated and others mere rumor.
In the latter category perhaps is the
report here that practically all per-
sons formerly rejected by the German
army authorities on account Of phys
ical informity have been accepted for
military service, even, the runor goes,
men with club feet, others who are
lame, crippled and suffering from
chronic illnesses Of various sorts.