The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1915-01-15

ter was written by high school
student in Germany to Miss Kreuger.
German instructor at the Douglas
high school. IL was translated from
by the third year German class.
The young lady student has taken the
present war as her subject and will
be of much interest to many of this
section. The letter follows.
Ellrich. Harz d. 30Xl. 1914.
hope YOU will pardon me for not
having written you for so long. So
often | intended to write and | as
sure You that il my thoughts had been
executed YOU would have had many
letters. And now this great war has
interrupted and there is always so
much to do; To knit for and to write
To our brave German soldiers on the
fic1d. fon are neutral and as there
aie really no other interests for me.
and YOU too, would perhaps like to
know something of the events which
are taking place in Europe. will
write You concerning this period so
full of meaning.
You know | am nineteen years old
and so still "A young girl but in these
DAYS We have all grown years Older
we have learned much of which We
had no conception before Most i'm
portant of these things is our great
love to the Fatherland. the pride of
being Germans in such a time which
We now all experience. With the be-
ginning of the war all of these great
Feelings came To our consciousness.
In time of peace one does not feel
these things so.
The greater the false reports of the
enemy the more they call us barbara
ans" and spread scandelous reports.
the greater grows our pride. We are
for We have not entered upon war
of conquest. Our enemies, especially
England have attacked us out of
jealousl and ill-will The wished
To destroy Germany. For us this war
is a sacred struggle in which the issue
is not one of wealth and possession but
the great question TO be. or not to
he"
And what have We accomplished,
thus far Belgium is now German
territory. the French are gathering
their last forces, England has been
compelled to realize repeatedly that
our young fleet feels competent to
cope with hers. How many battle
ships have the English already lost
We too, have sacrificed many a ship
but these have also accomplished
much. With submarines alone we
could wish naval battle against the
ileet of the proud allies But Eng
land is cowardly. She does not wish
an open naval engagement Our ships
have already been at the coast of the
channel. we have laid mines in the
mouth of the Thames. No English
ship has as yet approached the coast
of the North Sea.
In the east fights our great general
Marshall iIenderburg. in whom we
place great confidence In the last
two weeks we have captured more
/ than 10000 Russians. and all the
victories ours Indeed we are there
facing far superior forces. We have
also had to retreat several times, and
have had to surrender "A small portion
of German territory. But we always
advance again and we will conquer
the enemy there also.
What do we think OF our enemies
| must admit that we have a certain
sympathy for France. The French
are the most courteous of our enemies.
Belgium will receive her punishment
for all the horrible deeds of cruelty,
suffered by our German soldiers.
Never would one have believed that
such cruelties, putting to scorn all
International law. could be per
petrated by cultured nation,
Many German soldier was sacrificed
+ there and died miserable, wretched
death. But the right will reign, even
/ here and Belgium was driven by
England. These low, cowardly crea-
! lures needed others who were foolish