The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-04-23
HOW GERMANS
Are RULING
IN BRUSSELS
Correspondent Phillips Gives
Word Picture of Happen
ings in Belgian Capital.
HATRED is INTENSE
Sentries Often Disappear Mys-
teriously When They're
on Duty Alone.
BY II. j. Phillips


LONDON. England. April ga
Brussels is n city OF spies. a city of
whispers. city OF hatred. an
armed camp OF stern discipline for
conquering army and conquered
civilians alike.
! have spent several days In liol.
land. but | have met numerous per.
sons who have been In brussels. re-
lief workers and such What FOL.
lows | have learned from them.
The people OF brussels have
spent ak months under the rule OF
the Germans and so great II the
rage Of the native population that
this term OF attempted subsection
has failed 10 suhdue them In the
slightest
Umpire JUDGED observers tell
me that whatever the feeling
OF Germany toward England,
and vice versa. u 10 but q frae-
ton OF the Intense hatred OF
Belplans for Germany. Riots
are narrowly averted daily.
Fresh troops from Germany
have been accused OF tearing
flags from the collins OF Bel
aian soldiers and from women
on the streets. altho have not
seen an actual instance.
However. the German civil aud
military authorities. all under the
direction OF Gen Won Kissing. the
governor general OF Belgium. have
warned the troops against Interior.
ence with tho civilian population
except under orders
Hut amid all the nathoa an oc.
caslonal numerous incident inserts
Z Itself
\ Belgian business man recely cd
a call from a German officer
few days after toe British naval
victory Off Hellgoland The latter
noticed the clock over the desk vas
set at Belgian time. an hour later
than German time.
Your clock IL wrong." said the
officer 1T IL .. no,
n a 4 o'clock In belgium" re
piled the nelElan
IL Il . O'Clock 10 Germany" the
officer came hack This Ia nov
Germany and Won are German
4 am a German. repeated the
business man. and YOU are a Ger
man. We are both Germans
Yes. said the officer.
So. unused tho Belgian THAT
vas a bad defeat WE had IN the
North sea last week. wasn't it,
Brussels 10 not urlrfcrmed
Of the outside world. English
newspapers are struggled into
the city In the most mysterious
way and try ss they do the
German authorities cannot dis
cover how they reach the city.
Sometimes paper passes
thru a dozen hands before I,
reaches the person 10 whom I,
10 Intended.
Even tho two or three weeks
old. q London psoer will bring
fancy price any time.
The German garrison II nov
composed Of the men and boys un.
fitted for the arduous work al the
front. one by age. the other by
youth
Returning persons say bat.
TALON OF hoy scouts recently de-
trained from Germany and march.
ed with defiant goose step toward
headquarters
Also. they have seen elderly men.
men not hard to picture as grand.
fathers. but difficult to imagine as
gooae-stepping 20 martial music.
patrolling the city streets one OF
them. sergeant. had long
whiskers
Altho the people OF Brussels are
silent. they are no more cowed
than would be the people OF Berlin
under similar circumstances
In the Apache quarter no Ger.
man sentry ever travels alone
these nights Too many OF them
disappeared IN the most unaccount.
able way. Nov the night patrols
consist OF three German soldiers
and a Brussels gendarme.
These Marolllens. as the people
OF that neighborhood are called. de.
light in reversing the German Off
N'"i "u''''t "a' ~ ~ :" huoNt - NJ
pear. for instance. that 1000 Ger
mans captured 200 British or
French.
The little urchlns ~ the locality
are not less mischievous than their
elders.
They delight in giving military
parades, with carrots stuck in their
paper hats to represent helmets
and stove pipe dashed TO little toy
carts to represent the famous ~
centimeteTs.