The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-01-12
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LETTER FROM GERMANY
Principal Mabrey Has Letter From
Frlead IN Berlin.

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Frlead in Berlin.
/ While Principal +. d Mabrey OF
the Bennington high school was in
Germany last summer he became ac.
Quainted with several teachers in Ber-
lin and from one of them he received
letter last week which is Of special
interest as it speaks SO freely Of the
war from a German point of view
The letter is as follows.
nCharlottenburg,
Dec. 8, 1914
| My Dear Mr. Mabrey
This morning | received your letter
OF October goth and was very glad
to hear from you
Yes, terribly hard time has brok-
en- out all over Europe. As conse-
Quence have no pupils at all and
run around from morning until night
| looking for work Of any sort but SO
far everything is filed.
|. Although the times are extremely
bad they have brought out all The
great things in life. ] should never
have thought that as a people we
could be so strong, so faithful and 50
in earnest All petty dislikes and
superfcialities have disappeared and
only q tireless joy In working for ON
country remains Several days ago
my old postman told me that one oil
his sons was killed and the other
wounded When ! asked him whether
he had any other sons, be answered.
1T grieves me TO be obligo. 10 say 20
My only regret Is that I have net tsn
more TO 80 into field to hsht anC 10
conquer for GERMANY
Another friend CT mine has an onb
son, who is not strong enough TO fight
in the army Lately she said to ne.
~ feel that have aa enormous oblig-
alton to make good TO the Fatherland
because my son is oblised to stay al
home. ! would that could send him
forth, ii might be with pain 10 me bu;
IL would be with a heart bursting with
pride
That is the spirit that fills every.
one here. Perhaps someone can con.
quer us, but even if we 90 under, one
must admire US. However everyone
here is absolutely certain OF victory.
a single doubt about t IS treason.
After tho FIRST yesy exciting weeks
were passed. life went back into its
former ways. II you were here nov.
YOU would not belive it possible that
war was being waged on our borders.
Berlin looks as formerly On the
stree there are just as many men.
especially strong young men as be-
fore
Only the great bodies Of troops in
their field grey uniforms reminds one
Of the terrible times through which
we are passing All cur theaters and
concert halls are open and well at
tended, the streets, are so clean ana
so brilliantly lighted. II is wonderful
and inspiring to see the complete or
glnization CT course there is much
misery to soften and many tears TO
dry but ! wish that you could see how
patiently and heroicaly the heaviest
suffering is borne
have favor to ask OF you. II any
cne says in your presence that our
Kaiser wished for war, deny It IA the
strongest terms. He has struggled
against It SO long that we were near
IL in danger a soldier whom know.
has seen him in the field and heard
him, with arms raised cry QUE, Bel
Gott, | have not wished for this war"
Every person is convinced and feels
that it was an unexpected develop
ment that forced this awful war upon
us.
Surely it is heaTibreakius when one
thinks of all the blood that has been
and VIII be shed, when one meets the
wounded without arms and legs and
kinks of the terrible winter cam
paign Christmas vii be very sad.
one can only send something TO to
bring comfort to our brave men on the |
western and eastern battle fronts.
and eastern battle fronts.
It is not clear TO me- how the people |
will evr become friendly again after !
the war With France and Russia it !
does not seem so difficult for no one !
hates them The hate towards Ems
land however, Is vehement and so
deeply rooted that a reconciliation is
practically impossible Every one !
here holds Englands S politics alone re-
sponsibc for the suffering. It is no
iiccable that among all our many op- !
ponents and prisoners the French are |
the best liked We cannot conGne the !
English and French prisoners in the |
samo camps because they immediate |
~ commence to fight each other.
Rose Martha Frauke. !