The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1915-03-25
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tue LOBBY of the hotel one night.
They We're beautifully dressed. They
obviously belonged to the we'll born.
Iwo We're escorting the third to her
auto. They spent a moment i'll the
usua small ak while one adjusted
Il fur coat about her bare shoulders.
The moment of departure came.
God punish the English." called
the departing one to her friends.
They NODDED.
God punish England" they re-
piled.
1t came as a shock to the listeners
The unintending eavesdroppers had
expected-if they expected anything
that the most charming farewell
in amy language would have been
used by these cultuRed women-"auf
wiedersehen"-"unti we meet again
That phrase has been abandoned by
all Germans. One never hears it.
they call to each other that sinister
Wish:
May God punish England"
1t is II OF the straws which shows
how the tide OF hate is running
against England. When l visited Ber-
lin in November l noted that Ger
mans did not display any particular
bitterness against the Russians or
the French. They do not regard the
II as a particularly formidable an
tagonist. The French are fighting
for revenge, and a German can I'M
derstand and pardon. But the depth
OF feeling against England is hardly
to be fathomed. 1t is something
more than a purely national feeling.
Each German hates England and all
things English with a venomous, in
dividual hate,
"Listen." said a man in the midst
of a German group. Us it not delic-
ious?'
He was reading a 3-column de-
nunciation of the latest Zeppelin raid
from one OF the London papers.
Whenever he came to a particularly
scathing sentence he slapped his COM
panions on the back. They laughed
aloud in appreciation.
THAT hurts them" said he. Listen
to them squeal!"
Zeppelin Raids to Anger British.
My belief is that the %Zeppelins are
being used against the English towns
principally because they infuriate
nv IL ltoii. x N&i MANI wa ~
NIT that the Zeppelins have not justi-
fed themselves as an instrument OF
war. They are not valuable for re-
connaissance purposes-eXcept at
scaEas the ~areCplanes. They can
not drop bombs with any accuracy.
They are very vulnerable. The cost
of the Zeps has been almost one-half
that of the entire German air
navy. 1t is conceded that the Dor
tion Of the world which is not at war
depreciates their use. Any German
will confess that submarine cam
paign might conceivably starve Eng
land, but that the Z%eppelins can only
~irritate her. 1t may be that it is be-
cause the Zeps are a distinctively
German weapon they are favored. 1
believe it is because they so enrage
England.
1.-THE Zeps make them %sqreal',
they say. "Those English"
They do not belittle their English
adversaries. In fact, the Englishman
is classed as the most dangerous OPP
poncnt in the field. The Russian, ac-
cording to the Germans who have
met the cars troops have no militia
tive. They are brave enough. but
tlIGy u Nv Y oiiu 'it hibS w
led by men born to lead. An Officer
from the ,moujik's own rank in life
could not get another moujik to fol-
low him. The Russian loss in Off
GERS alone has been thirty-eight
thousand since the wal began. Hence
the complete breakdown of the Rus
sian offensive. on which the Germans
ist. The Russian defensive is still
gnp1 'r1nay croiif tho Erpnch wifi
first rate fighting ability. One never
hears a German say that the English
arc towards, in spite OF the repeat
ed charges of cowardice brought by
the English press against the Ger
mans, and which so Infatuated the
latter.
Put an IInglishman in a trench,
and YOU can only get him out dead
the officers will say.
But they hate--they loathe-all
things English. There isn't an Eng
lish book exposed for sale in all Ber-
lin except a copy of Young's Night
Thoughts in the store, of d dealer
in antiquities. There isn't a sign in
English visible. The restaurant
titles of dishes which had English
names, DulH NAVE GtlllllIlilSu lIS a
lations from their menus The no
tells have changed their English
names. Although the fact that one
speaks English in public is a proof
that he is an American, because all
Englishmen still in Germany are in
Ruhleben prison, il is sometimes UNI
pleasant to use the language. Two
Americans were dining ir 4 restau-
rant when an old women near by
rose in her place. She fairly scream
ed at them:
..You are talking English"
One American rose and bowed:
Il beg your pardon" said he. but
we are talking the American langu-
age And then he spoke to some
German friends at the next table, III
German:
This is the first time" said he
that | have ever been insulted in
Berlin"
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