Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-09-25
Germany Is Unit
ed, Yet the Clans
Hold Differences

| ASSOCIATED Press Correspondence
| Munich, Aug. 2.-The war has for the
time being united Germany into one solid
body, but this unity does not alter the
fact that the Prussians are vastly diff
| ferent from the Saxons and the Saxons
different from the Bavarians. II chance
takes one from Berlin to Munich just as
| a great victory is being celebrated, for
instance, the full significance Of the diff
| ference is apparent.
| The fall of Warsaw and Ivangorod was
announced in Munich on Thursday. Aug.
4, and in half an hour every street in the
Bavaran capital was brilliant with the
German, Austrian, Hungarian and Turk
ish flags, and with the colors of the
various German states, the blue and
white Of Bavaria predominating.
| That is approximately all any other
city in Germany did, partly because the
rest of Germany is rather intensely prac-
| teal and not given to wasting time over
celebrations. But the Bavarian nature
had to have more than colored flags for
an outlet. Not only it's intense patriotism
but it's deeply religious side had to dis
| play itself.
Accordingly, the next evening, the ma
jestic koenigsplatz,. fianked by imposing
buildings and containing standing room
| for over 100000 persons. was filled to
overlooking with a devout throng.
| Principally, as all things German are,
a great military band fared forth from
| the steps of the art exposition building
| but the air was not a patriotic song, 1t
was an old hymn. Overhead in the twi-
! light hummed six war aeroplanes.
! The vast crowd barred its head, and
| took up the words of the hymn, Great
| God, we praise Thee The music rose
and sweled until it could be heard in
every part of Munich. The throng, up
lifted and all but carried away by the
| fervor of its feelings, also sang the TIE
! Deum. Still the aeroplanes wheeled
above, the setting sun glinting on the
lower sides of the planes and illumi-
mating the sinister iron crosses that
each carried as a distinguishing mark.
The opening of the celebration with
\ hymns was not accidental; it was typical
of Bavaria. Religious feeling and spirit
took and take precedence even over an
intense patriotism. The Bavarian SOL
ders in Catholic Northern France have
more nearly bridged the gulf between
themselves and the native population by
their piety than any other group of
troops. am. this piety and Godfearng
! spirit is part of their daily life at home.
For a few brief moments the Ober-
buergermeister or first mayor of Mu-
! Mich spoke to his fellow citizens In q
voice that rang clear across the huge
square. At his command ''Hoch" that
rent the air went up three times repeated,
to the honor of Emperor William King
Ludwig and Emperor Francis Joseph.
| The band swung in again at just the
right moment, adm the crowd, hats wav-
ing, exuberant with enthusiasm, sang the
Bavarian national anthem. Hail to our
King, Hail" The tune is that of "Ameri-
/ ca" and the German, Hell dir i'm Sieg-
| erkranz," impressive exactly in the ratio
of the number singing. The German ma
tional hymn, deutschland. deutschland
ueber allies came next. followed by
die Wacht am Rhein." And then the
crowd concluded it's celebration with an
old fashioned song of thanksgiving.
The songs over, that portion of the
crowd that could, went slowly to the
palace of old King Ludwig and waited
patiently beneath the balcony until he
appeared and spoke to them.
Munich is possibly the only German
city that has really celebrated a notable
victory in such "a way. Certainly 1t Is
the only one that to any degree has in
jected the religious element into its greet
ing of victory. The explanation can lie
only in the essential difference in the
Bavaran Observation-Disclosures, as a Mu-
Mich official quantity put it. The sky
looks little bluer to us Bavarians than
to other Germans