New Britain herald., 1915-08-26
CARRY BASKETS AS
 GERMAN BUFFER
Women of Brussels EndeaVOr to Make TeutonS Step Off Walk

Amsterdam, Aug. 26 The women of Brussels carry baskets on their arms like market women when they go out in the streets, not Tor their purchases but as buffer between themselves and passing Germans When one makes German step off the walk, she regards it as person. al triumph.
 The silent boycott of the Germans by the Belgians is even more openly maintained then ever, according to a traveller wl>y has lately lived in the capital city. If German sits down at a table in d cafe, the Belgians in his vicinity move away. If a num- Der of Germans enter, all of the Bel gians pay thelr accounts and stalk out. The traveller relates this incl dent which he witnessed:
 Laugh at Officer.
 A German officer, evidently of high rank, entered a restaurant and, after looking over the card, asked the waiter discontentedly, "Haben Sic nichts beSSer?"
 The waiter, in a sarcastic tone explained they had nothing better because the German government had seized most of the food and very little was coming in except on the American relief ships.
 A group of young Belgians near by laughed openly at the walters sarcasm, whereupon the German, Of ended, gave his card to the waiter to hand them. The card bore the name of a general But instead of being silenced, one of the Belgians hn inn ben Sic nichts besser?"
 Belgians Manifest Hatred.
 The German force in Belgium has positive orders not to molest the population, but on the contrary to try by politeness to take the edge off of the hostility of the people, But instead of yielding to blandishments, the Belgians only become the holder in manifesting their hatred to the invaders
 The upper classes in Brussels never receive a German into their homes. Should any one, man or woman, make this concession, ne would thereafter be ostracized by his fellows. Women are more bitter and more daring. than the men They show their feeling by acting as if
 
 ing a German in the street, in street cars or other public places. The bus mess of carrying baskets has become a kind of game, and ladies on meet Ing compare notes IS to how many Germans they have made step into the gutter.
 Women German Habitues.
 large number of German women of doubtful reputation have follow , ed the army, and if a German off, cer appears on the street with | women, she may be of this class but i never a Belgian. The German gov , ernment has taken many war films 1 in Belgium for exhibiting in Ger many. One of these films represents i an officers ball in Brussels, with the idea of proving the bitterness of the war has passed away. But the peo- pie of Brussels say the women shown in the film were the German habitues of the cafes and not Belgian women.
 Brussels is now filled with young German aristocrats occupying civil posts. It is said that they are often the only sons left in their families as the result of rhe war. Consequent ly the government has spared them in order to perpetuate their titles. Since the German army is officered solely by the aristocrats, the upper classes would be otherwise in danger of dying out.
 Belgians report that the allies air craft keep the railways on the Ger man side of the front so badly torn up with bombs that the civil popu- lation feel it is unsafe to travel by train When they can obtain passes they go by horse