Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-03-06

er al Ak, what tconId be done to make
him coinfortabIe Better than any
j. thing else the captain replied. =
would ike a bkiar pipe and some TO
!. baceo and helnained a favorite mix
ture.. Baron Mimm spent some time
fin seeking that brand and when he
Z returned the CAPTAIN asked, tHoW
4 much do owe you for this?"
i Nothing at Iali. my dear fellow
lsaid the baron. In happier times you
land / will have q good dinner togeth
er at the Carbon and this will be
pleasant to remember then" ~. r..
. couRTESH 70 AN ENGLISH
WOMAN. ;. RI. j.. =.
May l give you another specific In
cident with names and places? An
: English woman Of prominence who il
cousin OF Sir Edward Grey and is 9
large land owner and president of the
Red Cross In q northern county was
enabled through the good offices oil
Robert ]. Thompson. American consul
al AK, to fulfill q mission which tool
her to military prison in Germany
She confessed that she came through
Belgium with fear and loathing OF the
over tile Dutch frontier with tears oil
gratitude for what she described as
the unfaiiing courtesy and Kindness
OF German officers" who, she said
had not only Allowed her to visit .
captive English officer who was I'M
1 der suspicion of espionage but also
had given her opportunities To accom-.
plish her mission In the fullest pos,
sible way. #,
She viewed the prison and observed
the treatment its occupants received
and she remarked several times
| 'Why, it is just like . boys school in
! England /. And she later told the
i consul how her e0nntryf men had theii
| Fairgrounds, theit sports, their money
i their servants and their newspapers
She was full az admiration for the
perfection Of the system. and for the
/ human, broikeflv feeling which char,
acterized the Working oft
1 The consul told me hes could never
forget the tears and the deep, woman.
" feeling Of this lady as she ex.
/ pressed heseH In parting on the dark,
stormy night when he took her over
i the German boEder into Holland. Her
last words to 6im were renewed as.
surances 81 Her gratitude to the
courtly GefmaIl soldiers"
!, AN ENGLISH OFFICERS TEST.
ioflA
Here IS another Bit Of testimony
from an English subject whom Islander
! OF the Germans has sickened He is
| Capt J. 3. George of The Royal Irish
I,S e,sss.,. ~, = Il,
81 had bad lncls, I was knocked out
| in the first half hour. Il was two days
In German hospital They could not
hav ffeated me bet Ter had = been the
crown prince. firm tie lowest orderly
| to the senior medical officer. j hope
you will tell this to any one who Is
running down the Germans.
And here is testimony from a
| French officer Surgeon Maj. DR..
Suaye, Rue Luxembourg, Paris:
II have been in the German hospit-
ais at Somepy and Azure, the French
wounded receiving exactly the same
treatment as. the German / may add
/ that not only the French wounded
| but also the French prisoners whom
saw we're very well looked after.
With the following letter cannot
give yon names, but have no reason
| to believe that 1t is q forgery. It was
first printed in newspapers published
at Kiel, and is said to have been Civ
EN- to the press of that town by rela-
tives Of the German captain mentioned
in the letter. It was then copied by
several other German papers, among
! them the extremely cautions Cologne
Gazette. from the November 9 issue Of
(which translate ii. A French bar
oness living in Lille writes to Ger
man captain who had been billeted at
her house:
Lille, Oct. 90. Dear Sir:
must tell you that i pray God may
guard you until you again see your
mother, who surely has given You a
tender and careful upbrfnging. will
care for your officers as II they were
our own. Believe me, dear Sir, with
deepest feeling, Baronne de - : So
AS TO WANToN DEsTRucTIoN.
Toward the close.of the second par
agraph of yonr article you state that
in the peninsula campaign, to prevent
the destruction of an ancient bridge,
the British promised not to use it on
condition that the French would fore.
60 its destruction AN agreement, I"
you add. faithfully kept upon either
side.
And then you ask:
Gould yon imagine Germans max.
ing war In such a spirit as this? Think
OF that old French bridge and then
think OF the University of Louvain and
the cathedral OF Rheims. What gap
between them the gap that separates
civilization from the savage.
Now may ask question or two?
Why not think of the exquisite Ho.
tel de Vile at Louyaln, which was
saved from destruction by IRE solely
through the heroism, energy and In
genuity of German officers, who,
Though comrades Of theirs had been
shot In the back by civilians firing
from atfics and from cellar windows,
worked to save one of the most pre-
cieus memorials OF ancient times, and
worked to such good purpose that to-
day the superb structure stands M
no rv,nad9 Il have oner IN 1890 ~