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

histrionism from the princes, gener
ais, majors. captains and private sol
diers who came and went through ti1t
railway square in the French town
where great headquarters or the Ger
man armies are located seemed to me
ito afford decisive enough proof that
these little ones were not much afraid
OF Mr.. Kipling's Huns" I noticed
with pleasure that almost never did
ItIley meet with refusal
COURTESY SHOWN A BELGIAN.
And again, / could not Convince
myself that much personal rancor was
existing between German invaders
and Belgian non -combatants when a
German officer, whose automobile
was already well filed, stopped thf
car on q country road to ask q Bel
gian doctor whether he could not give
!. him O lift TO his destination.
| And In desolated Dinant ! both won
dered and smiled when saw. Over
Lieut.. DIR. Lehman OF Dresden busily
helping the Belgian mistress OF the
inn to set the dinner table when a
party OF shiyering officers and CORE.
spondents arrived unexpectedly one
chill night In September. The eager
officer was perhaps more OF a bother
than help to the hostess, hut she
took his activity In good part and
there was much laughter and chatting
between them He had made his
quarters at the inn for many days,
and every Belgian about the place
seemed fond of him. A month Inter
was there again for a night. and the
first thing ! did was to ask for the
loyeF lieutenant 20. he is departed
he Is gone these many days. cried
all the women folk In chorus, and
seemed genuinely sorry.
| Ii was at Dinant. too, that / twice
studied the method by which the Ger.
man army is daily providing 600 des-
titue families OF the town with bread,
meat and coffee, charging them abso.
lutely nothing, while Families which
can pay obtain food at cost. Meat is
delivered TO the local butchers, and
German sergeants stand by in the
shops to see that the people are not
oyereharged In Brussels had heard
an assistant to the Belgian burgomast.
er ask the German commandment of
the city, Maj Boyer, for 10000 sacks
THAT is, $780, 00. p0nnds) of -four
for the poor heard the official
stamp come crashing down on the
typewriter request which the official
also submitted, and / saw the paper
returned to the Belgian functionary
with smile of acquiescence.
To go back to Dinant, saw little
human tokens, Ike the words cllalked
In German on the door OF q POOR Bel
eian house Iera lives q SgFandnao
sef, 81 years old !; keep out, and on
the door of another Belgian house the
words, also in German Here is q
new baby be quiet
Within q stones throw OF the first
or the forts which the Germans took
Id the lighting around Liege / saw In
October the grave OF Belgian soldier.
II was streWn with green boughs and
above 1t was q wooden cross on which
had been lettered in black paint,
Here lies Belgian soldier. The
humble but, as the times go, sufficient
memorial was the work of German.
soldiers now guarding the ruins Of q
fort arpHnd which was some of the
hardest fighting Of the war.
DOYLE CITES NO NAMES.
Such things, sir, have seen.
In your article in the Chronicle you
cite many instances of atrocities, but
in not one statement do you give the
name Of either the accuser or the ac-
cused.
In the citation Of humane deeds
can be more explicit than that. can
give you the name of Mrs. Names
mann. who, struck to the heart by the
sgonies Of French soldiers writing
and jerking with tetanus In German
superintendent hospitals at Hirson and
Ia0n. undertook perilous and ex-
haasting Journey back to Germany in
order TO purchase the serum for te-
tanus and convey 1t back to France.
She Is the wife Of one of the brothers
Nannesmann Of the great German
firm of Mannesmann- Mulag. That
noble woman have had the honor to-
meet and. since she speaks as good
English as YOU or i can write, was
able 70 talk nnderstandingly with her.
During our talk she uttered not one
rancorous word concerning the Eng
fish or the French. Indeed, sir. it Is
only within recent weeks of the war
that I have heard opprobious words
fall from the lips of Germans when
they spoke of the allies.
Let me also give you the name Of
Miss Bessie Sommerville, an English
governess in the family of Baron
Mumm Won Schwartzenstein OF
Aachen. That lady wrote q letter,
which was forwarded with letters
written by English prisoners Of war
TO their families in England, and In 1t
she said.
wish You would let the English.
papers know of the kindness and con-
sideration We English receive at all
times from the Germans. 1t makes
me furious, and at the same time sad,
70 read the things that are being said
Of Germans in English papers. /
mean how they treat their prisoners.
and so forth. They are vile lies. I.
have plenty of opportunity Of knowing:
how Belgian, French, and English
prisoners are treated. II have heard
only OF kindness and courtesy and
all prisoners that have passed through
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