The daily progressive-miner., 1916-09-28
GERMANY WANTS NEITHER FRANCE
 H0R BELGIUM
Traveller Gives An Account Of Experience While He
 Visited Abroad.

lIr 3L P Marks, who is now visit ins a brotberiuEaw in Tacoma after a trip abroad where he met some of the best people iu England and Ger many. to a representative of the Ia coma News. 1Ir Marks related his ex- rerie4aa. which is the best and most interest," .az account O. the situation ever brought over from those warning countries. 4Ir. Marks is quoted as saying that two Zeppelins would coma over with mali within two months. The submarine Bremen Was never launched, according to lis rs- port. Ia- was only a trick to weaken the guard over the Dev--cllaut-
 O5 his experience in Germany h. says:
 w | voa talk in Berlin you speak in " spar as ii yoa Were in a ceme tery. week did not see 8 smile. aa people arc laya,-rAe riot stories -e al fa5ad-bet tley ale sad. Ya He men go to zae front. straight lpstaudiag aaa looking They c. hack after three or four mon-hs tle trenches baHs over old men E.aa those who have uo- los an aa. d lag CT been otherwise maiaed e ta- same. The suffering is terrible.
 Tt is |, same iu France. h fact. Frances folses have been greater. But Erar1 is tl- nation beloved. Ey- er-body loyes France. T. is inc one nation tha- is fighting for 9 cause.
 France Las lost more young mem: it has called out younger reserves than Germany.
 Germ s-ss not hate France. Germany -@. IS Engl and; Ger many's e Russia. Russia has io75...z onder the general ship of Kitchener and with IS uniim- tied nur5z~ cf men, the Germans feaf Pussfas s.e.y rovs.
 "I vas toia time and again from hiqa sources that the Gerna0s do noc care for Belgium; they will give up France. bat Poland they must have. The e9ss have something between them and ike Russians.
 T va= told ly a hieh official that GermsrT.s greatest mistake vas in going thra Belgium. that if they had gone tf.u Aisace-Lorraine they would have been in Paris within 1hr+= weeks and they would not have aroused tLe enmiry Of America which has hurt them a erear deal they admit"
 Tells Ills Experience Across.
 ...-5norIow. I told the captain. viii be July | am an American There gle other Americans on board. We would like 10 celebrate the national birthday
 "I will turn the ship over to you and rhe other Americans. the captain told me
 That nigh we went into the har- bor of zaal'. England. Tn the morning at we had 9 concert but before that we hois-ed the American flag. T. was Norwegian boat bound from America to Norway. Then at o'clock there was a parade; e55 per sons marched with a band. At 2:30 we had exercises. 1Ir Taylor, at tached 10 the American legation at Pe-rograd. presided. We dug the Declaration Of Independence from all old almanac and a Mir Rodd got up to read it.
 He starred: When iu the course Of human events it becomes neces- sary-
 "There was commotion; the speaker halted. We looked above and there. dangling in the air, was the first load of American mail to be lifted cut for censorship by the British. There was tons Of it. Every package was inspected. Then the English of- fcers gathered around while MT Rode went on reading the Declaration of h. dependence"
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