The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-25

TEUT0NS YEARN
NOW FOR PEACE
Boys Held on Ellis Island
Have Interesting Story
of Fatherland.

New York, Nov. 25-Germany
yearns for peace and it's exhausted
men in the trenches are praying for
an end to the pitiless slaughter that is
leading nowhere ex~ ept to an even
tighter and more savage deadlock
This summary of sentiment among
Germans is given by William Brandt
Ter, / S years old, and 1ians Thad- II.
They are being hold on Ellis Islam
on the Poard Of 1IGLiry's refusal to
permit them into the country be :aUse
they arrived here as atowaways On
the Swedish-American line steam
ship Stockholm. Though they have
been described as deserters both insist
they are loyal to the Teutonic cause.
Thade says he has not been a soldier
and Brandtler says he was in the
Alsace-Lorraine.
Thade's story was that he was e
seaman and had gone to Christiania
about d year ago Both youths SAID
that to help heir n others they had
inc lily dec ,Ged to ship for America n
asmuch rs living e. penses were high
on the other side of the Atlantic and
earnings insufficient. Thade said his
father and two brothers were at the
gront and another brother was in a
British prison camp.
First Met i'm Gothenburg.
'I met Brandtler for the first time
in my life in Gothenberg two days be-
fore the Stockholm sailed" replied
Thade. 1--WE were in a cafe Two
nights later ] slipped aboard the ship,
climbing on a rope, hand over hand.
The first two meals I got by walking
right into the steerage mess room just
as though I was g. passenger.
Then / got scared and sneaked
down to the coal bunkers and hid 1t
was two days before they found me.
was almost starved. They put me to
washing decks, scrubbing and sweep
ing. 1t was cold work and hard, but
I didn't mind because I wanted to
get to New York, having heard that
it was a wonderful place to make
n ney.
When we were five days out felt
a tap on the shoulder. looked around
and there was Brandtler. so you
slowed away too, eh?' he said. I told
him he was right. They had just
found him in a lifeboat, and he, too,
was scrubbing decks.
1--WE were afraid of Kirkwall but
we managed to fool the British. When
their officers came aboard we posed
as Scandinavian members of the crew.
I gave my name as Karl Andersen.
Some of the Stockho1m's crew stood
Ter and I could talk Swedish and when
D~i< ;~lo
in that language.
Fooled the British.
But if we ever get back to Kirk
wall, in case we are deported, we
won't stand a chance of escaping.
Well be captured and imprisoned.
when New York came in view the
passengers of the second cabin made
up purse and gave Brandtler and
me $13 each. If we're admitted
we'll make that money our capital in
working toward American citizenship.
We want to remain here and work
and not go back to the war"
The stowaways said that Germany
was in wretched want Of food, though
arge quantities had been shipped
rom Scandinavia Meat, bread, milk
and other necessities were at low
quantities, and not even the money
persons could get enough of those
foods.
Though insisting that he was ac-
ually in the trenches when less than
Il years old, Brandtler asserted that
ne was only one of a large number
who volunteered at the beginning of
he war and were accepted, though
lnder military age.