Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-02

me exchange was made regardless Of
the number but only on the age ba-
sis, So Germany recovered about four
times as many of her subjects as did
! England,
Nothing is permitted to be carried off
the battlefield as souvenirs. The de-
bris is carefully sorted over and eV-
cry article that German ingenuity can
| bring into usefulness again is sent
back to the quartermaster's depot.
Throughout the empire there are
collecting stations for all sorts Of
| things-old bottles, shoes, pieces of
rubber, news and wrapping papers,
| brass, steel, copper tin, string, rags
nothing is thrown away. once a
month from every city and village
| these articles are gathered up and
| worked over.
Good candy in Berlin costs SO "A
| pound. This Is because chocolate
and sugar are so hard to obtain.
Wires Closely Watched.
Any one sending a telegram TO
points within or without the empire,
/ or who sends n telegram in German
/ or any other language to a foreign
country must show a passport If he
| a stranger, or his official Identified
| ton card if he be a native. This Is an
! other ceremonial calculated to re-
| strict employment Of the wires, there
| by reducing labor and also to mini
| miZe the danger Of espionage COM
! munication.
Postage rates have been increased
| throughout the empire. Open letters
that used to cost z IL pfennngs now
cost five domestic mail that was for
merly carried for pfennings now
/ costs 1-2; foreign mail has been
| raised from 20 To 25 pfennigs.
on many of the street car lines the
rates have been increased from IL
/ to pfennigs. Even with the in
crease they are cheaper for short
! hauls than the costs in America The
city Of Berlin is proud of the record
| it has made in having contributed as
a. municipality a total of no, 100000
marks mominally $42,C00,O00) for
war relief and for subscriptions for
! the war bonds.
In the schools, which are run full
| time there are now many more wom-
/ en- than men teachers This is a shift
! from the German scholastic ideal
| which insisted on men teachers for
the boys.
Many Germans with whom | spoke
said that if their commissioners made
bad" peace when the negotiations
are begun they would decline to ac-
| cept the agreement and go back to
war. The sincerity with which they
said this showed more clearly than
| their words how far they are from
any idea at this time of a peace at
any price.
The women of Berlin, Munich,
Leipsiz, Hamburg and the other big
towns may be suffering, but they pos
itively decline to undergo the extra
privations of being deprived of the
Paris styles. They get the latest
models through Berne The countries
call them "Viennese," but the ladies
know what they get when they buy
them.
The Germans steel trench helmet
is by general consent the best of all.
They laughed at the idea at first, but
now they have taken it up and they
have profited by the French and Eng
fish models they have seen. BY maxi
ing them last they are enabled to
make them the best They have a
long, curving protector over the neck
and have a special forehead visor
which is used by observation off
GERS and is proof against rifle balls.
Sell Helmets as Souvenirs
The first thing the French and
English prisoners do is to sell their
steel helmets for a mark or two
apiece to their German captors They
in turn sell them as souvenirs, If
special permission is granted; other
wise they turn them into the Sam
melstelllung" collection office,
where they are given credit for a
little more than they pay. German
prisoners in the hands of the allies
do the same. 1t gives them a little
spending money until they are sent
back to the regular prison camps,
where their prisoners pay begins.
Cover! Cover! Covert That Is the
rule of the war. That is why the gray
green uniforms of the German sol
diery were selected. 1t blends best
with the brown, yellow and green of
the fields and forests. Even the
wicker cases in which the Germans
transport their artillery shells are
painted green. Bombproofs are al !
ways covered with exactly the same
foliage as is found about the places |
III NlliNil liltg are bulils / blltll PAL u
pets are never left with the fresh |
earth exposed to airplane observa
ton, but are carefully tamped down !
with the top soil and then covered !
with the grasses from the surround |
ing fields.
The attitude of the German people !
toward the big men of the govern
ment is curiously mixed. / could not |
find oil liggpt1apt n In tho !
chorus of support, sympathy, admir- |
alton and affection that the kaisers |
name always calls out The people 90 |
wild over Won Hindenburg-he is
their idol. Mackensen is another |
who is enshrined. Falkenhayn was |
always rather distrusted. Bethmann-
Hollweg is pitied and his good inten
tons are appreciated although there |
is belief that he lacks force. Won |
JagOw, the secretary of foreign af- |
fairs seems to lack the confidence |
of the public. He is looked upon as !
a relic OF the Old school of German !
attribute a large share of their pres !
ent misfortunes. Jagow is Of a sub
tie, casuistic, indirect Metternich type |
and because of the Germans lack of |
confidence in their diplomatic corps |
this ultradiplomatic type is no longer |
popular in the empire. On the other
hand zimmerman, chief permanent |
under secretary Of foreign affairs is
o man of the people-big, broad, sim
pie, direct, forceful and magnetic. He
is the man who will bulk big on the |
German stage when it is reset by the
liberals, who are now engaged in a
life and death struggle with the con-
servatives for the fatherland Count
Bernstorff, ambassador at Washing
ION under attack by his personal enc !