The Alaska daily empire., 1916-01-28
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(By Gustav c. Roeder, in the New
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 York World)
 A great. change has come over Der lin. Eight months ago you could scarcely notice while on a y.sit to the capital that Germany was engaged in war and that she and her people were fighting for their existence. True you noticed lot of soldiers. meny wound ed and some crippled for life but the city itself, and the people, appeared to all outward indications as # noth- ing unusual was transpiring. The citizens looked indifferent.
 What a difference today! The Der lin people seem to have changed com pletely. Last spring they appeared a bappy lot. with no cares to worry them certainly not so far as outer ap' nearances were concerned. Today you find only a solemn people-a people who appear to and who do realize what th's war means to Germany and hor millions. They arc no longer the happy.golucky and carefree crowu' They are stern. severly SO. They are no longer Q smiling crowd. They are very, very solemn indeed.
 It is not that they fear the outcome of the war. On the contrary they ap' near to be more convinced than ever that Germany cannot lose this war They believe that she will come out victorious. They feel that victory IS theirs already. But at the same tune thev have come to look upon the en- tire situation in the most serious manner imaginable. They know that Ina longer the war lasts the more lives must be sacrificed. They realize too that many industries must suiler and that fortunes will be swept away if this war should last for many more veors to come. They are no longer of the opinion that peace Is to come to them in the near future.
 7eople Resigned to Terrible Losse'
 as Price to Win Conflict
 you can read it in their faces. You .or hear 1t in their voices; you mo- lice if as you listen to their conver' ,ations; you observe 1t as you enter ,be department stores; you see t as vou visit the small shop keeper. You notice 1t when you 60 to the banks and even at she crowded playhouses' If nroduces a sort of creepy feeling yon hear of nothing but deaths ana ,rn more denths; of crippled and wounded and of mer whom the war ,as condemned to end their lives in darkness. ,. ,o, ,slq Nobody seems to know They ion't seem to care. and thot appears he strangest part of it. All they now is that they must win in the end nd that 10 accomplish ths they mus ,e ready Co sacrifice all-eyery hl' [ necessary. They say they will a.
 '@J @And do you notice any great banre in Germany as you traye ,bout as compared with what yor .aw last spring?" have been asked .epeatedly. A high official at the ,oreign office in Berlin was among hose who put this question:
 "The people arc more solemn -eplied ,.. ,ame the answer.
 Homes Reflect Feeling
 You don't notice this state Of ar .airs ns much in public as you do when vou visit the inhabitants of the larg- est city in Germany in their own
 have in mind meeting with a woman ard her husband whose ac- ouaintance had made years before tbe war. He is q lieutenant in the army. He served in the west and lat CT in the eastern theatre of the war. If was there where he distinguished himself in battle and was decorated wlth the iron crocs. He was wound ed For weeks he was n one of the field hospitals in Russia.
 
 Finally he was tranferred to an other hospital near the German iron fer. and so was recaptured in the cerman advance. His wounds healed but heart trouble developed He is now back in Berlin with his wife and ,hild. after doing garrison duty.
 .'Ay. husband has been notified that he must be ready for field service again within few weeks" said the ueutenant's wife to me. "We only hope that he may be permitted to ,pend Christmas with us once more. We realize that he will not return nome aga.n. His heart condition tells hat only too plainly l hate to see him go again, but he must and that ,s all that can be said. The next lime you see me l, too, will be in mourning"
 Come Fear Collapse
 It this war lasts three more years ,s some seem to think, you hear 1t states repeatedly, I've won't be able 10 stand it."
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