The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-04

That the British censor is 4vio1at-
ing the agreement made with Wash
ington, lin which it was promised that
U. S. first class mail to Germany would
be untouched, is shown in a letter
from Pref: Carl Duesing of Magde-
burg, Germany, to DR.. Herman Dues
ing at 11691East Main street, this city.
5 DR.. Duesing has received the en-
veIope of the letter he sent his broth
er. 1t is marked, "Opened by Gem
sor"
Prof. Duesing's letter. which con-
tains matter Of interest FROM the Ger
man point of view. follows:
Enclosed you will find the envelope
/ of your own. letter, which you mailed
to my address on January Is. The
letter was opened by the British CEN
sor. I received your letter on March
8, after seven weeks of travel. The
censor took out of the envelope all
| clippings in English. Your letter
and the clippings of the Stats zeitung
were not touched. Perhaps the CEN
sor could not read German, As some
of the clippings were not compliment
ary to Great Britain.
1.-The Swedish newspaper Dagens
Nyheter' of Stockholm published last
week Russi4's losses during the war.
They had received the figures from a
Gfsting uished 10, eign traveller, who is
a member OF the Geneva Red Cross.
according to this authority. 1,942, 61O
Russian soldiers were killed from IAN.
L to December 81 1915. During the
whole war 125.433 officers of the Rus
sian army were killed, of whom s277
were generals
The buying power of Europe will
have decreased enormously after the
war. It will be half a century. be-
fore normal conditions will return. THE
fo7 >nf oil lxi1 nd
Soldiers in all beI1igerent states runs
into many millions. 1t must be adj
ded-that relatively few children are
born, and that the mortality in all bel
1igerent countries is steadily increas-
ing Off1cers of the Imperial Bureau
| of Vital Statistics have stated that
Germany will have four million fewer
/ inhabitants after the war than before.
/ France is much worse Off Her popu-
llation " i'll have decreased from 8 8 mill
lion TO 6 million. Scientists believe,
t{at france on account Of the two
| children 81 sem never Will recover
from the losses which she is suffering
at present. Altogether Europe will
have thirty million of Inhabitants less
after the war. This is the general
fbelief of eminent German and neutral
scientists. These figures are based on
summer. If not, the losses will be
much higher. You must not con-
clude from these figures, that we Ger
| mans are tired of the war. In the
! wars<of liberty a hundred years ago,
our nation was suffering much worse
i and still came out victorious.
tsAII over the world people are talk
ling about the German submarines and
1 their war against British commerce.
4 Enclosed I am sending you the Sc
\ cret orders of the British naval office
to the captains of the armed mer-
lob Tn fI7a-ka ~
4 plainly see, that the captains have
the order to attack submarines. Our
naval Office has 20 cases for proof, that
4 this order is not a formality, but that
it is followed by the captains up to
i the last letter. In 20 different cases
have armed merchantmen attacked our
submarines on sight, before the lat
ter were able to make movement of
l'any kind. I shall give you the de-
tails of one Of the 20 cases. A Ger
man submarine sighted in the North
Sea a steamer, flying the Dutch flag
and ordered the ship to stop and to
send a boat for the examination of the
ships papers, which was done after
some time. Our submarine disap-
peared from the surface for her own
safety and observed the steamer
through the periscope. It was an or
binary freight steamer of 5000 tons,
without any suspicious appearance.
The name Me1anie could be seen plain
1 y. AS soon as the submarine appear
ed on the surface in a distance of L.
900 yards from the steamer, the lat
tier still flying the Dutch flag, fired
rapid shots from two cannon and ma
chine guns at the U-boat. Our sub
marine was able to save herself by
quick diving. After that the steam
| er tried to ram the submarine. in vain.
! All this was done under the Dutch
flag. There is no Dutch steamer with
l the name tNdelanie.r But in L1oyd's
register you, will find a, British steam
er tMe1anie,' of 5000 tons.
'tSome time ago you sent me a clip
ping in English, which said, that the
French have $4,000 German prison
ers. have sent this clipping to our
war office in Berlin and received the
answer, that only $4,000 German sol
diers are prisoners in France, and that
Germany has 100000 French prison.
ers. Whenever we exchange invalids
with France we give three times as
many we receive, because we have
10 times as many.
Is "Our now famous sea raider
4 sMoeuve' has returned safely. She has
sunk Is vessels of the enemy and
brought home one million Of marks in
bullion and 200 prisoners. The story
of the Emden, Aeyscha and Moeuve
will live, as long as people will live.
FEB. 16 was a happy day for Ger
many. 1t brought two disappoint-
ments to our enemies. On this da5