The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1917-11-14
AMERICAN LIVED IN
GERMANY DURING 3
YEARS OF THE WAR
Reaches Berne, Switzerland, and
Tells Some of the Things He
Knows Regarding Internal Con.
ditions in the Kaiser's Realm.

German sea port cities, passing Tor
or being considered a German sub
! iect, mlngling not only with the com.
mon people. hot having occasional ac-
cess to the councils OF the hiRh.
In his opinion Germany Is suffer
ing ncutely now and dissn tisfaction
and worse reign In certain strata ~
! her army and navy. Recent mutin-
GUS uprisings have had to b. sternly
reprcsscd and the mutineers shot.
Thoughtful Germany. he thinks. com
prising men Of the Ballin type, Is dcs.
poratcly anxious for peace and secret
~ anNious "a end the war before
America has been utterly alienated.
This man loft Germany early in
October. because he had reason to
! fear that he was going To be inn
/ pressed for military service. The
German government had refused To-
recognize the validity OF his Ameri-
can naturalization since ne failed To
comply with the law existing in 1914
and I'D not seek the consent OF the
German government 20 his step. To
get out he had to induce the Spanish
cmhuss, To bring pressure to bear on
the German government ON reach
| ing switzerland one OF his first steps
! was to seek the Associated Press cor
respondent. to whom he first proved
satisfactorily his American citizen
shin. then volunteered such informa-
ton ns ne possessed about Germany
as tho duty Of "a patriotic American
citizen. strangely enough. at the very
mumcut hC was telling his story with
detail. about mutiuics IN the German
,.. VN.. ysvA.L. T..g..s.4 80 .......
Admiral won Capcllr, was announcing
tn" naval mutiuics to the rciChstag
The economic situation In Ger
many he says. lis far worse than
Inyonc on the outside realizes. II 50
c~ritical that | for one look for a
break. q collapse. next spring or late
IN the winter. Nor are the good crops
that one hears boosted about every
once Boa 80 often goin to change the
situation materially.
throughout the German people
thcr, h. what To "a hatred OF
America. and this hatred has been
carefully concentrated on President
Wilson becpuSe II ls easier To hate a
man Than % nation. especially a ma
ton that b. tho home ~ pretty nearly
c~Ncryonc'S relative.
"Iut the big men of Germany. the
men who have to look ahead anu
puidc the empire after the war. do
not nate America They feel too
kccnly that they need America, and
they would like to stem tn, tide OF
hate before u becomes mutual me
the United States are alicnutod, per
hapS for AN time
They know mat after the war
there is only one country in the world
where they can get the money they
shall need, America, ana they are
worrying a plenty nowadays. They,
and an Germany, want increasing
IS e peace that shall specify, among
other things, the right TO purchase
raw as we'll as finished materials any
whore IN the world on the same terms
as any other nation.
Every indication points to prob
able c-onfiscaton Of property ana re.
pudiation Of perhaps half the war
loan totals after the war. Even the
percentage OF property to b, confis-
Gated h being talked Of, and 1t seems
probable that the government will
take 20 per cent OF everything.
ION the other hand 1t seems prob
able from an ! ear that an even
halt OF an outstanding war loans will
be uullificd. The seventh will suffer
exactly as the ftrst and the first as
the seventh. tifty per ccnt will bc
repaid, and the other fiftN per cent
will either bee cancelled or Will mere
ly continue to pay intercst-will be a
sort OF perpetual investment. the CAPT.
tai FOR which cannot be realized.
As surely as anything can bc pre-
dictcd there Will bc IN the central
powers a series of laws %forhiddinp
emigration And Ia anticipation OF
them countless Germans today ar,
talking about WAYS aud means OF get
tins away after the war. South and
North America and peculiarly enough
New Zealand and Australia are IA,
hlycnS To- which they speak of flee.
ing The first German ship that lands
in America after nnsttlitios will lvdy,
go per cent of u.s. crew behind
1T - becoming clearer and clearer
tu Germans ever, day that all IN,
tJlk that has gone the rounds ahuu.
% central Europe after the model oi
Prof. Nuumbuu and others VIII hc ou'
Of the question
contrary Co tho belief that sccm,
10 bee almost universal outside Of Ger
many. { rctllt believe that pun-Ger.
uantsn b. on tho decrease rattle
than the increase among the massei
Of the people and this despite IN,
increased uolsy about IL everywhere
in Germany and tho intensive way II
which IL h. triur encouraged Tit
reason Tor thi- Dis fhHt moro and mor'
the German prupl" are coming 90 re-
alizc what 81 catastrophe it viii Doe foI
them fatrr the W.r is over II they arr
hatcN IN ll tho world pan-Gcr
manisu. th,y trr coming to feel, /
likely To- intensity the feeling agains
them. and thereby make their econ
omic struggle Boo the futur, more dif
ncult."
lie then touched briefly on Austro
German relations ana cauuOnot
against amy hope that Austria wi
fan away from hor biz ally, for b.
explained. she is to odcpoudrnt finau
cially and mi.tirily. 10 be able I
shake loose. much a. she might liN