The Pensacola journal., 1917-07-22
A GERMAN SOLDIERS VIEW.

A GERMAN SOLDIERS VIEW.
Germany today is one vast prison fun Of
s.v I :AES snd hst % @ 'Rs Ss william iR The
family IN return for he blood of
10000 Of his slaves"
Not an Englishman, not Frenchman,
not Belgian, not an American wrote this,
b1t German-a German soldier captured
at the Somme and sent to a British prison
camp.
He had been dealing in land and mines
and things in America for years. this
Bosche; and when the war threatened, he
was in London on visit. He went to Ger
many, his ideals were whole then; for a
while he was engaged on special work
there but finally when the Somme push
used up men so fast, he was forced to Join
up. And to writer for the Boston Tran
script he unfOlded the terrible knowledge
he had gained
"The crimes that made the French revo-
luton are nothing" he says. 'if you COM
pare them with the crimes of the beasts
who are running Germany today and keep
ing this war going" And adds:
began TsS aS s1ss5 Gn ssYss ss sa 4ssf4d
they're the bloodtest murdsrers by wholesale that
ike it before They know perfectly well THEY'VE lost
they ever had have % But fs they ag are @ o
Sa snd o S e2 F sr shhd 20 Of s n@ 2 M
e b ns3t tb 90 & %nen d {my leaned the trgn t
OF Germa3s man eyery single day and millions Of none
of princes politicians
German soldiers would gladly give
| themselves up to get out of the misery he
say but 1T is not only Your guns that kill.
Many Germans fall every day with Ger
man bullets in them
Something like this we have heard from
other sources as we'll. Then there are the
| Germans who are chained to the machine
guns!
I'm Germany today" continues Our Ger
man, the man who will tell the truth must
be hustled out of the way" Maximilian
Harden, for instance, whose paper has been
| closed and who has been COnscrpted for
military service.
"That is Why" the speaker continues, Il
see no hope for Germany, because those
who are left in the country have no spirit,
can do nothing.' He Celebrates:
in Al I'll. the 9s.5s Strength ;sa Of the
speak soon nnd hemseiSe @ S S WGrd nt6 the & 6s" & who
asn the no pe oFe hedsd Of & them The
m single So day day The Central Powers casualties
Of Of. few bankers and merchants and The cowardiy
They say the Hapsburgs the Ausrsms would
They much sacrificed by
devils here the front All the bloody Of
this war, with its millions of
OF lives lost-every single day-what keeps going
long after II has finally decided, the will
of nations No. it is the murderous crfminality and
COwardtCe o me in Berlin who
never have been anything but pest in Europe
What is the future of Germany? III your
armies could reach Germany itself, the
slavery might end suddenly" he says.
That, indeed, seems to be the only solution.
The kaiser and his ruthless party know the
might of Americas millions, the resources
OF her factories and ship yards, the illimit-
able power Of her wealth. But the German
people do not. keptin utter ignorance
they must feel it-feel it in actual invasion
see it with their armies hurled back Their
and then only will they be awakened to {
full realization; then will they turn agains
and destroy the leaders who have so terri
bly, betrayed them.
OUR NAVY EXPANSION.