The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-07-28
LAST WOMAN FROM
GERMANY TELLS STORY
People a Unit for Peace but All Think
Their Country VIII
Win War.
DENIES MANY REPORTS
Stories of German Brutality Declared
Falsc-Travels From Berlin to New
York In Period of TwCnty-six Days
By MARY ETHEL McAULEy.
The Last Woman to Arrive I'm the
United States From Germany.
News Service }

Copyright 1917. by International
News Service)
New York, July 27.-Soldiers. SOL
preston / had OF GERMANY when /
left Berlin on the first day OF this
present month of July.
1t was two years ago that I got off
at the Stettiner station in Berlin when
came to Germany on my last VISIT
during the war. ! wondered then
what was the matter that thousands
of soldiers everywhere, dashing off,
GERS. common soldiers with packs on
their backs-a seething field gray
mass When I left Berlin on July I,
the scene was not the least bit
changed j ast as many anldlers "a
before, and the same type of soldiers
1t was hard to believe that two years
had gone by. but when a soldier is
killed in Germany another seems to
spring IN in his place. Soldiers. SOL
diers. soldiers
Stamped and Stamped Again.
II has taken me just twenty-six days
to come from Berlin to New York,
Copenhagen. Stockholm, Christiania,
Halifax have been stamped and
searched and stamped again. One
gets used to being stamped. In fact.
one gets to like it, for then you know
you are getting something. In Ger
MANY had a passport that was
stamped SO much that I had to get
an extra sheet of paper pasted on 1.
and when you come out of Germany
YOU are sealed with al least 4 hun
dred seals.
No frontier in the world is so easy
TO cross as the German frontier. The
stories one hears of travellers beinS
torn apart and mistreated is all trnagi-
nation. for when YOU come TO he
German frontier the officials there
know all about you who you are. what
you have been doing, If you are sus-
picious person and If you are liable
to have anything. You may be anti
German, but with them that does not
count If YOU have been honest YOU
can get through with very little
trouble.
1t is possible for anybody, enemy
or neutral to take papers and books
out of Germany. The papers and let
tiers are taken to a free censor bureau
where they are read by a German Of
fetal Here they are sealed and the
seal must not he broken. If you have
books or music. military censor
Icomes to your house. He looks over
your books, packs them for you and
seals them. He charges you one mark
an hour for his time and you don't
see your trunk again until you come
ITO Copenhag gen.
NV trunk was opened by a soldier
that talked English. / asked him
where he had learned such good Eng
lish and he said playing with little
American children were very
sweet" He took the covering off my
censored package, asked me II | had
any other books NJ calling cards and
when | answered mo" he closed my
grip and carried it TO the room where
the women were searched. did not
have to undress except TO take off my
shoes. She felt in my hair. along the
hens of my skirts, in my pocketbook
and then she let me go. The 9th r
travellers were mostly Danes, Norwe-
gians and Swedes--but | say no tear
ing up of luggage and no unnecessary
trouble was made to the travellers. AT
the Danish frontier our luggage was
opened again, but this was mere form,
for no one is trying to export any
thing out of Germany.
Butter sickness"
Everybody that comes out of Ger
MANY gets what they call butter sick
ness" and the sickness comes from
eating too much butter all of sud
den. Indirectly one gets eighty grains
week, and when a traveller comes
TO Denmark he usually gets eighty
grains of butter at one sitting and
/ the result Is that his system is all up
set from overeating. met men in
Stockholm who had come from Ger
many months ago and they were still
sick from eating too much butter
Denmark Is the land of abundance
/ and the difference between Sweden
| and Denmark is almost as great az
the difference between Germany and
Denmark. The conditions In Sweden
are far worse than In Germany be-
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