Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-29
Sung by Openly Hostile Enemy
Aliens Who Forgather at Ger
tain Rendezvous.
GLoAr OVER PIRATE oUTKAGEs
As Yet No British Minister Has
Dared to OrdaiD That These
Things, Occurring In Little Ber-
lin" Shall Not BE Done.
ny sin HENRY GREEN.

The singing Of the German national
anthem may be heard in London night
by night.
IT is sung by openly hostile enemy
aliens. who forgathcr at certain rem
DEVIOUS TO plot and plan for tho bene-
1T of EnSiand's enemies.
AS vet. no British minister has dared
To ordain that these things shall not
Z he done.
It is here In Little Berlin that rev.
Citations fall on one like forty-two cen.
tineter shells, and where one finds
specimens OF gall that amazes the
very gods.
Here. in the heart OF EnEland's cap
i,al, tho cnvenomed enemy convenes
20 curdIc the atmosphere with curses
on English hides to roar raucous!y OF
his watch on the Rhine. and howls
"Hochs" enough TO shake tho eternal
hills.
a large. low-ceilinsed cafe a few
doors off Tottenham Court Road. a
big, bulky man. with short. iron-gray
hair and outstanding ears, sitting with
his enormous feet spreadcaGlcd unde.
table near 10 the only door
l Was informed that this is COS.
r1oPolitan establishment. but the pre-
Munichian.
Bottled liquors bear German labels.
German papers hcstrewed the tables
: in company with sausage and sauer-
kraut raGish. and rye bread.
You saw tho pondercus Teuton feet,
heavy frames and jowly faces. and
heard the eight iointed compound
words that roll SO sutturally from the
German throat.
we we're halfway through the rolls
and coffee when y man came in and
raised Bsd!am by flourishins an even
Ing newspaper. The cat jumped then.
fer in spreading headlines there was
announced German defeat.
NOISES SUGGESTIVE OF
MENAGERIE ON STAMPEDE
~ ;hst ,he eyes of these safe" and
followed series O. noises suggestive
O. 4 menagerie en- the stampede.
All tongues were in eruption, and
English and German explosives were
irex.-icab!y mixed, but /. was plain
that HaiE got the he'll, and linden
burg the hoch.
English newspapers were a 10. Of
liars. En6li5h soldiers lot OF COW
d
And two OF these benign men Of kui-
tur were proving these assertions by
maps
Finally. one wa,ery-eyed sinisn
sang OF a watch on the Rhine. not
recalling, perhaps, that the crown
prince is more partial TO clocks.
And in his Rhine whine the others
5oined their thick lips. working like
eli auuu,.of
the auricular agony.
Amid The wolter OF it ali, my guide
led IN. out. And. by the way. will any
Spiritual homer" kindly tell US what
happens to the isriton who attempts
10 sing his national anthem in any
part OF Germany: Would there be
anything left OF him III five minutes
except skcin o. hair ard a pair of
ammunition boots
After negotiating some sharp cor
ners and dark turnings, we came TO q
place that figured a year or two ago
AS a headquarters for walters. who
dumped themselves on these shores
and ousted the ho4e-srown article on,
OF his job. -
Here again, by sheer weight OF num-
hsrs. the Germans had become top dog.
and magnanirnously displayed thclr
kultur by forming a Kind ot union
that barred all but Germans out.
This union, brotherhood"
,unnclsd and burrowcd until /, had
connections all over the Kingdom
which explains the ubiquity of obse-
Quious German walters at our hotels.
nERLiN rLAAs BLOWING UP
or NUMBER or TOWN HALLS
Berlin planned FOR the hrothc rhood
TO blow NJ n few Of our town halls
and so forth. but the English scissors
closed in and lodged most OF its mem
bers IN the intcrnmcut camps.
Not al. The men regaling them
selves on thf~e premises the other night
were not, the majority of them, Swiss
or Italians. sixty per cen, were leu.
tons 10 a man.
My guide furnished !ndubi,able proof
OF TINS fact. The first man he spotted
was tho best dressed ono in the place
Tin born SWISS" said the SUSPECT
in the course OF oar conversation. Ru,
half an hour later. when he had been
mello"et with comforts, he pronounced
my guide .6emuthlick" fellow.
blessed him with true Bavar,nn
"Cruss Colt" and owned up Ia bis
real home in Munich
Where rs the safeguard. who be-
comes the surety for d man like this =?
AT another place, where members Of
this kultured race torgather Un Char
lotte street We found dcbat. ON
Two si1pcnny Engl:sh eervlce nnne-s
were seen here. two German clinics
and lie Rire
Here the Continental ANARCHISTS, un
social German Socialists and chronic
sabsters expcaG their surplus lung
power
Intricate problems that coniound the
wisest statesmen arc settled here in q
few minutes by moidy mctaphysiciar,
carwig economists and decadcnt doc.
tors Of phiiosophy--principau Ger
man
The quecr-lcoking bipcds here cor
Sresatcd may be safe" but II faces
arc an index 10 character, tho owner
OF these are on the wrong eide OF tn,
wire that surrounds the in,ernm,,,
cxmps.