Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-10-12
Germans Drove Marie Bo.
mini Brown From Berlir,
Boarding House BY Open
Anin,osity; Officials
We're Insulting.
PEOPLE FEAR ENEMIES
WILLsTAKE REVENGE
az MARIE eoNiNi BROWN.

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[Copynght, 1917. by the Pittsburgh
Press.]
could have stood the anger against
Americans, but the sneers ana slurs
flung at my country sometimes were
more than | could bear.
remember one time, after the
United States entered the war, Ger
man girl friend Il had few invited
me to a tea.
"Will there be any other Germans
there?" l asked.
YES" she said.
Well, I told her, you had better
let them know ! am coming"
She called them up, and every one
of the German girls refused to como
because an American girl was coming.
OF course, ! stayed away so as not to
spoil her tea.
/ have had German women turn
away and refuse to take an intrOduc-
ton.
German men, when introduced. have
saluted with q sneer and then DELHI.
erately turned their back, or, imme-
diately they knew was an American,
attempted to take some familiarity.
oERMAks NATE AMERICANS.
They think American girls will per.
init familiarities that German girls
would resent.
When the United States entered the
war, ! was living In pension, a board.
Ing house. OF course a great many
people ate at the same table and
there were many Germans there. ]
simply had to leave and 90 with my
niri friend In a little fiat, as the Ger
man boarders said they would leave II
I remained.
When the mother OF my girl friend,
the newspaper correspondent, left Der.
lin, the kommandatore said, right to
her face, This is the last damned
American I will help get out OF Ber-
lin."s That was what made me so
afraid that / would not be allowed to
90, when finally did ask for my PASS
port, and was so long getting 1t.
Another incident know of-Mr.
Ferguson, who buys the supplies for
the kitchen for Camp Ruhleben, where
the Englishmen are informed, used to
come and visit the woman who had
charge Of the pension where he stayed
before he was interned. A German
ofiicor, OF course, came right with him.
He would come when he came to Der.
lin to buy his supplies.
The woman had to tell him to dis
| continue his visits. as she said all her
| German boarderS threatened to leave.
HATRED OF ENGLAND 10 OLD.
There seems to be more OF con-
temptuous withdrawal from Ameri-
cans on the part Of the Germans than
. scorching hate such as they feel to-
ward the English. 1t is hate, sure
enough, but not the same kind. !
think 1t is more deadly than that
which they feel toward the English.
The Germans have been hating the
English forty years or more. They
have been hating us only few
months. But in that time, it certainly
has grown to stupendous proportions.
While in Germany. Of course. did
not hear SO much about the Zeppelin
raids and the U-boat outrages as l
have since I came home. But did
hear enough to realize that the rest
OF. the world must be indignant about
them and to question Germans, as far
as could about their opinion of them.
l found the majority of Germans
complaisant about the raids, but fear
full that the English might retaliate.
They admit that It is a pity women
and children have to be killed in this
way. ut would be terrible II the
English came here and dropped bombs
down on u.s." they say. But they ex-
cuse 1t all on the grounds that the
war must be finished, and that, no
matter what means are taken to
bring about this contamination. they
are justified by the end sought for.
| There again ono meets that pecul-
lar turn Of the German mind, that, al.
though . thing 10 wrong. Il Is ex'
eusabIe when done for German profit.
The people would hold big rejoic-
ines when the reports Of successful
Zeppelin raid would be sent through
the empire. But, mingled with these
reJoieings, the women would pity ths
women and children who had to die.
DON'T HEAR OF oUTRAoEs.
II was the same way with the
U-boats, when they torpedoed defense
less vessels although it is hard to
make the Germans believe that the
vessels were defenseless. They think
most OF the torpedoed vessels carried
guns. And, as regards the news dis
patches, telling how Germans fired
on the liefboats Of sinking vessels
how they stripped English and Bel
gian sailors and left them to drown
these things the German people never
hear. I have heard Of them only since
II have been home.
u can safely say, from my own OBJ
servation that the great mass Of Ger
man people are kept in ignorance Of
much of the frightfulness which the
Germans have deliberately practiced
l FEAR FOR ROYAL PALACE.
i THE people. the ordinary people
met, l mean, seemed to take to heart
] more the destruction Of towns thar
human beings. There can be more
. v~culo - hoapA mora than Onra ~hl1t