Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-09-19

happen as that Germany would beat
us, America will be bled white to
satisfy the hatred and revengeful
spirit of the Germans. 1 believe 1
would want to die If America is
beaten in this war; for we simply
would nos. to use common express
sion, have the life of a dog" here.
Germany would make our lives a
hundred times more wretched than
1t has made even Belgium.
After they had refused to change
my money at the Deuscher bank.
went to the main bank of Berlin, the
Reich bank. Here they changed It
and did not treat me so badly. l had
70 leave my money and come back
FOR the other money and, as that
would have been after the bank was
closed for the day, they gave me a
piece of paper which admitted me to
the bank about 4 p. m. 1 went back
at that time and got my money, re-
ceiving only five marks on the dollar.
Ihat Is n low rate. In Sweden, an
american dollar is given seven marks.
START FOR HOME.
They gave me 1000 marks, and
could not open II until I was beyond
the frontier. That seemed another
silly thing for them to debut they
did It.
paid my rent, bought my tickets
and got everything ready to leave the
next morning. Saturday. packed my
trunk but of course had TO leave IL
there. They kept it two weeks, GO
Ing over everything in 1t, then sent
II on to Christiania, Norway. Up to
this date l have not received II yet.
Fhey had to read every bit of writing
IN 1t, look over all my music and
stamp everything, for if, at the from
III
stamped officially, t@S~e was a llkeli-
hood that the whole trunk would be
confiscated
My bag was treated the same way
everything examined and stamped. l
l had a couple of fiction books l
wanted to read on the way and l had
a great deal of trouble getting them
oughly, 80 to be sure they did not
contain mysterious messages or maps
or something like that. Even NV
prayer book was stamped.
Then I really started. I had to
travel second class, in a stufry little
compartment without any comforts.
but did not mind that 1 travelled
on the train from Q to 12 a. m. Sat
urday and then reached the frontier.
when had applied for my passports,
l had to give the dommandatore three
pictures of myself. One he pasted on
the passport, the other two he sent
on to the frontier.
When got to Warnemunde, the
frontier town, I handed over my
passports and was given a slip Of
water with number on II In return.
OUT OF GERMANY!
Then was taken into a room where
a woman stripped and examined me
from head to foot. She took down my
hair, looked in my shoes, in the waist
bands of my clothes and the hens.
She worked like lightning. but she
certainly was thorough. Finally she
said could pass. Then I received my
passports and my bag-which had
been put through as gruelling an ex-
animation as 1 had, and 1 was out of
Germany.
The very air seemed different on the
other side OF the border.
Then l took the boat to Copenhagen,
Denmark, and from there prepared to
go to Christiania, Norway, when I
would really be on my way home.
l spent from Sunday to Monday in
Copenhagen and here 1 met a Capt.
Totten. connected with the American
military legation in Copenhagen. 1
met him as I was getting on a train.
l was Juggling my heavy bag and try
ing to lift it on the high steps.
"Oh. darn!' 1 said
This man smiled and said, You are
an Americana"
I told him yes" and he then took
charge of my bag and of men and
Christiania about D. m.. Tuesday,
July 16.
Capt. Totten told me I would have
to stay in Christiana six days before
l could leave. Once more panic seized
me, for a boat was leaving for Amer
lea in three days and l wanted to
set it.
But Capt. Totten said he would see
Ehat he could do. He communicated
with Mr.. Caffin, the American consul
general at Christiania, another very
nice man. and Mr.. Caffln after ques-
tioning me, said he would see that /
got that boat. You see. they are SO
suspicious there of any person coming
from Germany. They have had such
terrible examples of German spying
that they must be careful.
A STRANGE STORY.
In Norway heard of the Norwegian
captain upon whose boat an English
army ofncer. a. spy, had secreted HIM
self to escape from Germany. He was
In terrible danger, but had managed
10 get to the boat and he would have
escaped, had not the captain been a
German sympathizer.
he found the English officer on
board and, instead of giving him TO
England. turned him over to Germanv
again. People heard of it and now
any part. Amy time his shin. an
proaches a port, he is warned awav.
The Germans don't want him, his own
people won't have him;s no neutral
Will take him in and. unless he gets
some place where he is not known.
ne and his crew may starve.
IL Is weird story, but I heard n
SO many times and from such reiiab
sources that believe it to be true.
This happened just a little wbila
after the German courier had been
found on Norwegian boat with his
suitcase full of bombs and after the
bombs had been found among the coal
on Norwegian steamer
one thing. IL Germany hates us ana
England she surely is cordially hated
In return by any country over there
which has had anything to do win
her. It seems a terrible thing that
a whole people. living peacefully and
contentedly, a people really good al
heart, Industrious and thrifty. should
be made an object of hate everywhere
because of the actions of a few peonle
ruling over that people. Somehow.
with IL all, feel sorry for GERMANY
after the war. for 1t seems To me that
1T Will be centuries before the Ger
man nation ever again can take its
place among the nations of the world