The Washington times., 1917-10-16

and Irish prisoners of wart to desert
{ to the German side. Liebknicht finally
enraged the government supporters
! by calling out that the subscription
( to the loan was a swindle.
/ After the Sussex settlement / think
that the Germans wished to inaugur
ate an era OF better feeling between
Germany and the United States. Al
any rate, and in answer to many
anonymous attacks made against me
/ the North German Gazette, the official
newspaper, published a sort OF certi
, ficate from the government to the ef
feet that I was a good boy, and that
the rumors OF my bitter hostility to
Germany were unfounded.
In May, 1916, wertheim, head of the
great department store in Berlin, told
me that they had more business than
In peace times.
Prince Won BueIow's Good English.
Early in June had two long talks
with Prince Won Buelow. He speaks
English well, and is suspected by his
enemies of having been polishing II
up lately in order to make ready for
possible peace conferences. He is a
man Of a more active brain than the
present chancellor, and is very rest
less and anxious in some way to
break into the present political situa-
tion.
In June the anonymous attacks on
the chancellor. by pamphlet and
otherwise, incensed him to such a de-
gree that he made an open answer
in the Reichstag, and had rather tho
best OF the situation. Many anony-
nous lies and rumors were flying
about Berlin at this period. and even
Helnerich had publicly to deny the
anonymous charges that he had been
anonymously attacking the chancel-
lor.
Prince wedePs Committee of Peace.
In July the committee called the
National Committee for an Honorable
Peace was formed with Prince wedel
at its head. Most OF the people in
this league were friends Of the chan
cellor, and one OF the three real heads
was the editor OF the Frankfurter
Zeitung, the chancellor's organ. It
was planneo that fifty speakers from
this committee would begin to speak
all over Germany on August l, but
when they began to speak their views
were SO dissimilar and the speeches OF
most OF them so ridiculous that the
movement failed.
1 spent two Saturdays and Sundays
in August at Heringsdorf, a summer
resort on the Baltic. Before going
there I had to get special permission
from the military authorities through
the foreign office, as foreigners are
not allowed to reside on the coast of
Germany. Regulations that all win.
dows must be darkened at night and
no lights shown which could be seen
from the sea were strictly enforced
by the authorities.
There are three bathing places. In
each OF them the bath houses, etc,
surrounded three sides of a square.
the sea forming the fourth side.
Bathing is allowed only on this fourth
side for a space OF sixty-fve yards
long. One of these bathing places Is
for women and one for men, and the
third Is the so-called FamiIienbad
family BATH, where mixed bathing
is allowed. German women are very
sensible in the matter OF their bath I
ing costumes, and do not wear the
extraordinary creations seen in
America. They wear bathing san. |
dals, but no stockings, and as most |
OF them have fine figures, but dress |
badly, they appear at their best ut |
Both sea and air seemed |
somewhat cold for bathing. On ac.
count OF their sensible dress, most OF |
the German women are expert swim |
mers.
! noticed one very handsome blonde |
girl, who sat on her bathing mantle.
exciting the admiration OF the beach |
because OF her fine figure. She sud
ienly dived into the pockets Of the
mantle and produced an enor-
nous black bread sandwich, which
'he proceeded to consume quite un-
after which she swan
'ut to sea. No healthy German can
'emain long separated from food, and
noticed in the prospectus Of the diff
erent boarding houses at HerinEsdorf
hat patrons were offered. in addition
% about four meals or more a day,
IN extra sandwich to take to the
'each to be consumed during the
,athing hour.
There Is beautiful little English