South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-26
THE TRUTH ABOUT GERMANY
Fate of ToLLing Church
Bells in Kaiser,s Capita.
Germans Don't Want to Talk About Violation of Belgium
Neutrality Everybody There Hates Gerard

/
/ by the victorious armies
You can hear the women talking
Of what will happen to them when
the Russian and French and English
7 soldiers come into Gcrmany-if they
do. IL j. seIf-intercst which il lead
ing some of the people TO make
weak protests against the Germans
rininS other cities.
But these things are not talked
OF as they would be here. The Ger
mans are too much afraid 10 talk
freely about the war.
OF Belgium, for instance, no Ger
man will speak, except 20 say too
bad" or its a pity"
We heard also Of the German SOL
diers forcing the Poles into the Ger
man army. a great many things
which are doubted I'm America. we
heard Of in Germany and they are
/ believed. The thing is, though. over
there. although a few people may
decry what is done. the majority
think that what the kaiser does is
right no matter what it is
Germany and Belgium.
10 is difficult 70 get German to
speak Of Germany's violation Of Bel
GUMS neutrality, but those who do.
say the kaiser did right in goink
/ through Belgium. They say that
Belgium should have stood back and
let the Germany army through and
that what has happened 10 the Bel
gians is the result of their own
stubbOrnness.
Although she may realize that the
| things she does are not what other
nations do. yet because she is Ger
many she is right. She is a nation
OF self and can see no other nations
/ right. She is like a boy who never
| had been taught that other boys
property must not be touched, set
! down in a school where the laws of
property are respected. She simply
reaches out and takes what she
| wants, regardless of the sufferings
of others. And the only way Ger
many ever can be made TO respect
/ other nations is to give her a thor
ough beating, just as the bully of a
school must receive a good beating
/ before he lets other boys alone.
When the news that the Lusitania
had been sunk came to Germany
there was great rejoicing. as every
body i'm America knows. Many
Germans still profess to think the
Lusitania was armed. In the COM
mcmOrtaive medal struck of the
Lusitania is shown with guns and
an aeroplanc on her deck.
So far as getting what the great
mass Of people in Germany really
| think, that is impossible.
The people are not permitted to
/ talk.
The University at Warsaw.
When Warsaw was taken by the
I Germans they opened a splendid big
| university there for the Polish boy
/ The people in Germany plumed
| themselves for this
The Poles are getting better
| treatment than the Russians ever
gave them, and they will be CRATE
/ full" the people said
But the fiery young Poles. soon
| discovering that instead of exchang-
ing slavery for freedom, they only
| had exchanged one master for an
/ other. soon began talking war and
! revolution Result-the university
was closed in double quick time. A
great number Of the students disap-
peared. no person knows where
probably to the German firing lines.
/ And the Poles now know that Ger
man rule means anything but free
dom for them.
L often wonder why the Germans
do not treat the Americans Who are
in Germany better They know that
| when these Americans go home they
/ will tell of their treatment just as
am doing and just as Ambassador
/ Gerard is doing, and as hundreds or
/ other Americans will do. The only
l thing I can see is that the Germans
{ think they can combat any such
revelations. simply by calling them
/ lies
For instance. they have talked for
| weeks about what Ambassador Ger
ard will say. He will tell lies. they
/ say contemptuously
They seem 10 think that a Ger
/ mans word will be taken against an
| Am erican's in any country. even in
| our own.
Hatred Against Gerard
AS 7 was leaving Germany I was
| buying some necessaries at a shop
| and happened 10 mention that I was