Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-07-05

indorsed what I wrote - that II Great
Britain had been willing to join with us,
our two countries would have dominated
the world 80
What you say" said the Frenchman
who was interrogating. rs a good example
Of your German mistakes in psychology,
since neither now nor at any other time
has Great Britain ever dreamed Of such
thing !"
The German prisoner laughed heartily.
You can't make me believe tina" said
he.
Also" he continued earnestly, what
does the cooperation Of America signify?
ask you, what does 1t signify?
The answer from the Frenchman came
quickly. 1T signifies that hundred million
men, with all the resources for work ana
manufacture at their command, willingly
impose ConsCripton upon themselves III
order to kill Germans"
A wounded British officer whom / have
met--to whom a German prisoner (newIN
captured) rendered the service of carrying
him to the dressing station behind the
llnes-told me some facts which the Ger
man had communicated to him-facts when
he declared to he typical Of hundreds OF
thousands of other Germans at the 'front.'
The German soldier had spent good
deal Of his time both in America ana Eng
land
GERMANY A VAST PRISON
"If your armies could reach Germany
itself" he told the British officer, the
slavery might end suddenly. But Germany
today is one vast prison, full OF starving
slaves who cannot help themselves and that
will remain while William the Murderer
can go on buying daily reprieNe for ms
own miserable family in return for the
blood of ten thousand of his slaves. lhahK
God | am out Of it
'"The Central Powers casualties now
must be 100000 a week. This war is the
greatest crime the world has ever SEEM
continued the German. THE crimes that
made the French Revolution are nothing to
it, If you compare them with the crimes OF
the beasts who are running Germany To-Day
and keeping this awful war going.
They know perfectly we'll they've lost
| the war. They've known for months that
| the last chances they ever had have gone
| But they are too frightened of their owr
| miserable skins to admit 1t and call a halt
Here on this front our people are being
| killed like flies. Your British artillery kill'
| them in lunches There isn't a minute OF
| the day but legs and arms are being blowr
| off our men would gladly give themselves
| up to end IT, but you know they cannot
! When there seems to be a chance. there Il
always an officer or some n. C. O,'s about
| at is not only your guns that XIII
| Many Germans fall every day with Ger
man bullets in them. They are driven lik'
| dogs to the fighting.
"The others, there in Germany. they arr
| slaves. Starving, starving quietly! Neve
| daring TO say word The few who d'
| speak soon find themselves hustled into tn
| front line, and no more is heard Of them
1t appears that in Germany at the presen
moment there is considerable amount o
| wailing over the opportunity lost for strik
| ing a decisive blow against Russia when tn
crisis of the revolution was at its heigh,
I'VE have given the Russians valuabl
| time to arrange their domestic affairs a
they liked" laments a high dignitary, wv
have let slip unusually favorable oppor
tunites to exploit the confusion in the Eas
In order to achieve a final military decision
We have officially and semioflicially offere
the Russians a separate peace, in vair
We have waited three months, but 1t
possible to wait too long"
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