The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1917-11-05
GERMAN PEOPLE
ARE STARVING
Teuton Wife of American Soldier
Tells of Conditions
There.
HARD FIGHT TO GET Away
Woman Has Narrowing Experiences
in Trying to Leave Country
Says People Are Fleeing
When They Can.

San Francisco.-The real condition,
in the fatherland were described here
by Mrs. George B. Szadelski, the Ger
man wife of an American soldier
Mrs. Szadelski arrived here after 6
plucky fight of over five months te
get herself and three children out OF
Germany and over here, where she
could join her husband, who is with
the quartermaster's corps, United
| States army, at Honolulu.
Germany is starving. Her people
do not want war, and are fleeing the
country when they can. Not so much
the war, but food and where it is to
come from is what the German people
are thinking Of" said Mrs Szadelski.
when the people crowd up too Gag
erly in the street, waiting to get their
small bit of food, men come out with
| whips, or pour hot water on them to
| make them orderly. That is in the
town of Mecklenburg there we stand
waiting two hours or more in rain or
snow. But in Berlin it is worse, and
men and women wait in line all night.
Buy With Cards.
GAIL things are bought by cards,
even clothing and shoes. If I need
new suit or my little boy needs new
underwear, I must go to the officials
and explain the need and show them
the worn things.
"A grown man or woman gets half
a pound of meat a week, tenth of
pound of butter and three pounds of
bread. This bread is made of pOta-
toes and a kind of green turnip, and Is
so soggy that only a little can be eaten
at time. There is no coffee except
kind made from the turnip, and
there is no rice. One gets a fourth of
a pound of sugar, and there is no soap
at all.
Famine? There's a famine now.
The rich-yes, the rich can buy a
goose, but they must pay for it IT'S
marks (about $40. I have seen wild
ravens sold in Berlin for three and
one-half marks. Everything is much
worse than America thinks
"Yet there will be no revolution
That is because there are no men at
home to make revolution. The wom-
en- look at one another and shake their
heads. when the men come back is
the word they pass around We have
men of fifty and seventy for home de-
Tense, and as doctors and officials.
And we have boys of fourteen. All
other men are in the army"
Mrs. Szadelski said she never re-
ceived $500 which her husband sent |
her last February. A woman friend |
Of hers who went to the authorities |
FOR money sent from America was told
hat no more money from the source
would be given to any private person.
Do Not Want War.
"The people do not want war, but
what can they do? They cannot even
say what they think or there would
'oon be chains around their necks.
sYet there is bitter feeling against
America. I would be sorry for any
American soldier that falls into the
lands of the Germans, either the sol
liers or the people. That is because
he newspapers talk always of the
of America-and the people
elieve what they read. They began
lating America long ago, when they
card it was aiding England. 1t is not
rance so much, but England and
lmerica that Germany hates"
Sergeant Szadelslzi had been an
american soldier for years before he
let and married the little German f
yoElan, during a visit to Germany sew
raj years ago, but he left just before
ae war. This led to suspicious that
e was an American spy, and so when
is wife wished to leave Germany last T
lay she had an immense deal of red
lpe to untangle.. For a month she
ad to go before the police each day;
Zen she was summoned to Berlin.
t the Danish border every scrap Of I
aper but her passport was taken
way, and in Copenhagen she was re-
eived coldly by the American lega-
on, because they would not believe :
lat the wife of an American soldier :
ould speak only German. After cor
,spondence with Secretary Lansing
nd others, the legation was finally
)nvinced that she was not a spy, and
lie was permitted to sail for New
ork. She will leave in a few days
18th their three children for Homo