The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-15
SYSTEM CAUSES
GERMAN SUCCESS
c, |, Dreier Dresden Consul,
Visiting Mother Here,
IN THE SINGAPORE RIOTS
Federal Officer Has Visited All
World in Eleven Years,

Americans will have to win the
war, the sooner the American people
realize this, the better it will be for
them"
Thus said {. L. Dreicr Of the con.
'ular service of the United States. who
is in Oklahoma City visiting his moth
cr Mrs Marie Drcer 100 West -Four.
teenth street.
Nine ont of every ten persons ask
me how the Germans have held out
against such great odds, and there is
Dut one anSwcr----'Systcm Every
community throughout Germany has us
community manager 1t is through
him that all persons get their food lie
knows Just what to give them and how
much.
The United States will have to sys.
tcmatize sooner or later, and the soon
cr the better"
Was at Dresden.
Mr. Drccr has been in the consular
service for the last eleven years, and
his last posts were at Dresden, Ger
many, and Ghent. Belgium. From the
time he was appointed clerk of the
consulate general at Panama until he
was ordered back to the United States
following the declaration of war with
Germany he had visited practically
every nation on the globe.
Al the outbreak of the war, Mr..
Drcicr was stationed at Singapore
where he was the consul general OF the
United States lie represented nine
countries there. Singapore is in Brit.
iSh territory and the German, Austrian
and Turkish official representatives de.
parted He not only took over the bus
mess OF those countries however, bu
he also was the accredited agent oi
Sweden, Brazil, Cuba, Spain, and Por
tugal These nations had been rep
resented by the conSulS of either Ger
many, Austria or Turkey until the war
started.
Civilians Interned.
II was at Singapore that the first
German civilians were in,erned, and a,
the time OF the internmcnt, Mr. Dreler.
as representative OF the German gov
crnmrnt filed protest with the Brit
iSh government but To- no avail Since
the precedent was set there all nations
in the war are doing the same thing
| When the German civilians were fir;
placed under guard the women wcr,
sent lar into the inland OF Malaya AMI
completely separated from the men, but
through the work OF the United States
consul the British finally rearrangc
the detention camp and prepared quar-
| tcrS where the married men could be-
with their wives and families.
One oi the most exciting times oi
Mr. Dreicr'S consular career was at
Singapore. On the afternoon OF Feb.
ruary IS, 1918, the Indian troops sta
toned there under the command Of the
British officers mu,inied They be
lieved tha, the English government wa,
preparing to transfer them To Hons
Kong, after which they would hc sen
to iigh, the Turks, their Mohammcdar
brethren.
Day Was Holiday.
The day was a holiday and the hom,
guards were widely separated on IN,
occasion Some were OH, oi the towr
on motor trips, others IN the bay an,
still others engaged in athletic event
on different parts oi the island Th,
indians, who were the only rcmainin.
govcrnmcn, troops on the island. m,
others having been sent tn the iron
in France, shot several British officer
al the barracks, and once free they oh
tanned their rifles and large quan,lic
of ammunition
/ When they left the building they al
vidcd into bodies of abou, go met
each Ono squad went to the detention
camp OF the Germans, killed the Bri,iSl
guards and broke the locks to the hcav,
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