The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25

face became partially paralyzed- When
We reached Norway we all were wear
ing paper clothing.
German Morale Very Bad
THE morale in Germany is very
bad The people are nearing q re-
volt.
IT was sick in a hospital at Codes
berg. where there were a great many
soldier patients. I spoke fluent Ger
man and the soldiers, who did not
know I was an American, talked freely
to me. A German major said to me
in the hospital:
You see, wear the coat OF the
Kaiser. I only wish you could know
the feeling that lies beneath IT. We
are not going to stand this forever
Soldiers in the hospital get q poorly
made soup with little or no meat roots
and vegetables. neither nutritious nor
palatabIe. The result IS very slow con-
vaIescence and a good many never
get well One soldier said to me:
Some day we are all doing to put
down our arms. Why should We fight?
Our officers now, instead Of leading
US. go behind US with guns at our
backs
IT have seen men leave the hospital
to return to the lines when they had
only one arn-
People Worried About Q. 9.
Now that the German people have
learned that America has sent over
nearly one million soldiers, they are
beginning to get plainly worried One
remarkable thing I have learned is
that the German people have a most
friendly feeling toward the American
people. But they feel very bitter
against President Wilson, as they were
taught by the German and the mill
tary party to believe he was RESPONSE
BILE for AMERICAS entrance into the
war.
while was at the hospital, a Ger
man officer started berating the presi-
dent. I listened as long as could and
finally said: What right have you to
say that the president brought on this
war? 1t was your kaiser who brought
you people into war. But for him
there would have been no war.
President Wilson Is a better man
than your kaiser ever could hope TO
be-
He became SO angry that he
| rushed at me and would have struck
me down but for the interference of
some bystanders. I Just had to have
| my say. no matter what happened.
Don't Care Who Wins.
"On the train which bore US out of
Germany, soldier said to me: We
don't care now when the war ends.
| We don't care who wins
| The people are more interested in
| food than in the war"
| Another passenger who declared
| the food question to be paramount in
| the German peoples mind was Carl e.
Olivarius, u Milwaukee lawyer, who
had spent year in Sweden, Denmark
and Norway. He said:
| The people of Sweden simply cam
I not get food. Ordinary board costs
| over $25 a week. People are sim ply
| starving. Friends coming out of Ger
many told me the Germans who used
to get food from Sweden can get nc
more.
| NO one in Germany speaks of VIC
| tory. They always talk of food War
has become secondary to efforts to get
something to eat. The potato crop in
Germany is very bad this year"
Further light on German food con-
| dftfons was shed by Mrs Clara Rains
whose grandfather founded the Stein
| way Piano company of New York.
/ Berlin Suffers Much.
| Saxony is pretty well off for food.
she said. but Berlin and other Large
cities are in terrible shape. The PEG.
PIE OF Germany express sorrow thai
America has entered the war, and fee
that IT will cause the struggle to be
| prolonged.
They want peace. But the German
military power has grip on the Ger
man peoples thr Dat and it is a death
| grip"