The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-02-14

woman was cursed and insulted she had resented his remarks, a 1 he could not remove the Woma baggage car, he had demanded
 Together they had succeeded. What Other People Would Have Done
 In any Swiss city or in any other land in which I have been, crowd of passengers would not have permit ted a woman to be dragged out of her seat to the baggage car as punish ment by a conductor, or ten conduc- tors. It was talk, talk, afterwards. Angry and threatening, but empty talk The passengers were ready to fight each other over the merit Of the unchivalrous conductors act, but there was not one person who would dare to raise his hand in behalf of the woman. It has become part of the German peoples soul to fear
 their men in uniform. It will take
 many years before my people learn
 that under a uniform the flesh and blood is no different than what is found hidden under civilian attire. In my six months travels in Germany l
 have seen and heard people become
 dangerously restive, but the German
 people as a whole have not yet learn
 ed that just because a thing is for
 bidden" by the authorities it may not
 be sin nor always be very difficult to
 challenge it.
 On the 18th day of August l reach
 ed B-'s, which is about eighty
 miles from Munchen. In that place there were military officers with whom I was, in olden days on terms of familiarity, as many of them had : been admitted to the fraternal organ ization during the period in which ; had held high office in the district branch fraternity. I wanted to inter view them. I wanted to learn from , their lips how things political stood l in Germany.
 Ignorant of the Battle of The Marne! The first person I interviewed at l B., was a very old friend, a Col } onel of a regiment, now slowly dying of tuberculosis, which he had con-
 tracted at the - front. How aged
 he was! He was heartily happy not
 only to see me, but to see someone
 from a neutral country, who could
 tell him something about the war. He
 had remained at the front until three
 months before, and now he was ask
 ing me about the very war he had
 been engaged in fighting!
 The German Officer Sees Light Instead of interviewing him I sud- X denly found myself being interviewed by him. I was not only amazed with his childlike innocence of what was = going on outside of Germany, but V really became disgusted with his ig- S norance regarding the military posi- y tion of Germany compared with that h of his enemies For instance, he ar. d gued with me whole hour about the Il Battle of the Marne." While term e ed that battle a disaster, he would try = to make me believe that it was noth- n ing but an extensive withdrawal O. e the advanced guards. When remind = ed him of the fact that in military e circles it would not be considered. a e an extensive withdrawal of advanced
 guards when the retreat covered al e area, of thirty miles, he brushed m. e reasoning aside bluntly and informed g, me that my statement as to the ex e tent of the Marne was not true. I h Idisheartened me to find a Colonel l. who, at the end of three years of war d fare, had been successfully kept ig a norant of the truth and significanc
 of the turning battle of the whol ls year.
 ee Few People in Germany Know Trutl n. There are very few people in tn od whole German Empire, even today It who know the truth about the battl ce of the Marne, and most of them wh ne do know it, are civilians.
 n- But finally I succeeded in convinc he ing my friend that he was wrong an al, I was right. On finding new light h he became furious and it was not lon IT, before he had broached the subjec st to other incapacitated officers. CT My Colonel friend is not an excep W tional case. Everywhere in German he I found people in all walks of life ut
 !terly uniformed regarding how tn E war is affecting our enemies.
 =I I found the German peoples ie
 norance of what is going on outsid
 of Germany was a direct result of
 prearranged plan of the authorities
 The whole lack of correct informatio II regarding our enemies means, so ia
 as the German people are concerned
 a wrong perspective of the whole wa German Truths!''
 II For instance, sincerely felt ashan H ed for being a German when I hear
 from the lips of hundreds of Ger
 mans false reiterations regarding ou H enemies. A Lutheran minister of the gosp, II told me with his own mouth that h
 had heard from reliable sources ths II England was starving and that withi
 two months she would sue for peac il Four months later I had occasion
 meet the Minister of the gospel agai
 but found him disillusioned and d. g jected.
 Everywhere in Germany I notice Ns' that there was a subtle and systema
 ic plot to deceive the German pet w W pie while longer.
 'o .. New Method of Telling Lies fiu From the day I entered German e to the very last moment I was ther it was forced to my notice that tt GUS German authorities, were in life ar Ses death grapple with the problem get discovering new ways of telling II,
 Atruths that would look little diffe