Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-06-24
FRENCH CURIOUS
ABOUT A St RANCE
DOCUMENT FOUND
Letter Apparently Written by
a Bavarian and Dropped
From AirpIane ArouSeS
SkepticiSm Of the People,
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Paris June 23.--The French are
very curious, though very skeptical,
about a strange document which was
found on the mornig after a recent
air raid on the lawn of French coun-
try estate in a section that had been
heavily bombed during the night. IT
Is passionate protest. against Prus-
sian over-lordship and oppression,
written in German apparently by a
Bavarian and directed to his com
patriots. without any crease such as
would come from folding the docu-
ment, and wet with drew, the paper
was picked up by the owner Of the
estate. 1t says:
Bayarians. Compatriots
'The frightful misery. which be-
cause of the war, has spread also to
Bavaria, and which is leading our
Bavarian people to almost certain
ruin, imposes upon us the sacred duty
of thinking of the welfare of our
country and our compatriot.
Prussians Are Guilty.
"Who is it that has led us to this
abyss of perdition? Let us be frank!
1t is not presumptuous enemies! 1t is
not the English and the French!
Neither is the countries that we call
the entente! The guilty ones, one can
say In all conscience today are solely
and only the Prussians. or more pre-
ciscly. there is but one guilty party
the king of Prussia The official as.
sertion that our adversaries started
the war against us and menaced us,
us and our own, is a falsehood.
Now the king of Prussia has the
| riuht N thn nf R1Uarin IN 1p-
clare war and make peace.
What the atrocious misery this
country suffers signifies-a misery
that shouts to heaven-must make us
realize it cruelty. Prussia, by its alb
! solutst political situation, is obliged to
go to war at longer or shorter periods
| if for nothing else than to sustain the
| interests Of its dominating clique. The
| history of Prussia is one of continual
war with more or less lengthy inter-
ruptions. Are not the Prussian coun-
! try squires (hobereaux) already talk
| ing, despite the terrible misery, of
the next war?
THE present war, also, is not at
| all in the interests of Bavaria. but
| is solely a gamble for the power OF
the Prussian state, its military and its
agrarians.
Fighting Against Their VIII.
I'VE Pavarians are not in any way
! in opposition to the interests of the
peoples whom We are fighting on
the contrary France, for example, has
notably favored our country and our
people during the course of history
| Among the governments that are our
lopponents in this way, not one has as
| one of its war aims the extinction
of our country, But the war hinges
entirely. and with good right, against
Prussia which, with the Russia OF
other days, Is the most corrupt state
in Europe. The, sons of Bavaria sac
rifice their lives by hundreds Of thou
sands for this Prussia. for this country
which few decades ago, in 1866, tool:
away a part of our territory and an
enormous war indemnity.
"And even IL II were possible to be
victorious what can our country
what may we Bavarians expect from
such a victory? As little as nothing.
! "All the precious Bavarian blood
all the mourning, the stirring, horrible
suffering of our compatriots, Of opI
! women and our children, all the lives
sacrificed and ruined and all the ma
lterial losses; all OF that has gone for