The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-10
FINDS GERMANY
ON HER UPPERs
DOCTOR LANE TELLS OF coNDL
rioNs AT BERLIN
TIRED or WAR BUT FBHTING
Military Power Is supreme-AdversG
News Does Not Reach People
Shoes Almost Gone--Army
Is Ordered To Steal

Flint, Mich, Jan. 5-"The German
soldier looks fine, but everything else
in Germans looks like the devel." This
is the summary of Teutonic conditions
by DIR. William Law, native of this
city, who is visiting his parents after
practicing dentistry for thirteen years
in Berlin, where he served the kaisers
family professionally.
DR.. Laws family was able to leave
with Ambassador Gerand's party, but
the doctor himself was too i'll to travel
and he remained in Berlin until Oct.
90, 1917, and Just reached home.
There are today 100000 to 1875, 0O0
empty stores and residences in Berlin,
where normally in peace times the
number would not exceed 10000" DR..
Law said THE big change has been
wrought because many businesses
have gone bankrupt and the people
are moving in together to conservs
necessities of life. Stores that are
open have little or nothing in them.
People Tired of War g.
"The people of Germany are fear
fully, tired of war. They are sick to
death of it, but they have no idea of
giving up. Ask anyone in Germany a.
bout the war and they say We're
going to win; just look at the map
mo matter what setbacks they have
you never hear anyone in Germany
say we got licked If news seep,
back into Germany of gain by the
allies it is always 'stregetical retreat
The military powers say it is so, and
it is so to the German people.
Il think the people of Germany can
exist for another year at any rate.
There is no tea nor coffee and the
beer is about like water and tastes
like yarnish. Hotels for some months
have been forbidden the use of linens
and they use paper napkins and serve
the food on bare tables or on papers
spread over them.
1.-THE newspapers are reduced in
size and look and smell abominably
The ink is of the poorest quality and
comes off on your hands while you
Tread. u......,.
Shoes Almost Como
There were in the neighborheod OF
400 to 500 shoe factories in Germany
before the war began. They have all
been shut down but; about 100. OF
those that remain 100. are making
shoes for the soldiers and the other
80 make shoes for the civil population
When a person hasn't shoes he goes
barefoot, or else gets wooden soles
fput on old old ones. Most of the PEG
pie go without. .. ....
Most of the oil is gone, even castor
oil. which las been used for lubercat
ing purposes. The trains are bad
The cars go humping over the rails
for there is nothing with which to
repair them. 1t is used for the army
There are no automobiles except those
used by the military officers.
THE military party of Germany will
die fighting whether they are killed
by the allies or by their own people
in an uprising after Germany has been
crushed" ... "
German Troops Told To Stal
With the French Armies in the
Field, Jan. France has official and
lirrefutable information that the Ger:
man armies have stolen, by orders OF
their government. .s
Goods of all kinds have been ship
ped from France and Belgium to the
German office of war booty" in Berlin
Here the German people are urged to
come and choose anything from vehi
cles, agricultural and factory machin
cry, antique furniture, pictures, rare
tapestries, plates and dishes, jewelry,
clocks, and other articles-at fixed
prices.
The Office of war booty according
to advertisements found on recent Ger
man prisoners, is located at Berlin
w. 50, Schoneberg Ofer-a group OF
large temporary buildings erected as
show and sales rooms.