The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-07-27
Blame Submarine Ruthless.
ness for Bringing ScOrn
of Public Upon Them
REFUGEE ENGINEER
BITTER IN REMARKS
Writes to a Swiss Paper Condemning
Activities of Kaiser's Ambassador at
Madrid-Urges Return to Pure
Democracy

Writing from Madrid on June ] to
Die Freie Zeitung, the semi-weekly pa
per published in Berne by German po-
litical refugees, Hans August Balthoff,
a German engineer, formerly employed
in Sac Paulo, Brazil, complains bitter
~ of the hardships to which he and
many of his fellow Germans making
forced sojourn in Spain are being
subjected because of the hatred toward
everything German created all over the
world by the ruthless warfare carried
on by the German army and navy,
Herr Balthoff begins by saying:
"Here we have sat for nearly four
years now-the one or two hundred
thousand, or perhaps more, Germans
who have been driven by this unhappy
war to Spain from all parts of the
world We sit here as if we were in a
mousetrap, for although our movements
are. unrestricted, we are nevertheless
chained to this country until the still
undiscernible end of the war. Thou
sands and thousands of us, most of us
with wives and children, are leading a
life of misery and privation here and
think with pensive melancholy of the
countries that afforded us employment
and assured existence, even prosperity
and wealth, and had become our SECOND
home, and which we will hardly see
again. OF course, there is no lack o
relief work and the furnishing of shell
ter and employment to the many Ger.
mans who have sought refuge here, but
the great majority of the refugees are
sunk in the mire of a desolate, hope
less existence, plagued by sad thoughts
and serious anxiety for the future.
4 EeENonE =. : Yiet9riouss .FatheElanS
has, with its ruthless methods of war
fare, caused all the civilized nations
of the world, both great and small, t.
come out more or less openly agains
the German people. Although there ar
still few neutral governments, Their
rules, nevertheless, in the case of tn
majorities of their peoples, wrath AM
bitterness over the misdeeds of German
militarism and the horror of the 'unre
stTicted submarine warfare. Herr vo
Tirpitz and his fellows-better name
| his aceomplices-are following the bes
: lroad to ALLEVIATE and destroy the las
sympathies for the German people tina
may still exist some place in tn
: world
The writer then gives an account O
the holding up some six weeks befoT
!. Of a Spanish steamer by German sui
:. marine, which compelled a militar
:. mission from Uruguay bound fC
II France to board the Uboat, and onl
: put its members aboard a neutral shi
ID en- route for Spanish port after hay
&C ing extorted a promise from them M
to visit the French front, which W;
= afterward annulled by the German go
l.. eminent under pressure from Urugua
N and continues:
: "But here in Madrid, where the mi
8 sion from Uruguay is still stopping, Il
affair is the leading topic of eonvers
* ton, also in German circles. If the &c
&C man embassy were to transmit to BE
n lin all the compliments that the &c
n mans in Madrid would like to send
= Herr Won Tirpitz and his fellow
G. Prince Ratibor, the always intoxica