The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-02-18

place nearly sixty serious disturbances.
causing total casualty of 2O4 killed
and over 500 wounded men and wo-
men. At the Munchen district alone
there are more than 1000 men and
women convicted, their offences vary
ing from taking part at food or peace
riots to melting the workers to strike,
or high treason.
No Longer Die for the F'atherland
A walk through Macmillan Strasse
will convince the visitor to what ex-
tent Germany has suffered privations
One would observe, on the right and
on the left, desolation, wrought with
i a revenging hand. There is hardly
window which does not bear a mourn
ing crepe with card in the centre,
telling the name and the age of the
! victim. In the early days of the war
| they told me, these mourning crepes
| bore large cards stating that the de-
| ceased gave his life For the Kaiser
| and the Fatherland." Later these
cards simply stated Gave his life for
the fatherland." But since the last
two years no cards-not in South
|
bearing evidence that the people of
| those who were killed on thu battle
field would consider that their below
ed ones gave their lives for the Kaiser
or for the fatherland. In all my trav-
cling throughout Germany I have only
seen, by actual count, twenty-seven
| such testimonials.
But What are the German masses
saying?" What the German masses
are saying represent only one-tenth
of what they are thinking And yet
the full force of what the German
masses are thinking, has, at the pres
ent time, very little or no force in
influencing the settled determination
Of the elements who are now in, as
tendency Because those who are
saying things and thinking more ara
tHose who are not in possession of ply
steal force, thus their opinions regard
ing the war or peace can be treated
with utter impunity by our rulers.
Before leaving Switzerland 1 myself
was one of those who had boosted
about what our Socialists or Liberal:
: might do. Several times my English
friends had tainted me with the nov
very old sarcasm that a revolution il
Germany was impossible as it wa.
forbidden I had not seen the trutf
of this sarcasm though felt its bite
bite. But I was not in Germany NOR,
than two weeks when I became. con
WINGED that the old English sarcasm,
: regarding revolution in Germany wa
> too true. A great disappointment i
. awaiting the world if the friends O
l peace put their trust solely in that di
S rection.
Lies for German Army
In Germany the forces who ar
g able to make revolution are at tn
t front and under severe discipline
d Every Socialist with whom 1 had
e heart to heart talk confessed to m
n that the army is not ready for a re
d bellion. The German soldier at tn
e front has had no time TO think eco
is nomicalIy. He is totally ignorant c
e the dire miseries the people at HON
I are suffering. Occasionally a militar
X uprising takes place in the ranks, bu
l. these are not directed against the fol-
J. eign policy of the Imperial govern
n ment; these uprising are merely Ii
% cal discontents. The army is as jea
n ously guarded from behind as it
guarded against the enemies of Gel
Of many at the front. In spite of til
d fact that the civil population of Gel
Il many is starving, the soldiers hay
ID no. yet been made to feel the pine
re of hunger.
o. The army is being day and nigl
fnd wit init Inv
picture of what it might expect
ID the hands of their enemies Many
in these pamphlets fell into my hand
n and I feel again and again ashamt
as that our German rulers are capab
i'd of putting such horrible lies in
he print.
At Munchen an incapacitated arm
Mt. captain showed me a set of such go
;es eminent literature that had been e
ny travagantly circulated, behind t
of front in the reserve depots. They da
six not circularize these incredible lies
nd the front line, perhaps for fear tn
on few of them might fall into t
ID hands of the enemies who would ma
Use these public 20 the world. In one
en- these pamphlets the author quot
I'm nearly two-thousand words, suppose
st. ly from a speech delivered before t
it English Parliament by the Prime Mi
oh lister, Mr.. George, in which he is ma
we to say that when the English {
ad mics cross the Rhine frontier a
Ter wreak vengeance on the hearths
f a the German homes, then there "
Sc be time to talk peace, and not befc
ms then" When observed to my offic
ing friend that British Prime Minis
ere who used such language would
ian tried before a police court and 81
md to a common Jail for having used
it'll decent language in, public, he seem
greatly amazed. He said, Then y
at do not believe it ?" During my agitat
IN conversation with him five other
Ken capacitated officers Joined us. Tn