Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-23

am not bitter fof reasons Of my own
m M tf tSat navo or tho eontraEy A.
unkird treatment. meted out to an me 'h IN
y J, = pa az With me. T i' i kne@
they knew that sooner or later would
succeed ~ 1t,b obtaining my permit TO
0s every mens They
IA myself to accept iheis ad Rsrmts.
Tor not being more heroic and. honest
IN IN resSentins their many attempts to
for their utter heart lS aea them
their victims. many tragic Instances
OF which l will relate.
Il 6un was nearly three years ago that
feeling against the country lin which
i iimss nag h planted ef me In these tragic
day on which I had impiored nv father
s - sGnd ME- me to Germany to"inish my
TO which city he had wished that i
,hSsn g go for mine Under the skin
he had often remarked
II was nearly three years ago when
4, Houng TREND. Il woman. came to me.
telling me that they had secured a
years of age to do work for them i'm
their house. She was one of the ninety
the capital district. The farmer to
N Mhom 1,n she y, Was handed over bad found
she was intended He had. therefore.
induced the local commandment to per
her to his friend at Berlin with the
understanding that he would be re-
sponsible for her return to him on de-
mand OF the local commandant The
family to which the young French girl
was transferred was the house of my
friend. She wished me to go with nrr
to her house and act in the capacity
OF an Interpreter, as the French girl
spoke not word Of German and none
stood word OF French, They wished
me 70 translate set of Instructions
on visiting. the house of my friend
to the room, led by The hand a once
blond. child entered Like a little
child led by the mother TO the fathers
presence for a reckoning. she wept and
wept bitterly. 1t was truly tragic
scene. Standing in the middle of the
room. in her shabby garments, about
six feet from me: still i.er left hand
held by, my friend, she brought TO my
mind the naked statue Of the Greek
slave of Rhodes, carved out to the
everlasting shame OF my own anccs-
tHiram Powers's The Greek Slave.'D
wished to speak 10 he, but something
in my throat stood hard and held my
speech. could no, speak. / rose from
my seat and walking to her. extending
both my hands but she shrunk back.
sim crying. Finally. succeeded in
swallowing the lump in my throat and
addressed her in her native tongue.
assurinE her that she need not fear,
" home / still! cannot hold back my
tears when ! think of how she threw
both her hands around my neck and
cried like the child tina, she was until
she could cry no more.
70 Madame. 1t Is many days since
! have. heard kind words. spoken TO
Q my Franco. my France. when shall
! see YOU again! My France. My
France" She repeated these words un-
I'll myself could not keep from
crying. On telling her who ] was. like
q child 70 her own mother. She told me
,hlngs for which a Just God will and
must punish the German people some
day. in His Infinite wisdom. selecting
that day Himself.
GERMANS SIIOW 40
SYMPATHY OR COMPASSION
20 have been neutrality-suspicious.
After having her seated In chair
near. me. remembered that had been
there as an interpreter. | looked at
The faces of my hosts, father, mother
and three daughters. discovered no
counlenanee, Thinking ,ha, they had
gone through, proceeded TO tell them
why she was nervous and fright
ened and why she cried so, bitterly.
with one voice they. vehemen:iy accus-
French people are grea, liars" wo-
Herr--, do they Fraulin?" i ask
ed his youngest daughter who is about
nineteen years OF age. Our brave
such crimes, no, word of what she
says do 1 believe. French are liars"
she said angrily. My bitter hatred
labored hard, ventured a, great deal
and finally succeeded in obtaining the
French girls release and took her my
self 10 the Swiss frontier. after hav-
ing appealed personally to the Chan
cellor himself and spending several
hundreds of marks in my many tt
On that day another amusing incl,
dent occurred further UP the street
which was unfortunate not to Wit
ness. but it was told to me by my
stands English we'll. So she heard one
of the American prisoners shout these
words to the spectators: Cheer up
Fritzy. you have got only couple Of
hundreds Of us and we have already
wrong, we do not know the whole
truth. these men I saw to-day do not
appear like soldiers of a vanquished
enemy, and they are SO cheerful" she
r Let me relate an amusing incident
that took place about seven or eight
ill-tempered the average German is
and how ignorant the masses are about
the war. Before l begin TO tell YOU
the war conditions in Germany and
what the Germans are saying and how
little they know except what their
rulers tell them.
CLAIM "AMERICA WILL PAY"
GEMAN'R LOST OF WAR
When America joined Germanys
enemies every German I knew, both
men and women. received the news
fact that the Berlin press propaganda
centers ignored Americas entrance into
the war on the side OF the Western
allies one could not help seeing that
the rulers of Germany were trying TO
belittle Americas wor-makinS posi-
bilities as much as they could. At that
time an officer told me that Americas
entrance into the war would effect the
war against Germany as much as the
entrance Of the Chinese. 1T is very
good. when he make peace our old
enemies will be found impoverished.
we Will make America pay the cost of
the war: almost every one greeted you
with such expressions
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