Norwich bulletin., 1918-11-27
MAKES EARNEST PLEA FOR POLAND.


 quarters at her house. He. leoks ex- aetly like his pictures only more se, 1 W.th face that is purple with rage, though more of the alcoholic t1pe than the apopleetic. She had to make bis coffee for hiTn and he always tnF sisted that it be made at the tapls, so that she had often to leave her deathly sick child to run ta the gen. erals table to make his coffee. some one asked her later on why she never poisoned him, and she co,li1 say with truth that she had never thought of it. probably because she had never had their lGerman) edueatipn.
 After inc r3iIitary headquarters left her house when their doctar ordered them from 1t beearse tiln two boys had the typhus fever, she appealed for 9 doctor to operate on ono of the boys, which was the only hope Of saving his life. After an all day Wair, the German doetor eame, but would not sven look ] go pieces of gold. When 1 he countess finally ripped open the mattress on l the boys bed and produced the gold, 1 the final touch of fieHa:snness was pergetrated Instead Of making a small incisien in the tip of tile boY's fnz ger, the German military doctor drew l his surgical scissors. and shipped of l the whole end of the finger ID tha first ] jotRt, leaving Ter to hind lal the blfed- Ing wound When tie "f,3Atess gept 1 to look for her servants, she found l her old gardener with his face hleed- 1 ing and his teeth battered out Minna. l his young daughter, hal been carried away and when the countess appeal- 1 ed for her release was tpid that the l girl was the property of the soldiers. She has never seen the girl or the gardener since.
 | There were 40.D0o prisoners in the /, town which rihe toWnspeaple had to l feed for the Germans never fed any- body. One incident was mentioned in this connection, They were able to l furnish scfne poor soup for these
 poor prisoners and as theF were ear rying the, bowl along the street. four
 German Red Cross nurses, on their 1 ed thes treet, went out nf their way to spit in that bowl of span
 | On Septembsr F, 1915. the copn ] tess saw her home for the last time for she started for Berlin with her children in the hope that she migh1 tget to America At a station on the
 way, German women who heard he:
 speak to her children ia English at,
 tackled her hke wild animals.
 "Ail the time I was hiding a terri De secret said Mme pufczynowicz T was born in Canada But I neyei told them 9 story. I merely said
 vas born in America and nobody eeuli say that wasn't true. I thought tht authorities in Berlin knew of rns . birthplace, and were just tornentint me by pretending to understand tha ! when I said America I meant th, ! United States And that is where thi Star. Spangled Banner came to naY , rescue. A certain man I had kneWl in Berlin when was studying ther, was called lIpoc to identify me. ant he did it by telling the authorities h
 had heard me sing the Star SpanGiel Banner once there When the Cir mans heard that, they were convincf, ] Of my being 3 citizen of the Unite, 2 States. After that, .tt was not eas a of my wanting to get out of Germany , was ordered to get out7
 : There were just two a1eyiatiu a touches in the, whole picture. one tn a fipdness of 9 big six-footed Gerna . who had heen.a waiter It the Wal 5 dorf-AAsteria, and was an orderly |
 the German general, and freduentl n helped her get food for her childrel l, and the other was the kindly treat r ment accorded her by the chief of pc y lice of Berlin. The countess said sh Q Mas convinced the soldiers would hay I been more llirdlH if "frightfulness'' o. n ders had1no come from higher up t She made q final appeal for every
 one to become a rart Of the great ma . cline. The Red Cross, that is to he l. humanity fo its feet